{"id":4187,"date":"2015-07-18T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T07:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?page_id=4187"},"modified":"2015-07-31T07:35:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T07:35:17","slug":"more-z-cars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/more-z-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"More “Z-Cars”"},"content":{"rendered":"

see also:
\nZ-Cars<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cZ Cars\u201d 1964<\/h2>\n

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Mike Minchin<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Recently (April 2015) Facebook’s \u201cMemories of Television Centre\u201d has featured a posting  by Adrian Godfrey of a photo taken on the set of \u201cZ-Cars\u201d in 1964. I have a similar picture.<\/p>\n

The two shots (were there more?) were taken by one of our managers (don’t ask me who) as an illustration of one of the things that Tech Ops did (and I’m sure there were other operations photographed).  I received my copy years later when a later generation of Camera Managers were clearing out their cupboard.  I assume that Adrian’s left TC from the same source.  The actors were Dame Wendy Hillier and Brian Blessed, and I am now fairly certain that the cameramen were
\n1. ? (foreground or oof left),
\n2. Chris Glass (through the door, right) and
\n3. Me, Mike Minchin, central.<\/p>\n

I am fairly certain that that session in TC4 was on the 17th and 18th November 1964, and the director was Shaun Sutton – Series Producer, reverting to Directing because of the standing of the guest star.  The date and the show I am sure about – and someone has checked from other sources.   The show was virtually a 2-hander between Brian and Wendy. <\/p>\n

Memory says, again I’m fairly certain, that it was this episode, that at one point Shaun had planned for three cameras to pass down a narrow defile during a film insert to get to the next scene.  The defile had a photo-blow-up on one side and the window of the drawing-room set we were about to shot on the other.  The scene consisted of Dame Wendy passing round the room picking up items recalling her memories.  On the live transmission only two of the cameras made it to the set.  Just before the cut to the scene I hissed to the other man (was it Chris? can’t remember): \u201c\u2026You hold her in Mid shot and I’ll go for the close-ups of what she’s looking at.\u201d So we and the Vision Mixer busked the scene, and I doubt that anyone outside the studio were aware that something had gone wrong.  That was also the episode where Dame Wendy picked up a glass (or similar) rather clumsily and it broke.  She cut herself quite badly and was whisked away to Surgery, and did the rest of the play wearing a bandage.<\/p>\n

I joined Crew 6 as acting Cam 3 in mid September 1964, and over the next 2 months did all of \u201cZ Cars\u201d with them, mostly in TC3.  This was the only Z-Cars where I did Cam 3 in TC4.  I now ask who was Sen.Cam of Crew 6 at the time?<\/p>\n

Dave Mundy<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I know this is 3 years later and doesn’t give the complete camera crew:<\/p>\n

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\n\"ZCars_3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Mike Minchin<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This sound crew list from 1967 has what I believe is the clue to who the Crew 6 Senior Cameraman was in 1964 : Dave Thompson.  That tickles my memory.  So the photos I sent you (probably) "feature" Dave, Me and Chris Glass.  Later I always claimed
\nthat doing those 9 (or so) live Zeds were what taught me how to do my job.<\/p>\n

Z Cars Signature Tune<\/h2>\n

For all those who have the "Z-Cars Theme" etched on their brains… or pressed into vinyl…<\/p>\n

From the:
\n\"ZCars_0\"<\/a><\/p>\n

17:39Saturday 30 May 2015<\/p>\n

"… THE man behind two of the most iconic TV themes of all times, \u201cZ-Cars\u201d and \u201cThe Onedin Line\u201d, has died at the age of 87. <\/p>\n

Born in Bakehouse Close, off the Royal Mile, the son of Jock Keating, a local bookmaker, John \u201cJohnny\u201d Keating would go on to be one of the Capital\u2019s best respected musicians, songwriters and arrangers … "<\/p>\n

David Brunt, Ian Hillson<\/strong><\/h3>\n

It should, perhaps, be pointed out that it was Fritz Spiegl and his wife Bridget Fry who did the theme for \u201cZ Cars\u201d, with Bridget getting a composer credit.  It reached number 33 in the pop charts in March 1962. <\/p>\n

See (Bill Rogers)  http:\/\/tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/06\/johnny-keating.html<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

Johnny Keating just did a record cover version, riding on the back of the success of the series.  Keating\u2019s version rose to number 5 the following month \u2013 and cost the 14-year-old  Ian Hillson six shillings and fourpence in his local record shop.<\/p>\n

From the Bill Rogers website:  "…For over 40 years, Johnny Keating\u2019s version of the Z-Cars tune has played Everton FC onto the pitch at Goodison Park…"<\/p>\n

Hugh Sheppard<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The theme is certainly etched on my brain, having worked on Zs from ep.1 (January 1962) until circa episode.120 (Summer 1964): Cable-clearer to Camera 3.   <\/p>\n

The first cutting (from the Edinburgh News) showed Judi Dench from \u201cMade for Each Other\u201d  Sept.1963 with the full theme music (albeit with the later Ford Zodiac).<\/p>\n

What’s so co-incidental is that on Saturday on BBC-2 at 22.35, \u201cThe Many Faces of Judi Dench\u201d  had a different clip from the same episode. (But NOT the shot I can still recall from the viewfinder of Ms. Dench in tight jeans being taken back to the Newtown Cop-shop…)<\/p>\n

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see also: Z-Cars \u201cZ Cars\u201d 1964      (Click on the pictures below to see a larger version:      use your Browser’s BACK button to return to this page)             Mike Minchin Recently (April 2015) Facebook’s \u201cMemories of Television Centre\u201d has featured … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4187","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/author\/alec\/","display_name":"Alec Bray"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 11 years ago","modified":"Updated 11 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on July 18, 2015","modified":"Updated on July 31, 2015"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on July 18, 2015 7:30 am","modified":"Updated on July 31, 2015 7:35 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4436,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4187\/revisions\/4436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}