{"id":20219,"date":"2025-12-06T17:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?page_id=20219"},"modified":"2025-12-06T17:01:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:01:52","slug":"the-bedmakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/the-bedmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bedmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\n How we all made Studio-based theatrical style multi-camera live or a “as-live” drama productions in the early 1960s.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n An old “Monitor” programme surfaced recently on the BBC Archive YouTube channel, and has been captured for you all before it disappears. (Like most BBC programmes of the time, not much of “Monitor” survives” or survives as snippets).\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n “The Bedmakers” – Studio 3 TC, Marconi Mk IVs, including a tower, a Heron and a Creeper.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1964: How to Make a Television Drama | Monitor | Making of… | BBC Archive<\/a><\/h4>

BBC arts programme Monitor documents the various processes that go into creating a single television drama. In this instance, the drama is a play called “The Bedmakers” written by David Turner – which will be broadcast as part of the BBC’s First Night series of contemporary television dramas.<\/p><\/blockquote>