BBC Tech Ops Website Index

This is a straightforward Index to the posts and pages which make up the BBC Tech Ops website.

Where suitable and appropriate, the Index includes a number of groupings (as well as the individually indexed items).

There are two groupings “Conversations” and “Topics” which are POSTS, and each contain summaries of a number of pages which can be opened directly from them.

As each new post is added to WordPress, earlier posts are removed from the Recent Posts Sidebar and so it becomes difficult to see what has been written in the past.
“Conversations” collected the many and varied issues discussed in ex-BBC Technical Operators’ emails : “Topics” subsequently have been more concerned with technical operations history, procedures and practices.

There are other groupings within the index, and the entries here link to individual PAGES. You can only open these pages by clicking on the entry in this index.

Groupings include:

Appreciations  Tributes to those no longer with us
BBC  specific items relating to the BBC
Life Stories  Bernie encouraged people to write their life story
Lunch Pictures Memories of the disorganised lunches beloved by Bernie


This index lists the contents of the complete BBC Tech Ops Website to date:   07.04.2024


Please Scroll down to see the complete Index




 
 
 

 

1

 
 

1

1000th ‘Tonight’ and Goodbye Lime Grove
100th Z Cars

1917 (the Film)  –
        An apparent single shot
        The Sound of Silence

1950s and 1960s Adventure Series
1951 OB Vehicles and Crew
1951 OB Vehicles and Crew – an Update
1953 OBs
1953 Roving Eye
1955 – some memorabilia

 

1

1960s Icons
1966 and all that ….
1968 BBC TV Production Planning Training Film (Excerpt)
1990 – 1991 Cobham SubCommittees and/or Taskforce Committees
1992 pictures
 

 

2

 
 

2

2-inch VT Philips and Marconi Cameras
 

 

3

 
 

3

36 volt Power Pack
3-D Photography
3-D Telly
 

 

4

 
 

4

405-line TV broadcasts returning
 

 

5

 
 

5

50 Shades of Grey
50th Anniversary Stamps
525 lines 60 cycles – Line Standards
 

 

6

 
 

6


6 days  –
        6 Days
        An update to the Iranian Embassy siege
        The siege of the Iranian Embassy – Film
 

 

8

 
 

8


8mm Film around TV Centre
8mm Projector and Film
 

 

A

 
 

A

A BBC Library of Tech Ops related materials
A bit about Grandstand
A Celebration of Ken Major
A Century of Cinema
A Dalek Looks at VT
A Day Out at Wimbledon
A Day with A TV Producer
A game of KIM
A goodbye TC from the One Show
A Lament for Television Centre – TC

 

A

A newspaper article from Bill (Wiliam) Jenkin and a little bit of Grandstand
A Picture of Crew 14
A pretty nurse is ….
A single shot
A Town Has Turned to Dust
A visit to Albert Square with Mike Harrison and David Sanders
A. P. Herbert
About (Intro to the Tech Ops site)
About DV (Digital Video)
ABS Strike

 

A

Acronyms
Ad Breaks and “Maigret”
ADAPT Live
ADAPT project – Sound Technology and the BBC Academy
Adventure in Vision
Aerials or Masts
Aeroplanes and Operations
Alan Blumlein
Alan Jeffery
Alec Bray – My time at the BBC

 

A

Alexandra Palace Lime Grove Queen and Duke of E

Alexandra Palace  –
         Election
        Adventure in Vision
        Shift 2 1948

Alexandra Palace and BBC Glasgow 2003
Alexandra Palace Shift 2 1948
Alexandra Palace Shift 2 1948
Allocations Office 1975ish
Ally Pally
Ambiophony

 

A

An Adventure in Space and Time – Errors
An Historic Outside Broadcast
An Interesting Link to the Design of Television Centre
Apollo 11
Applying to the BBC in the 1970s
Appointments Leaflet

Appreciation  –
        Alan Blumlein
        Alan Jeffery
        Bernie Newnham
        Christopher Morahan

 

A

        Colin Reid
        Frank Rose
        Geoff Feld
        Geoff Hawkes
        George Ageros
        Gerry Glaister
        Graham Reed
        Jim Atkinson
        John Barclay
        Johnny Downes

 

A

        Len Shorey
        Michael (Mike) Bond
        Michael Langley-Evans
        Mike Bunting
        Mother
        Mother aka Joan Marsden 2
        Pete Hales
        Richard Chamberlain
        Ron Green by James Moir
        Stewart Morris

 

A

        Tony Milton

Ariel TC Riverside and Kings Theatre
Ariel Flying Group
Art at the BBC
Articulated MCRs
Asbestos
Aspect Ratios
Aspect Ratios again
Aspects of Drama
Ationwid

 

A

Audience Unparticipation
Audio Fairs
Avo Collection
 

 

B

 
 

B

Back in Time for …
Back In Time For Christmas
Back to 1975
Back to the summer of 1986…
Bar Counting
Barry Webb and Stan Appel
Bat Out Of Hell
Batteries
Batteries and Multimeters

BBC  –
        Abbreviations Initials and Jargon

 

B

        Abbreviations- Some Explanations
        at Lifestyles 2000
        BBC 2 Opening Night
        BBC Club at Lime Grove Studios
        BBC Engineering
        BBC Engineering Training at Evesham
        BBC First Roiving Eye 1953
        BBC Recruitment and The Blue Peter Book of Television
        BBC Stands for …
        Channel Idents

 

B

        Engineering Recruitment 1955
        Filming in Wisbech
        Ident Colours
        London Premises
        Monitoring
        News At 10 21st Jun 2017
        News New Look
        OBs – Golf
        Pay Grades – 1966
        Production Costing

 

B

        Recording Tape
        Recruitment
        Souvenirs and Memorabilia
        Staff Surveys
        Staffing and Staff Numbers
        Studios
        Tech Ops Interviews
        Telecine in the 1960s
        Television Centre 50th anniversary tribute
        TV Car Park Tickets

 

B

        TV Theatre 1950s – early 1960s
        TVC Cafeteria
        Vehicles Diecast Models

BBC 2 comes to Southend
BBC Engineering Training at Evesham
BBC Filming in Wisbech
BBC Four: Henry V
BBC Glasgow 2003
BBC Leeds TO 32 and Riverside Studios
BBC Presentation – 1

