[…]hnny Morgan  We did this. I made a fewcommercials, not very many. And early on we got our deal with Granada which really kept us going. And the deal with Granada was that one or the other of us would be there at any time […]
[…]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[…]
[…]ed on, the programmes would be serviced by in Yorkshire television, if you're doing wrestling from Leeds, my Yorkshire television, from Manchester by Granada and so on. He didn't get the same treatment up there, as he got down here, which makes for a very special rapport, but he was worth it. Becaus[…]
[…]course by the time finished, gone, shooting ratio was almost 1 to 1Julia Cave: Yeah.Norman Swallow: I’m going back 32 years. That was for Granada not the BBC.Alan Lawson: But anywayJulia Cave: But that revolution has changed the way everybody thinks about everything and what’s actu[…]
[…]replace yourself. ANNE HANFORD: I did, yes I did.SUE MALDEN: So who did you get for that?ANNE HANFORD: I got Janet Andrew from Granada.SUE MALDEN: So she also had …  ANNE HANFORD: No hang on, what am I talking about, no I got Tony Treble. Sorry I am leap[…]
[…]vern, who I worked with, who came from the BBC, didn't he?John P Hamilton Yes.Joan Kemp-Welch: And the firm wanted to get rid of him and so Granada gave him an office and three secretaries and no work to do for a year, and he committed suicide. These are tragedies that occurred and, for th[…]
[…]list, Dennis Pitts who used to be the editor of the Girly magazine – what was it called? Lilliput.NS: Was he? Was he the Dennis Pitts that worked for Granada?DMW: Yes.NS: I knew him.DMW: Then it all starts to go wrong: Oh, we did The Royal Command Variety Show, that was fun -then Till Death Do Us Pa[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]ion coming out who've never worked anywhere else. So they know what's bad, but they don't know what's good. They've not worked the BBC, not worked in Granada, they've not worked here and there. They don't know what's good. Then I think it's time to go. Because what's the good of trying to produce ex[…]
[…]y Keith Waterhouse and very present to work on Jerry enstes has operated for a long time, and after that, after that, got the chance to do a film for Granada TV called staying on, which was a novel by Paul Scott, one of the series, the first, probably of the jewel in the crown books he did. It had S[…]
