One of ITV’s best-known and most popular networked series for children, Magpie (Thames), has now been running for more than nine years. The programme’s informative magazine format allows for the coverage of a wide range of diverse topics, the boundaries of which are stretched even further by extensive use of outside broadcasts. But the most notable feature about Magpie is that unlike most television programmes – which, being steeped in the sophisticated technicalities of modern television, are often pre-recorded – it is still transmitted live from its studios in Teddington.

Tim Jones, Mogpie’s producer, reflects that: ‘Back in the good old days of black and white when to edit you needed a pair of scissors and a secret fluid, which I never knew the name of, the one thing all studio or outside broadcast based programmes had in common was that they were live and the viewers saw everything, including all the fluffs.’ Today, however, no TV station exists without its sophisticated video-tape operation and few programmes are, in fact, planned to be live.

Not so with Magpie. Twice a week, every week, for nine months of the year, the red light outside Studio 3 at Teddington means ‘On Air’. Of course, the whole programme isn’t live – recorded studio and outside broadcast inserts and film are used, but the presentation is live and, quite often, the whole programme has no recorded material at all.

Magpie consumes 42 hours of original material each year so, since it started on the ITV network in 1968, it has gobbled up over 350 hours of original thought. Being a programme for children there is no way of getting away with ‘making do’. Children are the most discerning of viewers, and maintaining the high standard of the series demands the involvement of many dedicated and specialised production team members.

Magpie is first and foremost an entertainment and the programmes always aim to be as lively as possible. However, most items are designed to provoke more than just a passive response and where possible children are stimulated into doing things for themselves. For example, cookery has become a very popular subject and the programme has recently taken an interest in the local fare prepared in different parts of the country.

There is also scope for dealing with current topics of interest in the news and Magpie has been able to relate to children the significance of such national crises as the 1976 drought or the deteriorating economic situation.

The presenters, Jenny Hanley, Mick Robertson and Tommy Boyd, get very involved in the studio activities and they also regularly travel with film crews to locations of special interest to the programme’s networked audience. Apart from the summer trip each year, which provides film inserts for a number of editions of the programme, the team also manage to fit in other occasional visits abroad and have already explored such countries as Egypt, USA and Kenya. These films show young viewers cultures and ways of life different to their own and give them a chance to see places they may themselves be fortunate enough to visit one day.

Competitions always create a favourable response from Magpie viewers, but here again they are designed to stimulate the child and to increase his interest, knowledge and general awareness. A road safety poster painting competition, organised in collaboration with the Department of Environment, not only encouraged thousands of children to be creative with a paint brush but also made them think about the whole question of road safety. Magpie then took things one stage further and, instead of offering a prize of material value, invited the winners to see their entries pass through all the processes of printing. Naturally, the camera team were there to record the event and a further film was made to show the printed posters being hung on hoarding sites all over Britain.

Of course, linking all these items together with the live presentation from the studio does present problems. But, as producer Tim Jones points out, ‘when that “On Air” light goes on the pulse moves a little faster and one is that much sharper’.

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‘Know what a lens is lad?’

‘Er, yes.’

‘Ever seen a television camera before?’

‘Er, I think so.’

‘Right. You start first thing in the morning.’

An occasional young cameraman might conceivably have started his career in television like this fifteen or twenty years ago. Recruitment into the industry then was sometimes a haphazard and irregular affair and even once in the job formalised training was not always available – you often learned as you went along.

Things today are very different. The video communications business has become a large and sophisticated industry. In addition to the broadcasting organisations and the host of small, private film and TV companies, virtually every university, technical college and art school as well as most of the larger education authorities have full-scale television systems in operation; the industry’s techniques and equipment have become highly advanced. Against such a background it was inevitable that regularised, planned training programmes, college courses and recruitment schemes should have sprung up. Young hopefuls entering the industry today will have to have at least some qualifications under their belts before they start and then after joining will more than likely embark on a planned course of learning and instruction.

In Independent Television, a number of the larger companies have instituted such schemes for all their recruitment and staff training. One company to have done this is Thames Television in London. Its training scheme began in its present form some three or four years ago and is still developing. Thames has set up a special Training Department with its own staff and its own Training Centre at Teddington studios. The centre includes a library of books, tapes and cassettes, a study area and special facilities which can be used as a lecture room, viewing room or television studio. The scheme has a number of sides to its operation and is not designed just for technical staff. There are courses for, among others, secretaries, programme directors and production assistants as well as staff from the business and administration sides. Recruits from both inside and outside the industry find they have a large number of courses available to them.

One of the most comprehensive training courses Thames undertake is the Technical Training Scheme. Student trainees in camera and sound work, operational engineering, film and other technical fields take one-year courses which include a period in the training centre followed by a period as operational trainees. The courses are devised on a modular basis covering a wide number of areas and each trainee follows the full course through. They begin to specialise during the operational phase and as vacancies occur are progressively absorbed into the company. The courses include lectures, demonstrations, visits and production projects, and a number of days a week working in a small closed-circuit studio and control room.

On the production side there are training programmes for production assistants and trainee directors, the latter spending most of their time working closely with other directors but also undertaking several weeks of concentrated instruction. In addition there are special courses for vision mixers, graphics department trainees, engineers specialising in quality control and digital techniques, plus external courses for VTR operations, lighting control, 16mm. film production and colour photography.

As well as the production and engineering courses, there are those catering for people specialising in the business and administration sides. There is a trainee secretaries’ course for recruits joining from secretarial college, and Thames’ trainee manager scheme covers most aspects of management and business administration. Short specialist courses for established managers cover labour relations, interviewing methods and industrial safety.

Another feature of the Thames approach to recruitment and training is the induction course. All new people joining the company go on a one-day induction course which includes a welcome from an executive director and tours of the Teddington and Euston centres as well as a look at some of Thames’ programmes and talks with personnel and welfare staff.

Yet another valuable and in some ways novel part of the overall scheme is the regular studio training sessions Thames organises for all its employees. These sessions are specially designed to give staff a chance

to do jobs they,would not normally do and so as well as being of great value they are needless to say great fun too. For some staff the sessions present a good opportunity to see if they really would like to be a cameraman or production assistant; others are able to test their prowess at such work as sound balancing, which a boom operator for example would not normally be able to do. Others find their experience usefully broadened by having to work in unfamiliar conditions and many of course appreciate the chance to sense the excitement of programme making. Anyone in the company from the newest recruit to the most established executive can apply to take part. An obvious advantage of the studio sessions is that they prove to some people that they will never make a cameraman, production assistant or whatever else it was they’d had ambitions for!

The broad thinking behind the entire scheme is one of fostering and developing talent. Young people coming into the industry are given the opportunity of receiving high quality training designed to suit specifically their talents. The right type of training must be given in the right areas. Care is taken not to deny job opportunities to those already in the industry, and those whose skills and abilities have been overtaken by technological change are offered re-training. The twin issues at stake in training are the short-term needs of individuals and the long-term needs of the industry.

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So how do the people who actually make children’s television programmes set about it? How do they deal with their awesome responsibility, not only to please all the adults (or at least not offend them too much) but also entertain, inform, interest and stretch the vast number of children for whom their programmes are intended?

The Children’s Department of Thames Television is the largest in ITV, supplying an average of 142½ hours of networked programmes each year. It caters for children ranging from the very young (Rainbow for the under fives) through to the 5-6 year olds (Paperplay, Issi Noho, King Wilbur III, …And Maisy Too), the 7-8 year olds (The Sooty Show, Michael Bentine’s Potty Time), the 9-12 year olds (Magpie, All Together Now), teenagers (You Must Be Joking!), and it hopes that its drama appeals to children of all ages (The Tomorrow People, The Molly Wopsies, The Feathered Serpent, Shadows, Horse In The House).

Not only is this output geared across a wide age range, but the types of programme are also immensely varied. Sue Turner, Thames’ Controller of Children’s Programmes comments: ‘Children are, after all, simply people who have not been alive very long. They have as much (maybe more) intelligence, imagination, enthusiasm and eagerness as adults. All they lack is experience (and the prejudices that often come with it). They are also a demanding audience – unrestrained by the social politeness of adults, they write and tell us precisely what they think of us and our programmes!’

Magpie, twice a week every week (except for a short summer break), is probably the best known of Thames’ children’s programmes. Transmitted live, Magpie aims to be an all round magazine programme, with items of topical interest for children of approximately 6-12 years. It began in 1968 with the start of Thames Television itself. Its award-winning documentaries have given it an international as well as a national reputation.

The pre-school programme Rainbow (winner of the British Academy Award for the best children’s programme in February 1975) aims to help children below school age to expand their experience of the world and the people around them. Rainbow is believed to be unique in the world, in that it began in 1974 making full length documentaries specially for the under fives. Dealing with potentially traumatic experiences for the very young child, so far ‘Rainbow goes to Hospital’ and ‘Rainbow Starts School’ have been presented and work is beginning on a ’Special’ which will deal with the arrival of a new baby.

A department of this size has plenty of opportunity to experiment. You Must Be Joking! (of which two series have now been made) was entirely written and performed by a cast of East End children, ranging in age from 11-17. It has been both hailed as a new departure in ‘access’ programming and condemned as giving children false ideas of their own importance. Following this programme, work is in hand on Pauline’s Quirkes, starring 16-year-old Pauline Quirke (known to adult audiences for her outstanding performance in Jenny Can’t Work Any Faster). This time Pauline and her friends take a swing at the remaining male chauvinist bastions in the name of girls’ lib!

Last year Thames launched a series of seven plays with a linking theme of ghostliness, under the title of Shadows. They included a play specially written by J B Priestley. The second series of Shadows, with an over-all theme of fantasy and including specially commissioned plays by such outstanding writers as Joan Aiken, Susan Cooper and Ewart Alexander, was transmitted this summer. The Molly Wopsies (transmitted in Spring 1976) was entirely shot with Thames’ small mobile outside broadcast unit on location in Henley; and this same unit is being used to shoot Horse in the House (adapted by Rosemary Anne Sisson from the book by William Corbin).

Sue Turner says her team had a great deal of fun and raised a lot of eyebrows by demonstrating that an all-action adventure series, set in ancient Mexico, could be shot entirely in Studio 2 at Teddington. The end result was The Feathered Serpent, transmitted this summer – with music specially written by David Fanshawe, sword fights and a great deal of ritual and splendour. She also hopes it helped to make viewers aware of the rich and fascinating history of pre-Columbian America.

This is a brief outline of just one Children’s Department – using film, studio and outside broadcast to make documentaries, current affairs, drama, light entertainment and comedy programmes. Did you know that children have such a wide choice of programmes available to them?

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The Design Department at Thames is one of the responsibilities of the Controller of Programme Services, whose deputy is in charge of administration for all areas of design. The Head of Design is responsible for creative control and his department is divided into four main sections each with its own supervisor.

The Department has fifteen administrators, managers and secretaries, making a total permanent staff of 112. Backing this design group are a large number of wardrobe personnel, property and scene men, carpenters, painters, drapesmen and drivers.

Creative Function

‘The television production designer’s function is creative and interpretive’ writes Patrick Downing, Head of Design at Thames Television. ‘His job is to clarify the director’s and his own impressions of a writer’s intentions into an amalgam of physical shapes and colours. He designs pictures – not sets, shapes and movement in a framework, not a series of still lifes.’

Downing believes that a designer’s work is realised by the individual and that it cannot be handed out as a brief. ‘A programme concept does not determine the designer’s approach to a problem or his method of solving that problem. It does not tell him what to do, or how to do it, just as it does not tell an actor how to interpret his role. The actor, director and designer will assimilate from a script or a programme outline their own conception of what they do and how they do it. With luck the designer will interpret the author’s and the director’s intent about fifty per cent of the time.

‘The Designer works as a contributor to the whole concept, with producers, directors, lighting cameramen, camera operators, costume designers and sound mixers. This does not mean that the designer’s work is done in conference and is therefore the combined work of all the participants. It is the total programme that is their combined work. ’

The designer will produce plans of action, shapes of scenery, and storyboards of ideas which will be considered and accepted by the director or producer with few if any modifications. There is no one solution to the realisation of a production designer’s work, in the translation from the written or spoken word to the creation of visual symbols. Given the same project, the same director, the same facilities, time, and budget, three designers would produce three entirely different solutions to a single programme concept.

The designer has to satisfy his own sense of fulfilment and the requirements of the author and director. He attempts to produce work that will create the largest possible audience, and at the same time fulfil his own sense of achievement and satisfaction.

Film/Videotape

There is little difference between television and film design except in the most minor mechanics. Film design is usually less confined in terms of locations, studio space and budgets.

Television ‘sets’ are designed to accommodate five or more electronic cameras and an infinity of variable positions and heights. Film ‘sets’ are designed to accommodate one film camera with the same number of variable positions. Television is more and more combining both videotape and film as a means of expression, and videotape is being shot and edited more and more in a filmic manner.

Certain disadvantages exist for the designer working with film: on videotape each shot can be seen on monitor screens as it happens and necessary corrections made; on film nothing can be seen until the ‘rushes’ are viewed after the film has been processed – too late for any adjustments.

A distinct advantage of working on location with film is that one starts with a real environment, and whatever may be added in the way of colour and properties, cobwebs or paint, one is building on a foundation of reality. In studio work the designer starts off with a basis of cardboard and recreates an extension of reality.

Most television designers’ work is still in a studio environment, and for non-contemporary drama this has become almost essential, since this field requires an ambience and setting that often exists only in museums, or is in reality now covered by a welter of traffic meters and television aerials.

These ‘extensions of reality’ in a television studio, a kind of synthesis of a style or a particular period are, hopefully, accepted by the viewer as ‘real’ – accepted, that is, if the designer’s and lighting director’s contribution can stand up to scrutiny. Graham Greene, reviewing a film in 1937, wrote: ‘All the actors work hard to give the illusion that the whole of life is symbolised in an Arizona filling station, but life, embarrassed by hearing itself so explicitly discussed, crept away, leaving us only with the pasteboard desert and the stunted cardboard studio trees’.

The Work Pattern

All designers work in entirely different ways and use different methods; and all television programmes make different demands upon the designer. However, the following notes describe a possible five or six week work pattern a production designer might adopt for the production of a drama made almost entirely in the studio.

The designer starts with the first draft script. The effect of this script, the knowledge of who is to direct, and the possible size of the budget, colours and determines his approach to the play. From the first script to the final recording the designer is continually changing and modifying his basic original ideas.

After he has digested the script the designer and the director meet, and argue. They achieve, hopefully, a creative rapport; and, with luck, the designer assimilates the emotional and visual needs of the director and the production. The director accepts the designer’s as yet basic visual ideas and imagery and together they translate into describable visual terms the intentions of the author.

The designer then creates rough plans, sketches, suggested camera movements, and occasionally storyboards for some particular sequence.

All the decisions the designer now takes will have a far-reaching effect on the whole production and will wholly dictate the visual ambience of the play. With his rough sketches, notes and ideas in a vague lump, the designer at this point receives from the producer a budget for the design of the production. ‘It’s never enough,’ says Patrick Downing, ‘and by tradition the designer spends an hour or two arguing about its inadequacy.’ At this point the designer has been working on the production for about ten days.

Now he starts on reference books, films, reference libraries and historical research. Of course much more time, energy, and research is needed if the play is historical than if it is one of those ‘three people in a camp apartment overlooking a London skyline’ play.

