See also …
Dixon Of Dock Green

Vernon Dyer

I was lent to Crew 16 (I think, with Geoff Fletcher) to do a “Dixon … “  where the 4 main cameras were built into a courtroom set and we did all the other scenes?  I was on Colin Reid’s Crew 18 at the time, if I recall, so I’m guessing 1967-68.  Memory can be selective (and sometimes inventive) so I could be wide of the mark.  Incidentally, the first day I did a shift for Sky News (in 1990 or maybe 1991), who was my senior?  Colin Reid!

Geoff Fletcher

This must be the “Dixon…”  that Vernon is referring to – it was in September 1967. I can’t recall what the Union fuss was all about – can you? Here are (parts of)my diary entries.

Friday 22nd September	Notes
On Dixon with Crew 16. Verne Dyer also involved, on loan from 18. Both of us given a camera to do. Lot of Union chat throughout the day – I’m fed up with the whole bl**dy business.	TC4: Dixon of Dock Green Crew 16 – Ken Major Camera 6
Saturday 23rd September	Notes
… More Union talk – more fed up. Recording went OK. …	TC4: Dixon of Dock Green Crew 16 – Ken Major Camera 6

Bernie Newnham

Wasn’t September 1967 “Work to Rule” time? When all the vision supervisors (acting) realised that they weren’t actually acting for anyone, just cheap labour?

Howard Michaels, Peter Combes

My main memory of Dixon was as a young  camera assistant around 1972. I wandered round the set and saw Jack Warner sitting quietly , he looked up saw me and said,‎ "As long as they keep writing this stuff, I’ll keep doing them!". He must have been around 70 plus at that time! 

In fact, Jack Warner was 76 in 1972 —  and kept working until 1978!

John Hays

Dixon — he was in the habit of sniffing so each recording I worked on started with "cue the sniff, cue Jack.”

Pat Heigham

Cue…A cheerful Director I worked with, with a sense of humour, always said he wanted a scene with a character named “Cumber”, so he could call: "Cut, and cue-cumber!"

I guess he might have his wish if directing our Benedict!

Graham Maunder

When I set up Awfully Nice Video back in 1988 we were tempted to call it just ‘Monkeys’ in the hope that one day we could work with a production company called ‘Peanuts’ –  and have the end credit reading:
  “This programme was made by Monkeys for Peanuts” !

Pat Heigham

“Pay peanuts – Get monkeys” was allegedly coined by James Goldsmith.

Shades of the Librarian from Terry Pratchett’s "Discworld"!

Pat Heigham

Arthur Rigby, who played the station sergeant in “Dixon…”,  was always behind the desk and so would paste his script into the prop ledger and never bothered to learn it.

However, a mischievous camera crew, at supper break, changed round all the pages! Panic, as he frantically leafed through to find the right place! And it was live?