[…]and all that sort of business.Roy Fowler: Yes.E.M. Smedley-Aston: He was a comparatively docile director and not one like these people like Mike Curtiz and things that you hear about. So he was quite easy, quite pleasant but I found him sort of...I don't say dull, but he wasn't the type th[…]
[…]a ballerina in the Royal Ballet, from Canada. It was that sort of type of programme. It was fun. And I always had this marvellous backing group - The Mike Sammes Singers, they were great. And as a treat I always used to put them in vision on Christmas Day, the same as when I had Cliff Richard, I had[…]
[…]dest memory of church services was going over in 1974 to do the Remembrance Day service in a place called Hill trage in Belgium. And I went over with Mike Gibbons and was it during my given was the director produced Yes. And a group of 12 Chelsea pensioners and we were taking them over to this in th[…]
[…]e you do get them. You do go do get them out of a hole this untested young American writer I was working with on this NBC thing that I did last year. Mike Schweitzer he's never really done a full feature film, he comes from Hill Street Blues, and those kind of, you know, the, the slick American, and[…]
[…]d no alternative but to say ‘Hold everything’. Because we couldn't go on, there was no way and so we stopped and the, the comperes for the night were Mike Smith and Roland Rat, who was big at that time, it was Roland in the box. And they improvised for about a quarter of an hour with the audience, o[…]
[…]sp;not sort of at the time. You don't think you you know you're picking up Mike but you do you do pick up from this from the experienced because you h[…]
[…]d what they are going to do, the operator gets on with it.Sidney Cole: It really is such a specialised job...Kay Mander: And you sort out things like mike shadows, and that sort of thing, whereas nowadays you never sort out mike shadows, or anything.Sidney Cole: Also it's a joy to watch an elaborate[…]