[…]e stuff for the Mersey Pirate and we developed one of his books, Scully, for Channel Four and that became a Drama series for Channel Four. I produced comedy programmes. We did a programme called Alfresco. I spent about a year putting the cast together and the cast for Alfresco were these newcomers t[…]
[…]the time, and then I went to work for - I’m not going to tell you his name - somebody asked me would I go to Brighton to make this terrible, terrible comedy, but I was over the moon for being asked. I think I’d probably been out of work for about six months and I went and it was a terrible com[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]st the other side of the fence, Bill Law, and they were working on a film, it was a film with Arthur Riscoe who was a very well known English musical comedy star and an American musical comedy star called Frances Day. So at 8 o’clock one night I went to over to British and Dominion to start work on […]
[…]nct) he had built in Westminster, and they brought these productions and had a great success in London and the leading lady of Eugene O'Neill’s comedy. Have we stopped? One thing they brought over (apart from the Irish plays) was a wonderful comedy by Eugene O'Neill called Ah, Wilderness; prob[…]
[…]gh a dear old friend of mine, Henry Blyth - who was one of the film critics on the Times, later on - brilliant chap! [NB: could be Henry Blyth, screenwriter, b 1911, who was co-writer of Jackson's Seven Keys in 1961 - is this correct?]John Legard: Henry BlythPat Jackson: Henry Blyth. He got a job at[…]
[…]d as a - completely like a like he was in real life - man in a muddle and a great desk full of things and getting everything wrong. It was a bit of a comedy little film for the Post-Office and it was it was great fun meeting Richard Golden. [00:06:15] I: Goolden? [00:06:16] Goolden, I said[…]
