Search Results for: PYE TV Award (1986)

[…] major star - came over to England to do a TV series. And I suppose I was quite proud of […]

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[…]it was an infant. He was still expanding. And Harry Coventry  49:33  OBS had gone through. They'd gone through the start of ITV. ITV had started maybe a couple of years earlier, and had taken a lot of the staff out of out of outside broadcasts from in BBC, into ITV, a lot of[…]

[…]ly on the bus seat.Speaker 2  59:46  Right. So obviously investing heavily at this time, presumably in response to what was happening with ITV.Speaker 1  59:55  Oh, absolutely. Yes, yes, yes. So there was real competition going on. In fact, one of the problems the BBC were having[…]

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[…] people in line. Which. Was. In its infancy I was losing a lot of people because. The BBC was babies here and they had one channel in those days the ITV or something else. So they were they were news you know to people because ITV were. Probably seeing all sorts of things like holidays and. Car deci[…]

[…]a first class ticket. Nothing like it is today, but nevertheless it was first class and I was in a carriage – and I always swore I’d write a play for tv and put this scene in, and sitting opposite me were three officers –McG: [interrupting] Hang on a moment there Harry because we are going to change[…]

[…]a soap really because Coronation Street was trundling away being frightfully sort of successful and The BBC, if you remember for a long time, I mean ITV wiped the floor with BBC Drama didn’t they because with few exceptions BBC didn’t seem to get it right somehow, it took a long time for people…With[…]