Dennis Main Wilson

[…]h bottle. I was given three months' notice that Sam was coming over to this country. He had never worked for the BBC, hitherto he had only worked for ATV commercial. He was very difficult to work with because he was a perfectionist, he could get very uptight and walk out, kid gloves, and “Would I li[…]

Norman Swallow

[…]ked both ways. We worked sometimes as independents he and i. He made one or two films for ATV, Rediffusion, I, not part of Denis, we could still work as individuals, made a series for the BBC Foreign […]

Sidney Cole

[…]e behind the throne was Lew Grade who I always found an agreeable person. Among other things he had this habit of summoning you to conferences at the ATV building at Marble Arch at 7.30 in the morning where he would be already smoking one of those enormous Havana cigars he was famous for. He didn't […]

Michael Darlow transcript

[…] BBC, and there was also an early rel ationship with ATV. Yes there was. Basically I made this little film […]

Madeline Smith

[…]nbsp;Yes, and a lot of black and white, may I add. Yes. Mike Dick  52:46  1969, you dida programme called "Who Done it?" for ATV.  Madeline Smith  52:52  Yes, I did.  Mike Dick  52:53  And you played a character cal[…]

Pete Murray

[…]  So, what happened next?PETE MURRAY:  I got a job as assistant continuity announcer for the new ITV station, well, that had just come on … ATV at that time.  And Bob Danvers Walker was the official and, of course, he was a famous new reader and news commentator, certainly as far as m[…]
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