 

B

BBC Presentation – 2
BBC Presentation – 3
BBC Presentation – 3
BBC Recruitment
BBC Recruitment and The Blue Peter Book of Television
BBC Sport photos from Roger George Clarke
BBC Tech As Advert OGWT and WIS
BBC Tech Ops stores storeman
BBC Tech Ops Website Index
BBC Weather – Generation Game – Keeping Up Appearances and Run the Risk

 

B

Beatles
Becoming a T.O. Autumn 1962
Bees Bees See TV(C)
Before They Were Famous
Behind the Scenes- “The Frost Report” 1966
Bells and Whistles
Bernard Newnham – My Working Life
Bernie Newnham Stories

Bernie on DV  –
         DV
        A Different View

 

B


Bernie on NTL  –
         A Customer Complaint Letter sent to NTL
         NTL

Bernie on NTL and Broadcast Quality
Bernie’s 1972 USA slides
Best of Both Worlds 1964
Betting Slips

Biddy Baxter  –
        and Blue Peter
        More about Biddy Baxter and Blue Peter

Big Ben Model
Big LED Light

 

B

Bill Dudman – his working life
Bill Jenkin’s reunion pictures
Billy Cotton Band Show
Bimbi Harris 1966 Health and Safety and a 1978 WIS
Bingo – Management Speak version 2
Birtspeak 2.0
Bits and Pieces
Bits of Our History
Black and White Minstrel Show 8mm film
Blackadder Goes Forth and Overruns

 

B

Blimps

Blue Peter  –
        Blue Peter Book of Television
        Time Capsule

Blue Peter Time Capsule
Bob Symes
Boomcam
Boredom on set?
Boxing Clever
Brian Balshaw 3
Brian Balshaw 4

 

B

Brian Balshaw’s Pictures
Brian Blessed
Brian White 8mm film
Bright Eyes
Bristol – A Centre Of Excellence
Broadcast Quality
Broadcast Quality
Bucks Rigs
Building Up and Knocking Down
Bunter – VT – Top of The Pops and Job Spec

 

B

Bush House
 

 

C

 
 

C

Cafe Rest

Camera Script  –
        Eugene Onegin – ballet
        The Idiot – Episode 1
        The Idiot – Episode 2

Camera Tower
Camera Work and Grandstand
Cameramen at War
Cameras Mounts and Cables
Canalside Outside Broadcast 1939
Captions Animations and Captain Pugwash

 

C

Captions- Lunch 21 October 2015
Cars
Catch Up on Previous Conversations (July 2015)
Cater for the Crew
Ceefax and BBC Engineering
CGI Backgrounds and Virtual Newsrooms.
Chapman Hercules and other cranes
Charlie Ringland’s Photographs
Children’s TV in the 1950s
Chris Glass – Crew 7 Christmas 1969 and Green CSO

 

C

Chris Harnett – his working life
Christmas cards

Christmas Cards  –
        Crew 3 Christmas card and Drawing
        Crew 3 Christmas card and Drawing
        Crew 7 Christmas card 1967
        Crew 9 Christmas
        Crew Christmas Cards
        Roger Bunce’s Christmas Card

Christmas Shows – 2016 and Yesteryear
Christmas Tree O Christmas Tree

 

C

Christopher Morahan
Churchill’s 90th Birthday and a Noel Coward Programme
Class camerawork as ever… Photos
Cleopatra
Clifford White
Clive Doig – stories from a life in tv
Clive Leighton – his working life
CLUG
Coax Cable
Cold Comfort and Condensation

 

C

Colin Reid – An Appreciation
Colour (Separation Overlay) Supplement
Colour at Alexandra Palace
Colour Blindness
Colour Studio but BW TX
Colour Supplement
Colour Supplement 2
Colour Vision.
Comely Boom Operators
Comics

 

C

Comics and Cutaways

Comments  –
        on 2015 and 2016 Programmes.
        on Current Productions 2015
        on Television programmes 2016
        on The Olympics TV Coverage – Rio 2016
        on TV Programmes- January

Compact
Compact – Top of the Pops 1000 – Onedin Line and Swapshop
Completely Shocking
Connections

 

C

Continu….ity?

Conversations  –
        February 2015 to July 2015
        first compilation from the Tech-Ops mailing list
        July 2015 to November 2015
        May 2016 to November 2016
        May 2017 to November 2017
        November 2014 to February 2015
        November 2015 to May 2016
        November 2016 to May 2017

CoronaVirus and TV

 

C

Country Pursuits
Covid-19 – the Coronavirus
Covid-19 and TV
Crane Training
Credits
Crew 13 – TOTP and Vernon Dyer
Crew 3 Christmas card and Drawing
Crew 7 Christmas card 1967
Crew 9 Christmas
Crew Christmas Cards

 

C


Crew List  –
        1968 – Technical Operations
        1974
        1980
        1980
        1987 4th March 1967

Crew List 1968 – Technical Operations
Crew List 1980
Crew Photo I Claudius and lens angle line up strip
Crossed Lines
Crossing the Line Again …

 

C

CSO Oversights.
CSO TOTP Floor Marks etc
 

 

D

 
 

D

DAB GTS and segue to Jack Sudic
Dad’s Army – in which studio?
Dame Alicia Markova
Dancers on Camera
Dancing cameras
Dave Lawson Stories
Dave Mundy’s Evesham Pictures
Dave Mundy’s Trip to Evesham
Dave Mutton and Crew 14
David Attenborough

 

D

David Attenborough 2
David Bowie Fisheye (in TOTP page)
David Brook sent these pictures
David Newbitt’s Nostalgia
David Plaice
Days Gone Ampex
December 2017 Miscellany
Derek Brady and the story of The Man with the Flower in his Mouth
Destruction at Television Centre
Diaries

 

D

Diary of a Young Man (1964)
Dick Barton Stereo and Binaural Sound
Dick Hibberd’s Memories
Dicky Howett – Camera Collector
Did you take any schnapps…
DIN and SCART
Director Training
Director’s Viewfinder
Dirty Work
Discourse on TV Technology over the years

 

D

Discourse on TV Technology over the years- as per BBC practice
Discussion on Lighting
Disorganised Walk
Ditty Box and Dollies
Dixon of Dock Green
Dixon of Dock Green
Do What You’re Told
Do you recognise this vehicle?

