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[…]" So we took parts of the motors down to have a look at the commutators and they were beautiful. Absolutely burnished copper. The projection staff of ABC's had looked after them beautifully. I couldn't find anything wrong on either of them. With one set running there was enough power to run three ar[…]

[…]n below for the victualling, and the food was pretty bloody grim. So er...Anyway, we decided upstairs, and there was John Rudkin, um NBC, CBS, and er ABC, myself, in a flat. We were all sharing this lovely, lovely er flat. It was all satin-lined. The bed was all satin-lined, like this...I've got pic[…]

[…] to keep the studio together. But there was a time when I had enough. That's when the television companies, Tyne Tees first, Yorkshire and one other, ABC came along and they proposed to buyout the studio. They did, and in 1968, the sticky years, they bought Halas and Batchelor and they continued it […]

[…]had taken over her husband's job and it's still being run.  Indeed, my daughter Eva is a client of Maggie Parker. And I was sent to the old ABC Studios at Welwyn Garden City for a part in a West of England comedy called A Farmer's Wife. Here's a bit of film history for you now. And it was […]

[…]ks it was difficult to buy space it was quite incredible. It was aclose run thing. Rediffusion had the resources and we didn't, ATV was fairly shaky, ABC weren'tbecause they the whole of the cinema chain behind them. It was quite a relief when the moneystarted to come in.Taylor/Peet: What were the m[…]

[…]record the list of the people that...Philip Leacock: Yes surely.Stephen Peet: Because there were two...I understand that two films were made, Spanish ABC and Behind the Spanish Lines. There's a kind of crediting in the history books that they were supervised by Ivor Montagu for the Progressive Film […]

[…]nts to ditch his Astrakhan Cola, he wants to ditch the stone me and the punch up the bracket. So his his last series for BBC is called last series of ABC is called Hancock. And people have often said well, he's never as good since he since said left, well, what's your favourite with a blood donor wh[…]

[…]was really magic. And then what did I do? I can’t remember, oh I started doing commercials, that’s right, everybody, all the blokes, that had been at ABC as it was then which is now Thames, which doesn’t exist anymore does it?  Thames Television? anyway, my husband worked there so I knew all th[…]