Then the director and designer climb into a car and search for film locations (most videotaped dramas have three or four minutes of filmed inserts, often lots more). This usually takes a couple of days. The designer now has a lot of vague ideas, sketches and polaroid photos of the film locations (or the exteriors that may appear on film which have to be matched in the studio interiors.)

The designer and the costume designer discuss basic colour tones, and work out a visual relationship between the sets and the costumes. A further afternoon and evening with the director polishes up the rough visuals.

Now the designer starts on a first search for major properties (props) that will play an integral part in his sets and in the production, and finds appropriate textures and architectural detailing.

For three or four days the designer is chained to a drawing board and with an assistant designer produces final plans, elevations and details which are then estimated for cost, found to be expensive, fiddled with, altered and put back again. Finally they are sent to the construction shop and the painters and carpenters start work.

The designer (or his assistant) makes a rough model – ‘or a nice finished one if he has the time and feels narcissistic,’ remarks Downing – and then he and the director, costume designer and lighting director sit round it, argue about it, and spill coffee over it. By this time the graphic designer has storyboards for titles and other graphics to be filmed on the rostrum camera. The designer and graphic designer meet and work out a cohesion between the designer’s by now more or less concrete forms and the graphic designer’s ideas. They sort out all the graphic minutiae of the programme. Shop signs, imitation passports, packaging, photographs, etc.

Thames design personnel

Production Design

	Head of Design
21	Designers
8	Assistant Designers
7	Production Buyers
2	Cost Estimators

Graphic Design

	Head of Graphics
11	Graphic Designers
5	Assistant Graphic Designers
4	Graphic Technicians
2	Photographers
6	Photographic Technicians
2	Rostrum Camera Unit

Scenic Art

	Supervising Scenic Artist
8	Scenic Artists

Costume Design

15	Costume Designers
4	Assistant Costume Designers

Another meeting takes place, this time with the lighting director to agree on a lighting style to fit the mood and texture of the production. The designer wants it dark, moody and atmospheric like a silent German movie; the lighting director wants the viewer to see the production – they compromise.

The designer and the scenic artist allocated to him get together to sort out the requirements of scenic cloths, painted perspectives, stained glass windows. The drapes department start making curtains and similar furnishings.

Then – the technical production meeting. The director, designer, lighting director, costume designer, technical supervisor, chief cameraman, sound and other technicians surround the designer’s model of the sets and discuss the relationship between cameras, actors, sound and design.

Somehow all this gets sorted out and the designer concentrates on the filming requirements: props and scenery, transport, permissions for filming. What kind of car is smashed in the action, and can it be afforded? Has permission been received to paint someone’s front door a dirty orange? How can that nasty lamp-post be disguised?

The designer stands by the director’s elbow throughout the filming period and then about ten days before the final recording date of the programme the director goes into rehearsal with the cast. The stage-manager lays out the designer’s studio plan on the rehearsal room floor with different coloured sticky tapes. And there is a first total read-through of the script with all the cast and everybody else concerned sitting round a large table. At the end of the read-through, final costume measurements are taken and the cast briefed on their basic movements and positions from the designer’s plans, sketches and models. Meanwhile the scenery is nearing completion.

For the next few days or so, the designer and the production buyer tour round and select all the properties, furniture, drapes, carpets and all the other bits and pieces that contribute to the ambience and atmosphere of the sets. Most of these are hired from specialist suppliers, although occasionally it is necessary to buy or make something specific or rare.

The point is now reached where the designer fills the role of a supervisor, covering the setting up of the sets on the studio floor and the arrangement and positioning of all the furniture and properties. The next two days or so are filled with rehearsals on the sets with cameras and actors, or rehearsing and recording in short sequences, much like traditional filming – a synthesis for the designer of all his work for the past six weeks. Actors, cameras and sound are working under the director. Between each section of videotape recording there is a period of minor adjustments, small changes of camera angle, lighting and mood, the repositioning of an actor or a vase of flowers.

Then the final videotaping of the programme. The designer sits in the control room watching five or six screens, all of which show a collage of images on which he has impressed colour, texture and form.

Television production design at its most basic is an out-of-focus scrap of wallpaper seen occasionally between the heads of two actors. At its best it is the creation of a mood, and a sequence of pictures to illuminate a story, that can make a good programme better.

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London: Thames Television House, 306-316 Euston Road, LONDON NW1 3BB Tel: 01-387 9494
149 Tottenham Court Road, LONDON W1P 9LL Tel: 01-388 5199
Teddington: Teddington Lock, TEDDINGTON, Middlesex, TW11 9NT Tel: 01-977 3252
Regional Sales: Norfolk House, Smallbrook Queensway, BIRMINGHAM B5 4LJ Tel: 021-643 9151
Mobile Division: Twickenham Road, HANWORTH, Middlesex Tel: 01-898 0011

Directors. H. S. L. Dundas, CBE, DSO, DFC, DL (Chairman); Sir John Read (Deputy Chairman); Bryan Cowgill (Managing Director); Mrs Mary Baker; The Lord Brabourne; Sir Richard Cave; The Rt. Hon. the Viscount Colville of Culross, QC; John T. Davey; Richard Dunn (Director of Production); Tony Logie (Director of Sales & Marketing); Ian Scott (Director of Finance); J. A. Sibley; Muir Sutherland (Director of Programmes); Colin S. Wills.

Executives. Ben E. Marr (Company Secretary & Director of Personnel), Fred Atkinson (Production Director Euston/Hanworth); Donald Cullimore (Public Relations Director); Philip Jones, OBE (Director of Light Entertainment): Tony Kenber (Programme Business Director); Eric Parry (Production Director, Teddington); Barrie Sales (Director of News & Current Affairs and Deputy to the Director of Programmes); Roy Addison (Chief Press & Public Relations Officer); Ronald Allison (Controller of Sports & Outside Broadcasts); James Corsan (Controller, Programme Administration); Derek Baker (Assistant Company Secretary); Paul Cheffins, MBE (Controller, Sales Administration); Mike Coxill (Technical Controller); Patrick Downing (Controller, Visual Services); Catherine Freeman (Controller, Documentaries & Features); James Gilbert (Head of Comedy Programmes); William Goddard (Head of Presentation); Johnny Goodman (Executive Director of Production, Euston Films); Mike Harvey (Controller of Publicity); Ian Howard (Controller of Contracts); Derek Hunt (Deputy Director of Finance); Peter Kew (Head of Central Planning); Max Lawson (Assistant Director of Finance); Bob Louis (Assistant Controller of Light Entertainment); Geoffrey Lugg (Head of Programme Liaison); Pat Mahoney (Head of Purchased Programmes); Ian Martin (Controller, Educational Programmes); Jim McDonald (Controller, Technical Operations, Teddington); Marjorie Sigley (Controller of Children’s Programmes); Ewart Needham (Head of Film); Vic O’Brien (Technical Controller, Euston); A. C. Parkinson (Controller, Administration); Tim Riordan (Controller, Programme Planning & Presentation); Lloyd Shirley (Controller, Programme Drama Division); Brian G. Scott (Chief Engineer); Ken Smallwood (Head of Staff Relations); Barry Spencer (Controller, Sales); Douglas Thornes (Controller, Sales Research & Development); Brian Walcroft (Assistant Controller, Drama); Mark Stephens (Industrial Relations Adviser).

Programmes. Thames Television’s area covers about 10½ million people in and around London from Monday morning to 5.15 p.m. on Friday. The company makes a vast range of programmes to entertain, amuse and educate ITV viewers of all classes and tastes, but Thames’ fame extends throughout the world. Thames Television International received the 1984 Queen’s Award for Export Achievement, and the company has sold its product to 127 of the 134 countries that have television transmitters.

In the 16 years since Thames took up its contract, its programmes have won over 170 national and international awards, including the Prix Italia five times, six American Emmys, and for each of the last two years, the Montreux Comedy Prize. Technological advances in cable TV, satellites and video mean that there are growing new markets for Thames’ programmes and the company continues to develop its interests and potential in such areas. Most of Thames’ programmes are made in the riverside studios at Teddington, while others come from the company’s headquarters at Euston. The outside broadcast units, from their base at Hanworth, near Teddington, cover many major events. Working from its own independent base is Euston Films which produces major film dramas and drama series, on location. Just outside Manchester is Cosgrove Hall Productions, Thames’ animation subsidiary for such series as Danger Mouse and The Wind in the Willows.

So all Thames’ international success is achieved with programmes made here in Britain – specifically with the aim of pleasing ITV viewers. DRAMA: The Bill; Mr Palfrey of Westminster; Minder; Rumpole of the Bailey; Widows. CHILDREN’S: Dramarama; Mr Stabs; Dodger, Bonzo & The Rest; CBTV; Free time; Flicks; Letters in Wonderland; Words, Words, Words; The Wall Game; Illusions; Rainbow; Sooty; Rod, Jane and Freddy; Button Moon; Chorlton and the Wheelies; Pied Piper of Hamelin. LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: Give Us A Clue; Jim Davidson; This Is Your Life; The Benny Hill Show; Name That Tune; The Des 0‘Connor Show; Looks Familiar; The TVTimes Top Ten Awards; Never The Twain; Keep It In The Family; Mike Yarwood; Whose Baby; Carry On Laughing; It Takes A Worried Man; Password; Jeopardy; Bruce Forsyth; Chance In A Million; Tripper’s Day; The Lonelyhearts Kid; Mann’s Best Friend; What’s My Line?; Moving; The Kit Curran Radio Show; Fresh Fields; ‘Bring Me Sunshine’ – a tribute to Eric Morecambe. CURRENT AFFAIRS: TV Eye; Thames News;: Reporting London; Safe From The Sea; Talking Personally. DOCUMENTARIES AND FEATURES: A Shred of Evidence; Bomber Pilot; Good Companions; The British Connection; Crime Inc.; Thank You Jesus; The Sitting Lifer; Lifers; Human Rights; Summerstown; Whatever Happened to Bill Brunskill?; Citizen 2000; Treasure Trove. SPORTS AND OUTSIDE BROADCASTS: Ice Skating; Golf Motor Racing; Speedway; Ice Hockey;: Midweek & Bank Holiday Sport Special; Thames Sport; Football; Racing; Snooker; Darts; Show Jumping; Swimming; Boxing. SPECIALS: Perry; A Golden Hour; Fatima Whitbread; Miss UK; British Beauty Championships; Royal Film Premieres; Torvill and Dean: The Path to Perfection; Torvill and Dean Ice Gala; Wish You Were Here…?; Miss World; Stunt Challenge. EDUCATION: For What It’s Worth; Help!; Database; All In The Mind; Under Fives; Composers on Composing; The Setbacks; The English House; Jobs Limited; Divorce. RELIGION My Brother’s Keeper; Night Thoughts.

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LONDON WEEKDAYS

London: Thames Television House, 306-316 Euston Road, LONDON NW1 3BB Tel: 01-387 9494
149 Tottenham Court Road, LONDON W1P 9LL Tel: 01-388 5199 Teddington: Teddington Lock, TEDDINGTON. Middlesex, TW11 9NT Tel: 01-977 3252
Regional Sales: Norfolk House, Smallbrook Queensway, BIRMINGHAM B5 4LJ Tel: 021-643 9151
Mobile Division: Twickenham Road, HANWORTH, Middlesex Tel: 01-898 0011

Directors. H.S.L. Dundas, CBE, DSO, DFC, DL (Chairman); Sir John Read (Deputy Chairman)’; Bryan Cowgill (Managing Director), Mrs Mary Baker; The Lord Brabourne; Sir Richard Cave; The Rt. Hon. the Viscount Colville of Culross, QC; John T. Davey; Richard Dunn (Director of Production); Verity Lambert; Tony Logic (Director of Sales and Marketing); Ian M. Scott (Director of Finance); J. A. Sibley; Muir Sutherland (Director of Programmes); Colin S. Wills.

Executives. Ben E. Marr (Company Secretary & Director of Personnel); Fred Atkinson (Production Director (Euston/Hanworth)); Donald Cullimore (Public Relations Director); Philip Jones, OBE (Director, Light Entertainment); Tony Kenber (Programme Business Director); Eric Parry (Production Director (Teddington)); Barrie Sales (Director of News & Current Affairs and Deputy to the Director of Programmes); Roy Addison (Chief Press & Public Relations Officer); Ronald Allison (Controller, Sports & Outside Broadcasts); Jack Andrews (Controller, Programme Administration); Derek Baker (Assistant Company Secretary); Paul Cheffins, MBE (Controller, Sales Administration); Mike Coxhill (Technical Controller); Patrick Downing (Controller, Visual Services); Catherine Freeman (Controller, Documentaries & Features); James Gilbert (Head of Comedy Programmes); William Goddard (Head of Presentation); Johnny Goodman (Executive Director of Production, Euston Films); Mike Harvey (Controller, Publicity); Ian Howard (Controller of Contracts); Derek Hunt (Deputy Director of Finance); Peter Kew (Head of Central Planning); Max Lawson (Assistant Director of Finance); Bob Louis (Assistant Controller (Light Entertainment)); Geoffrey Lugg (Head of Programme Liaison); Pat Mahoney (Head of Purchased Programmes); Ian Martin (Controller, Educational Programmes); Jim McDonald (Controller, Technical Operations, Teddington); Julian Mounter (Controller of Children’s Programmes); Ewart Needham (Head of Film); Vic O’Brien (Technical Controller, Euston); A. C. Parkinson (Controller, Administration); Tim Riordan (Controller, Programme Planning and Presentation); Lloyd Shirley (Controller, Programme Drama Division); Brian G. Scott (Chief Engineer); Ken Smallwood (Head of Staff Relations); Barry Spencer (Controller, Sales); Douglas Thornes (Controller, Sales Research and Development); Brian Walcroft (Assistant Controller, Drama).

Thames Television International (for Programme Sales). Bryan Cowgill (Chairman); Muir Sutherland (Deputy Chairman); Mike Phillips (Managing Director); Roger Miron (Sales Controller); Ben E. Marr; Ian Scott; Philip Jones, OBE.

Programmes. Thames Television’s area covers around 10½ million people in and around London from Monday morning to 5.15 p.m. on Friday. But the company’s fame extends throughout the world. Since it took up its contract in 1968, the company’s programmes have consistently won top national and international awards, including the Prix Italia (five overall and three in documentary) and six American Emmys. Each individual programme department has won awards for Thames in that time.