Doctor Who  –
        Doctor Who
        Doctor Who and the Mystery Men

 

D

        Doctor Who Pilots and Titles
        Doctor Who Stories and Tardis Plurals
        Doctor Who? Who’s Future Who’s Pasr …
        Dr Who Crew Photos
        First episodes of Dr. Who

Doormen at the BBC – and at other companies
Doug Coldwell Pictures
Doug Smith
Dr Who – That Was The Week That Was – Whats My Line and Peter Friese-Greene
Dr Who Crew Photos

 

D

Dress Code
Drink in the Mix(er)
Drumbeat
Dubbin
Duties Day-by-Day
 

 

E

 
 

E

Early Animation Techniques
Early BBC TV OBs
Early Cop Shows
Early days at Ally Pally
Early Days at TC3
Early Days in TC3 – 2
Early days of ENG
Early Days of Home Computing
Early Domestic Tape Recorders.
Early German Television

 

E

Early Handheld Colour Cameras
Early Portable Tape Recorders for News.
Early Stereo
Early Use of Studios TC1 TC6 TC7 and TC8
Eastenders

EastEnders  –
        A visit to Albert Square with Mike Harrison and David Sanders

Eastenders  –
        A visit to Albert Square with Mike Harrison and David Sanders

EastEnders  –
        EastEnders begins – a write up by Dave Howell
        EastEnders Live Quality (Feb 2015)
        Eastenders Pictures – Dave Bowden

 

E

        EastEnders Thursday 24th April 2022

Eastenders Pictures – Dave Bowden
Editech
Eidophor
Election OB at Alnwick – Training Cource A13 and STO 3
Electricity – Shocking Supply and Demand
Elstree Open Days
EMI 203 – EMI 2001 – Mole Crane and I Claudius
Emitron – Angenieux zooms – Link 110 – “Enchanted Castle” and “Pets Win Prizes”
Engineering Recruitment 1955

 

E

Ephemera
EQ = equalisation
Eugene Onegin – ballet – Camera Script
Eurovision – More Eurovision Memories
Everyone remembers where they were when …
Evesham – and behind the scenes at PoV
Evesham 1965
Evesham Course pictures
Evesham Course pictures and other various things
Evesham pictures

 

E

Evolution of microphones within the BBC
Exam Questions
Exhibition – 6 decades of Dr Who
Expenses and their claims
Expenses … when the food is available
Extras ex-Tech Ops style?
 

 

F

 
 

F

Falklands – and Noel Edmonds
Familiar Face(s)
Family Bibles
Fanny v Delia
Fiction to Fact and Fact to Fiction
Filmed and Directed by …
Final Footage from Lime Grove
Fiona Martin’s Television Centre
Fireworks
First BBC A Course – Going for Gold – Barry Webb and Stan Appel

 

F

First episodes of Dr. Who
First Female Cameraperson
First TV OB From A Theatre
Flashing Lights and Perspex
Flight of the Concordes (….and other planes)
Flippin Shots
Fly Leads and Screening
Fly Past
Focus Pullers
Following Young Dudley

 

F

For Doctor Who in Memoriam
Foreign Powers
Forfar 5 East Fife 4
Forsyte Saga
Forsyte Saga – End of Series Party

Forsyte Saga  –
         End of Series Party
        April 1967
        December 1966
        Forsyte Saga editing
        June 1967

 

F

        March 1967

Forsyte Saga editing
Frame Rooms
Frank Rose
Frank Wilkins and Crew 2.
Fred Johnson’s Photo Collection
Freeview and High Pressure disruption
From 1955 – some memorabilia
From Avenger to Play School
From Brian White

 

F

From Richard Bellfontaine
Furniture
Future Proof Record and Replay
 

 

G

 
 

G

Gallery Directors
Gary Cricher’s films
Gemini – More about Gemini
General Memories
Geoff Feld
Geoff Feld’s Photo Album
Geoff Hawkes
George Ageros
Gerry Glaister
Get It Right

 

G

Girls of Slender Means and Chistmas 1984
Glastonbury
Glastonbury 2022 and Outside Broadcasts
Gleneagles – The various ends of Mrs F’s friends and Pickwick Papers
Gloucester and Stratford
Going live with Softly Softly – comments
Going Live with Softly Softly 1966
Going Live with Softly Softly 1966

Going Live with Softly Softly 1966  –
        Part 1
        Part 2

 

G

        Part 3
        Part 4
        Part 5
        Part 6
        Part 7
        Part 8

Going out with a BANG! … or a whimper …
Golders Green Hippodrome
Golf – and Hoists
Goodbye Bernie

 

G

Goodbye to Ally Pally
Goodbye to Oxford Road Studios
Goodbye to the EMI 2001
Goonhilly
Graham Reed – former TVC Cameraman
Gram Ops
Grams and Tape Stories
Grams Library Omission
Grandstand Memories
Graphical stuff – Christmas cards etc

 

G

Great Developing Shots in Cinema
Green round the Gills
Green Screen
Greenwood Theatre
Guinness
Guns in Productions
 

 

H

 
 

H

Handy Tandy.
Hansel and Gretel
Harry Storey’s InterTel History
HD and the Regions
Headphones
Heard On Talkback
Hearing Problems
Heart to Heart
Hello Dolly
Heron Crane – Don’t Wait Up and Alphonso Bonzo

 

H

Heron Handbook
High Definition TV … old style
Hoists and Cherry-Pickers
Horse Names
Horse Names (given by Frank Rose)
Horses for Courses … and Grandstand
Hotels we have known
How lucky we were to have the Vinten Hydraulic Pedestal
How many uses are there for a Television Centre?
How things have changed

 

H

How to check your Video Bandwidth
How We Got Started In The Entertainment Industry
Hullabaloo and Custard
Hydrofrolicks
 

 

I

 
 

I

I Claudius and Crew 5
I Walk the Line
Ian Norman’s pictures
Ibsen’s play – Kingswood Warren and Get Your Own Back
Idents and Trails 2017
I’m on my way … where are we going?
In the Gallery
Incredible Games Show
Index – BBC Tech Ops Website
Induction Courses

 

I

Information Age
Information Superhighway
Inlay Overlay and CSO
Inside the BBC TVC
Inspiration for my Career

InterTel  –
         InterTel History – Harry Storeys’s InterTel History
         InterTel History – part 1
         InterTel History – part 10
         InterTel History – part 2
         InterTel History – part 3

 

I

         InterTel History – part 4
         InterTel History – part 5
         InterTel History – part 6
         InterTel History – part 7
         InterTel History – part 8
         InterTel History – part 9
        Harry Storey’s InterTel History

Interviews with Mohammed Ali
Introducing the Tech Ops website Index
Introduction of the Heron

 

I

Its Christmas Time.
 

