[…]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[…]
[…]sp;DARROL BLAKE: AR? NEVILLE WORTMAN:  It wasn’t AR, it was ATV to start with, because I think ATV was the first but it was known as ABC in those days until some problem because of ABC Pictures being in it. And so, I walked into Kingsway House, past the desk, up onto the secon[…]
[…]hat's really what started me on the road to television. [5:12]I'd been in the Nottingham Playhouse for a couple of years but I'd also applied to ABC Television as Thames originally was, or it was, Thames was the merger of two companies, ABC and Rediffusion, and I had applied for a trainee Direc[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]iling cabinet. And I as a director kept thinking, "What can I do to make it spectacular?" Of course, what can you do? I was that time watching avidly ABC Theatre from Armchair Theatre which is full of imagination. Directors like Philip Saville and Silvio Narritsarno, and they were doing... Darr[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]n 1:47I formed a partnership with them Lynn Williams. And we were going to make some movies together. And it never came off the ground with the ABC asked us name and we'd formed a partnership. Maybe we could make some pictures with them. And it one way or another. I've lost a year of my life t[…]
[…]hances. That's why, before the war I thought films were photographically so dull, they were so dull, because it all came to - it was all the same old ABC and you know, if you don't take a risk you don't get any excitement.Alan Lawson: Er, talking actually, taking you up on that point, didn't yo[…]