International prizes like these have also been reflected in Thames’ success in selling programmes overseas, with its shows now being seen in over 100 countries around the world. Technological advances in such areas as cable TV, satellites and video mean that there are growing new markets for Thames’s programmes and nowhere more than on Channel 4 and in Britain’s home video trade. Most of Thames’ programmes are made in the riverside studios at Teddington, while others come from the company’s headquarters at Euston. The outside broadcast units, from their base at Hanworth, near Teddington, cover many major events. Working from its own independent base is Euston Films which produces major film dramas and drama series, on location. Just outside Manchester is Cosgrove Hall Productions, Thames’ animation subsidiary for such successes as Danger Mouse and The Wind in the Willows. So all Thames’ international success is achieved with programmes made here in Britain – specifically with the aim of pleasing ITV viewers. DRAMA: Reilly – Ace of Spies; Saigon; Rumpole of the Bailey; The Nation’s Health; Minder; Edward and Mrs Simpson; Widows; Jemima Shore Investigates; Anyone for Denis?. CHILDREN’S: Rainbow; The Sooty Show; We’ll Tell You A Story; Danger Mouse; Cockleshell Bay; Button Moon; Rod, Jane and Freddy; CBTV – Channel 14; S.W.A.L.K.; The Wind in the Willows; Freetime; Dramarama ‘Spooky’; Family Trees; The All Electric Amusement Arcade; Challenge; Children’s Documentaries; Flicks; Jamie and the Magic Torch; Danger – Marmalade At Work; Danger Mouse and Friends; The Talking Parcel. LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT Let There Be Love; Give Us A Clue; Jim Davidson; Don’t Rock The Boat; This Is Your Life; The Benny Hill Show; London Night Out; Does The Team Think; Shelley; Name That Tune; The Happy Apple; The Des O’Connor Show; Looks Familiar; Sorry, I’m A Stranger Here Myself; The Morecambe & Wise Show; The TVTimes Top Ten Awards; Never The Twain; Tom, Dick & Harriet; Sheena Easton; Keep It In The Family, Mike Yarwood; Whose Baby?; Carry on Laughing; It Takes A Worried Man; Michael Barrymore; Password; Jeopardy; Bruce Forsyth; Shirley Bassey. CURRENT AFFAIRS TV Eye; Thames News; Reporting London. DOCUMENTARIES AND FEATURES: Schindler; Class of ’62; Crime Inc.; I’m Gaynor, I’m Me; Thank You, Jesus; The Sitting; Lifer; Lifers; Human Rights; Unknown Chaplin; Summerstown; Whatever Happened to Bill Brunskill?; Citizen 2000; Treasure Trove; A Plus. SPORTS AND OUTSIDE BROADCASTS: Football; Racing; Snooker; Darts; Show Jumping; Gymnastics; Swimming; Boxing, specials Wish You Were Here…?; Big Top Variety Show; Miss World; Stunt Challenge; The Champions. EDUCATION For What It’s Worth; Help!; Six Centuries of Verse; Database; All In The Mind; Under Fives; Composers on Composing, religion Night Thoughts; City Priest; Crisis.

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THAMES TELEVISION

London: Thames Television House, 306-316 Euston Road, LONDON NW1 3BB Tel: 01-387 9494
Teddington: Teddington Lock, TEDDINGTON Middlesex, TW11 9NT Tel: 01-977 3252
Regional Sales: Norfolk House, Smallbrook Oueensway, BIRMINGHAM B5 4LJ Tel: 021-643 9151
Mobile Division: Twickenham Road, HANWORTH. Middlesex Tel: 01-898 0011

Directors. H. S. L. Dundas, CBE, DSO, DFC, DL (Chairman): Sir John Read (Deputy Chairman); Bryan Cowgill (Managing Director); Mrs Mary Baker; The Lord Brabourne; Sir Richard Cave; The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Colville of Culross, QC; John T. Davey; Richard Dunn (Director of Production): Verity Lambert; Ian M. Scott (Director of Finance): James F. Shaw (Director of Sales & Marketing): J. A. Sibley; Muir Sutherland (Director of Programmes); ColinS. Wills.

Executives. Ben E. Marr (Company Secretary & Director of Personnel); Fred Atkinson (Production Director, Euston & Hanworth); Donald Cullimore (Public Relations Director); Philip Jones, OBE (Director, Light Entertainment); Tony Kenber (Programme Business Director); Eric Parry (Production Director (Teddington)); Barrie Sales (Director, News & Current Affairs); Roy Addison (Chief Press & Public Relations Officer); Ronald Allison (Controller, Sport & OB’s); Jack Andrews (Controller, Programme Administration); Derek Baker (Assistant Company Secretary); Paul Cheffins, MBE (Controller, Sales Administration); Mike Coxill (Technical Controller, Teddington); Catherine Freeman (Controller, Documentaries & Features); James Gilbert (Head of Comedy Programmes); William Goddard (Head of Presentation); Mike Harvey (Controller, Publicity): Ian Howard (Controller of Contracts); Derek Hunt (Deputy Director of Finance); Tony Jones (Controller, Business Development Sales); Peter Kew (Head of Central Planning); Max Lawson (Assistant Director of Finance): Bob Louis (Assistant Controller (Light Ent.)); Geoffrey Lugg (Head of Programme Liaison); Pat Mahoney (Head of Purchased Programmes); Ian Martin (Controller, Educational Programmes); Jim McDonald (Technical Controller, Hanworth); Julian Mounter (Controller of Children’s Programmes); Ewart Needham (Head of Film); Vic O’Brien (Technical Controller, Euston); A. C. Parkinson (Controller, Administration); Tim Riordan (Controller, Programme Planning and Presentation); Lloyd Shirley (Controller, Drama); Brian G. Scott (Chief Engineer); Ken Smallwood (Head of Staff Relations); Barry Spencer (Controller, Sales); Douglas Thornes (Controller, Sales Research & Development); Brian Walcroft (Assistant Controller, Drama).

Thames Television International (for Programme Sales). Bryan Cowgill (Chairman): Muir Sutherland (Deputy Chairman): Mike Phillips (General Manager and Deputy Managing Director): Ben E. Marr; Ian Scott; Philip Jones, OBE.

Programmes. Thames Television’s area covers over 10½ million people in and around London from Monday morning to 5.15 p.m. on Friday. But the company’s fame extends throughout the world. Since it took up its contract in 1968, the company’s programmes have consistently won top national and international awards, including the Prix Italia (five overall and three in documentary) and five American Emmys. Each individual programme department has won awards for Thames in that time.

International prizes like these have also been reflected in Thames’ success in selling programmes overseas, with its shows now being seen in over 100 countries around the world, with particular success in America. Notoriously the most difficult market for British TV, the USA now widely recognises Thames’ name, and associates it with products as widely diverse as The Benny Hill Show, Rumpole of the Bailey and the documentary series Hollywood.

Technological advances in such areas as cable TV, satellites and video mean that there are growing new markets for Thames’ programmes and nowhere more than on Channel 4 and in Britain’s home video trade. A large number of Thames’ programmes have been scheduled by Channel 4, and after eighteen months in business, Thames Video has already made a marked impact on the home video market with cassettes such as The Royal Wedding, The Benny Hill Show, Kenny Everett, The World at War and The Naked Civil Servant.

Most of Thames’ programmes are made in the riverside studios at Teddington, while others come from the company’s headquarters at Euston. The outside broadcast units, from their base at Hanworth, near Teddington, cover many major events. Working from its own independent base is Euston Films which produces major film dramas and drama series, on location. Just outside Manchester is Cosgrove Hall Productions, Thames’ growing animation subsidiary. So all Thames’ international success is achieved with programmes made here in Britain – specifically with the aim of pleasing ITV viewers. DRAMA: Rumpole of the Bailey; Edward and Mrs Simpson; Minder; The Three Sisters; Single Plays: The Flame Trees of Thika; Something in Disguise; The Agatha Christie Hours; Brack Report. CHILDREN’S: Rainbow; Fanfare for Young Musicians; The Sooty Show; We’II Tell You A Story; Dangermouse; Cockleshell Bay; Button Moon; Crying Out Loud; Rod, Jane and Freddy; CBTV – Channel 14; Educating Marmalade; Nobody’s Hero; Spooky; S.W.A.L.K.; The Wind in the Willows; Beauty and the Beast; Freetime. LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: Let There Be Love; Give Us A Clue; Jim Davidson; Don’t Rock the Boat; This Is Your Life; The Benny Hill Show; Top of the World; London Night Out; Does The Team Think; Two of a Kind; Max Rolls On; Shelley; Side by Side; Looks Familiar; Janet and Company; A Royal Variety Gala; Sorry, I’m A Stranger Here Myself; The Morecambe & Wise Show; The Eric Sykes 1990 Show; The TVTimes Top Ten Awards; Never The Twain; A. J. Wentworth, BA.; Tom Dick & Harriet; Sheena Easton; Eric Sykes Special; Keep It In The Family; Mike Yarwood; Whose Baby; Carry on Laughing; It Takes A Worried Man; Michael Barrymore; London Night Out; Password; Jeopardy; Qwert; Bruce Forsyth; Shirley Bassey. CURRENT AFFAIRS: TV Eye; Thames News; Reporting London. DOCUMENTARIES: SS 1923-1945; Victoria Park; The Shape I’m In; Prostitute I am, Common I’m Not; The Deafened. SPORTS AND OUTSIDE BROADCASTS: Football; Racing; Snooker; Darts; Show Jumping; Gymnastics; Swimming; Boxing. SPECIALS: The World Disco Dancing Championships; Wish You Were Here…?; Big Top Variety Show; Miss World; Stuntmen Challenge; The Champions. FEATURES & ADULT EDUCATION After Noon Plus; The Evolution of Darwin; A Taste of China; Thirty Minutes Worth (for Channel 4); Computer Club; Help!; Citizen 2000 (for Channel 4); I Simply Can’t See; Money Talk; Social Concern series – ‘100% Responsibility’, ‘Second Chance’, ‘Someone To Talk To’, ‘Artsline’, ‘Inner City Living’, ‘Creating Jobs in London’, ‘Stress’. RELIGION: Sit Up and Listen; One Man’s Easter; God and the Artists; I am The Great Sun; For Christ’s Sake!; I am a Muslim; Xmas Special with Monica Furlong.

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THAMES TELEVISION

Thames Television House, 306-316 Euston Road, LONDON NW1 3BB Tel: 01-387 9494
Teddington Lock, Teddington, MIDDLESEX TW11 9NT Tel: 01-977 3232
Regional Sales Office: Norfolk House, Smallbrook Queensway. Birmingham B5 4LJ Tel: 021-643 9151
Mobile Division: Twickenham Road, Hanworth, MIDDLESEX Tel: 01-898 0011

Directors. H S L Dundas, CBE, DSO, DFC, DL (Chairman); Sir John Read (Deputy Chairman); Bryan Cowgill (Managing Director); Mrs Mary Baker; The Lord Braboume; Sir Richard Cave; The Rt Hon The Viscount Colville of Culross, QC; John T Davey; J M Kuipers; Nigel Ryan, CBE (Director of Programmes); Ian M Scott (Director of Finance); James F Shaw (Director of Sales and Marketing); J A Sibley; Colin S Wills.

Executives. Ben E Marr (Company Secretary and Director of Personnel); Fred Atkinson (Production Director (Teddington & Hanworth)); Donald Cullimore (Public Relations Director); Richard Dunn (Director of Production); R G J Godfrey (Engineering and Technical Director); John Hambley (Director of Programme Development); Philip Jones, OBE (Director, Light Entertainment); Verity Lambert (Director of Drama); John O’Keefe (Production Director (London)); Roy Addison (Chief Press and Public Relations Officer); Ronald Allison (Controller, Sport and OBs); Jack Andrews (Programme Management Controller); Paul Cheffins, MBE (Controller, Sales Administration); William Goddard (Head of Presentation); Mike Harvey (Controller, Publicity); Ian Howard (Controller of Contracts); Derek Hunt (Deputy Director of Finance); Tony Jones (Controller, Business Development Sales); Max Lawson (Assistant Director of Finance); Geoffrey Lugg (Head of Programme Liaison); Pat Mahoney (Head of Purchased Programmes); Ian Martin (Controller, Features, Education and Religion); Julian Mounter (Controller of Children’s Programmes Department); A C Parkinson (Controller, Administration); Eric E Parry (Controller, Programme Services); Tim Riordan (Controller, Programme Planning and Presentation); Antony Rouse (Controller of Documentaries); Barrie Sales (Director of News and Current Affairs); Brian G Scott (Chief Engineer); Ken Smallwood (Head of Staff Relations); Derek Stevenson (Controller, Sales); Douglas Thornes (Controller, Sales Research and Development).

Thames Television International (for Programme Sales). Howard Thomas, CBE (Chairman); Muir Sutherland (Managing Director); Joe McCann (Controller, Television Sales); Mike Phillips (Controller, Business Affairs).

Programmes. Thames Television’s area covers thirteen million people in and around London from Monday morning to 7 p.m. on Friday (5.15 p.m. from 1st January 1982). But the company’s fame reaches throughout the world. In 1980 Thames won an American Emmy for its drama series Edward and Mrs Simpson; the Press Jury Prize Award at the world’s top light entertainment festival in Montreux with Eric Sykes’ comedy The Plank; the Prix Italia (the company’s fifth overall, and its third for documentary) with Creggan, a documentary observation of life in the Roman Catholic district of Londonderry. In recent years, Thames has twice bought weeks on American TV stations once in New York, once in Los Angeles to showcase its productions to American viewers.

Comedy stars like Benny Hill and Kenny Everett, dramas like Edward and Mrs Simpson and Danger UXB, and documentaries like Hollywood have all helped to bring recognition of Thames’ name in the USA, notoriously the most difficult market for British TV, as well as in other countries; and all this international fame and success was achieved with programmes made specifically for British viewers.

Most of Thames’ programmes are made in the riverside studios at Teddington, while others come from the company’s headquarters at Euston. The outside broadcast units, from their base at Hanworth, near Teddington, cover many major events. Working from its own independent base at Euston is Euston Films, the fourth important element of Thames’ production structure. As well as pleasing viewers abroad, and winning major overseas awards, Thames has regularly won top British prizes including awards in recent years from the Broadcasting Press Guild, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Royal Television Society. But the main aim remains to please British viewers.

DRAMA: Rumpole of the Bailey; Edward and Mrs Simpson; Love In A Cold Climate; Minder; The Three Sisters; Cover; Single Plays; The Flame Trees of Thika; Something in Disguise. CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMES: Rainbow; Fanfare for Young Musicians; The Sooty Show; Paperplay; We’ll Tell You A Story; The Squad; Free Time; White Light; Ace Reports; Dangermouse; Stig Of The Dump; Theatre Boy; Chorlton And The Wheelies; Cockleshell Bay; Spectrum; Button Moon; Jamie and the Magic Torch; Five Magic Minutes; The Quiz Machine. LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT-COMEDY: Shelley; A J Wentworth, BA; Kenny Everett Video Show; Robin’s Nest; Cowboys; Jim Davidson; Don’t Rock the Boat; It Takes A Worried Man; Keep It In The Family; Never the Twain; One Hundred Thousand Welcomes; Sorry, I’m A Stranger Here Myself; Tom, Dick & Harriet; Let There Be Love; Eric Sykes Comedies. VARIETY AND SPECIALS: Bruce Forsyth Specials; Quincy’s Quest; Janet Brown Show; This Is Your Life; Morecambe and Wise; The Benny Hill Show; London Night Out. QUIZ AND GAME SHOWS: Give Us A Clue; Looks Familiar; Top of the World; Sounds Like London. CURRENT AFFAIRS: TV Eye: Thames News; Thames Debate. DOCUMENTARIES: SS 1923-1945; China Women; Westminster Man; The Kilnsey Show, Miami Drugs War. SPORTS AND OUTSIDE BROADCASTS: Football; Racing; Snooker; Darts; Show Jumping; Gymnastics; Swimming; Boxing. SPECIALS: The World Disco Dancing Championships; Wish You Were Here…?: Big Top Variety Show; Britain’s Strongest Man; Miss World. FEATURES: After Noon Plus: Money Go Round; Help!; I Really Want To Dance; The Human Race; Telethon Report Back. SCHOOLS: Middle English; The English Programme; The French Programme; The German Programme; Seeing and Doing; Finding Out. ADULT EDUCATION: Social Concern Programmes (new series). RELIGION: Christmas Special with Roger McGough; Sit Up and Listen; Easter Meditation; Christians Under Fire.