 

J

 
 

J

Jamming and ASPIDISTRA
Jazz at the Maltings October 1968
Jazz on TV 1960-1969
Jimi Hendrix
Joan Williams
Jobsworths
John James – Floor Manager
John Pilblad – TV Cameras Across Time
John Summers – My Working Life
John Wilson Prom 35

 

J

Johnny Downes
Jude the Obscure (1971)
Juke Box Jury Memories
Julie Felix Show
 

 

K

 
 

K

Kamera-Kharsi
Keep the Crew Amused during a Stagger Thorugh
Kendal Avenue history and subsequent redevelopment
Kharkiv (Please tell me what all this stuff is)
Kit Pictures
KU2015
 

 

L

 
 

L

Lady in White
Landrovers
Last B&W Show – Open University Scanner – HM Queen and OU Scrap
Learn your Lines and Hit your Marks
Legal Decent Honest Truthful
Len Shorey
Lens Charts
Life after the Beeb
Life at Lime Grove

Life Story  –
        Alec Bray

 

L

        Bernie Newnham
        Bill Dudman
        Chris Harnett
        Clive Doig
        Clive Leighton
        John Summers
        Maurice Fleisher
        Mike Giles

Light Diffuser
Light on the Subject

 

L

Lighting (example pictures)
Lime Grove – Marconi MkVII and Outside Rehearsal Room

Lime Grove  –
        and Shepherds Bush Market
        before the BBC
        First and Last
        Lime Grove and its Cameras early 1960s
        More About Lime Grove
        Sangers Yard

Lime Grove – May 1950
Line tearing on VHS

 

L

Lip-Sync- HD and SD differences
Live Aid 1985
Location Catering
London Telephone Exchanges
Long distance radio links
Long Live or possibly not … the BBC TV Theatre
Long Wave transmitters VLF FM and DAB
Loss of signal on an OB
Lost and/or Forgotten Shows
Lost Course (and Show) Photographs

 

L

Lost Goon Show tape
Loud Singers and Loud Speakers
Loudspeaker LS3 5A
Lovely Ladies

Lunch pictures  –
        The Cricketers – 8th March 2005
        The Cricketers – 29th September 2005
        The Cricketers – 21st March 2006
        The Cricketers – 12th October 2006
        The King’s Head – 25th January 2007
        The Coach and Horses – 3rd May 2007

 

L

        The Coach and Horses – 20th September 2007
        The King’s Head – 13th December 2007
        The Coach and Horses – 27th March 2008
        The Cricketers – 18th July 2008
        The Coach and Horses – Thursday 16th October 2008
        The Coach and Horses – 21st April 2009
        The Cricketers – 23rd June 2009
        The Coach and Horses – 13th October 2009
        The King William IV – 17th December 2009
        Hays Wharf – 14th April 2010

 

L

        The Coach and Horses – 2nd October 2012
        Hays Wharf – 25th April 2013
        The Coach and Horses – 23rd July 2013
        Hays Wharf – 26th September 2013
        The George Wanstead – 12th December 2013
        Hays Wharf – 27th March 2014
        The Coach and Horses – 24th July 2014
        Hays Wharf – 1st October 2014
        The George Wanstead – 9th December 2014
        Hays Wharf – 18th September 2015 – with Noel

 

L

        Hays Wharf – 31st March 2015
        Hays Wharf – 21st October 2015
        Hays Wharf – 10th December 2015
        The Doggetts Coat and Badge – 16th March 2016
        The Coach and Horses – 25th July 2016
        The George Wanstead – 14th December 2016
        Hays Wharf – 29th March 2017
        The Coach and Horses – 5th July 2017
        Hays Wharf – 20th September 2017
        The George Wanstead – Christmas 2017

 

L

        Hays Wharf – 10th October 2018
        Hays Wharf – 10th October 2018 – Peter Hider’s Photos
        The King’s Tun – 12th December 2018
        Hays Wharf – 10th April 2019
        The Coach and Horses – 3rd July 2019
        Hays Wharf – 1st October 2019
        Hays Wharf – 24th September 2021
        Hays Wharf – 21st October 2022
 

 

M

 
 

M


Ma’amalade Sandwiches
Mags Vids and Plans
Making The Ginger Tree
Managemental Gobbledespeak
Maurice Fleisher – his working life
Meccano et al
Memories from Mic Weaver
Memories of Dame Vera Lynn
Merchant of Venice
Mic Boom Experiences

 

M

Mic Booms
Michael (Mike) Bond
Michael Bentine
Michael Bentine’s Reminiscences
Michael Langley-Evans
Microphones
Microphones 2
Microphones and Mic Placement
Mike Bunting
Mike Giles – Life at the BBC

 

M

Mike Harrison – Marconi Mk4 on ‘The Scapegoat’ – and pic of Hercules Crane
Milton Keynes – MOTD – TVT – VT – Lime Grove – Omnibus – N1 and Aintree
Miracle!
Missing Items
Mobile Phone Cameras and DSLRs
Mogul / Troubleshooters

Mole Crane  –
        A Mole in Daylight
        A whole Mole page from Alec Bray
        About Mole Cranes
        More About Moles

 

M

        More Mole Stories

Monitor – Alfred Hitchcock
More about Asbestos in TC
More about Dick Hibberd
More about Jacks.
More About Jim Atkinson and Frank Wilkins
More about Mic Booms
More Cards
More Conversations
More Crew Christmas Cards

 

M

More from Brian Balshaw
More from Wood Norton Hall and afterwards …
More Memories of Dock Green Nick

