[…]ack again, and push them again, and so on until eventually, they came up with something that they knew they wanted a film in celebration of geeks and TV. And that was what I got. AndUnknown Speaker 11:36 that sets you off. AndPaddy Carey 11:39 I'm glad it did well, because it[…]
[…] to be Operations?" I said, "No, no, I'd rather be outside." So I went home and er it worried me […]
[…]d. Everybody wanted to get on television in those days...Alan Lawson: [interrupts] Yes...Cyril Page: And er... to see er...like Castro or Shell or Britvic or like that on the box, I mean, it was worth millions of pounds to them all, and wherever we went, we always...people used to say, "Can you do t[…]
[…]re party to it in some fashion. The directors I mentioned George of course Bill Ward was there and Bill went on to enormous heights of course in the ATV in the Grade organization. He had been a floor manager, he was a director by the time I got there working on light entertainment so call[…]
[…]in the Theatre Royal which is the home of Scottish opera, it's the biggest theatre, it became Scottish Television's headquarters when they opened up STV and then Scottish Opera took it over. It really is a huge theatre. And they used to do a thing called Stardust, a big charity concert every year an[…]
[…]d that twice. I did Clara in The Nutcracker, I did Checkmate, the Vic Wells ballet did Checkmate. There was a lot.NS: Who was in charge in respect of TV production in those days?MD: D H Munro, I think, I mean I don’t know, But my impression is that it was D H Munro.AS: He did all the ballets?MD:&nbs[…]
[…];of handle was in a sense uh slightly religious. Yeah. Did you ever see is TV film. Yes I did. Yes. Yes. Besides time did you buy you that when we&nbs[…]
[…]52. “With regard to this proposed Goons television show, I've elicited the basic idea hailed from Michael Bentine, when he was offered his own single TV show. With regard to the three other goons, Spike Milligan tells me was talked into it by Bentine but if I can get him out of it, he'd be grateful.[…]
[…]d at what went on behind the scenes! The cameras, the sound, everything indeed was incredible! From that moment on I used to get tickets for all the STV shows sent. I used to write in. We got them for nothing, of course, and went quite often to watch programmes being either recorded or going out liv[…]
[…]because I actually failed my course at university and, funny enough, failed graduates were what were perceived to be the head of Sound Department at STV's idea of the right kind of person to put in the team because graduates, at a functional level, graduates always wanted to move on. They always wan[…]
