THAMES TELEVISION

LONDON WEEKDAYS

London: Thames Television House 306-316 Euston Road, London NW13BB
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 Sir Ian Trethowan (Chairman); Sir John Read (Deputy Chairman); Richard Dunn (Managing Director); Mrs Mary Baker; Timothy Gold Blyth; The Lord Brabourne; John T. Davey; Ronald Denny; Peter Hayman; Harold Mourgue; Colin S. Wills; Derek Hunt (Director of Finance); Ben E. Marr (Company Secretary and Director of Personnel); Jonathan Shier (Director of Sales and Marketing); David Elstein (Director of Programmes).

Executives Roy Addison (Press and Publicity Director); Ronald Allison (Director of Corporate Affairs); Fred Atkinson (Director of Production); Derek Baker (Assistant Company Secretary); Bob Burrows (Controller, Sport and OBs); Paul Cheffins, MBE (Controller, Sales Administration); James Corsan (Controller, Programme Administration); Dave Cottrell (Technical Controller Euston); Mike Coxill (Technical Controller; John Howard Davies (Controller of Light Entertainment from March 1988); Patrick Downing (Controller, Visual Services); Catherine Freeman (Controller, Features); James Gilbert (Head of Comedy Programmes); William Goddard (Head of Presentation); Mike Harvey (Controller, Press and Publicity); Alan Horrox (Controller, Children’s and Education Dept); Ian Howard (Controller of Contracts); Philip Jones, OBE (Controller of Light Entertainment until March 1988); Peter Kew (Head of Central Planning); Bob Louis (Assistant Controller, Light Entertainment); Geoffrey Lugg (Head of Programme Liaison); David Mansfield (Controller, Marketing); Jim MacDonald (Controller, Technical Operations); Ian Martin (Head of Documentaries); Ewart Needham (Head of Film), Anthony Parkinson (Controller, Administration); Tim Riordan (Controller, Programme Planning and Presentation); Barrie Sales (Controller, News, Current Affairs and Documentaries); Brian Scott (Chief Engineer); Lloyd Shirley (Controller of Drama); Mark Stephens (Director of Staff Relations); Douglas Thornes (Controller, Research and Marketing Services); Brian Walcroft (Assistant Controller, Drama); John White Jones (Production Director, Teddington);

Thames Television International Richard Dunn (Chairman); Mike Phillips (Managing Director); Derek Hunt; Philip Jones, OBE; Ben E. Marr, Roger Miron (Sales Controller).

Cosgrove Hall Productions Albany House, 5 Albany Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 1BL. Richard Dunn (Chairman); Brian Cosgrove (Executive Director); John Hambley (Chief Executive); Mark Hall (Executive Director); Ben E. Marr; Mike Robinson (General Manager).

Euston Films Ltd 365 Euston Road, London NW1 3AR. Richard Dunn (Chairman); John Hambley (Chief Executive); Lord Brabourne; Derek Hunt; Mike Phillips; Lloyd Shirley; Colin Wills.

Programmes From Monday to Friday each week, Thames Television transmits to more than 10 million people in and around the London area.

Since 1968 Thames has produced thousands upon thousands of hours of programming for its viewers in London, as well as for millions of others around the ITV network, and its substantial audiences throughout the world.

Thames contributes to every programme category offered by ITV. From its studios on the Euston Road in Central London, and on the River Thames at Teddington, Middlesex, ITV’s largest company produces major drama, entertainment documentary, news and current affairs programmes. It also contributes a substantial amount of religious, children’s and educational programmes. With its large outside broadcast units, Thames also masterminds much of ITV’s coverage of sport as well as special events, such as Royal Weddings and Fanfare for Elizabeth which celebrated the Queen’s 60th birthday.

Two subsidiary companies – Euston Films making filmed drama and Manchester-based Cosgrove Hall making model and drawn animation – complete Thames’ programme team. A third subsidiary, Thames Television International, sells Thames’ programmes around the world.