More Personalities  –
        the Crew
        the Crew – 3
        the Crew – 4
        the Talent
        the Talent – 3
        the Talent – 4

More pictures from Geoff Feld

 

M

More Stewart Morris Stories
More stories from Alec Bray
More TO Course Information
More Troubles with Sound
More Z-Cars
Morecombe and Wise Scene
Morris Dancers
MOTD 1974

Mother  –
        Don’t ask me ask Mother
        Joan Marsden

 

M

        More about Mother
        Mother

Mugs
Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
Multicoloured Swapshop New Entry Course 9 OGWT
Mumbleygate Again
Museum Exhibits
Mushrooms
Music in TV and Radio Productions
My First Electronic Build

 

M

Mystery Cameraman
Mystery Studio Picture
 

 

N

 
 

N

Name That Man (and Woman)
Nation shall speak at PPM 4 unto Nation
National Radio Show But Which One
Network Feeds
Never Twice the Same Color
Never Work with Children or Animals
Nicknames
Nine Lessons and Carols 1964
Noise Loudness and Americans
Noises Off

 

N

Norman Taylor’s Emitron
Norman Taylor’s story of Dr Who
Nostalgia … Ah! Childhood…
Nostalgic paper
Not Everyone Likes “Strictly”
Not for the oosily effended
Now that’s a good spot!
Now We’re History – or is it Pretentious Piffle
Nowadays Who does What?
Nylon Overalls

 

N

 

 

O

 
 

O

OBs
Off the Subs Bench
OGWT – Dr Hook – Going for Gold and Marconi Mk 3
OGWT Manchester?
Oh my aching back
Oh to be in OBs
Oh! The Irony
Oil be oil right
Oil Rigs and Ikegamis
Old Documents and Staff Lists

 

O

Old Magazines
Old Shows
Old TV Sets
Oldest TODS still in existence
OLED TV
One picture lots of stories…
Onedin Line – Country Dancing and Eric Sykes
Onedin Line – Multi-coloured Swap Shop and The Egg Head
Only Fools and Horses – the Van
Operation Lymelight

 

O

Operations Contribution to Programmes
Or- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the PC
Our Friend Victoria

Our World  –
        All You Need Is Love (2)
        And yet more about Our World
        more about this programme
        Our World 1967
        yet more about this programme!

Out of the Unknown
Over The Shoulder Shots

 

O

 

 

P

 
 

P

Paid For TVs
Pans People
Pan’s People – Island Girl
Pans People – Photographs
Pat Heigham – Discourse on TV Technology over the years
Pathe News – Visit to Television Centre
Paul Daniels Disappearing TV Camera
Paul Daniels Show
Paul Temple and Dick Barton
Pebble Mill

 

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People – The Crew
People in Photos
Period Pieces – Getting the Details Correct
Periscopes
Personal Mics
Personalities

Personalities  –
        more from the Crews
        the Crew – 1
        the Crew (and others) – 2
        the Directors

 

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        the Directors – 1
        the Talent – 1
        the Talent – 2

Pete Hales
Peter Fox Retirment Photos
Peter Sumpter’s TV Centre pictures
Peter Ward – The 1953 Coronation OB
Photos
Photos BBC Sport from Roger George Clarke
Photos Mort d’ Arthur Crew TO16 STO36

 

P

Photoshop approach to audio editing
Picture Quality
Pictures
Pictures – TOTP and Val Doonican

Pictures  –
        Dads Army Brucie and Various Courses – TO 30
        from Bob Foley
        from David Hadley
        from Doug Coldwell
        from Geoff Hawkes
        from Jeff Baker

 

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        from John Barlow and John Hulse
        from John Howell Jack Rooke and Mike Cotton
        from Mike Cotton
        from Mike Cotton and Neil Dormand
        from Mike du Boulay
        from Mike Jones
        from Peter Cook TO18
        from Peter Goldring
        from Peter Hider
        from Richard Broadhurst

 

P

        from Roger Francis
        from Ron Green
        from TVC Roof around 1964-ish
        from Watford Technical High School
        Peter Fox
        Photos BBC Sport from Roger George Clarke
        Photos Mort d’ Arthur Crew TO16 STO36
        various from John Howell Roger Bunce and Dave Lawson

Pictures of BBC Television Theatre through the years
Pinkoes and Traitors

 

P

Pips Big Ben Bongs and Digital Delays
Planes
Play School
Play School – 40 Years
Play School – 50 years of “Play School”
PlaySchool and Playaway Musicians
PLUGE
Plugs and sockets bonanza
Pointless Empty Void
Poldark – the original version (1975 to 1977)

 

P

Pop Group Sound Levels
Post Programme Parties
Potential Tech Ops recruits EXAM Questions
Premises and Phone Numbers …
Pres A
Pres A – Pictures plus sound
Pres A Pres B and LNLU
Pres etc.
Present Day (2104) Audio Levels

Presentation  –
        BBC Presentation – 1

 

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        BBC Presentation – 2
        BBC Presentation – 3

Presentation 1986
Presentation at Work
Producer Choice and BBC Outsource
Production versus Young Generation footy match
Programme Stories
Programmes May to November 2017
Programmes we worked on
Proms and Power Sound and Fury

 

P

PSC Course and Pay Slips
PTO Course 9 and STO Course 20 and Dixon
Pushing the Wrong Buttons
Pye Film
 

 

Q

 
 

Q

Quatermass
Quatermass Quiz
Queen Visit to TVC
 

 

R

 
 

R

Radio DAB not FAB
Radio Interference
Radio Microphones
Radio Mics and What to do with them
Radio Olympia 1956
Radio on iPlayer
Railway … Stations
Ralph Parrot
Recent Animations
Recent Feature Films

 

R

Recording All Cameras
Regional TV 1960s and 1970s (Southampton)
Related to History
Remembering NICAM
Remembering Those who have left us
Restaurants round the Bush
Retake! That’s a Wrap.
Retirement Parties
Reuse Recycle Repair
RF Interference

 

R

Richard Chamberlain
Rising Mics

Riverside  –
         Type A sound desk

Riverside and R3
Riverside Destruction
Riverside Studios – an update

Roger Bunce  –
        and the TM’s dispute
        leaving the BBC
        Production Design Card
        Roger Bunce’s 1981 Calendar for Crew 6

