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Hopefully this thread can keep running as a general resource for people wanting to know the details of library music from classic TV shows. I'm currently trying to track down the theme from the 1968/9 Australian series Woobinda, Animal Doctor. It has a very Syd Dale sound about it, and would love t...

Charlie Endell (as played by Iain Cuthbertson) from 'Budgie' appeared in his own spinoff 'Charles Endell Esquire'. Elisabeth Sladen played Sarah Jane Smith in 'Dr Who' then 'K9 and Company' and then 'The Sarah Jane Adventures'. And then there are characters who skip between Casualty and Holby City....

Came from Scotland ( perhaps the Beeb can't afford Television Centre now!) The only free studio there is in use on Thursday nights for Graham Norton. Though I'd have thought if they had have done it there they wouldn't have been able to do the self driving car and the jet pack demonstrations, at le...

Well, since nobody else has said it, let me say that this is a brilliant piece of work. Highly readable, compelling contect, absolutely brilliant graphic and visual design, and adverts confined to back covers so no interruptions. (Probably not intended that way of course...) It's one of the most enj...

The ATV Yearbook 1974-75 tells us a little more - AN UNFORTUNATE victim of the economic depression has been our sister magazine tvlife . Publication of this highly popular monthly has had to be suspended beacuse of ever-mounting costs of production combined with a shortfall of advertising. "Highly ...

I recall being very smitten by Elizabeth Fraser when I was around six years old. And justifiably because she was a wonderful actor with a brilliant sense of comedy timing. And she was very attractive as well. I am greatly saddened by her death.

"Late Call" persisted for a very long time and was modestly popular because it wasn't scheduled at closedown but usually before the late movie and therefore provided a useful break to make the tea and late night snack!! Of course seven "Late Calls" equalled 35 minutes of local content and that was u...

ian b wrote:Apart from Rosalyn's post of the 12th July you mean? And the couple of comments from others that ensued...

I was away that day.... ;)

Just noticed that nobody has mentioned Marty Hopkirk!!!

It has the potential to be a brilliant magazine. Great team, great ideas. Fingers crossed!

I've released a few compilations of Library music on CD over the years on the Recur label and more recently as downloads/Spotify on the Lounge Music label; and my friend Steven Wills has compiled a plethora of excellent releases in aid of both Winchester Hospital Radio and more recently Chichester H...

oh, and as for using VT for the Teddington stuff - possibly the original reason was the (at the time) absence of BT circuits from Teddington into the rest of the ITV Network. Apologies if I'm being dim, but what's the significance of that? Does it mean that from Teddington ABC could transmit only t...

Much earlier, Towers was one of the first indie radio producers, making a variety of series for syndication to stations mostly in the British Empire, some sponsored by the Daily Mail. What happened to him .... well, I've often thought of cobbling together a book about the man, because Wikipedia says...

Thanks for the heads up - I'd overlooked that. Will be tuned in on Friday.

As you're all intent on showing off that you can use the f-word in postings, can I point out that mostly Mrs Brown uses the Irish word 'feck' which comes from the Scots and late Middle English word effeck (from which come the words efficacy, effect). The word has no sexual connotations and is in gen...

In Episode 1, Part 1 of TAKE THE HIGH ROAD, Dougal's wife was killed off, giving the actress who played her - an old school friend of mine, as it happens, - one of the shortest soap careers in television history!

Martha Longhurst being found dead in her seat in The snug of The Rovers Return in 1964 in the first soap characters death I can remember. Was this the first example of a soap character being killed off on British TV? It was certainly Coronation Street's first. ...and IIRC the first example of rolli...

Yes - P.C. Bob Penny in "Dixon of Dock Green" was spectacularly killed off, in - IIRC - 1959. So memorable that I didn't need to look it up - I remember it.

The original reason for having cue dots was that - especially on live programmes - the contractor's control rooms required sufficient warning of an imminent commercial break to stand-by and then roll the telecine machine that played out the commercials. Som a one-minute standby and then the dot woul...

If a print magazine wants engaging features written by professionals, it ought to be prepared to pay the going rate. That's not a going rate, it's either a sick joke or an insult to journalists. Avoid this magazine like the plague.

Why does the picture show a bog standard UK mobile phone mast? The Luxembourg masts looked nothing at all like that.

I recollect an episode of "The Lucy Show" in which Lucy and Vivian (Vance) somehow got themselves into the audience of the fictional US pop show "Ringding"

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Well, so do I. She was a dear friend and I and others did everything we possibly could to help her. Although there were undoubtedly some issues surrounding the young age she started in showbiz that didn't help, she suffered from anorexia and might possibly have suffered even if she had remained unkn...

No, it was none of these. Certainly neither test card nor schools countdown.
Radio theme IIRC

Hancock's Half Hour started on BBC radio (both Home Service and Light Programme) and for some time was also on BBC Television (but radio episodes continued to be made). Then the 'Half Hour' was dropped and Hancock moved to ITV.

ATV transmitted on ch12H from Membury. The area was served by Southern Tv from Hannngton on UHF. On VHF in South Wales viewers had the option of either Welsh or English programmes of the BBC and HTV, the latter giving a general service of English language Wales and West programmes. Only the Welsh s...

A lot of people mistake Avengers as ITC. Interestingly, the later US distributor was American International Pictures' TV arm AIP-TV, who also distributed another non-ITC UK film series, StarMaidens. Star Maidens was one of television's great oddballs - it was made by Portman Productions, but there ...

Bill was a chum of many years' standing. For a lengthy period we attended the Edinburgh Television festival together and always arranged to meet in the bar of the George Hotel as early as was decently possible for our first champagne of the weekend. Indeed one year I seem to recall for four days we ...

Didn't think they had that power. (Could be another bit of mythology that's escaped onto the internet of course.) The IBA was the broadcaster legally, and all schedules at all times had to have IBA approval. The IBA had the absolute right to ban a programme, or demand it be transmitted in a differe...