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Thames Television House,
306-316 Euston Road, LONDON NW1 3BB
Tel: 01-387 9494
International House,
149 Tottenham Court Road,
LONDON W1P 9LL
Tel: 01-388 5199
Teddington Studios, Teddington Lock,
TEDDINGTON, Middlesex, TW11 9NT
Tel: 01-977 3252
Sales Office: Norfolk House,
Smallbrook Queensway,
BIRMINGHAM B5 4LJ Tel: 021-643 9151

Directors. The Rt Hon Lord Barnetson (Chairman); Bryan Cowgill (Managing Director); Mrs Mary Baker; The Lord Brabourne; John T Davey; Ronald M Denny; H S L Dundas, CBE; J M Kuipers; Sir John Read; Nigel Ryan, CBE (Director of Programmes); Ian M Scott (Deputy Managing Director & Director of Finance); James F Shaw (Director of Sales & Marketing); Colin S Wills.

Executives. Ben Marr (Company Secretary and Director of Administration); Donald Cullimore (Public Relations Director); Richard Dunn (Production Resources Director); R G Godfrey (Engineering and Technical Director); Philip Jones (Director, Light Entertainment); John O’Keefe (Industrial Relations Director); Peter Pagnamenta (Development Director); Roy Addison (Chief Press and Public Relations Officer); Ronald Allison (Controller, Sports and OBs); F Atkinson (Technical Controller); Paul Cheffins (Controller, Sales Administration); John Frankau (Controller of Drama); John Hambley (Controller, Children’s Programmes, and Chief Executive Cosgrove Hall Productions); Mike Harvey (Controller, Publicity); Ian Howard (Controller of Contracts); Derek Hunt (Assistant Director of Finance); Tony Jones (Controller, Business Development Sales); Verity Lambert (Chief Executive, Euston Films Ltd); Max Lawson (Assistant Director of Finance); Geoffrey Lugg (Head of Programme Liaison); Pat Mahoney (Head of Purchased Programmes); Ian Martin (Controller, Features, Education and Religion); Malcolm Morris (Controller, Programme Administration); A C Parkinson (Controller, Administration); Eric E Parry (Controller, Programme Services); Tim Riordan (Controller, Planning and Presentation); Barrie Sales (Director of News and Current Affairs); Brian G Scott (Chief Engineer); Ken Smallwood (Head of Staff Relations); Derek Stevenson (Controller, Sales); Douglas Thornes (Controller, Sales Research and Development); Mike Wooler (Head of Documentaries); Jack Andrews (Controller, Programme Administration); William Goddard (Head of Presentation).

Thames Television International (for Programme Sales). Howard Thomas, CBE (Chairman); Muir Sutherland (Managing Director); Joe McCann (Controller Television Sales); Mike Phillips (Controller, Business Affairs).

Programmes. Thames Television’s area covers thirteen million people in and around London from Monday morning to 7p.m. on Friday. But the company’s fame reaches throughout the world. In 1980 Thames won an American Emmy for its drama series Edward and Mrs Simpson; the Press Jury Prize Award at the world’s top light entertainment festival in Montreux with Eric Sykes’ comedy The Plank; the Prix Italia (the company’s fifth overall, and its third for documentary) with Creggan, a documentary observation of life in the Roman Catholic district of Londonderry. In recent years, Thames has twice bought weeks on American TV stations – once in New York, once in Los Angeles – to showcase its productions to American viewers.

Comedy stars like Benny Hill and Kenny Everett, dramas like Edward and Mrs Simpson and Danger UXB, and documentaries like Hollywood have all helped to bring recognition of Thames’ name in the USA, notoriously the most difficult market for British TV, as well as in other countries; and all this international fame and success was achieved with programmes made specifically for British viewers.

Most of Thames’ programmes are made in the riverside studios at Teddington, while others come from the company’s headquarters at Euston. The outside broadcast units, from their base at Hanworth, near Teddington, cover many major events. Working from its own independent base at Euston is Euston Films, the fourth important element of Thames’ production structure. As well as pleasing viewers abroad, and winning major overseas awards, Thames has regularly won top British prizes – including awards in recent years from the Broadcasting Press Guild, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Royal Television Society. But the main aim remains to please British viewers.

DRAMA: Armchair Thriller; Danger UXB; Rumpole of the Bailey; Edward and Mrs Simpson; Minder; Macbeth; Love in a Cold Climate; Born and Bred; Fox; The Knowledge. CHILDREN’S: Rainbow; Fanfare for Young Musicians; Sooty; Paperplay; We’ll Tell You A Story; Just So Stories; Smith and Goody; The Squad; Free Time; White Light; The Pied Piper of Hamelin. LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT-COMEDY: The Kenny Everett Video Show; Robin’s Nest; George and Mildred; Shelley; The Plank; Rhubarb; Grundy; Cowboys; Just Liz; Jim Davidson; Tommy Cooper. VARIETY AND SPECIALS: Quincy’s Quest; The Janet Brown Show; This is Your Life; Morecambe and Wise; The Benny Hill Show; London Night Out; Bernie; Lingalongamax. PANEL SHOWS: Give us a Clue; Looks Familiar. CURRENT AFFAIRS: TV Eye; Thames News; Inside Business; Thames Report; Thames Debate. DOCUMENTARIES: Hollywood; Sport of Kings; Murphy’s Stroke; Only in America. SPORTS AND OUTSIDE BROADCASTS: Football; Racing; Snooker; Darts; Showjumping; Gymnastics; Swimming; Boxing. SPECIALS: The World Disco Dancing Championships; Wish You Were Here…?; Star Games; Star Gardens; Big Top Variety Show; Britain’s Strongest Man; Miss World. FEATURES: After Noon Plus; Money Go Round; Help!; Song and Dance; The Hands of Katherine Stott; Thames Arts; The Telethon; Swan Lake; Rudolf Nureyev. SCHOOLS: Seeing and Doing; Finding Out; Writer’s Workshop; About Books; The English Programme; The French Programme; The German Programme; Music Round; Botanic Man; History of the Future. ADULT EDUCATION: Our People; The English Garden; An Exceptional Child; The John Smith Show. RELIGION: Christmas Pie; 1980 The Cross; Journey’s End; Close; Christians Under Fire; Young Messiah; Cardinal Hume; The Guinea Pig Club.

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Thames Television House,
306-316 Euston Road, LONDON NW1 3BB
Tel: 01-387 9494
International House,
149 Tottenham Court Road,
LONDON WIP9LL
Tel: 01-388 5199
Teddington Studios, Teddington Lock,
TEDDINGTON, Middlesex TW11 19NT
Tel: 01-977 3252
Sales Office: Norfolk House,
Smallbrook Queensway,
BIRMINGHAM B5 4LJ Tel: 021 -643 9151

Directors. The Rt Hon Lord Bametson (Chairman); Bryan Cowgill (Managing Director); Mrs Mary Baker; The Lord Braboume; John T Davey; D R W Dicks; H S L Dundas, CBE; J M Kuipers; Sir John Read; Ian M Scott (Deputy Managing Director & Director of Finance); James F Shaw (Director of Sales & Marketing); Colin S Wills.

Executives. Ben Marr (Director of Administration and Company Secretary); Richard Dunn (Director of Production Resources); R G J Godfrey (Engineering & Technical Director); John O’Keefe (Industrial Relations Director); F J Atkinson (Technical Controller); Donald Cullimore (Controller Public Relations); John Frankau (Controller of Drama); John Hambley (Controller Children’s Programmes); R J Hughes (Sales Controller); Philip Jones, OBE (Controller Light Entertainment); Max Lawson & Derek Hunt (Assistant Directors of Finance); Sam Leitch (Controller Sport & Outside Broadcasts); Geoffrey Lugg (Head of Programme Liaison); Pat Mahoney (Head of Purchased Programmes); Ian Martin (Controller of Features, Education & Religion); Malcolm Morris (Controller Programme Administration); Peter Pagnamenta (Head of Current Affairs); A C Parkinson (Controller Administration); Eric E Parry (Controller Programme Services); Mike Phillips (Controller Advertising & Publications); Tim Riordan (Head of Programme Planning & Presentation); Brian G Scott (Chief Engineer); Douglas Thornes (Sales Principal of Research & Marketing); Mike Wooller (Head of Documentaries).

Thames Television International (for Programme Sales) Howard Thomas, CBE (Chairman); Muir Sutherland (Managing Director).

Enquiries. Enquiries about artists and programmes should be addressed to Viewers’ Correspondence, Thames Television House, 306-316 Euston Road, LONDON NW1 3BB.

Sales and Marketing. Thames operates a full marketing and merchandising service and offers special rates for local advertisers, holiday and travel advertisers, etc. Details are available from the Sales Controller.

Programmes. Thames Television’s area covers over twelve million people in and around London from Monday morning to 7 p.m. on Friday. But the company’s fame reaches throughout the world. In 1976 Thames programmes won two of the three prizes awarded in the prestigious Prix Italia – the Documentary prize for Beauty, Bonny, Daisy, Violet, Grace and Geoffrey Morton, and the Drama prize for The Naked Civil Servant. Then in 1977 a Thames programme, an outside broadcast recording of Benjamin Britten’s St. Nicolas Cantata won the third Prix Italia, the Music prize. Also in 1976 Thames bought a week on WOR-TV, New York’s Channel 9, and showed New Yorkers nothing but Thames programmes. That project was repeated with equal success in Los Angeles last summer when Thames bought time on KHJ-TV and showed a little British enterprise to the home of show-business.

All this international fame was achieved with programmes made specifically for British viewers. Thames’ contract covers the whole range of television, and most of its programmes are made in the riverside studios at Teddington, while others come from the company’s headquarters at Euston. The outside broadcast units, from their base at Hanworth, near Teddington, cover many major events.

Working from its own independent base at Hammersmith is Euston Films, the fourth important element of Thames’ production structure. As well as pleasing viewers abroad, and winning major overseas awards, Thames has also regularly won the top British prizes – winning awards in recent years from the Broadcasting Press Guild, and from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Royal Television Society. But the main aim is still to please British viewers, and, in terms of ratings, Thames remain dominant.

DRAMA: Drama series: The Sweeney; Hazell; Armchair Thriller; Danger UXB; Rumpole of the Bailey; Edward and Mrs Simpson; Quatermass; Minder; Macbeth. CHILDREN’S: Magpie; Rainbow; Fanfare for Musicians; The Boy Merlin; Jukes of Piccadilly; Horse in the House; Sooty; Paperplay; We’ll Tell You a Story; The Great ChiIdren’s Party; Cinderella; Chorlton and the Wheelies; Jamie and the Magic Torch; Just So Stories. LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT – COMEDY: The Kenny Everett Video Show; Robin’s Nest; George and Mildred; Shelley; The Plank; Chalk and Cheese. VARIETY AND SPECIALS -This Is Your Life; Morecambe and Wise; The Benny Hill Show; London Night Out; Bornie; Lingalongamax; Quincy. PANEL SHOWS: Give Us A Clue; Looks Familiar. CURRENT AFFAIRS: TV Eye; Thames At Six; Inside Business; Thames Report; Thames Debate. DOCUMENTARIES: Hollywood; Mickey Duff: Matchmaker; Elkie & Co; Sport of Kings. SPORT AND OUTSIDE BROADCASTS: Football; Racing; Snooker; Darts; Show Jumping; Gymnastics; Swimming; Boxing; Specials; The World Disco Dancing Championship; Wish You Were Here…?; Star Games; Star Gardens; Big Top Variety Show; Britain’s Strongest Man; Miss Thames TV. FEATURES After Noon Plus; Money Go Round; Help; Childhood; Song and Dance; The Hands of Katherine Stott; Crits. SCHOOLS: Seeing & Doing; Finding Out; It’s More Life; Writer’s Workshop; The English Programme; French Studies; Music Round; It’s Your Future; Teacher Training; Botanic Man; History the Future. ADULT EDUCATION: Our People; The English Garden; The National Gallery. RELIGION: Christmas Pie; The First Christmas Crisis; The Cross on the Donkey’s Back; The Guinea Pig Club; The Journey of the Magi; Cardinal Hume.

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Thames Television House, 306-316 Euston Road, LONDON NW1 3BB
Tel: 01-387 9494
Teddington Studios, Teddington Lock, TEDDINGTON, Middlesex TW11 9NT
Tel: 01-977 3252
Sales Office: Norfolk House, Smallbrook Queensway, BIRMINGHAM B5 4LJ
Tel: 021-643 9151

Directors. Howard Thomas, CBE (Chairman); Bryan Cowgill (Managing Director); Mrs Mary Baker; The Lord Brabourne; John T Davey; D R W Dicks; H S L Dundas, CBE, DSO, DFC, DL; J M Kuipers; Sir John Read; Ian M Scott (Director of Administration and Finance); James F Shaw (Director of Sales and Marketing); Colin S Wills.

Executives. Ben E Marr (Company Secretary); R G J Godfrey (Studios Engineering and Technical Director); John Hambley (Planning and Development Director); John O’Keefe (Industrial Relations Director); F J Atkinson (Studios Technical Controller); Donald Cullimore (Controller, Public Relations); R J Hughes (Sales Controller); Philip Jones (Controller of Light Entertainment); Verity Lambert (Controller of Drama) ; Max Lawson (Financial Controller); Ian Martin (Controller of Features, Education and Religion); Malcolm Morris (Controller, Programme Department (Administration)); Eric E Parry (Controller, Programme Services); A C Parkinson (Controller, Administration); Sue Turner (Controller of Children’s Programmes); Peter Pagnamenta (Head of Current Affairs); Mike Wooller (Head of Documentaries); Geoffrey Lugg (Head of Programme Liaison); Tim Riordan (Head of Programme Planning and Presentation); Pat Mahoney (Head of Purchased Programmes); Sam Leitch (Head of Sport); Brian G Scott (Chief Engineer); Douglas Thornes (Sales Principal of Research and Marketing Services).

Thames Television International Limited (for programme sales) – Muir Sutherland (Managing Director).

Enquiries. Enquiries about artists and programmes should be addressed to Viewers’ Correspondence, Thames Television House, 306-316 Euston Road, LONDON NW1 3BB.

Sales and Marketing. Thames operates a full marketing and merchandising service and offers special rates for local advertisers, holiday and travel advertisers, etc. Details are available from the Sales Controller.

Programmes. Thames Television’s area covers over twelve million people in and around London from Monday morning to 7p.m. on Friday. But the company’s fame reaches throughout the world. In 1976 and 1977 for instance Thames achieved a series of international honours which may never be repeated. In 1976 Thames programmes won two of the three prizes awarded in the prestigious Prix Italia – the Documentary prize for Beauty, Bonny, Daisy, Violet, Grace and Geoffrey Morton, and the Drama prize for The Naked Civil Servant. Then in 1977 a Thames programme, an outside broadcast recording of Benjamin Britten’s St. Nicolas Cantata won the third Prix Italia, the Music prize (incidentally this was the first time that any British programme had ever won the Music prize at the Prix Italia). Also in 1976 Thames bought a week on WOR-TV, New York’s Channel 9, and showed New Yorkers nothing but Thames programmes – a project that captured that city’s imagination and resulted in the opening of important new markets for Thames programmes.