Earlier this year, Thames was saluted in New York by the American television industry, to mark the quality and range of its programmes. But the company’s main commitment remains – as it has done for 18 years – to its programmes and its viewers at home.

DRAMA: Minder, The Bill; The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾; The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole; Rumpole of the Bailey; Paradise Postponed; King and Castle; The London Embassy; Gems.

CHILDRENS: Sooty; Button Moon; Wind in the Willows; Cockleshell Bay; The Gemini Factor; The Finding; Rainbow; Splash.

EDUCATION: A Woman’s World; Catherine; Brief Lives.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: Thames News; Reporting London; This Week; The City Programme.

SPORTS AND OUTSIDE BROADCASTS: London Sports Personality of the Year; ice skating; gymnastics; Midweek Sport Special; football; snooker; darts; boxing; athletics; Cockney Classics, Sports World Extra.

SPECIALS: Miss UK; Miss England; Miss World; Royal Film Premières; Wish You Were Here…?; Standard Drama Awards.

LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: Eric Sykes; Benny Hill; Mike Yarwood; Des O’Connor; Jim Davidson; Michael Barrymore; TVTimes Top 10 Awards; This Is Your Life; Give Us A Clue; Strike It Lucky; Looks Familiar; Name That Tune; Whose Baby?; What’s My Line?

SITUATION COMEDIES: Andy Capp; Never The Twain; All In Good Faith; Slinger’s Day; Executive Stress; All at No: 20; Ffizz; Home James; After Henry; Fresh Fields; Full House.

DOCUMENTARIES: Attack On The Liberty; Earth; Murder At The Farm; Witness: On The Margin; The Grand Tour, Another Side of London; Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow; Smith’s Dock; Luddites; Korea; The Theatre of Rex Harrison.

MUSIC: A Source of Innocent Merriment; The Mikado; Jessye Norman’s Christmas Symphony.

FEATURES: Daytime; Help!; Centrebreak; In the Same Boat; Understanding Families; Compulsion; Kids Work Out; Beginners Please!; Single In London.

CHANNEL 4: Mavis on 4, 4 What It’s Worth; Take Six Cooks; Citizen 2000; Alternatives to Prison.

RELIGION: The Jews In London; Friday Morning; Two Cathedrals.

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LONDON WEEKDAYS

THAMES TELEVISION

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); Richard Dunn (Managing Director); Mrs Mary Baker; The Lord Brabourne; John T Davey; Ronald Denny; Peter Hayman; Harold Mourgue; Sir Ian Trethowan; Colin S Wills; Derek Hunt (Director of Finance); Ben E. Marr (Company Secretary and Director of Personnel; Jonathan Shier (Director of Sales and Marketing); David Elstein (Director of Programmes)

Executives. Roy Addison (Press and Publicity Director); Ronald Allison (Director of Corporate Affairs); Fred Atkinson (Director of Production); Derek Baker (Assistant Company Secretary); Bob Burrows (Controller, Sport and OBs); Paul Cheffins, MBE (Controller, Sales Administration); James Corsan (Controller, Programme Administration); Dave Cottrell (Technical Controller, Euston). Mike Coxill (Technical Controller); Patrick Downing (Controller, Visual Services); Catherine Freeman (Controller, Features); James Gilbert (Head of Comedy Programmes); William Goddard (Head of Presentation); Johnny Goodman (Executive Director of Production, Euston Films); Mike Harvey (Controller Press and Publicity); Allan Horrox (Controller, Children’s and Education Dept); Ian Howard (Controller of Contracts); Philip Jones, OBE (Controller of Light Entertainment); Peter Kew (Head of Central Planning); Max Lawson (Assistant Director of Finance); Bob Louis (Assistant Controller, Light Entertainment); Geoffrey Lugg (Head of Programme Liaison); David Mansfield (Controller, Marketing). Jim MacDonald (Controller, Technical Operations); Ian Martin (Head of Documentaries); Ewart Needham (Head of Film); Anthony Parkinson (Controller, Administration); Tim Riordan (Controller, Programme Planning and Presentation); Barrie Sales (Controller, News, Current Affairs and Documentaries); Brian Scott (Chief Engineer); Lloyd Shirley (Controller of Drama); Mark Stephens (Labour Relations Adviser); Douglas Thornes (Controller, Sales Research and Development); Brian Walcroft (Assistant Controller, Drama); John White (Production Development Executive); John White Jones (Production Director, Teddington).

