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[…]Billy Hartnell, do you cut to Alfie Bass? You know, they were geniuses, brilliant. The outcome was, that Sydney and his brother, Bernstein, who owned Granada asked what had gone wrong and heard about Mario, said “Sack him. He can’t do any more.” Well Alfie Bass, and myself, and I have to say the res[…]

[…] as a Shakespearean actor but also remembered for television roles such as Fagin in the 1985 BBC production of Oliver Twist and Professor Moriarty in Granada Television’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1985). Rachel Roberts (1927-1980) was a Welsh film actress best known for her roles in Saturda[…]

[…]n I raised that point with you just know about the stageiness of them you look back to the great days of television dramas so-called Sydney Newman at Granada and you know the early Alan Owen plays for instance No Trains to Lime Street. I mean they were all studio bound, there was no ...Roy Fowler:Oh[…]

[…] in that, and I went on tour with it. And that was produced by a great guy called Komisarjevsky, who designed, incidentally, all the interiors of the Granada cinemas.Rodney Giesler: Really?Dicky Leeman: Yes.Rodney Giesler: Who were the personalities of the time who impressed you?Dicky Leeman: In the[…]

[…] interval when the lights were up, or things like that. Do you recall that?Jill Craigie: No, I don't remember that. But I should think they did it at Granada, I don't know if Sydney Bernstein was operating then. That's just the sort of thing he would do, and then sell the ice creams at the same time[…]