Clive Doig is a retired British television producer.

Early in his career he produced the series for deaf children Vision On

Vision On

Vision On was a British children's television programme, shown on BBC1 from 1964 to 1976 and designed specifically for deaf children. It was conceived and developed by BBC producers Ursula Eason and Patrick Dowling to replace a monthly series For the Deaf, a programme paced slowly enough for...

before becoming known as the creator-producer of a large number of children's programmes. Working for the BBC, he created programmes such as Jigsaw

Jigsaw (UK TV series)

Jigsaw was a Children's BBC show, combining elements of puzzle solving & entertainment, which was broadcast from 16 July 1979 until 24 May 1984....

, which ran from 1979 to 1984, for which he won a BAFTA award. In the early 1980s, Doig produced the factual series The Deceivers and Eureka

Eureka (BBC TV series)

Eureka was a British educational television series about science and inventiveness which was produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1981 to 1986...

, both of which were fronted by Jeremy Beadle

Jeremy Beadle

Jeremy James Anthony Gibson-Beadle MBE was an English television presenter, writer and producer. During the 1980s, he was a regular face on British television and in two years appeared 50 weeks of the year. His shows regularly topped the charts beating Coronation Street and EastEnders on one...

 prior to his role on ITV's Game For A Laugh

Game for a Laugh

Game For A Laugh was a popular British TV light entertainment show which ran for 56 editions and 4 specials between 26 September 1981 and 23 November 1985, made by London Weekend Television for the ITV network.- Origins :...

. Doig's other series included Puzzle Trail, Beat the Teacher

Beat the Teacher

Beat the Teacher was a British game show devised by Clive Doig, made by BBC Television and shown as part of Children's BBC on weekdays at teatimes.-Show format:Each edition featured two contestants; one a school student and the other a teacher...

, The Album, Abracadabra, Johnny Ball

Johnny Ball

Johnny Ball is a British television personality, a great populariser of mathematics and the father of BBC Radio 2 DJ Zoë Ball.-Early life:...

 Reveals All, Eat Your Words and See It Saw It

See It Saw It

See It Saw It was a Children's BBC game show about a king who rules over the kingdom of "Much Jollity-On-The-Mirth". It ran from 6 January 1999 to 26 March 2001. The programme was filmed entirely in the studio with an audience of children who at various points in the show would be asked an...

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Doig often cast the same actors in different series. Among those who have appeared in multiple Doig projects are Janet Ellis

Janet Ellis

Janet Ellis is a British television presenter and actress, who appeared on BBC children's television in the 1980s, including a four year period as a presenter on Blue Peter, a role she won after hosting the award-winning children's programme Jigsaw.- Early life :Ellis's father was a soldier,...

, Philip Fox

Philip Fox (actor)

Philip "Phil" Fox is an English film and television actor, known particularly for comic roles. His appearances include Genie in the House, Maurice, People Like Us, Waking the Dead, Maxwell, Midsummer Murders and Foyle's War...

, Julia Binsted, Sylvester McCoy

Sylvester McCoy

Sylvester McCoy is a Scottish actor. As a comic act and busker he appeared regularly on stage and on BBC Children's television in the 1970s and 80s, but is best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to...

 and Mark Speight

Mark Speight

Mark Warwick Fordham Speight was an English television presenter, best known as the host of children's art programme SMart. Speight grew up in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, and left school at 16 to become a cartoonist...

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Doig writes the Trackword puzzles in the Radio Times magazine.

External links

• Clive Doig Official Biography
• Clive Doig at UKGameshows.com
  UKGameshows.com
  UKGameshows.com is a website dedicated to British game shows. The site currently provides information on more than 1,500 British game show formats from 1938 to the present day, over 500 mini-biographies of hosts, along with numerous other background articles....