{"id":4195,"date":"2015-07-18T08:05:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T08:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?page_id=4195"},"modified":"2015-07-18T08:05:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T08:05:23","slug":"more-memories-of-dock-green-nick","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/more-memories-of-dock-green-nick\/","title":{"rendered":"More Memories of Dock Green Nick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDixon Of Dock Green<\/a><\/p>\n

Vernon Dyer<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I was lent to Crew 16 (I think, with Geoff Fletcher) to do a \u201cDixon \u2026 \u201c  where the 4 main cameras were built into a courtroom set and we did all the other scenes?  I was on Colin Reid’s Crew 18 at the time, if I recall, so I’m guessing 1967-68.  Memory can be selective (and sometimes inventive) so I could be wide of the mark.  Incidentally, the first day I did a shift for Sky News (in 1990 or maybe 1991), who was my senior?  Colin Reid!<\/p>\n

Geoff Fletcher<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This must be the \u201cDixon\u2026\u201d  that Vernon is referring to – it was in September 1967. I can’t recall what the Union fuss was all about – can you? Here are (parts of)my diary entries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Friday 22nd September<\/td>\nNotes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
On Dixon with Crew 16. Verne Dyer also involved, on loan from 18. Both of us given a camera to do. Lot of Union chat throughout the day \u2013 I\u2019m fed up with the whole bl**dy business.<\/td>\n\nTC4: Dixon of Dock Green
\nCrew 16 \u2013 Ken Major
\nCamera 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Saturday 23rd September<\/td>\nNotes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\u2026 More Union talk \u2013 more fed up. Recording went OK. \u2026\n<\/td>\n\nTC4: Dixon of Dock Green
\nCrew 16 \u2013 Ken Major
\nCamera 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Wasn’t September 1967 \u201cWork to Rule\u201d time? When all the vision supervisors (acting) realised that they weren’t actually acting for anyone, just cheap labour?<\/p>\n

Howard Michaels, Peter Combes<\/strong><\/h3>\n

My main memory of Dixon was as a young  camera assistant around 1972. I wandered round the set and saw Jack Warner sitting quietly , he looked up saw me and said,‎ "As long as they keep writing this stuff, I’ll keep doing them!". He must have been around 70 plus at that time! <\/p>\n

In fact, Jack Warner was 76 in 1972 —  and kept working until 1978!<\/p>\n

John Hays<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Dixon — he was in the habit of sniffing so each recording I worked on started with "cue the sniff, cue Jack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pat Heigham<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Cue…A cheerful Director I worked with, with a sense of humour, always said he wanted a scene with a character named \u201cCumber\u201d, so he could call: "Cut, and cue-cumber!"<\/p>\n

I guess he might have his wish if directing our Benedict!<\/p>\n

Graham Maunder<\/strong><\/h3>\n

When I set up Awfully Nice Video back in 1988 we were tempted to call it just ‘Monkeys’ in the hope that one day we could work with a production company called \u2018Peanuts\u2019 –  and have the end credit reading:
\n  \u201cThis programme was made by Monkeys for Peanuts\u201d !<\/p>\n

Pat Heigham<\/strong><\/h3>\n

“Pay peanuts – Get monkeys” was allegedly coined by James Goldsmith.<\/p>\n

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

Shades of the Librarian from Terry Pratchett’s "Discworld"!<\/p>\n

Pat Heigham<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Arthur Rigby, who played the station sergeant in \u201cDixon…\u201d,  was always behind the desk and so would paste his script into the prop ledger and never bothered to learn it.<\/p>\n

However, a mischievous camera crew, at supper break, changed round all the pages! Panic, as he frantically leafed through to find the right place! And it was live?<\/p>\n

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