Thames Television International. Richard Dunn (Chairman); Mike Phillips (Managing Director); Derek Hunt; Philip Jones, OBE; Ben E Marr; Roger Miron (Sales Controller)

Cosgrove Hall Productions. Richard Dunn (Chairman); Brian Cosgrove (Executive Director); John Hambley (Chief Executive); Mark Hall (Executive Director); Ben E Marr; Mike Robinson (General Manager)

Euston Films Ltd. 365 Euston Road, London NW1 3AR. Richard Dunn (Chairman); lohn Hambley (Chief Executive); Johnny Goodman (Executive Director of Production); Lord Brabourne; Derek Hunt; Mike Phillips; Lloyd Shirley; Colin Wills

Programmes. From Monday to Friday each week, Thames Television transmits to more than 10 million people in and around the London area.

Since 1968 Thames has produced thousands upon thousands of hours of programming for its viewers in London, as well as for millions of others around the ITV network, and its substantial audiences throughout the world.

Thames contributes to every programme category offered by ITV. From its studios on the Euston Road in Central London, and on the River Thames at Teddington, Middlesex, ITV’s largest company produces major drama, entertainment, documentary, news and current affairs programmes. It also contributes a substantial amount of religious, children’s and educational programmes. With its large outside broadcast units, Thames also masterminds much of ITV s coverage of sport as well as special events, such as the Royal Wedding and Fanfare for Elizabeth, which celebrated the Queen’s 60th Birthday

Two subsidiary companies – Euston Films making filmed drama, and Manchester-based Cosgrove Hall making model and drawn animation – complete Thames’ programme team. A third subsidiary, Thames Television International, sells Thames programmes around the world.

Earlier this year, Thames was able to persuade investors of its values, with a highly successful stock market flotation which broadened its shareholding to include many of the viewers in its London area.

But the company’s main commitment remains – as it has done for 18 years – to its programmes and its viewers.
DRAMA: Minder; The Bill; The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾; The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole; Rumpole of the Bailey; Paradise Postponed; King & Castle; Lytton’s Diary; The Fourth Floor. CHILDREN’S: T-Bag Strides Again; Flicks; Rainbow; Sooty; Button Moon; The Creepy Crawlies; Dangermouse; Wind in the Willows; Alias The Jester; Splash; Chocky’s Challenge; C.A.B. LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: Give Us A Clue; Jim Davidson; This Is Your Life; The Benny Hill Show; Looks Familiar; The TVTimes Top Ten Awards; Never The Twain; Mike Yarwood; Whose Baby?; Carry On Laughing; Chance In A Million; Mann’s Best Friend; Whats My Line?; The Kit Curran Show; Fresh Fields; Freddie Starr Special; All In Good Faith; Slinger’s Day; Executive Stress; We’ll Think Of Something; Full House; All At No 20; Pass The Buck; Julia & Company. CURRENT AFFAIRS Thames News; Reporting London; This Week. SPORTS AND OUTSIDE BROADCASTS: Ice Skating; Gymnastics; Midweek & Bank Holiday Sport Special; Football; Racing; Snooker; Darts; Boxing; Athletics. SPECIALS Miss UK; Miss England; Royal Film Premières; Wish You Were Here…?; Miss World; The Royal Wedding; Fanfare For Elizabeth; Standard Drama Awards. DOCUMENTARIES, FEATURES, EDUCATION: A People’s War; Broken Hearts; No One Speaks for the Dead; The Big Bang; British Cinema; Personal View; The Queen and the Commonwealth; To Us A Child; Buster Keaton; Daytime; A Plus 4; Cooking for Celebrations; Massage; The English House; Understanding Adolescents; Burning the Phoenix; Spin-offs; Help!; Someone To Talk To; How to Survive The 9 to 5; 4 What It‘s Worth. RELIGION: Night Thoughts; The Road to Damascus; Healing Power.

