[…] fantasies.One of them, which I think is one of the best things he ever did, was to sail a U-boat in wartime up the English Channel, turn left up the Thames, turn left at the Embankment into the underground system, which was fabulous. Very quickly, the story was it is 1939, the war, it is Friday nig[…]
[…] you know newsreels were held in very high esteem. There were there was no television around. And my God to be seen on a newsreel or to think that a&n[…]
[…] of the morning, looking out of the window overlooking the Thames, and we could see a Zeppelin coming - it […]
[…]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[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]’s her name a can’t remember the - er- woman have you got it there? No anyway - it’s a series with Anton Rodgers - yeah - it’ll come - er Q: For Thames?01:21:41JOE: For Thames a detective sort of and wom… man and wife ‘Thin Man’ sort of thing - and I was asked to do it. The producer[…]
[…]ed Gravesend in Kent, and I can remember my mother pulling me out of bed in the early hours of the morning, looking out of the window overlooking the Thames, and we could see a Zeppelin coming - it was a moonlit night. And I do remember during that period I was at a dance school - I remember enterta[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…] 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[…]
