Brian Shemmings

[…]sp;the same day that was the twenty third my sixty. And then I started in. ITV I used to help Paddy leech who. Whose title was on the strange titles D[…]

Peter Dimmock

[…]much longer.”  And, of course, we didn’t, the fees went up and up and up and then even one year we took show jumping away from us and gave it to ITV – this is jumping ahead a long way – but, fortunately, ITV made a booboo because just as they came to jumping the wall in the Puissance - which wa[…]

Taylor Downing

[…]eave Bristol initially and go to Leeds, or- TD: No. It was going to be fairly tricky getting into television as a researcher, particularly in an ITV company, where at that sort of level you are going to need a union ticket, an ACTT ticket, so my very first job was at the Imperial War Museum Fil[…]

Peter Williams

[…]n the days of TWW, Television Wales in the West, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and the glamorous team that won the Harlech licence to broadcast ITV. And so for two years I produced what was called the Peter Williams Column in the programme paper for TWW, and I was absolutely wrong – actually w[…]

Daphne Shadwell

[…]ig was the famous magazine programme for children where Michael Westmore was, he was producing it. And he produced it and then he came across to ITV and was my boss for quite a while. Robert Tronson, the marvellous, I think he’s a marvellous director. In fact it was his Darling Buds o[…]

David Robson

[…] it was a flyer saying, "Get your sets converted for ITV. ITV will be with you in a couple of […]

David Robson

[…]rain at Victoria. And I felt in my pocket and I could feel this crinkly paper so I got it out and it was a flyer saying, "Get your sets converted for ITV. ITV will be with you in a couple of years' time and you should get ready for channel 9." And I thought to myself, "Fat lot of good that is. That […]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…]nged I think all television has changed totally changed. Instead of being run by ex programme people as the BBC was always run by, and if you look at ITV, most of the bosses in ITV when I first went to Thames, Brian Cowgill was the managing director and he had been controller of BBC1 he was an ex pr[…]

Barbara (Bimbi) Harris

[…] in the beginning of the television but they mean 55', they don't realise it had been going 10 years before they joined.RF: Yes from the beginning of ITV. 8. More on Lime GroveRF: Do you remember how long each day the station was on the air, there are two stations now, right, they're transmitti[…]
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