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THAMES TELEVISION

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), Richard Dunn (Managing Director). Mrs Mary Baker; The Lord Brabourne; John T. Davey; Jonathan Shier (Director of Sales and Marketing); A. Sibley; Muir Sutherland (Director of Programmes); Colin S. Wills; Ben E. Marr (Company Secretary & Director of Personnel): Derek Hunt (Director of Finance); Ronald Denny; Gary Dartnall.

Executives. Fred Atkinson (Production Director). 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 & Deputy to the Director of Programmes); Lloyd Shirley (Director of Drama). Roy Addison (Chief Press & Public Relations Officer); Ronald Allison (Controller, Sports & Outside Broadcasts): James Corsan (Controller, Programme Administration); Dave Cottrell (Technical Controller, Euston): 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 Productions, Euston Films), Mike Harvey (Controller, Publicity); Ian Howard (Controller of Contracts); 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); David Mansfield (Controller, Marketing); Ian Martin (Controller, Educational Programmes): Jim McDonald (Controller, Technical Operations, Teddington); Marjorie Sigley (Controller of Children’s Programmes); Ewart Needham (Head of Film); Mark Stevens (Labour Relations Adviser); A. C. Parkinson (Controller, Administration); Tim Riordan (Controller, Programme Planning and Presentation); Brian G. Scott (Chief Engineer); Ken Smallwood (Controller of Personnel); Douglas Thornes (Controller, Sales Research and Development); Brian Walcroft (Assistant Controller, Drama).

Thames International (for programme sales). Richard Dunn (Chairman); Muir Sutherland (Deputy Chairman); Mike Phillips (Managing Director); Roger Miron (Sales Controller). Ben E. Marr; Philip Jones, OBE; Derek Hunt.

Cosgrove Hall Productions. Albany House. 2 Albany Road. MANCHESTER M21 1BL. Richard Dunn (Chairman); Brian Cosgrove (Executive Director); Mark Hall (Executive Director), John Hambley (Chief Executive); Max Lawson (Director).

Programmes. Thames Television’s area covers more than 10 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 and Channel 4 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 nearly 130 of the 134 countries that have television transmitters.

In the 17 years since Thames took up its contract, its programmes have won over 170 national and international awards, including the Prix Italia five times, eight Emmys. and the Montreux Comedy Prize three times. Technological advances in cable TV, satellite and video mean that there are growing new markets for Thames’ programmes and the company continues to develop its interest 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 like Minder, on location. Just outside Manchester is Cosgrove Hall Productions, Thames’ animation subsidiary for such series as Dangermouse and The Wind in the Willows.

All Thames’ international success is achieved with programmes made here in Britain – specifically with the aim of pleasing British viewers.

