[…] it was, it was Nettlefold's. And we went to Rugby and we shot quite a lot up there, and then we came back and did the studio stuff and worked on the Thames. It was actually in the winter by the time we got to the Thames, so the boys swimming in the river, we shot in November! And in fact there is o[…]
[…] went on the air, isn't it? Yes, so frost and Jay and Marsh came down one the time they wanted to do TV. AM, and I've got a tape London Weekend news, Thames news, where frost and Jay are standing outside this building, saying, This is where it's all going to be done. I was in America at the time. Th[…]
[…]m Best Lab (Humphries) in 1939.00:26:15 – 00:31:45 He had previously joined the AFS on a part-time basis in 1938 and was put on the riverboats on the Thames; talks about his mother and other family; in the AFS they sailed up and down the Thames from Richmond lock – never attended a fire during the w[…]
[…];studios, the only thing I have ever built that was permanent, so Ican say that I rebuilt Thames Television.How did that come about that you rebuilt the studios? They just asked me to.Because&nbs[…]
[…]g Co and we recorded these organs and we had film to go with them. I'll give you one example, one was pop songs of the time, a tune called Old Father Thames, a very dreary song about the Thames, so of course we had shots of pleasure boats going down the river. They were made into a 15 minute short a[…]
[…] last bastion of restrictive practices”. She was particularly enraged by Thames TV’s ‘Death on the Rock’ (1998). It presented evidence […]
[…]. So all I can say about Gumshoe is, there are great things in it but it didn’t really quite work. And after that Stephen went off and got a job with Thames TV to learn how to be a director and he learnt but he didn’t really know when he did Gumshoe. And I certainly didn’t know because it was my sec[…]