 

R

        Roger Bunce’s Behind the Scenes Glimpses
        Roger’s Christmas Card and This is the BBC
        Roger’s Christmas Quiz – the answers
        Roger’s Christmas Quiz 2012
        taking on Management/Model Work

Roll Back and Mix
Rolling Stones Beatles and Jimi Hendrix at the BBC

Ron Green  –
        Photo Collection Page 1
        Photo Collection Page 2
        Pictures from Ron Green

 

R


Ron Green Memoriabilia
Ron Peverall at 90
Ronnie Pantlin Stories
Round the Horn
Routemaster Moments
 

 

S

 
 

S

Sangers Yard
Saturday Night Live Crackajack HM QE11 TV Entry course 1956 and B&W Minstrels
School Dimmers
Scribble
Scripts on Ebay
Secrets of the Super Elements
Sequels and Prequels- BladeRunner and Star Trek
Sex and the Sixties
Shakespeare and Music – and workplace bullies
Shakespeare Clips

 

S

Shepherd’s Bush Market
Shifts and Coincidences
Shooting “Guests of the National”
Shot Card sample

Shows  –
        A Town Has Turned to Dust
        Ad Breaks and “Maigret”
        Alphonso Bonzo
        An Adventure in Space and Time – Errors
        Behind the scenes at PoV
        Best of Both Worlds 1964

 

S

        Billy Cotton Band Show
        Dad’s Army – in which studio?
        Dixon of Dock Green
        Doctor Who
        Doctor Who and the Mystery Men
        Doctor Who Pilots and Titles
        Don’t Wait Up
        EastEnders begins – a write up by Dave Howell
        Forsyte Saga
        Going for Gold

 

S

        Going Live with Softly Softly 1966
        Heart to Heart
        Henry V
        I Claudius
        Incredible Games Show
        Jude the Obscure
        Jude the Obscure (1971)
        Juke Box Jury Memories
        Live Aid 1985
        Merchant of Venice

 

S

        Mogul / Troubleshooters
        Monitor – Alfred Hitchcock
        MOTD 1974
        Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
        Multicoloured Swapshop
        Nine Lessons and Carols 1964
        OGWT
        OGWT
        Our World 1967
        Out of the Unknown

 

S

        Paul Daniels Show
        Play School
        Play School – 40 Years
        Poldark – the original version (1975 to 1977)
        Quatermass
        Six-Five Special
        Softly Softly
        Softly Softly – Going Live with Softly Softly 1966
        Take a Sapphire
        The 1953 Coronation OB by Peter Ward

 

S

        The Black and White Minstrel Show
        The Ginger Tree
        The Good Old Days (the programme)
        The Idiot
        The Old Man of Hoy
        Tonight
        Top Of The Pops
        Top of the Pops in Studio G Lime Grove
        Year of the Sex Olympics
        Z-Cars

 

S

        Z-Cars
        Z-Cars – 100th Z-Cars

Sic Transit Gloria TVC
Simulcast – except Sound
Sky – Believe in … ?
Slides Slide Mounts and Slide Scanners for TV
Small Cameras
Snape – Acoustics – Filter – Sound
So long 3DTV
Social Distancing

 

S

Soft or Sharp Quad or Helical – and TOTP – again!
Soft Soled Shoe Shuffle
Softly Softly – Z Cars – Tonight and Alexandra Palace
Softly Softly – Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show – OGWT and STO 35
Sole-schism
Some Alexandra Palace history – the first BBC camerawoman
Some Aspects of Technical Operations
Some Things Never Change …
Something in the Air
Sound (Trolley) Stories

 

S

Sound And Atmosphere
Sound and Sound Synchronisation – How it used to be done in the pre-digital Era
Sound and Vision
Sound Crew List January 1965
Sound in Sync(s)
Sound Ladies in Costume
Sound Levels circa 1961
Sound Levels since 1961
Sound Management
Sound Matters

 

S

Sound stories
Sound? You’re having a laugh!
Sounding Off Again
Sounds Effective!
Sounds Sensational (and sounds not so sensational)
Space – The Final Frontier?
Spiel Chuck KO
Sports Unit Electronic … and freelancing
Spot the Error
Spot the Errors

 

S

Spotlight 1962
Sprinkle Sprinkle … and a segue to “Grange Hill”

Staff List  –
        1968 – Technical Operations
        1974
        1980
        1980
        1987 4th March 1967

Staff List 1968 – Technical Operations
Staff Training and ETD Memories
Stan Appel

 

S

Star Trek convention Oct 2014
Start em young
STC Microphones
Steam Powered Tech Ops
Steam-Powered Tech Ops Part 2
Stereoscopic Vision
Steve Blatchford
Steve Cockayne and Crew 16 in 1967
Stewart Morris – obit
Stirling Moss

 

S

STO 19
STO 21
STO 22
STO Course in April May 1971
Stony Faced Technicians
Stores Stories

Stories  –
        Bernie Newnham
        Bernie Newnham
        Bill Jenkin
        Collection 1

 

S

        Collection 2
        Collection 3
        Collection 4 – Pres B
        Collection 5
        Collection 6
        Dave Lawson
        Dave Pattison
        Dicky Howett
        Doug Puddifoot
        From Alec Bray….

 

S

        From John Barlow
        From Peter Hider
        from Ray Liffen
        from Tony Nuttall
        Howard Michaels
        John Holmes
        John Howel
        John Marsh
        John Summers
        John Vincent

 

S

        Mike Cotton
        Mike Cotton
        Patrick Heigham
        Paul Kay
        Peter Potter
        Peter Ward
        Roger Brunskill
        Roger Bunce
        Ronnie Pantlin Stories
        Stores Stories

 

S

        Terry Brett

Stories 1
Stories 2
Stories 3
Stories 4 – Pres B
Stories 5
Stories 6
Stories from Dave Lawson
Stories from Dave Pattison
Stories from Dicky Howett

 

S

Stories from Doug Puddifoot
Stories from Howard Michaels
Stories from Jack Rooke
Stories from John Holmes
Stories from John Howel
Stories from John Marsh
Stories from John Summers
Stories from John Vincent
Stories from Mike Cotton
Stories from Patrick Heigham

 