DOCUMENTARIES, FEATURES AND ARTS: Letters From a Bomber Pilot; Hooligan; Good Enough to Eat; Passing Clouds; British Cinema; The Queen And The Commonwealth; Citizen 2000; Quoth The Raven; The Childhood Of Christ; For Valour; Daytime; A Plus 4; Take Six More Looks; Hair; The People’s War.
ADULT EDUCATION: 4 What It’s Worth; Help!; Database; 4 Computer Buffs; The English House; Jobs Limited; How To Survive At Work; Adultery; Streets Of London.
RELIGION: Night Thoughts; Belief In Action.
LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: Give Us A Clue; Jim Davidson; This Is Your Life; The Benny Hill Show; Name That Tune; The Des O’Connor Show; Looks Familiar; The TVTimes Top Ten Awards; Never The Twain; Keep lt In The Family; Mike Yarwood; Whose Baby?; Carry On Laughing; Chance In A Million; Tripper’s Day; Mann’s Best Friend; What’s My Line?; The Kit Curran Radio Show; Fresh Fields; Freddie Star Special; All In Good Faith;
CHILDREN’S: T-Bag Strikes Again; Flicks; Rainbow; Sooty; Button Moon; The Creepy Crawlies; Dangermouse; Wind In the Willows; Alias The Jester; Splash; and The Wall Game.
DRAMA: Minder; The Bill; The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾; A Better Class Of Person; Monsignor Quixote; Storyboard; Lytton’s Diary; London Embassy; The Set Up; Prospects; Minder On The Orient Express; Mr Palfrey Of Westminster.
CURRENT AFFAIRS: TV Eye; Thames News; Reporting London; Talking Personally.
SPORTS AND OUTSIDE BROADCASTS: Ice Skating; Golf; Speedway; Ice Hockey; Midweek & Bank Holiday Sport Special; Thames Sport; Football; Racing; Snooker; Darts; Swimming; Boxing.
SPECIALS: Miss UK; Miss England; Miss Scotland; Miss Wales; Royal Film Premières; Wish You Were Here…?; Miss World; Stunt Challenge.

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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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Fifteen are responsible for providing programmes in particular regions. The sixteenth, Independent Television News (ITN), supplies news programmes for viewers in all the regions.

Because the ITV network operates federally the companies benefit from national unity while retaining a substantial measure of regional autonomy. The companies agree to show some programmes simultaneously across the network, and these provide the basis of ITV programme schedules. But the system still leaves plenty of room for each company to serve its region’s individual needs through local programmes made expressly for local audiences.

Like all ITV companies, Thames operates under the eye of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, set up by Parliament to administer independent television and radio. The IBA owns and operates all the ITV transmitters, and is responsible for the overall standard of programmes, as well as the acceptability of the advertisements that accompany them.

The IBA is also responsible for the recently established Channel 4, which operates as a television service quite separately from ITV and commissions its programmes from a wide range of sources, including Thames. However, its programme policy is entirely its own. Like all other ITV companies, Thames is responsible for Channel 4 airtime sales in its own area, and pays a subscription towards the Channel’s programme costs and upkeep.

Another new service that the IBA will oversee is breakfast television, which will bring regular early morning programmes to ITV viewers. The contract to provide the service was awarded to the TV AM company and transmissions are expected to begin during 1983.

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Thames has developed a computerised airtime booking system, Enterprise, that places the Thames Sales Department at the forefront of the industry, and has led other ITV Companies to follow suit. By cutting out the massive amount of paperwork that used to complicate airtime selling, the computer gives Thames sales executives instant access to the detailed information they need to service their advertising clients. A recent development called Adnet enables advertising agencies and their clients with computer terminals to benefit from direct access to much of the information contained in the Enterprise database, eliminating time consuming telephone calls and personal contact.

In addition to the services available for mainstream advertisers, a special unit, the Thames Task Force, helps smaller businesses to use television as an advertising medium in the London area.

Thames has also been instrumental in bringing direct response advertising to the television screen, so that viewers can make immediate mail order purchases of goods advertised in commercials.

Since its inception in 1955, ITV has been a commercial broadcasting system, regulated by the IBA. For example, the law limits television advertising to an average of six minutes an hour, and the IBA defines and enforces advertising standards.

All television commercials presented for transmission on Thames are checked by Thames and the Independent Television Companies Association (ITCA), to ensure they comply with the rules laid down by the IBA. There are very strict rules, for example, governing the promotion of goods and services in the medical, legal and financial fields. There are many safeguards against misleading advertising of any kind, and children, especially, are protected against undue or adverse influence by commercials.