All this international fame was achieved with programmes made specifically for British viewers. Thames’ contract covers the whole range of television, and most of its drama, light entertainment and children’s programmes arc made in the riverside studios at Teddington, while the documentary and current affairs programmes come from the company’s headquarters at Euston. The outside broadcast units, from their base at Hanworth, near Teddington, cover many major events – from Royal occasions to sport, from beauty contests to motor exhibitions – as well as servicing productions that need video cameras on location.

Working from its own independent base at Hammersmith is Euston Films, the fourth important element of Thames’ production structure which uses locations to make successful film drama programmes like The Sweeney, Out and Danger UXB. As well as pleasing viewers abroad, and winning major overseas awards, Thames has also regularly won the top British prizes – winning awards in recent years from the Broadcasting Press Guild, and from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Royal Television Society. But the main aim is still to please British viewers, and in terms of ratings, Thames Television programmes remain dominant. DRAMA: Single plays – ITV Playhouse; The Sweeney; Rock Follies 78; The Norman Conquests; Hazell; Armchair Thriller; The Naked Civil Servant; Jenny, Lady Randolph Churchill; Bill Brand; Out; Danger UXB; Rumpole of the Bailey; Quatermass; Edward and Mrs Simpson; Born and Bred. CHILDREN’S: Magpie; Rainbow; Michael Bentine’s Potty Time; Fanfare; Horse in the House; The Tomorrow People; Shadows; You Can’t Be Serious; Sooty; Issi Noho; Paperplay. LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT – COMEDY: The Kenny Everett Video Show; Robin’s Nest; George and Mildred; Get Some In; What’s on Next; The Upchat Connection; Room Service. VARIETY AND SPECIALS: This Is Your Life; Morecambe and Wise; The Benny Hill Show; London Night Out; The Bernie Winters Show; The Ken Dodd Show; The Tommy Cooper Show; Relatively Secombe; Lingalongamax; Side by Side; Must Wear Tights; Tommy Steele and a Show. PANEL SHOWS: Whodunnit: Looks Familiar; Quick on the Draw: Give us a Clue. CURRENT AFFAIRS: This Week; Thames at Six; Time for Business; Take Six. FEATURES: After Noon; Money Go Round; Help!; Mavis; Glad Day (a celebration of William Blake); Superman and the Bride; Our School and Hard Times. OUTSIDE BROADCASTS: Football; Racing: Gymnastics: Swimming: Boxing; Specials (Royal Events, Royal Command Performances, Drama and Film Awards; Beauty Contests; Circuses); Wish You Were Here…?; A Town Called…. SCHOOLS: Seeing and Doing; Finding Out; Romeo and Juliet; It’s More Life with David Bellamy; Writer’s Workshop; The English Programme; French Studies; Music Round; It’s Your Future. ADULT EDUCATION: Could Do Better?; What About The Workers; Botanic Man; Immigrants. RELIGION: Close (late night religious programmes through the year); Christmas Services; Christmas Special; The Fruits of the Tree; Not Just Sundays; Double Helping; The Story of Job; Get Out and Push; Matter of Morals; Christmas Pie; St Nicolas Cantata; And Is It True?; Drawing to an End.

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Weekdays

Thames Television Limited is the company which, under agreement with the Independent Broadcasting Authority, provides the television programmes in London on weekdays from Monday to 7 pm Friday.

Thames Television House, 306-316 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB
Tel: 01-387 9494
Teddington Studios, Teddington Lock, TEDDINGTON, Middlesex TW11 9NT
Tel: 01-977 3252
Sales Office: Norfolk House, Smallbrook Queensway, BIRMINGHAM B5 4LJ
Tel: 021-643 9151

Directors. Howard Thomas, CBE (Chairman); Bryan Cowgill (Managing Director); Mrs Mary Baker; John T Davey, FCA; D R W Dicks; H S L Dundas. DSO, DFC; Jeremy Isaacs (Director of Programmes); Sir John Read; Ian M Scott, CA (Director of Finance and General Manager, Teddington); James F Shaw (Director of Sales); T H Tilling; Colin S Wills, MA, FCA (Assistant Managing Director).

Executives. Ben E Marr, CA (Company Secretary); R G J Godfrey (Studios and Engineering Director); F J Atkinson (Controller, Studio Operations); Donald Cullimore (Controller, Public Relations); John Hambley (Controller, Advertising and Publications); R J Hughes (Sales Controller); Philip Jones (Controller of Light Entertainment); Verity Lambert (Controller of Drama); Geoffrey Lugg (Controller, Programme Planning and Liaison); Ian Martin (Controller of Features, Education and Religion); Malcolm Morris (Controller, Programme Department); John O’Keefe (Controller, Staff Relations); Eric E Parry (Controller, Programme Services); A C Parkinson (Controller, Administration); Grahame Turner (Controller of Outside Broadcasts); Sue Turner (Controller of Children’s Programmes); Peter Pagnamenta (Head of Current Affairs); Mike Wooller (Head of Documentaries); Max Lawson, FCA (Chief Accountant); Brian G Scott, C Eng, MIEE (Chief Engineer); Douglas Thornes (Research and Marketing Services Manager).

Thames Television International Limited (for programme sales) – Muir Sutherland (Managing Director).

Enquiries. Enquiries about artists and programmes should be addressed to Viewers’ Correspondence. Thames Television House. 306-316 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB.

Sales and Marketing. Thames operates a full marketing and merchandising service and offers special rates for local advertisers, holiday and travel advertisers, etc. Details are available from the Sales Controller.

Programmes. Thames Television’s area covers over 11 million people in and around London from Monday morning to 7.00 p.m. on Friday. But the company’s fame reaches throughout the world. In 1976 for instance, Thames achieved a double international honour by winning the prestigious Prix Italia for documentary with Beauty, Bonny, Daisy, Violet, Grace and Geoffrey Morton, and for drama, with The Naked Civil Servant. And in the same month, the company bought a week on WOR-TV, New York’s Channel 9, and showed New Yorkers nothing but Thames programmes – a project that captured that city’s imagination and resulted in the opening of important new markets for Thames programmes.

All this international fame was achieved with programmes made specifically for British viewers. Thames’ contract covers the whole range of television, and most of its drama, light entertainment and children’s programmes are made in the riverside studios at Teddington, while the documentary and current affairs programmes come from the Company’s headquarters at Euston. The outside broadcast units, from their base at Hanworth, near Teddington, cover many major events -from Royal occasions to sport, from beauty contests to motor exhibitions – as well as servicing productions that need video cameras on location.

Working from its own base at Hammersmith is Euston Films, the fourth important element of Thames’ production structure which uses locations to make successful film drama programmes like The Sweeney and Van der Valk. As well as pleasing viewers abroad, and winning major overseas awards, Thames has also regularly won the top British prizes – winning awards in recent years from the Broadcasting Press Guild, and from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Royal Television Society. But the main aim is still to please British viewers, and in terms of ratings, Thames Television programmes remain dominant.

DRAMA: Single plays – ITV Playhouse; The Sweeney; Special Branch; Van der Valk; Rock Follies; London Belongs to Me; The Norman Conquests; Hazell; Armchair Thriller; Rooms; Romance; The Naked Civil Servant; Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill; Shades of Greene; Bill Brand; Moody and Pegg; Public Eye; Six Days of Justice; Life and Death of Penelope. CHILDREN’S: Fanfare; Chorlton and the Wheelies; Jamie and the Magic Torch; Michael Bentine’s Potty Time; Mice and Mendelson. LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT – COMEDY: Man About the House; Robin’s Nest; George and Mildred; Get Some In; Bless This House; What’s On Next; The Fuzz; The Upchat Line; Odd Man Out; Spring and Autumn; The Howerd Confessions. VARIETY AND SPECIALS: This Is Your Life; Opportunity Knocks; The Benny Hill Show; Night Out at the London Casino; Wednesday at Eight; The Tommy Steele Show; The Tommy Cooper Show; Bring on the Girls; Bruce and More Girls; The Tom O’Connor Show. PANEL SHOWS: Whodunnit; Looks Familiar; Quick on the Draw; There Goes That Song Again, CURRENT AFFAIRS: This Week; Thames at 6; Tuesday Documentary; Mind Your Own Business; People and Politics. FEATURES: After Noon; London Scene; Mavis; Glad Day (A celebration of William Blake); Superman and the Bride; Our School and Hard Times. OUTSIDE BROADCASTS: Darts; Racing; Football; Drive-In (motoring magazine); Sportscene (weekly sports magazine programme); Specials (Royal events, Royal Command Performances, Drama and Film Awards, beauty contests, astrology, Pub Entertainer of the Year, circuses); Wish You Were Here…?; International Snooker; Kitchen Garden; A Town Called…. SCHOOLS: Seeing and Doing; Finding Out; Romeo and Juliet; It’s Life with David Bellamy; It’s More Life; Writer’s Workshop; The English Programme; French Studies; Music Round; The World Around Us. ADULT EDUCATION: Could Do Better? RELIGION: Close (late night religious programmes through the year); Christmas Services; Christmas Special; Lord of the Dance; The Fruits of the Tree; Not Just Sundays; Help!; Double Helping; The Story of Job; Get Out and Push; Matter of Morals; Faith in Place; Christmas Pie; St Nicolas Cantata; Drawing to an End.

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Thames Television House, 306-316 Euston Road, LONDON NW1 3BB
Tel: 01-387 9494
Teddington Studios, Teddington Lock, TEDDINGTON, Middlesex TW11 9NT
Tel: 01-977 3252
Sales Office: Norfolk House, Smallbrook Queensway, BIRMINGHAM BS 4LJ
Tel: 021-643 9151

Directors. Howard Thomas, CBE (Chairman); George A Cooper (Managing Director); Mrs Mary Baker; John T Davey, FCA; D R W Dicks; H S L Dundas, DSO, DFC; Jeremy Isaacs (Director of Programmes); John E Read; Ian M Scott, CA (Director of Finance and General Manager, Teddington); James F Shaw (Director of Sales); T H Tilling; Colin S Wills, MA, FCA (Assistant Managing Director); Lord Wolfenden, CBE, MA.

Executives. Ben E Marr, CA (Company Secretary); R G J Godfrey (Studios and Engineering Director); F J Atkinson (Controller, Studio Operations); Donald Cullimore (Controller, Public Relations); John Edwards (Controller of Current Affairs and Documentaries); John Hambley (Controller, Advertising and Publications); R J Hughes (Sales Controller); Philip Jones (Controller of Light Entertainment); Verity Lambert (Controller of Drama); Geoffrey Lugg (Controller, Programme Planning); Ian Martin (Acting Controller of Features, Education and Religion); Malcolm Morris (Controller, Programme Department); John O’Keefe (Controller, Staff Relations); Eric E Parry (Controller, Programme Services); C J Smeaton (Controller, Administration); Grahame Turner (Controller of Outside Broadcasts); Sue Turner (Controller of Children’s Programmes); Max Lawson, FCA (Chief Accountant); Brian G Scott, C Eng, MIEE (Chief Engineer); Douglas Thornes (Research and Marketing Services Manager).
Thames Television International Limited (for programme sales) – Muir Sutherland (Chief Executive).

Enquiries. Enquiries about artists and programmes should be addressed to Viewers’ Correspondence, Thames Television House, 306-316 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB.

Sales and Marketing. Thames operates a full marketing and merchandising service and offers special rates for local advertisers, holiday and travel advertisers, etc. Details are available from the Sales Controller.

Programmes. From Thames Television’s two main production centres – at Euston in Central London and at Teddington on the River Thames – come well over a thousand programmes a year for the London region and for the ITV network.

Thames output covers the whole range of television programmes. Most drama, light entertainment and children’s programmes are made at Teddington where there are three studios, the largest 7,500 sq. ft, all fully operational in colour.

The widely praised and international award winning Thames documentary series The World At War was prepared mainly at Teddington. Current affairs and news programmes are produced at Thames Television House, Euston, with its presentation and audience studios and extensive VTR, telecine and editing facilities.

From the mobile division, based at Hanworth near Teddington, the outside broadcast units with their sophisticated equipment cover the country for major sporting events, fashion shows, beauty contests and other special events.

Working from its own base at Hammersmith is the fourth important element of Thames’ production structure – Euston Films. This wholly owned Thames subsidiary, which makes film drama programmes on location mainly for television, has over recent years contributed significantly to Thames’ drama output.

As well as contributing to the popularity and critical success of ITV’s programmes, the wide range of Thames productions is finding an increasing market among viewers in other countries. Here is a list of some of the programmes Thames produces:

Drama: Plays for Britain; Killers; The Crezz; Special Branch; Shades of Greene; Jennie – Lady Randolph Churchill; Moody and Pegg; The Sweeney; Rock Follies; Life and Death of Penelope; Couples; Bill Brand. Children’s: Magpie; The Sooty Show; Rainbow; The Tomorrow People; Pauline’s Quirkes; Horse in the House; The Feathered Serpent; And Maisy Too…; Issi Noho; Paperplay; You Must Be Joking; Shadows; All Together a Now; King Wilbur III; The Molly Wopsies. Light Entertainment: Comedy: Man About the House; George and Mildred; Bless This House; Get Some In; Spring and Autumn; Howerd Confessions; What’s On Next; Paradise Island. Variety and Specials: This Is Your I Life; The Benny Hill Show; The Tommy Cooper Show; Billy Dainty Esquire; The Tom O’Connor Show; Bring On The Girls; Listen To My Music; Opportunity Knocks; The Mating Season. Panel Shows: Looks Familiar; Quick On The Draw; There Goes That Song Again. Current Affairs: This Week; Today; Tuesday Documentary; Take Two; Something to Say; People and Politics; Destination America. Features: Good Afternoon; Money-Go-Round; Problems; Billboard. Outside Broadcasts: Wrestling; Racing; Football; Drive-In (motoring magazine); Specials (fashion shows, beauty contests, Royal Command Performances, Drama and Film Awards); Wish You Were Here; International Snooker. Schools: Seeing and Doing; Finding Out; The World Around Us; Romeo and Juliet; It’s Life with David Bellamy; It’s More Life; Writer’s Workshop; Le Nouvel Arrive (French); Viewpoint. Adult Education: Planting for Pleasure; Waterwise; Seven Ages of Fashion; Musical Triangles; The Playwright; This Sporting Land; Home Brew; Arts Bazaar. Religion: Late night religious programmes through the year; Christmas Services; Who Is This Man?; Crisis of the Cross; Lord of the Dance; Michael Cantuar; The Story of Job; Help!; The Fruits of the Tree; Not Just Sundays.

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Thames Television House,
306-316 Euston Road,
LONDON NW1 3BB
Tel: 01-387 9494
Teddington Studios, Teddington Lock,
TEDDINGTON, Middlesex TW11 9NT
Tel: 01-977 3232
Sales Office: Norfolk House, Smallbrook,
Queensway, BIRMINGHAM B5 4LJ
Tel: 021-643 9131

Thames Television Limited is the company which, under agreement with the Independent Broadcasting Authority, provides the television programmes in London on weekdays from Monday to 7 pm Friday.

