Look-in
Thames programmes on the cover of the Junior TVTimes
Month: June 2018
TVTimes covers
Thames on the cover of a magazine…
A gallery of Thames gems
Top Thames drama, comedy, factual and entertainment programmes
Thames Overnight Continuity & Adverts plus ITN World News – 1987
Overnight Thames continuity
Thames – Adverts & Continuity – 1980
In-vision intro into Benny Hill
Thames Continuity & Adverts plus Home Cookery Club – 1988
LA Law and Telethon ’88 are amongst the promos on Thames today
Thames News – 9th July 1980
Thames News reporting on the Holborn Tube crash
Thames Closedown 1987
One of the last nightly closedowns from Thames
Thames Lunchtime Continuity Compilation – 1990
From September/October 1990, some Thames continuity and adverts around the lunchtime children’s programmes
Thames Today on 22 September 1975
A bad-tempered argument on ‘Today’ about the history – and future – of ITV in 1975
Next on Rediffusion: Thames
A promo for what’s coming up on Thames, put out by Rediffusion in its last few days
Rockalong
A colour start-up from Thames in 1969
Thames News headlines at 0925 in 1986
TV-am hands over to Thames News in 1986
Thames-LWT handover on 5 November 1982
Have a great London weekend, says Thames
Thames starts the day on Wednesday 8 September 1982
Perpetuum Mobile and Salute to Thames help wake London’s ITV
1980s continuity medley
A video compilation of Thames continuity from the mid-1980s
Where they once were: Brian Tesler
The early life of Brian Tesler, director of programmes at Thames, from September 1969
A ‘Today’ in the life of an Izzard
A wry look at how ‘Today’ gets to air in December 1969
Close up: Pauline Fay James
Meet information assistant Pauline Fay James in December 1969
Close up: Kevin Morgan – poet
Meet Kevin Morgan, poet and promotion scriptwriter at Thames in September 1969
Close up: Peter Errington
Talk of Thames meets researcher and eye candy Peter Errington in September 1969
The Girls of Viewer Correspondence Go Out and About Euston
The Thames viewer correspondence department pay a visit to the new neighbours in September 1969
The Likely Lads
The Thames house football team in September 1969
Shotgun marriage
ABC’s Howard Thomas is told of his company’s fate by Lord Hill in 1967
Who will buy my sweet lavender?
Keeping ABC and Rediffusion on air whilst planning the new Thames
Mountbatten’s ratings
Thames gets ready, the ratings fall and LWT starts to go to pieces
All fall down
Thames is here… and ITV falls off air
Consolidations
Thames and ITV begin to settle down… but changes are afoot at the new company’s majority shareholder
Over the Hill
A shuffle at the top of the ITA and the BBC
Inside ABPC
A peak inside the lumbering Associated British Picture Corporation
Enter EMI
EMI arrives as the majority shareholder in Thames Television
Exits and entrances
All change at the board of Thames and at the top of the Authority
Settling down
Thames hits its stride… just as advertising revenues go into free fall in the 1970s