[…]nk in all television that I’ve done.Winning factions, losing factions.DS: Yes. I think politics have always been involved. It was worse when I got to Thames and when I got up into the Euston journalistic news area, that was horrific, but that’s for later.It seems almost suicidal on your pa[…]
[…]ful Cyril, who had been all over in commercial television, knew what it was about.   That’s three companies. And then there was Thames. Thames? Yes. And then there was Thames headed by Howard Thomas, with Brian Tesler as Director. George Cooper the man…n[…]
[…]ged. Instead of being run by ex programme people as the BBC was always run by, and if you look at ITV, most of the bosses in ITV when I first went to Thames, Brian Cowgill was the managing director and he had been controller of BBC1 he was an ex producer, Alasdair Milne was the director general at t[…]
[…] do away with presenters and Robin Day didn’t like this, engineered a coup, got Jeremy ousted. Jeremy then pitched up at Rediffusion before it became Thames, started recruiting Panorama people for This Week, starting with his favourite producer Philip Whitehead. I meanwhile got a job in General Feat[…]
[…]ittle questionnaire: where would you like to be in two year’s time? And I said I would like to be a researcher on historical documentaries working at Thames Television. And I’m happy to say that two year’s later, that’s where I was. MW: How wonderful! So few people manage to achieve exactly wha[…]
[…] later.Alan Lawson: At Stoll's... was it?Tilly Day: No, no.Alan Lawson: Ah ha. This was a silent?Tilly Day: This was at Walton-on-Thames.Alan Lawson: Ah ha. Are we getting out of date yet? We're getting our dates mixed up. But can you remember any of the films you were on at[…]
[…]of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Our subject today is John Ammonds - A M M O N D S. Television producer director, ex-BBC TV, Thames TV, London Weekend Television, now retired. The interviewer record this is John P Hamilton, member of the BECTU History Project committee, the […]
[…] NEVILLE WORTMAN: Yes. [Checks his notes]  DARROL BLAKE: The next thing I’ve got is Eamonn Andrews which is obviously ABC/Thames.NEVILLE WORTMAN: That’s right, that’s it. My big idea then, I thought that ABC was really the best thing that happened to ITV at th[…]
[…] to cut a long story short, about a couple of weeks later he rang me up and said if I rang up...rang up er...a Mr Ernie Garside[?] at er...(Walton on Thames) er Worton Hall Studios at Isleworth, he'd most likely, you know, er...fix me up. So I rang up this gentleman and he said, "Yes, we want a Clap[…]
