John Howell

Here are a couple of reminders of “Diary of a Young Man” that you may find interesting. The Senior Cameraman had yet to have his name on the front of the script: it was of course Reg Poulter.

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Geoff Fletcher

I  missed working on most of the series as I was at Evesham on TO19 until mid July, and briefly with Crew 12 on returning to TC before rejoining Crew 4. The last episode was shot on September 8th and 9th 1964 in TC4. I tracked a creeper on that one. There was a bigger than usual end of series booze-up at the Club afterwards as it doubled as Tim Healey’s stag do!

Mike Giles

Interesting to note the Freudian spelling slip in the SS’s name!

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David Brunt

Camera Script cover pages were always full of spelling mistakes of one sort or another.

I’ve just typed up all the script cover crew lists for “Z Cars” in 1967 and Lighting Supervisor Keith Eddelsen caused no end of spelling problems.  I’m not sure now how it should be spelled as I have about ten different variations.

There’s also an actor named Derek Chafer who also had a “best guess of the week” approach to name spelling.  I think I’m up to 20+ spellings on him.

John Howell

Both the Duty Schedule for July 1964 and the Staff List of January 1968 has Keith as “Edelsten”

Another amusing facet is to say the incorrect spelling aloud, then consider the accent of the person concerned.  It can suggest that he or she passed their name on vocally.