[…] it may have been a permanent job and eventually they paid over the rate, eventually. But in the early days a lot of the BBC left the BBC and went to ATV and the other channels, you know. But eventually they did pay over the rate and were very good employers, you know on the whole. But, do you know,[…]
[…] Hood, The Adventures of Sir Lancelot and The Buccaneers for ATV; The Adventures of Black Beauty and Dick Turpin for […]
[…]as pretty heavily policed. I mean, there's a lovely story told about STV. Francis Essex had just arrived and Francis was a very dashing wee chap from ATV and London and very much a Light Entertainment specialist, and indeed, hadn't long won the Bafta for a show with Millie [Millicent] Martin, as I r[…]
[…]ss so with ITN. I mean they were terrific but you didn’t feel that big back up. 2 hours 30 mins DB: No. 2.30.01 And certainly the same with ATV I should think. PB-C: Sure. DB: Yes, I’d agree with that. When I first went outside the BBC, where I’d been born and brought up, to Tham[…]
[…]roller of BBC One, Two?Two.Two?Two.And a nice man obviously who said ‘It’s time you were a producer’.Does he have a name?David Reid, he used to be at ATV. And I thought that was very nice. So I was allowed to produce, you know, come up with something and produced Mansfield Park.Now how did…?OB.Who c[…]
[…]on various things. They were good. John Warren, whose real name was Warner, was an ex-actor, and he used to do that terrible commercial programme for ATV in Birmingham, Mrs Somebody's Lodger, who was it? Don't you remember? Well you were probably very lucky not to see them. I only saw them because I[…]
[…] realised that itwas too big a commitment for me in my position. And so far as television was concerned, because there was a television, there was an ATV studios at that time in Elstree I also, for me I suppose it meant a great leap in to the dark and possibly Ididn’t feel in, that I could in fact t[…]