S

Stories from Paul Kay
Stories from Peter Potter
Stories from Peter Ward
Stories from Roger Brunskill
Stories from Roger Bunce
Stories from Terry Brett

Stories –
        Jack Rooke

Strange (CGI) Trains in Programmes
Striking Seventies
Studio Camera Fixed Lenses

 

S

Studio Planning
Studio Planning Stencils
Studio sound and talkback – Eurovision and Dana …
Studio Tanks
Studio-based Continuing Drama Production Development
SYPHER
 

 

T

 
 

T

T.Langley C.Wickham B.Gower D.Hanks M.Harrison and P.Valentine

T.O. 16  –
        T.O. 16 Course 27th May – 2nd August 1963
        Technical Operators Course 16 Lecture schedule

T.O.25
Take a Sapphire
 

 

 
 

“Tales of Lights
 

 

T

 
 

T

Tales of the Riverside
Tales of TVC
Talyllyn Railway OB Summer 1957
Tape Loops
Tape Speeds
 

 

 
 

“TC 1 Pictures “”Stand Up Nigel Barton”” and A Year Of Bookings 1963″
 

 

T

 
 

T

TC Christmas Artwork
TC1 B&W 405 and 625
TC4 about 1962 and The ‘Top Town’ trophy
TC7 1967
Tea 6d coffee 9d
Tech Ops in the 1980s
Tech Ops in the Golden Age of Television
Tech Ops Lunch Photos
Tech Ops Memories
Tech Ops OB Crew List 1959

 

T

Tech Ops Recruitment 1962-1963

Tech Ops Staff List  –
        01 May 1962
        1974
        29 September 1965

Technical Operations- Camera Section Management
Technical Operations Course No 25 (TO25) meet up for lunch
Ted Kent at Evesham

Television Centre  –
        TC 2017
        TC in Words and Pictures
        TC Memories

 

T

        Television Centre
        Television Centre Google Streetview Tour

Television Centre Build and Opening and Pres A & B
Television Centre Google Streetview Tour page build in progress…….
Television programming after the death of the Queen
Temple of Peace and BBC Training
Terry Heath’s Intertel History – part 1
Terry Heath’s Intertel History – part 10
Terry Heath’s Intertel History – part 2
Terry Heath’s Intertel History – part 3

 

T

Terry Heath’s Intertel History – part 4
Terry Heath’s Intertel History – part 5
Terry Heath’s Intertel History – part 6
Terry Heath’s Intertel History – part 7
Terry Heath’s Intertel History – part 8
Terry Heath’s Intertel History – part 9
Test Cards
That’s not what happened during Rehearsal!
That’s lunch studio……
That’s Why we had Cameramen …

 

T

The 1953 Coronation OB by Peter Ward
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Anatomy of a Christmas Promotions Campaign (BBC 1970s to 90s)
The AP Shift Pattern
The Art of Direction
The Art of Direction – 2
The Art of Roger Bunce
The BBC Micro
The Birth and Pioneering days of the Television Facilities Industry
The Black and White Minstrel Show

 

T

The Blue Peter Book of Television
The Blue Peter Book of Television
The Blue Peter Book of Television
The Box of Delights
The Breakfast Time Crew
The Camera is an Actor in the Drama
The Case of the Disappearing Image Orthicon
The Developing Camera Shot
The Fight For Saturday Night
The First Outside Broadcast

 

T

The Good Old Days (the programme)
The Grammar of Cinematography
The Great Glass Hive
The Great Storm of 1987
The Idiot
The Idiot – Camera Script – Episode 1
The Idiot – Camera Script – Episode 2

The Idiot  –
        Camera Script – Episode 1
        Camera Script – Episode 2

The Joy of Location Accommodation

 

T

The Joy of Ops
The London Studios
The Lost Years
The Man Outside
The Man with the Flower in his Mouth – all about the first ever tv play
The Modern Boy’s Book of Engineering
The Mythical Studio C
The Next Tonight is Tomorrow Night
The Old Man of Hoy
The old ways and working practices

 

T


The Quality of Sound in TV Broadcasting  –
        The Quality of Sound – 1
        The Quality of Sound – 2
        The Quality of Sound – 3
        The Quality of Sound – 4

The Queen – The Good Life and Mole Crane
The Skills Are Not Being Handed Down
The Sound of Football
The Studio of Earthly Delights – The art of Roger Bunce
The Support Proximity Effect and Percussive Maintenance
The Tech Ops Staff List 1961.

 

T

The Twelve Days of Christmas
The Vinten Heron – Stories 5
The Vinten Peregrine – Stories 6
The Wrong Job
The wrong type of ears
The Young Generation
Theme muslc
They Made Us What We Are Today
This is the BBC (1959)
Time Goes by and Technology Changes

 

T

Tingles
Tito Gobbi Show Crew
TO 11
TO 13
TO 14
TO 14
TO 15 – Ain’t Half Hot Mum and PTO 5
TO 18
TO 18 Test Paper
TO 19

 

T

TO 19
TO 19
TO 21
TO 22
TO 23
TO 26
TO 29
TO 33
TO Staff List 4th March 1967
Toehold on Sound

 

T

Tonight – How Television Works – Alexandra Palace and TV Entry Course 17
Tony Grant’s Photo Collection
Tony Milton
Tony Nuttall remembers …
Tony Nuttall remembers – BBC Manchester It’s a Knockout inter alia …
Top Of The Pops
Top Of The Pops

Top Of The Pops  –
        Top of the Pops 1000
        Top of the Pops 1968
        Top Of The Pops 2006

 

T

        Top of The Pops and an Air Pump
        Top of the Pops in Studio G Lime Grove
        TOTP Rehearsal with Talkback

Top Of The Pops 2006
Top of The Pops and an Air Pump
Top of the Pops and TVT Val Doonican Show.
Top of the Pops in Studio G Lime Grove
Top Town and St Ledger

Topics  –
        1 intro Issue 1
        2

 

T

        3 The Coronavirus issue
        4 Another Lockdown collection
        5
        6 Spring 2022
        7 Summer 2022

TOTP – Paperback Writer
TOTP Rehersal with Talkback
TOTSIs
Trails advertising and future BBC Funding
Training at Wood Norton

 