A leaflet giving advice on how and where to make comments or complaints about any broadcast material can be obtained from Thames Television, Broadcasting Complaints, 306-316 Euston Road, London NW1 3BB.

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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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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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Here is Thames, a vigorous young company, producing programmes which continue to win worldwide acclaim, able to carry proudly back to Britain for a second year the most coveted award in the whole of international broadcasting. Here is Thames earning £3m annually in foreign currency for Britain, by exporting its programmes to more than a hundred countries overseas. Yet simultaneously and paradoxically here is Thames, in common with the rest of Independent Television and the BBC, under yet another scrutiny and with yet more uncertainty about its future. It is a situation which puzzles our broadcasting colleagues throughout the world. When I go to countries like Australia, where British programmes are regarded as the excellence to which their own productions must aspire, the idea of these continuing enquiries into television is regarded as a British eccentricity. Unfortunately, it is not so amusing for the people who work in broadcasting.

What is especially difficult for us in ITV is the double standard which is so often applied by those who write about, talk about, or take part in committees about us. For our part we are prepared to admit frankly that when ITV began 22 years ago, commercial necessity produced a service that was engrossed with ratings and seeking to maintain its existence. But that was very long ago. ITV has now achieved a public service of high quality, rivalling anything that broadcasting can offer in Britain or elsewhere in the world – and limited only by expansion into an additional channel. It is no accident that ITV companies have become increasingly attractive to some of the finest talents in the BBC: men and women who would not join an inferior service however rich the rewards.

Nevertheless there are still people reluctant to acknowledge how ITV has developed, from its beginnings as the brash newcomer of 1956. The BBC, for example, still refers to its monopoly of public service broadcasting’. A respected critic, writing in the Sunday Times, suggested that a BBC play about welfare state bureaucracy ‘would have had no chance’ of being screened ‘on the commercial networks’. There remains a kind of snobbism behind such blinkered attitudes.

THE ANNAN COMMITTEE mostly managed to avoid this trap, but then made some surprising conclusions. Having recognised that ITV now offers programmes quite as good as, and in some cases superior to, the BBC; having acknowledged that ‘it is difficult to make comparisons when the BBC has two channels’ and that ‘ITV output cannot be expected to have the range which BBC can provide on two channels’; and having argued for the inauguration of a fourth channel as ‘a challenge to broadcasters’ and ‘a nursery for new forms and new methods of presenting ideas’ the Committee then promptly rejected the proposal that it should be run by the ITV companies. They claimed there would then be a risk of giving the public more of what they already had, and intensified competition between ITV and BBC.

This is out of touch with reality. The best way to make a fourth channel thrive, in a world where the viewer increasingly expects free choice of what he watches, is to dovetail it with ITV’s current service. A fourth channel having to compete against BBC’s two and ITV’s one would be fighting a losing battle, which all the taxpayer subsidy in the world could not win. The result would be an elitist service for a tiny minority of viewers, subsidised at enormous public cost. Yet one of the main areas in which ITV producers can fairly claim to have established unequalled experience and success is in popularising minority subjects. That experience, coupled with complementary – not competitive – scheduling between ITVl and ITV2, is the key to providing a new and exciting service on the fourth channel.

AS TO THE ASSERTION that ITV2 would provide ‘more of the same’, there are scores of ITV programme makers who are clamouring for the chance to prove this judgement of Annan wrong, once the straitjacket of a single channel has been removed. But if we were to assume that the staff and managements of ITV companies would want to produce on ITV2 a service identical to ITV1, the machinery of the Independent Broadcasting Authority is there to prevent such a duplication. We at Thames (and most of our colleagues in ITV) would expect to provide an ITV2 service which is obliged by statute and by IBA control to fulfil requirements not yet met by ITV or BBC. One of those, for which we put forward the original proposals in 1971, is the acquisition of programmes from independent producers for showing at peak time. We would welcome these additional freelances, though I suspect that they are neither so numerous nor so devoid of opportunity as the critics of BBC and ITV suggest. The fact remains, however, that the ITV companies are already equipped to provide a service which will meet the philosophical demands of the Annan Committee and also win a sizeable audience. Alternatives to ITV2 can do the first, but not the second.

