1960s Icons

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Ian Hillson

TVC, Tom Jones, and Two-thousand-and-one!

Bernie Newnham, Bill Jenkin, Howard Michaels

I think its probably a Chapman Hercules without the other seats. That’s Neil Dormand behind Mr Jones if I’m not mistaken. Howard worked on the show as a camera assistant: he says that Tom  Jones came across as a very pleasant chap!

Stan Appel

It was a Chapman! I was a Production Manager at the time and we did a Special with Tom Jones in TC1. Stewart Morris was the producer.

Graeme Wall

Was this the one where Cam 1 had a wide shot from the top corner of the studio of the dance routine then a massive swing and track in to a close shot of one of the dancers, no zoom, and she didn’t flinch.

TW3

Maurice Fleisher

I well remember TW3 as I was fortunate enough to do the first six transmitted programmes. I never told my wife this but having the seen the internal pilot I was so knocked out by the dangerously novel but exciting format I quietly delayed my pending wedding date for that length of time until I was due to leave the Beeb and with my new wife go to work abroad.

What a furore TW3 caused with its biting satire and threatened libel cases by every lampooned celebrity. To a man they all backed down when they realised the publicity would only make them look even more stupid. “That Was the (TV) Era that Was!”.

Some years after, at Heathrow, I bumped into Ned Sherrin (first producer/director of the series) who told me that the BBC had been talking to him about reviving the format but he felt it was so unique it would never recapture its old glory in repetition. I had to agree as we parted company on to the same ‘plane… he to first class and me to stowage.

That was of course the start of David Frost’s rise to fame.