[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ley. We used to have - and it shows you how poverty stricken we were - that we used to have our lunch, a currant bun and a glass of iced water at the ABC, which we had...Roy Fowler: Which ABC was that?Joan Kemp-Welch: The one opposite the Arts Theatre now, which I think is Cranks orsomethi[…]
[…]e ashtray up there. And I was on the set and we were doing this show called Music Shop. Now I had worked - our offices were in Kingsway. We were then ABC, this was before they had to change their name to ATV. Because Thomas, you know, who was ABC Cinemas, he eventually came into television, so he in[…]
[…]y made my move to join the Commercial Cinema Industry. This wasn’t my first attempt as an earlier one in my final year at George Heriot’s to join the ABC Circuit had been stymied by my Headmaster refusing to sign off on any reference forms for me. In his view, as expressed forcefully at a meeting to[…]
[…]s what everybody did - even in the labour exchanges people were saying what I really want to do is direct - in job centres - so er - I found out that ABC Teddington were looking for - er - trainee directors - and I went along there to one of their boards like Brian Tesler and - I can’t remember the […]
[…]cause at that time, because we 1 d parted in the war, he1 d been shipped somewhere else. And so I arranged to meet him and we met at Stratford in the ABC Tea Rooms, remember the ABC Tea Rooms Norman Swallow: They 1 re not there now Johnny Speight: No. The Aerated Bread Company wasn't it. Tea rooms, […]
[…]ng the kinds of audience they wanted to reach so, you know, if you advertise in this programme and that programme and this programme, you'll get your ABC ones and, you know, all of the rest of it. It became a, you know, quite fragmented and quite a difficult environment for most of the Companies and[…]
[…]as was getting was kept going. And the following day, we got two headlines, the the the headline in the Daily Express and then the Daily Mirror. So a TV film causes spoof causes chaos. bit like Wells's war of the world when he was in fact, he, as we saw sort of reverse that the Martiams  didn't[…]