The Annan Committee reported almost a year ago. As I write, the Home Office is about to produce the results of its deliberations on that report. So once again broadcasters have halted to await their future. We wait also to hear when and how the new IBA contracts are to be advertised and awarded. At Thames we await with confidence the confirmation that our record will ensure the continuation of our contract in the future. But we wait. And while we wait, we have to go on working.

Elsewhere in this Review you can see what ‘going on working’ means. In 1977 it meant producing 300 hours of programmes for our region and a further 700 for the ITV network. It meant raising a bountiful revenue from our advertisers, establishing new records. It meant selling more programmes overseas than any ITV company has ever done before.

Those achievements are made possible by what I believe to be the most professional staff in British television. But those bare facts could imply that Thames in 1977 was identical in all respects to Thames in 1976, ploughing the same familiar furrow. Far from it.

IN 1977 we introduced Thames At 6 – a daily regional programme which replaced the former Today and brought Andrew Gardner from ITN to be its chief presenter. Already the new programme has been praised for its impact, and this is only the first stage of impressive developments in television journalism covering local news and current affairs.

In 1977 we introduced Time For Business, a weekly 45-minute programme for the London region, not only a forum for the world of business, manufacturing and the city, but emphasising to the general public the importance of business and its contribution to their life style. Presented by the unique popularising talent of Eamonn Andrews, the programme is ITV’s first in the field. It arose directly from the consultation between business and union leaders and ITV companies, promoted by the Independent Broadcasting Authority.

In 1977 our outstandingly successful Light Entertainment Department produced another string of entirely new hits. There were the situation comedies The Upchat Line and Miss Jones & Son; the sparkling variety shows Night Out At The London Casino; and a range of superbly spectacular productions, including the highly acclaimed Tommy Steele And A Show, now chosen to represent ITV at this year’s Golden Rose of Montreux.

In 1977, the year in which the Annan Committee put into ITV’s mouth the words ‘If the public prefers series, why produce one-off dramas?’, Thames’ Drama Department in fact transmitted in peak time two seven-part series and fourteen ‘one-off dramas’, or plays.

DETAILS OF THESE and other innovations are in the Managing Director’s accompanying report of the year’s programmes, together with information about other imaginative projects. But it is not only in our programmes that new developments are to be found.

In 1977 our Technical and Engineering Department, in addition to its many other technological developments, launched a new Outside Broadcast unit of its own design, which packs into a single vehicle the resources of a vast studio.

In 1977 our Sales Department launched Enterprise, its own entirely new computerised airtime sales system, which provides a faster, more comprehensive service to advertisers and also increases the efficiency of our internal operation.

In 1977, with London Looks Forward, Thames created and financed an unprecedented investigation and debate about London’s future, on which the Duke of Edinburgh commented: ‘This is the first time a television company has become so deeply involved in the organisation of a project of such great public interest. It must also be the first time that a television company has managed to establish what might be described as two-way communication with the public.’

Those are considerable achievements, but it is inevitable that hundreds of other successes go unrecorded in a formal Chairman’s statement. The award of the OBE to our brilliant Controller of Light Entertainment Philip Jones and other honours to our staff – and the programme awards, both to complete production teams and to individuals like cameraman Nick Downie (Royal Television Society News Feature Award) and designers Alex Clarke and Rod Stratfold (RTS Design Award for Rock Follies) bring pleasure and pride to all of us. In the same way, the achievements of week-by-week programmes like Help!, Money-Go-Round and Magpie (which has now raised more than half a million pounds for children’s charities), go largely unsung although they remain a crucial part of our service to the public, especially to the underprivileged. These are not the routine achievements of some shapeless thing called a company, but the creation of dedicated, imaginative people; for people are the main ingredient of a television programme company.

