The Changing Face of Presentation
Saturday 6th June 2009, 12:00 - 7:00 pm Amblecote Room, Stourbridge Town Hall, Crown Centre,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY8 1YE, UK
Free Admission
Reporter Andy Bevan produced this feature on our event for ITV1's Central Tonight programme which aired in the Midlands region on Friday 3rd July 2009:
12:05 pmThe Big Show - from the opening night of Tyne Tees Television, this show features Dickie Henderson, Bill Maynard, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers. Also including part of the advert breaks before, during and after the programme.
1:00 pmRest Assured - an untransmitted pilot episode for a seventies sitcom derived from Coronation Street.
1:30 pmThe BBC Trailers of Maurice Kanareck - gems rescued from wiping and kept in Maurice's loft for 50 years. Specially made material for Detective, Juke Box Jury, It's a Square World, It's a Knockout, The Good Old Days and Late Night Line Up amongst others.
1:45 pmBreak
2:00 pmGuest Panel - And Coming Up Tonight - Maurice Kanareck, Norman Tozer and Sally Terry are the first guests on our Continuity Panel, hosted by Wes Smith. Maurice was a Presentation Director for both the BBC and ATV. Norman was a continuity announcer for ATV. Sally was the first female announcer on Tyne Tees in the 1950s. This panel will include examples of their work rescued from skips and house lofts, including an ATV interview with Diana Dors unheard since the 1960s.
3:00 pmOur Finest Idents - Kaleidoscope has trawled the broadcaster archives to find master tapes of surviving idents and continuity never seen before. Highlights include ITV's 1969 Christmas promotion and brand new 35mm transfers of specially made closedown features.
3:15 pmGuest Panel - Later On... We Will Be Joining - Our Continuity Panel continues with Wes Smith hosting a discussion with Mike Prince, Su Evans and Mark Lipscombe. Wes worked for Central, Meridian and Thames Valley regions. Mike worked for ATV and Central, plus a variety of ad hoc announcing including Thames and Southern. Su became a very familiar face to ATV and Central viewers doing in-vision continuity in the eighties. Mark was an announcer for Thames and Carlton London in the eighties and nineties and more recently has been a presenter at Meridian. They bring with them favourite moments from their personal collections including the final broadcast of ATV with Shaw Taylor; material made for the ITV50 celebrations and an original 1960s ATV afternoon closedown film. The panel also features a contribution on video from former Central East announcer Helen Lloyd.
4:30 pmAfternoon Tea
5:00 pmDramarama - "The Secret of Croftmore". A young unknown actor called David Tennant makes his first outing into the genre of sci-fi...
5:30 pmNew Zealand Censor Clips - recovered from New Zealand in 2009, this short reel of 16mm clips - censored from the original programmes due to content - contains previously missing footage from The First Lady and Emergency Ward 10 amongst others.
5:45 pm40 Years of ITV - a special news programme edited and hosted by Wes Smith that explores the origins of ITV. This programme contains wonderful behind the scenes interviews and footage, plus great clips from the history of ATV and ABC Television.
6:00 pmThe Masterspy - William Franklyn and the late Clement Freud star in the classic mystery quiz game, the only edition that survives on original Quad tape (TX: 14/07/1979).
6:45 pmThank You and Goodnight - Spike Milligan reads a closedown thought for the end of an evening.
SECOND VIEWING AREA
A Tribute to the End of an Era at Yorkshire Television
12:05 pmThe opening ceremony of Yorkshire Television - the opening of Yorkshire Television's new studios in Leeds is attended by John Stonehouse and wife, the Earl of Scarborough, Harold Wilson, Stuart Wilson, Laurie Higgins, Sir Richard Graham, the Duchess of Kent and Donald Baverstock. This was the first programme broadcast by Yorkshire Television and was followed by Test Match Cricket from Headingley.
12:10 pmFirst Night - Bob Monkhouse hosts the variety spectacular that launched YTV, also featuring Frankie Vaughan, Daniel Remy, Toni Lamond and David and Marianne Dalmour.
1:00 pmMade in Yorkshire. It's 1968 and Yorkshire, the largest county in England, is to get its own television station. Michael Parkinson pays his own personal tribute to his home county, which is entering a new era of growth and development. The programme includes specially shot footage of various Yorkshire landmarks, cities and landscapes, plus filming of the new television studios being built on Kirkstall Road (including interiors of the new offices and studios, with staff at work).
1:30 pmCastle Haven - from Emmerdale Farm's creator Kevin Laffan, the sole surviving part episode of this seventies YTV soap opera stars Jack Carr, Gretchen Franklin, Arthur Hewlett, Roy Barraclough and a pre-Tiswas Sally James.
1:45 pmBreak
2:00 pmFuneral Games - Michael Denison, Ian McShane and Bill Fraser star in this play by Joe Orton.
3:00 pmDaddy Kiss It Better - starring Michael Craig, Dilys Laye and Hilda Braid, this play was directed by former Kaleidoscope guest Christopher Hodson.
4:00 pmThe Root of all Evil? - "What's in it for me?" From the pen of Anthony Skene, this play features Jean Marsh, Ronald Allen and George Layton. The theme music was composed by Ron Grainer and the programme ends with two YTV end captions, one of which was never used on air.
5:00 pmDear Mother... Love Albert - "The Delegate" - comedy series starring Rodney Bewes (TX: 16/05/1970).
5:30 pmMr Moon's Last Case - based on a book by Brian Patten, this fantastical children's drama stars Stratford Johns and is narrated by Alun Armstrong.
6:00 pmStarring John Moulder-Brown... chosen by Sue Tibbles, winner of our Christmas auction in 2007, we present Victorian Scandals - "Skittles". John Moulder-Brown heads a cast also featuring Maureen O'Brien, Julian Fellowes, Jonathan Coy and Simon Callow in this historical drama.
7:00 pmClosedown
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