Gordon McCallum

[…] done something you know. And that was particularly possible with comedy, and we did quite a lot of comedies. To […]

Norman Warren

[…]MAN J. WARREN: I should have said it was 9.5, yes. And I remember the films, it was a Donald Duck cartoon, a Mickey Mouse, and a Ham Hamiltoncartoon, comedy I mean and another one, I can’t remember the title, but it had avery young Bing Crosby in it I remember that. I am talking about them little ti[…]

David Elstein

[…];              Negotiations away from the table were very interesting. For a weekday comedy, where do we slot it? After Coronation Street or after This Week? How good is it? Horse-trading. Greg Dyke at LWT turned TVS into satellite pro[…]

Jonathan Balcon

[…] who kept the units going.  I mean Mick admits in his book that he saw the synopsis for Lavender Hill Mob and never thought it would make a good comedy. Of course, Johnson Massey loved it because it was all about their refinery in effect. And this is what the original story was going to be abou[…]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]ristmas success and I hadn't seen it then but everybody was raving about it. And I said, "Look I'm sure this guy is a brilliant editor, but a British comedy - is it right for a Yugoslavian?" This is it. But Ozzy was fantastic because now and again Frank got carried away with certain sequences where […]

Richard Marden

[…]quite understand why she does get through that and I came down Have a nice weekend but she is not that difficult.Alan Legard  35:38  Ealing comedy, which rather sweet anyway, so that went on so Chris presumably had been in cutting on for years and years,Richard Marden  35:48  she[…]

Alexander Faris

[…]d of going bump , they were going baaaaaa, all very nicely played. So I said ladies and gentlemen, can you just make these chords short, it's a light comedy, a satirical Comedy, just make them short comedy wise. And everybody knew exactly what I meant and did so until we were stopped by One guy at t[…]

Sheelagh Rees

[…]ag of apples to take home, that sort of thing. [Laughter] It was very nice. So 1952 I know I was with Alan Bromley.Can you remember what you did...?A comedy.Yes.I can only remember...A play or two, yes.29Sheelagh Rees DRAFT. Tape 1 Side BBeing a comedy. I cannot remember play names, I wish I had kep[…]
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