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Going for a Song group photo

Going for a Song team

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo from Jane Mclean, no reproduction without permission.

The photo includes left to right:

Standing: Harry Middleton (on screen porter, red coat), Vicky Jepson (AP), Clair Sawtell (researcher),Dave Balllantyne (cam), Lee Harrigan, Keith Salmon, Dave Ashton, Dave Bushell (lighting director), James Patterson, Louise Willcox (sound), Mark Smithers, Sue Needs, Dave Brazier (FM), John Carney (lighting director) left of Michael Parkinson (Pres), Adam Schoon (antiques consultant), Eric Knowles (Pres), Natalie (AFM in black behind Jane Mclean), Herbie Donnelly (sparks, next to Eric), Dave Farline (long hair), Ian Cull, Mike Johnson, Nick Harris (studio director, at back, blonde hair, glasses), Dougie (warm up guy in yellow shirt), Paul Woolston (beard, Cam supervisor), Juliet Henson? (in front of Paul, in black).

Seated: Claire Hobbs (SP), Cathy (Parkinson’s PA), Parkinson’s mother,  Jayne Mclean (PA), Andy Payne (camera), Howie Dartnall (camera)

Can’t Cook, Won’t Cook – photos Dave Bushell, comment from Caroline Officer

The second photo shows Jean Campbell holding our National Television Award for Best Daytime Programme 1997, beating Dale Winton’s ‘Supermarket Sweep’, ‘This Morning’ and ‘The Vanessa Show’. We all had so much fun working on the show and as you can see there are a lot of familiar faces in the team however, special mentions for Steve the washer upper, warm up man, Ray Turner, Orla, Silvana, Merilees and Annalisa, the amazing home economics team and the legendary (at least in Warrington) showbiz agent Dave Warwick (2nd pic, front row, far right)

Who can forget Ainsley’s black sausage show, the food mixer trick which somehow raised a laugh every single time and Sir Terry Wogan’s constant swearing!

Best team ever!

Caroline Officer

(Included in the photos are: vision engineers Ian Cull, Pete Eggleston, John Cooke, and Mike Tomlin, along with Sarah Williams, Jill Francis, Jim Gray, Caroline Officer, Andy Payne, Dave Bushell).


 

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Film Unit – photos from Maggie Humphries & Juliet Dean

Photos from Maggie Humphries & Juliet Dean.

These photos include stills of the Film Unit Office, featuring Bill Bohanna (Manager Film), Maggie Humphries & Diane Welch, Juliet Dean.

Photos of the crews include:

– Cameraman Mike Willie, and assistant Keith Froggatt and others, by the pond

– Keith Froggatt on the camera crane

– Cameramen Nigel Davey and Keith Froggatt

– John Couzens doing a tracking shot from a wheelchair

– John Parker and Roger Waldron recording 3 Minute Heroes

– Cameraman Eric Wise (below the cross)

– John Couzens, Eric Wise, Andy Payne and Tim Green, filming by a road

The Film Unit was a busy office on the 1st floor at the back of Pebble Mill.  All the allocation of film camera crews was done from the Office, as well as the ordering of specialist film equipment.  The Film Unit also organised the film editors, allocating editors to programmes, including news, dramas and documentaries.  Most filmed programmes were shot on 16mm film.  Shooting and editing on film were replaced in the late 1980s and 1990s by single camera video recording on beta and then digibeta, and the editing equipment changed from steenbecks to Avid.

Maggie Humphries & Diane Welch