Directors. Howard Thomas, CBE (Chairman); George A Cooper (Managing Director); Mrs Mary Baker; John T Davey, FCA; D R W Dicks; H S L Dundas, DSO, DFC; Jeremy Isaacs (Director of Programmes); John E Read; Ian M Scott, CA (Director of Finance and General Manager, Teddington); James F Shaw (Director of Sales); T H Tilling; Colin S Wills, MA, FCA (Assistant Managing Director); Lord Wolfenden, CBE, MA.

Executives. Ben E Marr, CA (Company Secretary); R G J Godfrey (Studios and Engineering Director); F J Atkinson (Controller, Studio Operations); Donald Cullimore (Controller, Public Relations); John Edwards (Controller of Current Affairs and Documentaries); John Hambley (Controller, Advertising and Publications); R J Hughes (Sales Controller); Philip Jones (Controller of Light Entertainment); Verity Lambert (Controller of Drama); Geoffrey Lugg (Controller, Programme Planning); Ian Martin (Acting Controller of Features, Education and Religion); Malcolm Morris (Controller, Programme Department); John O’Keefe (Controller, Staff Relations) ; Eric E Parry (Controller, Programme Services); C J Smeaton (Controller, Administration); Grahame Turner (Controller of Outside Broadcasts); Sue Turner (Controller of Children’s Programmes); Max Lawson, FCA (Chief Accountant); Brian G Scott, C ENG, MIEE (Chief Engineer); Douglas Thornes (Research and Marketing Services Manager). THAMES TELEVISION INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (for programme sales) – Muir Sutherland (Chief Executive).

Enquiries. Enquiries about artists and programmes should be addressed to Viewers’ Correspondence, Thames Television House, 306-316 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB.

Sales and Marketing. Thames operates a full marketing and merchandising service and offers special rates for local advertisers, holiday and travel advertisers, etc. Details are available from the Sales Controller. Programmes. From Thames Television’s two main production centres – at Euston in Central London and at Teddington on the River Thames – come well over a thousand programmes a year for the London Region and for the itv network. Many win national and international acclaim (e.g. The World At War or Jenny – Lady Randolph Churchill). Many are extremely popular. All are intended to fulfil the company’s aim to educate, inform and entertain its audience in depth and on the widest scale.

Thames’ output covers the whole range of television programmes. Most drama, light entertainment and children’s programmes are made at Teddington where there are three studios, the largest 7,500 sq. ft, all fully operational in colour. A major building programme is extending and improving to the highest possible level the studio facilities.

The widely praised and international award winning Thames documentary scries The World At War was prepared mainly at Teddington; the same team is preparing the Destination America series about the migrating races which formed the United States. But the bulk of Thames documentary. current affairs and news programmes are produced at Thames Television House, Euston, with its presentation and audience studios and extensive VTR, telecine and editing facilities. Produced here is This Week, one of ITV’s most influential and respected current affairs programmes, the 1,000th edition of which was broadcast last November. Today, London’s daily live magazine programme, Good Afternoon, one of ITV’s most important consumer-orientated programme series and People and Politics, the influential, in-depth political discussion programme, are produced at TTH. So are the critically acclaimed and often award winning documentaries, for example Beauty, Bonny, Daisy, Violet, Grace and Geoffrey Morton, which was about shire horses and which has already won several important critical awards.

From the mobile division, based at Hanworth near Teddington, the outside broadcast units with their sophisticated equipment cover the country for major sporting events, fashion shows, beauty contests and other special events plus ITV’s motoring magazine programme, Drive In.

Working from its own base at Hammersmith is the fourth important element of Thames’ production structure – Euston Films. This wholly owned Thames subsidiary, which makes film drama programmes on location mainly for television, has over recent years contributed significantly to Thames’ drama output notably with such chart-topping crime series as Special Branch and The Sweeney.

As well as contributing to the popularity and critical success of ITV’s programmes, the wide range of Thames productions is finding an increasing market among viewers in other countries. In 1974-75 Thames’ sale of programmes overseas topped £1½ million. Here is a list of some of the programmes Thames produces:

DRAMA: Armchair Theatre; Public Eye; Special Branch; Callan; Six Days of Justice; The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes; Shades of Greene; Napoleon and Love; The Way of the World; Jennie – Lady Randolph Churchill; Moody and Pegg; Rooms; The Sweeney; Rock Follies; Life and Death of Penelope; Couples; Bill Brand. CHILDREN’S: Magpie; The Sooty Show; Rainbow; The Tomorrow People; Robert’s Robots; Funny Ha Ha; Issi Noho; Rod Hull and Emu; Michael Bentine’s Potty Time; Paper Play; Magpie Specials: Like Ordinary Children; My Brother David; School for Playing; You Must Be Joking; Shadows; Rainbow Specials: Rainbow Goes to Hospital & Rainbow Starts School; Altogether Now; King Wilbour III; The Molly Wopsy. LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: This Is Your Life; Opportunity Knocks!; Bless This House; Love Thy Neighbour; …And Mother Makes Five; Man About The House; Whodunnit?; Looks Familiar; Quick On The Draw; There Goes That Song Again; Specials from Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper, Billy Dainty, Michael Bentine, Frankie Howerd and Bruce Forsyth; My Son Reuben; Get Some In; Rule Britannia. CURRENT AFFAIRS: This Week; Today; Tuesday Documentary; Take Two; Something to Say; People and Politics; The World at War, including special presentations, e.g. The Final Solution; Specials (e.g. elections). FEATURES: Good Afternoon; The History of London. OUTSIDE BROADCASTS: Wrestling; Racing; Football; Tennis; Ice Skating; Athletics; Water-Skiing; Drive In (motoring magazine); Specials (fashion shows, beauty contests, Royal Command Performances, etc.). SCHOOLS: Seeing and Doing; Finding Out; The World Around Us; King Lear; Reflections; Song and Story; Writer’s Workshop; Le Nouvel Arrivé (French); Viewpoint; Biology. ADULT EDUCATION: Treasures of the British Museum; The Art of the Craft; A Place in the Country; A Place in History; A Place in Europe; Planting for Pleasure; Water Wise; Seven Ages of Fashion; Musical Triangles. RELIGION: Late night religious programmes through the year; Christmas Services; Kontakion; Who Is This Man?; Crisis of the Cross; Lord of the Dance; Michael Cantuar.

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Thames Television House,
306-316 Euston Road, LONDON NW1 3BB
Telephone 01-387 9494
Teddington Studios, Teddington Lock,
TEDDINGTON, Middlesex TW11 9NT
Telephone 01-977 3252
Sales Office: Norfolk House, Smallbrook,
Queensway, BIRMINGHAM B5 4LJ
Telephone 021-643 9131

Directors

Howard Thomas, CBE (Chairman); George A Cooper (Managing Director); Jeremy Isaacs (Director of Programmes); John T Davey, FCA; D R W Dicks; H S L Dundas, DSO, DFC; J Stuart Sansom, OBE, FIERE (Director of Studios and Engineering); John E Read; Ian M Scott, CA (Director of Finance); T H Tilling; Colin S Wills, MA, FCA (Assistant Managing Director).

Executives

Ben E Marr, CA (Company Secretary); James F Shaw (Sales Director); Max Lawson, FCA (Chief Accountant); Jack Andrews (Controller, Programme Department); John Edwards (Controller of Current Affairs and Documentary Programmes); Guthrie Moir (Controller of Education and Religious Programmes); Grahame Turner (Controller of Outside Broadcasts); Sue Turner (Controller of Children’s Programmes); J A Muir Sutherland (Controller, Programme Sales); Brian G Scott, CENG, MIEE (Head of Engineering); R J Hughes (Sales Controller); Geoffrey Lugg (Programme Co-ordinator); Donald Cullimore (Controller, Public Relations); John Hambley (Controller, Advertising and Publications); Douglas Thornes (Research Manager); Eric E Parry (Controller, Programme Services); C J Smeaton (Controller, Administration).

Visits to Studios

A limited number of tickets are available for audiences at certain shows. Applications enclosing stamped addressed envelopes, should be made to the Ticket Office at Thames Television House, 306-316 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB. The minimum age is 16, except for some programmes specially for children.

Enquiries

Enquiries about artists and programmes should be addressed to Viewers’ Correspondence, Thames Television House, 306-316 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB.

Submission of Scripts

While Thames will always welcome the submission of proposals for plays and series, drama plans are subject to change over the year. Writers are advised in the first place to contact the Story Supervisor at Teddington Studios.

Sales and Marketing

Thames operates a full marketing and merchandising service and offers special rates for local advertisers, holiday and travel advertisers, etc. Details are available from the Sales Controller.

New Technology

In order to support sophisticated VTR editing with an equivalent audio facility, Thames has developed and brought into service a comprehensive sound dubbing system. This synchronizes helical scan or quadruplex video-tape machines with multi-track audio recorders and provides a flexible off-line dubbing system with a track laying, mixing and composite track production capability. The system may also be used on outside broadcasts. Associated engineering development work on off-line vtr editing is also being carried out.

Programmes

Monday to 7 pm Friday Thames provides ITV programmes to 14 million people living in and around the capital and a substantial number of these are also shown throughout the ITV network. This means a production schedule reaching well over a thousand programmes a year – and increasing in number since the relaxation of restrictions on broadcasting hours. The company’s aim is to educate, inform and entertain in depth and on the widest scale.

Most of the drama, light entertainment and children’s programmes are made in the riverside studios at Teddington, ten miles from Thames Television House. There are three studios at Teddington, the largest of 7,500 sq. ft and all are fully operational in colour. The company has recently started a major building programme to extend and improve to the highest possible level the support facilities for the studios.

The widely praised Thames documentary series The World At War was prepared mainly at Teddington. Each episode was watched by an average audience of more than 11½ million people throughout Britain. It has also been sold to many countries overseas including the USA.

Current affairs and documentary programmes are produced mainly at TTH with its presentation and audience studios and extensive VTR, telecine and editing facilities. Today, London’s daily live magazine programme, Good Afternoon, one of ITV’s most important consumer-orientated programme series, Something To Say and People and Politics are all produced at TTH.

Thames’s outside-broadcast units are based at Hanworth, near Teddington, where much of the production work for Drive-In, ITV’s motoring magazine programme, is carried out. The equipment includes one four-colour camera unit, two two-colour camera plus VTR units, a single-colour camera unit, a hand-held colour camera which may be used independently or in association with other units, three micro-wave link units and a full range of other auxiliaries such as hydraulic towers, and stand-by generators. In addition, a specialised sound-mixing vehicle has been added, equipped for large-scale musical programmes and including multi-track recording and reverberation facilities.

The programme output of these three centres has made Thames a leading contributor to the national Top Twenty programme ‘league table’. Overseas sales of programmes are increasing. Here is a list of some of the programmes Thames produces:

DRAMA: Armchair Theatre; Armchair Cinema; Public Eye; Special Branch; Man at the Top; Callan; Six Days of Justice; The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes; Shades of Green; Napoleon and Love; Way of the World; Jennie – Lady Randolph Churchill; Moody and Pegg. CHILDREN’S  Magpie; The Sooty Show; Rainbow; Larry the Lamb; The Tomorrow People; Robert’s Robots; Funny Ha Ha; Issi Noho; Amazingly Enough It’s Rod Hull and Emu; Michael Bentine’s Potty Time; Paper Play; Magpie Specials: Like Ordinary Children; My Brother David; Kids in the Country/Kids About Town. LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: This Is Your Life; Bless This House; Love Thy Neighbour; …And Mother Makes Five; Opportunity Knocks!; The David Nixon Show; Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town; Harry Worth; Looks Familiar; Whodunnit?; Quick on the Draw; Spring and Autumn; Man About the House; Specials from Benny Hill and Tommy Cooper. There Goes That Song Again; Carry on Christmas. CURRENT AFFAIRS: This Week; Today; Tuesday Documentary; Something to Say; People and Politics; The World At War; Specials (eg, Elections). FEATURES: Good Afternoon; The History of London. OUTSIDE BROADCASTS: Wrestling; Racing; Football; Tennis; Ice Skating; Athletics; Drive-in (motoring magazine); Specials (fashion shows, beauty contests, Royal Command Performance, etc); SCHOOLS: Seeing and Doing; Finding Out; The World Around Us; King Lear; Reflections; Song and Story; Evidence; Writer’s Workshop; Let’s Go Out; Le Nouvel Arrivé (French); Images. ADULT EDUCATION: Treasures of the British Museum; The Art of the Craft; A Place in the Country; A Place in History; A Place in Europe; Cooking Without Tears; Yoga for Health; Looking At… (Antiques); Planting for Pleasure; Water Wise. RELIGION: Late Night Religious Programmes throughout the year; Christmas Services; Kontakion; Who Is This Man?; Crisis of the Cross.

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Thames Television

Thames Television House, 306-16 Euston Road, LONDON NW1 3BB Tel: 01-387 9494

Teddington Studios, Teddington Lock, TEDDINGTON, Middlesex TW11 9NT
Tel: 01-977 3232

Sales Office: Norfolk House, Smallbrook Queensway, BIRMINGHAM B5 4LJ
Tel: 021-643 9131

Thames Television Limited is the company which, under agreement with the Independent Broadcasting Authority, provides the television programmes in London on weekdays from Monday to 7 pm Friday.

Directors

Lord Shawcross, PC, QC (Chairman); Howard Thomas, CBE (Managing Director); George A Cooper (Director of Sales); John T Davey, FCA; D R W Dicks; H S L Dundas, DSO, DFC; Bernard R Greenhead, OBE (Director of Studios and Engineering); Brian Tesler, MA (Director of Programmes); T H Tilling; Colin S Wills, MA, ACA (Director of Administration).

Executives

Ben E Marr, CA (Company Secretary); Max Lawson, FCA (Chief Accountant); Jack Andrews (Controller, Programme Department); Jeremy Isaacs (Controller of Feature Programmes); Philip Jones (Controller of Light Entertainment); Guthrie Moir, MA (Controller of Education and Religious Programmes); Lloyd Shirley (Controller of Drama); Grahame Turner (Controller of Outside Broadcasts); Sue Turner, BA (Controller of Children’s Programmes); Muir Sutherland, MA (Programme Sales); Geoffrey Lugg (Programme Co-ordinator); J Stuart Sansom, MIERE (Technical Controller); Brian G Scott, C. Eng., MIEE (Head of Engineering); Terry W Pace (Head of Production Services); George Taylor (Head of Film Services); James F Shaw (Sales Controller); Donald Cullimore, MA (Chief Press Officer); John Hambley (Publicity Manager); Douglas Thornes (Research Manager); David Graham (Labour Relations Advisor); Eric E Parry (Controller, Administration).

Programmes

From Monday to 7 pm Friday Thames provides ITV programmes for 14 million people living in and around the capital. For them, for ITV viewers throughout Britain and for television stations all round the world, Thames produces more than 1,200 programmes a year. The company’s aim is to educate, inform and entertain in depth and on the widest possible scale. Most of the drama, light entertainment and children’s productions are made in the riverside studios at Teddington, ten miles from Thames Television House, central London headquarters. At Teddington there are three studios, the largest of 7,500 sq. ft, all fully operational in colour with complete support facilities. Work is in hand for multi-million pound expansions and improvements at Teddington, which will include a fourth major studio.

Current affairs and documentary programmes are produced mainly at Thames Television House, with its presentation and audience studios and its extensive telecine, VTR and editing facilities. Today, London’s daily live magazine programme, and Good Afternoon, one of ITV’s most important programmes intended mainly for women viewers, also come from TTH.

