[…]went to series I would be employed to do it. And I had one of my extraordinary bits of what, psychic, whatever you call it, and after I’d left ATV temporarily and was doing something, Ian Messiter had taken over Family Fortunes from me, or was it… yes. He had taken over Family Fortunes, […]
[…]burning thing and you was bitten from top to bottom with lice and things because it was full of things. Then you got to the end, I think it was to Pontville we went up as far as and then we got off this and you crossed on this pontoon with the tracks then we went with the tracks to this camp that wa[…]
[…] i nformation. 20:00 RAF taught me good electronics, useful in TV career. Last posting was near Nottingham, fighter control centre, […]
[…] the Boat enormously when I was the first producer to say look, this is crazy right and why we just keep talking about the BBC. I mean, people watch ITV you know, why can't really talk about ITV. They said all right. So it was very funny because the head of presentation guy called Rex Morford was so[…]
[…]they would book the dolly from us and say we’d like one of you grips Fred Fry if he’s available. Er ... the, and we used to service the Beeb and the ITV companies with complete, with equipment and crews, the reason that all fell away and it’s been a great disappointment to me, was that the Beeb part[…]
[…] in freelancers? Yeah. Is that, woul d you say how TV has changed a lot? 28 Oh yeah. Greatly. So […]
[…]here were about eight years that time, took 12 per year. And we also did a one year course for postgraduate. So crash course introduction to film and TV, we had a very good tutor in Tim O'Brien, who was a stage designer for the rst, in the Royal Opera, so forth. But he was a good general, sort of pa[…]
[…]asionally on a Saturday, I qualify for the recently formed Alexandra Palace Television Society. And it means that I get to see some of the real early TV people who are colleagues of mine. People like Bill Ward and Basil Adams. And who else was at the last reunion, how many people Yvonne Littlewood w[…]
