from Mike Cotton

“After nearly 30 years in ‘mainstream’ television I found that making Dramas as films -“lets just do that once more and from a different angle”- was getting tedious after a life of more or less live television and as we were spending more and more time servicing TPC at Lime Grove Studios, I decided to join them full time. It was back to the world of television as I used to know it, a small unit where everyone drank with everyone else, no (or very few) retakes and the result was there in front of you, gone.”

Mike models the latest glamour styles in survival gear before heading out to an oil rig in the North Sea

Robin Barnes is cool as a million bees prepare to advance – whilst Mr Cotton models another type of survival clothing

On the ground, one of those Ikegamis with the long fat cable designed to trip up the director.

Ian Perry shows off his new boxers in Llandudno – and there’s that cable again, this time in classic trip position.