Thames’s outside-broadcast units are based at Hanworth, near Teddington, where much of the production work for Drive-In, ITV’s motoring magazine programme, is carried out.

The programme output of these three centres has made Thames a leading contributor to the national Top Twenty programme ‘league table’. Overseas sales of programmes are increasing so that the Thames symbol on a tv programme is now famous internationally. Here is a list of some of the programmes Thames produces:

DRAMA: Armchair Theatre; Armchair 30; Armchair Cinema; Napoleon and Love; Way of the World; Jennie Lady Randolph Churchill; Six Days of Justice; Zodiac; Public Eye; Special Branch; Harriet’s Back in Town. FEATURES: This Week; The World at War; Good Afternoon; Today; Something To Say; People and Politics; The Day Before Yesterday. DOCUMENTARIES: (Bunny; The Road to Wigan Pier; We Was All One etc); specials. LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: …And Mother Makes Three; Bless This House; Father, Dear Father; For the Love of Ada; Love Thy Neighbour; Man About the House; Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width; Spring and Autumn; The David Nixon Show; Looks Familiar; Opportunity Knocks!; Thirty Minutes Worth; This is Your Life; Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town; Whodunnit?; Whose Baby?; Carry on Christmas and specials from Max Bygraves; Tommy Cooper; Benny Hill; Frankie Howerd; Bob Monkhouse; Mike and Bernie Winters; Edward Woodward. CHILDREN’S: Magpie; Rainbow; The Tomorrow People; The Sooty Show; Hold the Front Page; Robert’s Robots; Pardon My Genie; Dawson’s Funny Old Farm; Michael Bentine’s Potty Time; Kids in the Country (special); Kids About Town (special); Amazingly Enough It’s Rod Hull and Emu; Sally and Jake; Larry the Lamb. OUTSIDE BROADCASTS: Wrestling; Racing; Football; Boxing; Ice Skating; Tennis; Athletics; Drive-In (motoring magazine); Wish You Were Here (holiday programme); Make a Break (snooker programme), SPECIALS: (Royal Command Performance; Miss TVTimes and other beauty contests; fashion shows) SCHOOLS: Seeing and Doing; Finding Out; The World Around Us; Drama; Song and Story; Evidence; Images; You and the World; Writer’s Workshop. ADULT EDUCATION: Treasures of the British Museum; A Place in the Country; A Place in History; Planting for Pleasure. RELIGION: Late Night Religious Programme (throughout the week), including With a Little Help From My Friends; A Time to Speak; Violence, Vantage Point; Specials for Christmas and Easter, including Kontakion.

Visits to Studios

A limited number of tickets is available for audiences at certain shows. Applications, enclosing stamped addressed envelopes, should be made to the Ticket Office at Thames Television House, 306-16 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB. The minimum age is 16, except for some programmes specially for children. Unfortunately, general studio tours are not normally possible because of busy production schedules.

Enquiries

Enquiries about artists and programmes should be addressed to Viewers’ Correspondence, Thames Television House, 306-16 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB.

Submission of Scripts

While Thames will always welcome the submission of proposals for plays and series, drama plans are subject to change over the year. Writers are advised in the first place to contact the Story Supervisor at Teddington Studios.

Sales and Marketing

Thames operates a full marketing and merchandising service and offers special rates for local advertisers, holiday and travel advertisers, etc. Details are available from the Sales Controller.

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Thames Television House, 306-316 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB Tel: 01-387 9494 Teddington Studios, Teddington Lock, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 9NT Tel: 01-977 3252
Sales Office: Norfolk House, Smallbrook Queensway, Birmingham B5 41J Tel: 021-643 9151

Thames Television Limited is the company which, under agreement with the Independent Broadcasting Authority, provides the television programmes in London on weekdays from Monday to 7 pm Friday.

Directors

Lord Shawcross, PC, QC (Chairman); Howard Thomas, CBE (Managing Director); George A Cooper (Director of Sales); John T Davey, FCA; D R W Dicks; H S L Dundas, DSO, DFC; Bernard R Greenhead, OBE (Director of Studios and Engineering); Clive G D May, FCA (Director of Finance); Brian Tesler, MA (Director of Programmes); T H Tilling; Collin S Wills, MA, ACA (Director of Administration).

Executives

Ben E Marr, CA (Company Secretary); Jeremy Isaacs (Controller of Feature Programmes); Philip Jones (Controller of Light Entertainment); Guthrie Moir, MA (Controller of Education and Religious Programmes); Lewis Rudd (Controller of Children’s Programmes); Lloyd Shirley (Controller of Drama); Grahame Turner (Controller of Outside Broadcasts); J. Stuart Sansom, AMIERE (Technical Controller); James F. Shaw (Sales Controller); Jack Andrews (Controller, Programme Department); Ken E Fletcher (Controller, Programme Sales); Donald Cullimore, MA (Chief Press Officer); David Graham (Labour Relations Adviser); John Hambley (Publicity Manager); Max Lawson, FCA (Chief Accountant); Terry W Pace (Head of Production Services); Eric E Parry (Controller, Administration); J A Muir Sutherland, MA (Programme Co-ordinator); Douglas Thornes (Research Manager).

Programmes

From Monday to Friday Thames provides ITV programmes for 14 million people living in and around the capital. Thames produces well over 1,000 programmes a year, a level which is increasing since the relaxation of restrictions on broadcasting hours.

The company’s aim is to educate, inform and entertain in depth and on the widest possible scale. Most of the drama, light entertainment and children’s productions are made in the riverside studios at Teddington, 10 miles from Thames Television House. There are three studios, the largest of 7,500 sq. ft., all fully operational in colour with complete support facilities, including scene building and rehearsal rooms.

Current affairs and documentary programmes are produced mainly at TTH, with its presentation and audience studios and its extensive telecine, VTR and editing facilities. Today, London’s daily live magazine programme, and Good Afternoon!, one of ITV’s most important programmes intended mainly for women viewers, are also produced at TTH. Recently TTH has been extended to provide extra facilities for the company’s expanding programme output, including dressing rooms, office space for production departments, and a theatre and studio with a seating capacity of over 100.

Thames’s outside-broadcast units are based at Hanworth, near Teddington, where much of the production work for Drive-In, ITV’s motoring magazine programme, is carried out. The equipment includes one four-colour camera unit, two two-colour camera plus VTR units, a single-colour camera unit, a handheld colour camera which may be used independently or in association with other units, three micro-wave link units and a full range of other auxiliaries such as hydraulic towers, stand-by generators. In addition, a specialized sound-mixing vehicle has been added, equipped for large-scale musical programmes and including multi-track recording and reverberation facilities.

The programme output of these three centres has made Thames a leading contributor to the national Top Twenty programme ‘league table’. Overseas sales of programmes are increasing, and with these the Thames symbol on a TV programme is becoming famous internationally. Here is a list of some of the programmes Thames produces:

DRAMA: Armchair Theatre; Armchair Cinema; Public Eye; Special Branch; Man at the Top; Callan; Six Days of Justice; The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes; Shadows of Fear; Van der Valk ; Napoleon in Love ; Way of the World; Confessions of an English Opium Eater. CHILDREN’S: Magpie; Ace of Wands ; The Sooty Show; Pinky and Perky; Zingalong; Pardon My Genie; Happy House; Rainbow; Cliff’s Kids; Larry the Lamb; The Tomorrow People. LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: This is Your Life; Father, Dear Father; Bless This House; Love Thy Neighbour; And Mother Makes Three; Alcock and Gander; Opportunity Knocks!; The David Nixon Show; Max at the Royalty; Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town; Harry Worth; Looks Familiar; Specials from Benny Hill, Max Bygraves, Mike and Bernie Winters, Frankie Howerd, Eric Sykes, Bob Monkhouse, and Edward Woodward. Outside broadcasts from Danny La Rue at the Palace and Big Bad Mouse from the Prince of Wales. FEATURES: This Week; Today; Tuesday Documentary; Something to Say; Good-Afternoon!; The Second World War (in production); specials (Elections Special, Midsummer Monty etc.). OUTSIDE BROADCASTS: Wrestling; Racing; Football; Tennis; Ice Skating; Athletics; Drive-In (motoring magazine); Specials (fashion shows, beauty contests, Royal Command Performance, etc). SCHOOLS: Seeing and Doing; Finding Out; The World Around Us; Drama; Song and Story; Evidence; Writer’s Workshop; Let’s Go Out; Le Butin deColombert (French); Images. ADULT EDUCATION: Treasures of the British Museum; The Craftsmen; A Place in the Country (in co-operation with the National Trust); Children to Children; Cooking Without Tears; Toga for Health; Looking At… (Antiques); Caring for the Family Pet; Collections Great and Small. RELIGION: My Sweet Lord (Good Friday Special); Only One Earth; Ideas in Print; The Bishops; Christmas Morning Service.

Visits to Studios

A limited number of tickets are available for audiences at certain shows. Applications, enclosing stamped addressed envelopes, should be made to the Ticket Office at Thames Television House, 306 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB. The minimum age is 16, except for some programmes specially for children.

Enquiries

Enquiries about artists and programmes should be addressed to Viewers’ Correspondence, Thames Television House, 306 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB.

Submission of Scripts

While Thames will always welcome the submission of proposals for plays and series, drama plans are subject to change over the year. Writers are advised in the first place to contact the Story Supervisor at Teddington Studios.

Sales and Marketing

Thames operates a full marketing and merchandising service and offers special rates for local advertisers, holiday and travel advertisers, etc. Details are available from the Sales Controller.

New Technology

In order to support sophisticated vtr editing with an equivalent audio facility, Thames has developed and brought into service a comprehensive sound dubbing system. This synchronizes helical scan or quadruplex video-tape machines with multi-track audio recorders and provides a flexible off-line dubbing system with a track laying, mixing and composite track production capability. The system may also be used on outside broadcasts. Associated engineering development work on offline vtr editing is also being carried out.

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Thames Television House, 306 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB
Tel: 01-387 9494
Teddington Studios, Teddington Lock, Teddington, Middlesex
Tel: 01-977 3232
Sales Office: Norfolk House, Smallbrook Ringway, Birmingham 5
Tel: 021-643 9131

Thames Television Limited is the company which, under agreement with the Independent Television Authority, provides the television programmes in London on weekdays from Monday to 7 pm Friday.

Directors

Lord Shawcross, PC, QC (Chairman); Howard Thomas, CBE (Managing Director); George A Cooper (Director of Sales); John T Davey, FCA; D R W Dicks; HSL Dundas, DSO, DFC; Bernard R Greenhead, OBE (Director of Studios and Engineering); Clive G D May, FCA (Director of Finance); Brian Tesler, MA (Director of Programmes); T H Tilling; Colin S Wills, MA, ACA (Director of Administration).

Executives

Ben E Marr, CA (Company Secretary); Jack Andrews (Controller, Programme Department); Ken E Fletcher (Controller, Overseas Sales); Jeremy Isaacs (Controller of Feature Programmes); Philip Jones (Controller of Light Entertainment); Guthrie Moir, MA (Controller of Education and Religious Programmes); Terry W Pace (Controller, London Studios); Eric E Parry (Controller, Administration); Lewis Rudd (Controller of Children’s Programmes); J Stuart Sansom, AMIERE (Technical Controller); James F Shaw (Sales Controller); Lloyd Shirley (Controller of Drama); Grahame Turner (Controller of Outside Broadcasts); David Graham (Labour Relations Adviser); Max Lawson, FCA (Chief Accountant); Donald Cullimore, MA (Chief Press Officer); J A Muir Sutherland, MA (Prograrrme Co-ordinator); John Hambley (Publicity Manager); Douglas Thornes (Research Manager).

Programmes

From its central London Studios, from Monday to Friday Thames provides itv programmes for 14 million people living in and around the capital. For them, for ITV viewers throughout Britain, and for television stations world wide, Thames produces well over a thousand programmes a year. The company’s aim is to educate, inform and entertain in depth and on the widest possible scale.

Most of the drama, light entertainment and children’s productions within this wide-ranging output are made in the riverside studios at Teddington, in Middlesex, ten miles from Thames Television House. There are three studios at Teddington, the largest being 7500 sq.ft, and they are among the world’s most advanced TV studios, being the first to incorporate many of the features now being introduced into new ITV studios. All studios are fully operational in colour, and have complete support facilities, including scene building and rehearsal rooms.

Current affairs and documentary programmes are produced mainly at TTH, with its presentation and audience studios and its extensive telecine, vtr and editing facilities. Today, London’s daily live magazine programme, is also produced at and transmitted from TTH.

Thames’ outside broadcast units are based at Hanworth, near Teddington. The equipment includes one four-colour camera unit, two two-colour camera plus VTR units and a single colour camera unit, three microwave link units and other auxiliaries, such as hydraulic towers.

The programme output of these three centres has made Thames a leading contributor to the national Top Twenty programme ‘league table’; and the company has consistently won the major share of London viewing each week. Overseas sales of programmes are increasing, and with these the Thames symbol on a TV programme is becoming famous internationally. Here is a list of some of the programmes Thames produces:

DRAMA: Armchair Theatre; Callan; The Mind of Mr J G Reeder; Public Eye; Special Branch; Man at the Top; Shadows of Fear; The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes; Six Days of Justice.

CHILDREN’S: Magpie; Ace of Wands; The Sooty Show; Pinky and Perky; Smith; Zing along; Once Upon a Time; Anita in Jumbleland; Sexton Blake; Elephant’s Eggs in a Rhubarb Tree; Full House; Tottering Towers.

LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: This Is Your Life; For the Love of Ada; Father, Dear Father; Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width; Bless This House; And Mother Makes Three; Do Me a Favour; Mike and Bernie (series); Opportunity Knocks!; David Nixon’s Magic Box; Benny Hill Specials; Max (special); Frankie Howerd Specials; Mike and Bernie’s Show (special).

FEATURES: This Week; Report; The Day Before Yesterday; Tea Break; The Second World War (in production).

OUTSIDE BROADCASTS: Wrestling; Racing; Football; Tennis; Ice Skating; Athletics; Drive-In (motoring magazine); Specials (fashion shows, beauty contests. Royal Command Performance, etc.)

SCHOOLS: Seeing and Doing; Finding Out; The World Around Us; Drama; Song and Story; Le Mystere de Valbec (French); Fusion; Evidence.

ADULT EDUCATION: Treasures of the British Museum; Living Architects; Living Writers; Looking At… (Antiques); The Garden Indoors; Children to Children; Yoga for Health; National Trust.

RELIGION: Last Programme (throughout the week); Specials for Christmas and Easter.

Visits to Studios

A limited number of tickets is available for audiences at certain shows. Applications, enclosing stamped addressed envelopes, should be made to the Ticket Office at Thames Television House, 306 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB. The minimum age is 16, except for some programmes specially for children.

Enquiries

Enquiries about artists and programmes should be addressed to Viewers’ Correspondence, Thames Television House, 306 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB.

Submission of Scripts

While Thames will always welcome the submission of proposals for plays and series, drama plans are subject to change over the year. Writers are advised in the first place to contact the Story Supervisor at Teddington Studios.