DURING THE YEAR we have made several changes in our structure and management, building a younger team to move Thames forward. This energetic group is now led by Mr Bryan Cowgill, the outstanding BBC programme maker and channel controller, who joined us as Managing Director in October. He took over from Mr George A. Cooper who had reached his retirement age after contributing so much to ITV as well as to our company. The first Sales Director both for ABC Television and for Thames Television, Mr Cooper succeeded me as Managing Director in 1974. His knowledge and advice continue to be available to us on a consultancy basis.

AFTER TEN SUCCESSFUL YEARS, changes in the Board were inevitable. One of our earliest directors, Mr Humphrey Tilling, formerly Company Secretary of EMI Limited, and a member of its Board, also came to retirement age. The wise and polished contributions of Mr Tilling will he missed at our Board meetings, but we shall continue to enjoy hearing his scintillating after-dinner speeches at our social events. In his place, we are fortunate to have another EMI director, Mr John M. Kuipers, particularly because of Mr Kuipers experience of electronics and his recent supervision of EMI’s interests in Australia and the Far East. Retirement age was also the reason for the resignation of one of our two independent directors, Lord Wolfenden, and we were sorry to lose his guidance on educational programmes, dating back to his pioneer work on the Schools Advisory Committee in 1957, when Rediffusion Television introduced the first television programmes for schools. Succeeding him as another non-executive independent director we are fortunate to have the services and experience of the distinguished film and television producer, Lord Brabourne.

The collaboration between Bryan Cowgill and our Director of Programmes, Jeremy Isaacs, is already producing new ideas, new programmes and new ways of extending our public service. At the time of Mr Cowgill’s appointment, the Board also made other changes to the senior management. Ian Scott became Director of Administration and Finance, with Jim Shaw continuing as Director of Sales and Marketing. A new senior management team was formed to work alongside the four executive Board members: Muir Sutherland, Managing Director of Thames Television International; Bob Godfrey, technical and Engineering Director; John Hambley, Planning and Development Director; and John O’Keefe, Industrial Relations Director, with Ben Marr continuing as Company Secretary.

All the promotions involved in these moves, and those immediately resulting from them, are internal appointments from among our existing management. At the same time, we have begun to make structural changes to our departmental system where we think them necessary. Current Affairs and Documentaries have now been split, for example, into two different departments under Mike Wooller and Peter Pagnamenta. Further changes will follow, including the establishment of the ambitious Regional News Unit about which the Managing Director writes elsewhere.

NEW POLICIES ARE EMERGING at Thames, for example, in relation to sport and to filmed programmes. When Rediffusion Television, the pioneer London weekday contractor, was merged by the Authority with ABC Television, the weekend contractor for the North and Midlands, then dominating the Saturday/Sunday afternoon audiences, LWT took over ABC’s World of Sport with outstanding success; but no longer can ITV sport be concentrated into the weekend. With such international sports specialists as Bryan Cowgill, Managing Director of Thames, and Paul Fox, Managing Director of Yorkshire, recruited into the Independent Network, there should now be vigorous competition with the BBC on weekday sports coverage and commentaries.

In terms of filmed programmes, and with all the studios of Thames Television now overflowing with both live and videotaped programmes, this company must turn increasingly to the medium of film to augment its programme output. The international success of Sweeney!, in the cinema as well as on television, has proved that British drama series of the highest quality can be filmed entirely on location, and therefore Thames’ subsidiary film company, Euston Films, will extend its production.

Benefiting by all the expertise which has been gained by this company over its busy seven years, Thames Television will now take the further step of making a series of full-length feature films for television. It is hoped to revive and refurbish the reputation of British feature films at their very best, except that these films will not be produced for the cinema, hut for today’s greater audience television.

To the makers of our past and future programmes, and to every member of the staff of Thames Television, I express thanks for a highly successful year, and look forward to another period of exciting progress.

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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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