[…]id he really… Anyway so we made that programme.  01.00.41So I remember that one for the reason. The one that, funnily enough while I was at Thames, the one that probably got more attention than any other one, actually went out in the very first edition of ‘TV Eye’. I mean there was uproar […]
[…]But the most terrifying thing was working on the docks when they bombed the docks and the whole [of] London was alight and we were on one side of the Thames with everything there. There was a barge on our side which was alight and we turned hoses on it to push it to the other side. And in the middle[…]
[…] know, we were never going to be one of the big producing companies. Because of our history, because of the stranglehold that Granada and Central and Thames and LWT had on the system, you know, everything that they had was going to be very, very jealously guarded. I mean, to a certain extent, Gus wa[…]
[…]ere there, absolutely. So I did that during my freelance area. I also did - I can’t remember the dates now - a documentary for Jeremy when he went to Thames, about Hollywood, which again was a similar sort of thing called, Dowager in Hot Pants, it was called, about Hollywood. And then I, while I was[…]
[…]re and I was born a couple of weeks early, erm, I, we, were brought up on a council estate in Norbiton, which is between New Malden and Kingston-Upon-Thames. My Dad was a toolmaker, who’s now retired, and my Mum did all sort of jobs to fit in and around myself and my brother, who’s Martin, who’s sev[…]
[…]started me on the road to television. [5:12]I'd been in the Nottingham Playhouse for a couple of years but I'd also applied to ABC Television as Thames originally was, or it was, Thames was the merger of two companies, ABC and Rediffusion, and I had applied for a trainee Director's scheme that […]
[…] John Schlesinger, all of whom of course worked on Monitor, on and off.And Richardson too. And Tynan, weren’t they?Tynan did Tempo for Thames, if you remember. He was the...he didn’t, no, he didn’t.Come on to Monitor.No.But Richardson did, didn’t he?Nancy Tbomas DRAFT Page 2[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]ually. It was Rex Tucker, who did children's stuff. His daughter Jane is part of the group that was in the very successful children's programme which Thames did until their demise. In fact, it may even still be going on I don't know. And that's" Rainbow". She's one of the music team in that. One of […]
