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Geoff Fletcher

I got to thinking about BBC colleagues mentioned by name in my diaries from 1963 to early 1970 – who and how many and so on. I have started going through the entries and putting the name mentioned on a spreadsheet.

We all knew and interacted with so many people back then!

Some names I recall well but others have become a mystery.

I have reached the end of 1967 now, and for the record, the individual totals are as follows:

1963 – 1967

Admin & Allocations 5
Autocue Operators 3
TC Club Barmaid 1
Cameras 146
Caption Operator 1
Designer 1
Drama Directors 10
Drama Producers 2
Engineer 1
Film Cameras 2
Floor Managers 6
LE Directors 7
LE Producers 1
Make-Up 19
Management 4
OB Staff 3
Office Secretaries 11
Production Secretaries 6
Radio TOs 10
Sound 28
Sports Producer 1
TM1s 2
TM2s/TOMs 35
Vision Mixers 17
Wardrobe 2
Wood Norton 6
Others TBC 44 

BBC TV was like a wonderful club – I guess I never had so many working acquaintances and/or friends at any one period ever again in my life. No wonder we all look back to those halcyon days with such happy memories.

 

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