Sales and Marketing

Thames operates a full marketing and merchandising service and offers special rates for local advertisers, new products, holiday and travel advertisers etc. Research services include Television consumer audit, Thames area retail audit, product and campaign testing and attitude research. An auxiliary sales force of men or girls is available for selling-in, promotions and similar merchandising work, and Thames will also co-operate fully on promotional mailings, sales conferences and all other support activities. Thames Ansafone, the first and still the largest direct-response-by-phone system, is available at special rates to mail order, recruitment and all other direct response advertisers. Details are available in ‘The Uncommon Market’ or from the Sales Controller.

New Technology

Thames has undertaken development of process control techniques in the field of on-line signal switching and machine control. As an extension of this, it is seeking to apply the same control hardware to production resource allocation.

A further aspect of digital control technology being used is that of synchronisation between helical scan video recorders and audio recorders. This is being used for sound dubbing operations, with particular reference to the production of dialogue tracks separate from music and effects, the purpose being to provide foreign language dialogue versions of major productions.

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London (Weekdays)

Thames Television House, 306 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB Tel: 01-387 9494
Teddington Studios, Teddington Lock, Teddington, Middlesex Tel: 01-977 3252
Sales Office: Norfolk House, Smallbrook Ringway, Birmingham 5 Tel: 021-643 9151

Thames Television Limited is the company which, under agreement with the Independent Television Authority, provides the television programmes in London on weekdays from Monday to 7 pm Friday.

Directors

Lord Shawcross, PC, QC (Chairman); Howard Thomas, CBE (Managing Director); George A Cooper (Director of Sales); John T Davey, FCA; D R W Dicks; H S L Dundas, DSO, DFC; Bernard R Greenhead, OBE (Director of Studios and Engineering); Clive G D May, FCA (Director of Finance); Brian Tesler, MA (Director of Programmes); T H Tilling; Colin S Wills, MA, ACA (Director of Administration).

Executives

Ben E Marr, CA (Company Secretary); Jack Andrews (Controller, Programme Department); Ken E Fletcher (Controller, Overseas Sales); David Graham (Labour Relations Adviser); John Hambley (Publicity Manager); Jeremy Isaacs (Controller of Feature Programmes); Philip Jones (Controller of Light Entertainment); Alan Kaupe (Controller of Publicity); Max Lawson, FCA (Chief Accountant); Guthrie Moir, MA (Controller of Education & Religious Programmes); Terry W Pace (Controller, London Studios); Eric E Parry (Controller, Administration); Lewis Rudd (Controller of Children’s Programmes); J Stuart Sansom, AMIERE (Technical Controller); James F Shaw (Sales Controller); Lloyd Shirley (Controller of Drama); J A Muir Sutherland, MA (Programme Co-ordinator); Douglas Thornes (Research Manager); Grahame Turner (Controller of Outside Broadcasts); Edwin Whiteley (Head of Schools Broadcasting).

Staff

Total members of staff 1,350.

Visits to Studios

A limited number of tickets is available for audiences at certain shows. Applications, enclosing stamped addressed envelopes, should be made to the Ticket Office at Thames Television House, 306 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB. The minimum age is sixteen, except for some programmes specially for children.

Enquiries

Enquiries about artists and programmes should be addressed to Viewers’ Correspondence, Thames Television House, 306 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB.

Submission of Scripts

While Thames will always welcome the submission of proposals for plays and series, drama plans are subject to change over the year. Writers are advised in the first place to contact the Story Supervisor at Teddington Studios.

Sales and Marketing

Thames offers advertisers a complete marketing and merchandising service within the London television area. Facilities include research, the Thames Manpower auxiliary sales force, a 24-hour Ansafone service for direct response to commercials, and the twice-yearly Holiday Time feature for tour and travel advertisers. Full information is available from the Sales Controller.

Studios

LONDON: At Thames Television House, Thames’ central London headquarters, there are presentation and audience studios with VTR and telecine facilities, including the Today studio from which London’s daily live magazine programme is transmitted. The building also houses the company’s extensive Film Department and transmission control.

TEDDINGTON: Thames’ main studio production centre is on the Thames riverside at Teddington in Middlesex, ten miles from Thames Television House. There are three studios, of which the largest is 7,500 sq ft, equipped with full facilities, including scene building and rehearsal rooms. Technically they are among the world’s most advanced studios, and were the first to incorporate many of the features now being introduced into new ITV studios. All studios are fully operational in colour, and the entire output of the centre is produced on 625 lines. mobile division : The company’s outside broadcast units, mobile recording units, microwave link and other mobile units are based at Han worth, near Teddington. The equipment includes two four-colour camera units, a self-contained two-colour camera-plus-VTR unit, a mobile VTR unit and such auxiliaries as hydraulic tower vehicles.

Colour Television

Much of the original colour television development in Independent Television was carried out at Teddington, and all Thames’ facilities are converted to colour. With several years’ experience and the most up-to-date equipment, Thames produces a high standard of colour programmes.

Programmes

DRAMA: Armchair Theatre; Callan; Rumour; The Mind of Mr J G Reeder; Public Eye; Special Branch; Man at the Top; Shadows of Fear; The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes; CHILDREN’S: Magpie; Two D’s and a Dog; Wreckers at Dead Eye; Ace of Wands; The Sooty Show; Pinky and Perky; Smith; Zingalong; Once Upon a Time; Anita in Jumbleland; Sexton Blake; LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: This is Your Life; Max; For the Love of Ada; Father, Dear Father; Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width; Opportunity Knocks!; Mike and Bernie’s Scene; David Nixon’s Magic Box; Benny Hill Specials; Max Specials; Inside the Mind of Dave Allen (Special); Mike and Bernie Winters Special; FEATURES: This Week; Report; Today; The Day Before Yesterday. OUTSIDE BROADCASTS: Wrestling; Racing; Football; Specials, etc. SCHOOLS : Seeing and Doing; Finding Out; The World Around Us; Writer’s Workshop; Drama; Patterns of Expression; Living Now; Advent of Steam; French; ADULT EDUCATION: Living Writers; People to People; The Garden Indoors; Cooking Price-Wise. RELIGION: Last Programmes.

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Thames Television

Thames Television House, 306 Euston Road, London NW1 Telephone 01 -387 9494
Television House, Kingsway, London WC2 Telephone 01 -405 7888
Teddington Studios, Teddington Lock, Teddington,  Middlesex Telephone 01 -977 3252
Sales Office:
Norfolk House, Smallbrook, Ringway, Birmingham 5 Telephone 021-643 9151

Thames Television Limited is the company which, under agreement with the Independent Television Authority, provides the television programmes in London on weekdays from Monday to 7pm Friday for the six-year contract period from the end of July 1968

Directors

Lord Shawcross, PC, QC (Chairman); Howard Thomas, CBE (Managing Director); George A Cooper (Director of Sales); J T Davey, FCA; DRW Dicks; H S L Dundas, DSO, DFC ; Bernard R Greenhead, OBE (Director of Studios and Engineering); Clive May, FCA; Brian Tesler, MA (Director of Programmes); Humphrey Tilling; Colin S Wills, MA, FCA.

Executives

B E Marr, CA (Company Secretary); Jack Andrews (Controller, Programme Department); D J Conway (Regional Advertisement Manager); D Graham (Labour Relations Adviser); John Hambley (Publicity Manager); Jeremy Isaacs (Controller of Features and Children’s Programmes); Philip Jones (Controller of Light Entertainment); Alan Kaupe (Controller of Publicity); M Lawson, FCA (Chief Accountant); Guthrie Moir, MA (Controller of Educational and Religious Programmes); Terry Pace (Controller, London Studios); E E Parry (Controller, Teddington Studios); Lewis Rudd (Executive Producer, Children’s Programmes); J S Sansom, AMIERE (Chief Engineer); J F Shaw (Sales Controller); Lloyd Shirley (Controller of Drama); George Spackman (Chief Press Officer); Muir Sutherland, MA (Programme Co-ordinator); D Thornes (Research Manager); Grahame Turner (Controller of Outside Broadcasts); Edwin Whiteley (Head of Schools Broadcasting).

Staff

Total members of staff 1,465.

Visits to Studios

A limited number of tickets is available for audiences at certain shows. Applications, enclosing stamped addressed envelopes, should be made to the Ticket Office at Thames Television, Television House, Kingsway, London WC2. The minimum age is sixteen, except for some programmes specially for children.

Enquiries

Enquiries about artists and programmes should be addressed to Viewers’ Correspondence, Thames Television, Television House, Kingsway, London WC2.

Submission of Scripts

Present requirements are for 60 and 90 minute plays and series. But programmes change, and authors should contact story editors in the appropriate department to learn future trends before submitting outlines or scripts.

Studios

At Thames Television House, 306 Euston Road, London NW1, which is Thames’ Central London headquarters, there are presentation and audience studios including the Today studio from which London’s daily live programme is transmitted. Thames Film Department will also be at Thames Television House together with transmission control, VTR and telecine facilities.

Teddington: The main studio production centre is on the Thames riverside at Teddington in Middlesex, ten miles from Television House. There are three studios, of which the largest is 7,500 sq ft. together with full facilities, including scene building and rehearsal rooms. Technically they are among the world’s most advanced studios, and were the first to incorporate many of the features now being introduced into new ITV studios. Two studios are already fully operational in colour, and the entire output of the centre is produced on 625 lines.

Mobile Division: The Mobile Division based at Hanworth, near Teddington, consists of two £250,000 mobile colour control rooms, one large monochrome unit plus smaller camera and recording units, microwave links and auxiliary vehicles.

Colour Television

Important colour development for Independent Television was undertaken at Teddington studios, including extensive research into the three major television systems, design and testing of new colour equipment and investigation of colour conversion problems. The ITA’s official colour demonstrations in 1966, which helped pave the way to a national colour television service, came from Teddington. Thames is producing all programmes in colour and its staff are widely experienced in all facets of colour production.

Programmes

Drama: Mystery & Imagination; Armchair Theatre; Public Eye; The Mind of Mr J G Reeder; Special Branch; Playhouse. Children: Magpie; The Sooty Show; Pinky & Perky; Sexton Blake; Once Upon a Time; The Tingaree Affair; Professor Branestawm; The Paperbag Players; Do Not Adjust Your Set; Hattytown. Light Entertainment: Max; Opportunity Knocks!; Two In Clover; Benny Hill ‘Specials’; Cribbins; This Is Your Life; A Present for Dickie. Features: This Week; Report; Today. Outside Broadcasts: Wrestling; Racing; Football, etc. Schools: Finding Out ; Seeing and Doing; World Around Us; Song and Story. Adult Education: How About You?; Raj; Ballet For All. Religion: Last Programmes.

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LONDON (WEEKDAYS)
Thames Television Limited is the company which, under agreement with the Independent Television Authority, provides the television programmes in London on weekdays from Monday to 7 p.m. Friday for the six-year contract period from the end of July 1968.

Directors: Sir Philip Warter (Chairman); Robert Clark, M.A., LL.B. (Deputy Chairman); Howard Thomas, C.B.E. (Managing Director); George A. Cooper (Director of Sales); J. T. Davey, F.C.A.; D. R. W. Dicks; H. S. L. Dundas, D.S.O., D.F.C.; Bernard R. Greenhead (Director of Studios and Engineering); A. W. Groocock, O.B.E., F.C.I.S.; Brian Tesler, M A. (Director of Programmes).

Executives: B. E. Marr, C.A. (Company Secretary); J. Andrews (Controller Programme Department); D. Conway (Regional Advertisement Manager); H. Gibson (Manager, Administration Services); D. Graham (Labour Relations Adviser); Jeremy Isaacs (Controller of Features and Children’s Programmes); Philip Jones (Controller of Light Entertainment); Alan Kaupe (Publicity Manager); M. Lawson, F.C.A. (Chief Accountant); Guthrie Moir, M.A. (Controller of Education and Religious Programmes); T. Pace (Controller London Studios); E. E. Parry (Controller Teddington Studios); Lewis Rudd (Executive Producer Children’s Programmes); J. S. Sansom, A.M.I.E.R.E. (Chief Engineer); J. Shaw (Sales Controller); Lloyd Shirley (Controller of Drama); George Spackman (Chief Press Officer); Muir Sutherland (Programme Co-ordinator); D. Thornes (Research Manager); Grahame Turner (Controller of Outside Broadcasts); Edwin Whiteley (Head of Schools Broadcasts).

Staff: Total members of staff 1,600.

Television House, Kingsway, London WC2
01-405 7888
Teddington Studios, Teddington Lock, Teddington, Middlesex
01-977 3252
Sales Offices: Norfolk House, Smallbrook Ringway, Birmingham 5
021-643 9151
Peter House, Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5AG
061-236 9867

Visits to Studios: A limited number of tickets are available for audiences at certain shows. Applications, enclosing stamped addressed envelopes, should he made to the Ticket Office at Thames Television, Television House, Kingsway, London WC2. The minimum age is sixteen, except for some programmes specially for children.

Enquiries: Enquiries about artists and programmes should be addressed to Viewers’ Correspondence, Thames Television, Television House, Kingsway, London WC2.

Submission of Scripts: Present requirements are for 60 and 90 minute plays and series. But programmes change, and authors should contact story editors in the appropriate department to learn future trends before submitting outlines or scripts.

Studios: CENTRAL LONDON: At Television House, Thames’ Central London headquarters, there are presentation and audience studios including the Today studio from which London’s daily live programme is transmitted. Thames’ film department is also at Television House together with transmission control, VTR and telecine facilities. A new headquarters and colour television studio complex is being built a few hundred yards from the GPO Tower at Euston, and is expected to begin operations in 1969.

TEDDINGTON: The main studio production centre is on the Thames riverside at Teddington in Middlesex, ten miles from Television House. There are three studios, of which the largest is 7,500 square feet, together with full facilities, including scene building and rehearsal rooms. Technically they are among the world’s most advanced studios, and were the first to incorporate many of the features now being introduced into new ITV studios. They can change from 405 to 625-line operation at the flick of a switch.

Mobile Division: The Mobile Division based at Hanworth, near Teddington, consists of three £100,000 [£1.7 million today allowing for inflation] mobile control rooms plus smaller camera and recording units, micro-wave links and auxiliary vehicles. One small roving unit and one of the main control rooms are equipped for colour, and the other two main units are also being converted.

Colour Television: Important colour development for Independent Television was undertaken at Teddington studios, including extensive research into the three major television systems, design and testing of new colour equipment and investigation of colour conversion problems. The ITA’s official colour demonstrations in 1966, which helped pave the way to a national colour television service, came from Teddington. Thames is already producing colour programmes which are currently seen in black and white by British viewers, and its staff are widely experienced in all facets of colour production.

Programmes: DRAMA: Frontier; 90-minute plays; Premiere; The Sex Game; Mystery & Imagination; Alarm; Armchair Theatre; Callan; Public Eye.
CHILDREN: The Tyrant King; The Queen Street Gang; Magpie; The Sooty Show; Pinky & Perky; Sexton Blake; Hullabaloo; The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe; Once Upon A Time; Just Jimmy.
LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: Father, Dear Father; Best of Enemies; Horne A’Plenty; Opportunity Knocks; Max; The Goon Show; The Frankie Howerd Show; Bachelors Night Out; Cooper King Size; Never Mind the Quality, Feel The Width.
FEATURES: This Week; Report; Today with Eamonn Andrews; The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten; Applause! Applause!
ADULT EDUCATION: The Tools of Cookery; World of Crime; The ABC of Do It Yourself; First Steps in Physics; Rich World, Poor World; Best Sellers.
RELIGION: Carry On Curate; and other ‘Last Programmes’.

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