[…]awful, royal telly silly. [Laughter]Yes. And I, for about ten years I managed to persuade my employers, whichever producer it was...Oh yes.The BBC or Thames or Granada whatever to either be all on film or all on tape.Oh indeed, yes.And that was, that was quite an achievement.Oh revolutionary, yes, y[…]
[…] be a certain amount of quota that the non big five companies, ITV was organised into the big five and the rest and the big five were London Weekend, Thames Television, Granada, Central and I've forgotten the other one! I: Yorkshire. R: Yorkshire, thank you! And STV and other companies wer[…]
[…]nbsp;14:30 So what was your role within the department? I startedSpeaker 1 14:32 as a script editor. Barry Hanson had left to go to Thames and therefore his script editor Tara Prem, became the producer of Second City first, obviously reporting to David who was generally was was res[…]
[…]d of him. But you did for anything later on, years later, they engaged him as being on the production side.Speaker 1 36:04 He ended up at Thames Television, I think, just personnelSpeaker 2 36:08 and understand, but he took over. He told, Come, tell me what to do. I tell you […]
[…]ve to give active work, won't you?"Sidney Cole: How did you do your back in?Kay Mander: I don't know, I just did it. I got off the train at Walton on Thames station one day and I couldn't walk. And I came into the studios, they sat me on a stool, and I couldn't get off it, so they sent me home. And […]
Peggy Gick (art director/production designer) b.1911 by admin — last modified Jul 27, 2008 02:13 PM BIOGRAPHY: Peggy Gick trained […]
[…]different forms. MW: It was most successful.AF: Yes exactly.MW: Most successful series ever made.AF: Yeah. At this point, and I think that Thames Television were quite surprised to be asked for that kind of deal. They were used to an all-out complete buy out for world television rights. B[…]
