As a result of my failing memory I am unable to recall the senior cameraman or crew but this event sticks in my memory. The show was “The Jimmy Savile Show”, or something like it, a precursor of “Jim’ll fix It”, recorded as live in the TV Theatre. It was a general children’s entertainment show with chat, pop groups and the finale was a quiz with contestants from the audience. On stage was a mole crane and two peds with a forth camera in the well on a Motorised Vinten. I was operating the ped on the stage camera right of the set, the same side as a section of the audience on stage sitting on bean bags. The end sequence involved Jim crossing downstage from the quiz set upstage of the proscenium arch to the interview set to close the show. The design of the set failed to allow for a mole crane and two peds passing through the proscenium arch between the interview set and the stage audience at the same time so the rehearsal of the first show ground to a halt at this point and no one seemed to have any idea round the problem. After establishing that the programme budget allowed for editing, an expensive option in those days, I suggested a solution. Get Jim to acknowledge the applause from the quiz set in a close shot but not to move. On the directors cue the mole tracks back letting the peds reposition downstage then the mole tracks in offering a wider shot of Jim to bring him downstage to close the show. Great idea and it worked for five of the six shows. On the last show Jim forgot to wait for his cue and started downstage too soon. Like the professional we were, we all went for it and it very nearly succeeded until a member of the stage audience stood up and stopped me in my tracks, before I fell over a baby hippopotamus. No I did not dream it and I was sober!!