[1] The website of the Museum of Broadcast Communications hails her as "not only one of Britain's leading businesswomen, but possibly the most powerful member of the nation's entertainment industry ... Lambert has served as a symbol of the advances won by women in the media".

[2] The British Film Institute's Screenonline website describes Lambert as "one of those producers who can often create a fascinating small screen universe from a slim script and half-a-dozen congenial players.

[7] Lambert's first job was the typing of menus at the Kensington De Vere Hotel, which employed her because she had been to France and could speak French.

[9] In 1961, Lambert left ABC, spending a year working as the personal assistant to American television producer David Susskind at the independent production company Talent Associates in New York.

[6] Returning to England, she rejoined ABC with an ambition to direct, but remained a production assistant and found it impossible to gain promotion.

[6] In December 1962, Sydney Newman left ABC to take up the position of Head of Drama at BBC Television, and the following year Lambert joined him at the corporation.

Newman had recruited her to produce Doctor Who, a programme he had personally conceived and initiated as an educational science-fiction serial for early Saturday evenings.

The success of Doctor Who and the Daleks also garnered press attention for Lambert herself; in 1964, the Daily Mail published a feature on the series focusing on its young producer's looks: "The operation of the Daleks ... is conducted by a remarkably attractive young woman called Verity Lambert who, at 28, is not only the youngest but the only female drama producer at B.B.C.

[15] Further productions for the BBC included a season of the crime drama Detective (1968–69) and a 26-part series of adaptations of the stories of William Somerset Maugham (1969).

[16] In 1969 the comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus made reference to Lambert in a sketch entitled "Buying a Bed" from the episode "Full Frontal Nudity", which was broadcast on BBC 1 on 7 December 1969.

[18] During her time in this position she oversaw several high-profile and successful contributions to the ITV network, including The Naked Civil Servant (1975), Rock Follies (1976–77), Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–92) and Edward and Mrs Simpson (1978).

Lambert wanted Thames to produce drama series 'which were attempting in one way or another to tackle modern problems and life,' an ambition which echoed the philosophy of her mentor Sydney Newman.

"[6] In late 1985, Lambert left Thorn EMI, frustrated at the lack of success and at restructuring measures being undertaken by the company.

The company's first production was the feature film A Cry in the Dark (1988), starring Sam Neill and Meryl Streep based on the "dingo baby" case in Australia.

Her relationship with Bleasdale was not entirely smooth – the writer has admitted in subsequent interviews that he "wanted to kill Verity Lambert"[23] after she insisted on the cutting of large portions of his first draft script before production began.

Bleasdale subsequently admitted that she was right about the majority of the cut material, and when the production was finished, he only missed one small scene from those she had demanded be excised.

[23] A less successful Cinema Verity production was the soap opera Eldorado, a co-production with the BBC, set in a British expatriate community in Spain.

[24] Launched with a major publicity campaign and running in a high-profile slot three evenings a week on BBC1, the series was critically mauled and lasted only a year, from 1992 to 1993.

Lambert's biography at Screenonline suggests some reasons for this failure: "With on-location production facilities and an evident striving for a genuinely contemporary flavour, Lambert's costly Euro soap Eldorado suggested a degree of ambition ... which it seemed in the event ill-equipped to realise, and a potentially interesting subject tailed off into implausible melodrama.

"A £10 million farce that left the BBC with egg all over its entire body and put an awful lot of Equity members back on the dole ... it will always be remembered as the most expensive flop of all time.

Cinema Verity projects that did reach production included Sleepers (BBC1, 1991) and The Cazalets (BBC One, 2001), the latter co-produced by actress Joanna Lumley, whose idea it was to adapt the novels by Elizabeth Jane Howard.

[34] In April 2008, BBC Four aired an evening-long tribute to Lambert's work at the network, including a documentary and repeats of her most popular programmes.

[35] Also that year, the DVD release of The Time Meddler included the last commentary she made before her death, and a short documentary feature, Verity Lambert Obituary, described as "a concise essay looking back over the career of one of Doctor Who's co-creators.

In 2022 it was reinstalled on the exterior of the building and unveiled at a ceremony attended by many people from television, including actors Caroline Quentin, Larry Lamb, Carole Ann Ford and Anna Carteret, writer Lynda La Plante, former Doctor Who producers Philip Hinchcliffe and Steven Moffat, Ofcom chair Michael Grade, and former vision mixer Clive Doig.