Peggy Gick

[…]t for six thousand! [Chuckles.] Which left me the eleven thousand for the extra bits for all the other episodes...it was a crazy budget. And then the scriptwriters were writing in scripts which we [did] out on location because the cameramen and the director preferred doing that to working in the enc[…]

Emmanuel (Manny) Yospa

[…] lasted quite a long time, it was er - Aida Young was the producer. And of course each of these series, they had a different director and a different scriptwriter for each episode. So one thing, it was a good sort of training for new directors and of course we seemed to have the same scriptwriters f[…]

Alexander Faris

[…]now was a great friend of yours. You arranged and conducted.Alexander Faris: Ron Grainer was the composer, Ronald was Millar was the lyric Writer and scriptwriter. And Wendy Toye was the director again, the old team together again. It became evident at an early stage that a lot of rewriting was bein[…]

Dennis Main Wilson

[…]an, Stewart Parnell, we end up literally with an oil lamp over the 18th hole, and Marty is still putting. Genius. We have a series to do. And my scriptwriters are Marty Feldman and Barry Took, John Cleese and Graham Chapman. Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden. Mike Palin and Terry Jones, all k[…]

Peter de Normanville

[…]4:15  By going up to shoot the Everest KanchenjungaPeter de Normanville  4:19  Oh yes. With us or madam Tuesday as some of the faraway scriptwriter the script started with Dawn catches this ragged peaks of Everest and catching Jahangir being a clot. I have since learned that you can w[…]

Muriel Box (Gardiner) (née Baker)

[…]ay Kendall, and it was only because she had very poor notices on her last film.[END OF TAPE] Muriel Box, Lady Gardiner, film director, film producer, scriptwriter

Johnny Speight

BEHP 0167T Johnny Speight Transcript JOHNNY SPEIGHT Scriptwriter Interviewed by Norman Swallow with Alan Lawson, recorded on 26 November 1990. The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project SIDE 1, TAPE 1 Alan Lawson: First of all when and where were you born Johnny Speight: C[…]
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