T

Trains and Filming
Trainspotting
Transmitter Towers – Eagle Towers etc
Transport – PAWN and Wood Norton Hall
Travelling Backwards
Triumphs and failures
Trump’s First Few Days in Office
TV and Movie Sound Balance Levels
TV Cameras Across Time – John Pilblad
TV Pilots

 

T

TV programmes about WW2
TV Studio Engineering – a talk given to RSME

TV Studio Engineering  –
        Part 1
        Part 2
        Part 3
        Part 4
        Part 5
        The Pre-digital age 1
        The Pre-digital age 2
        The Pre-digital age 3

 

T

        The Pre-digital age 4
        The Pre-digital age 5

TV Studio Fulham Broadway
TV Theatre PA – Camera Men and People and Power
TV Theatre stories
TV Transmitter Breakdown Tape
TV Transmitters
TVC 1970s – Softly Softly – Mole Crane – VT and TK
TVC Books – Pres – Crew 2 – STO 38 and Crew 3 Christmas Card
TVT Val Doonican Show.

 

T

TVT Visit 30-01-2018
TW3 – Election 64 – Panorama 64 – Till Death – Crew List 1963 – WIS 15/10/1964
TW3 – Studio G Lime Grove -Royal OB and Mid 60s OBs.
Typeface
 

 

U

 
 

U

Unused and mythical London Underground Stations
 

 

V

 
 

V

Vanity Plates
Various programmes and Bernie at Work.
View Ye Goode Olde Dayes
Vintage Photographs

Vinten  –
        Heron Driving
        How lucky we were to have the Vinten Hydraulic Pedestal
        Introduction of the Heron
        Introduction of the Heron
        Peregrine
        Vinten Cranes

 

V

        Vinten Heron Handbook
        Vinten Instruction Manuals
        Vinten Maintenance Manuals
        Vinten Mk III Pan and Tilt head Animations
        Vinten Operator Handbooks
        Vinten Peregrine
        Vinten Publications

Vinten Heron Card Model 1/12th scale

Vinten Heron Card Model 1/12th scale  –
         Introduction: Heron Card Model (1/12 scale)
        Build Instructions

 

V

        Flyer: Heron Card Model (1/12 scale)
        Page 1 – LHS Chassis Wheels Cylinder
        Page 2 – RHS Chassis Back Inner Frame
        Page 3 – Chassis Strengthener Wheels
        Page 4 – Jib Arm Ram Top Housing
        Page 5 – Inner Console Cable Guards
        Page 6 – Driving Console Seat Support
        Page 7 – Front Platform

Vinten Peregrine
Vinyl LPs

 

V

VT Clocks and Film Recording
VT Entertainment Tapes
VT Stories
VT Tea
VT Tea Mugs
VT Tea Two
VTR Formats
 

 

W

 
 

W

Walk Pictures
Walk Pictures (Covid Lockdown exercise)
Wardrobe Malfunction
Warm ups
Warnings and Notices to put on Machines
Was I really in the Studio with…
Watership Down
We are the Management …
We are the Management… 2
We stop the Mighty Roar of London’s Traffic

 

W

We Were There – Winston Churchill’s Funeral 50 Years On
Weather Blob
Wednesday Play – Advent of Colour TV – Z Cars and Match of The Day
 

 

 
 

“Wednesday Play
 

 

W

 
 

W

Weight for it!
Welcome
What are all these people doing here?
What are We Doing?
What is the Best Radio to Buy?
What is the Best Voice Recorder to Buy?
What was going on in week 5 1965 – and more
What’s ’is name worked as a …
What’s the time
When Television was Young and the Audience was Old

 

W

Where Did The BBC Place Job Ads?
Where in TC is this parked?
Where is the ……?
Which is Real? Location Shoot or Studio mock up?
Which Production? Which Studio?
Who gets the Credit?
Who is the Doctor?
Who Nose?
Who’s the Dummy?
Why 16:9 Aspect Ratio

 

W

Why has TV Sound got Louder
Why MCRs are called Scanners
Why MCRs are called Scanners – part 2
Wilkins in the Industry
Will Shall Show and Shewn
Wimbldon – Ascot and Evesham
Wimbledon – but When?
Wind Ups
Winters Past
WIS Pres B OB and Pay Scales

 

W

With The Beatles
Wobblycam – 2
Wobblyscope
Wogan’s Wand on “Blankety Blank”
Woking U3A Mug Cake Pictures
Wood Norton Hall

Wood Norton Hall  –
        1961 – 1964
        A13
        BBC Engineering Training at Evesham
        Club Guide and Accommodation D Block

 

W

        Dave Mundy’s Evesham Pictures
        Evesham 1965
        Evesham Course Pictures
        Evesham Course pictures and other various things
        First BBC A Course
        New Entry Course 9
        PTO 5
        PTO 9
        STO 19
        STO 20

 

W

        STO 21
        STO 21
        STO 22
        STO 3
        STO 35
        STO 36
        Then and Now (ish)
        TO 11
        TO 11
        TO 13

 

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        TO 14
        TO 14
        TO 15
        TO 16 ( 27th May – 2nd August 1963)
        TO 16 ( 27th May – 2nd August 1963) – 2
        TO 18
        TO 18
        TO 18 Pictures from Peter Cook
        TO 18 Test Paper
        TO 19

 

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        TO 19
        TO 19
        TO 21
        TO 22
        TO 22
        TO 22 – car pushing competition
        TO 23
        TO 25
        TO 26
        TO 29

 

W

        TO 30
        TO 32
        TO 33
        TO Course Sample Test Paper
        TO Training at Wood Norton Hall (Evesham)
        Welfare and Club Guide

Work in OBs – and freelance
 

 

X

 
 

X

Xmas 1959 – Crew 9 and His Lordship Entertains
 

 

Y

 
 

Y

Year of the Sex Olympics
Yellow CSO
Yes Minister and Cameras
You can call it home
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
Young Dudley
YouTube – Pans People – OGWT and Jimi Henrix on Lulu
 

 

Z

 
 

Z

Z Cars – Morecambe and Wise Show and Lime Grove 1980
Z Cars and A Couple of Curiosities
Z Cars and Softly Softly

Z-Cars  –
        Behind the scenes 1968
        BP and PEG
        Z-Cars

Zerb
Zoom lenses
Zooming Around



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