Westward Television Menu Some are open to the general public while others are restricted primarily to scholars . Producer: Roger Gage. Derry's Cross, Plymouth. On that evening they broadcast the first 25 minutes of Scottish Television's Hogmanay show live, and then cut away just before midnight when Roger Shaw appeared on camera in a traditional dinner jacket seated at an antique wooden desk, surrounded by staff wearing formal suits and holding film reels and 2-inch videotapes. 8.55 News 10 Discs A Gogo 50%, Westward TV area TAM ratings w/e 16 May 1965 7.30 Emergency Ward 10 On 28 December 1980, while the ITV network was showing Drake's Venture (Westward Television's two-hour filmed drama to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the globe, starring John Thaw), ITN interrupted a commercial break to announce ATV was to undergo major changes and Southern and Westward had not had their licences renewed by the IBA; the south-west franchise was awarded to TSW (Television South West). privacy policy. [3] Soon, the Westward board was in continual disagreement, and in January 1970 Cadbury was sacked and re-hired within days as the chairman of the Westward board, after he made outspoken remarks against the levy imposed on advertising revenue imposed by the IBA[4] while also withholding a Westward corporation tax bill to the Inland Revenue over the same matter. On July 10th 1966, 2.40-3.10pm Westward showed Farm '66 A Border TV Production, a complete course of 37 programmes leading to a City and Guilds certificate in farm machinery written and presented by Alfred Luke. 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This is later extended by a further year. In 2010 the buildings were demolished to make way for a new retail development. 7= Laramie (BBC), Week ending 27th Aug 1961 Westward staff returned to work a few days before the end of the ITV national strike of 1979. They come up against a very unpleasant villain, who in turn is badly hindered by a very mod-type Fairy Queen. 10= Take Your Pick 45% A Westward celebrity is missing. An illustration of a magnifying glass. For non-Westward intelligensia, it is none other than, gasp, Gus Honeybun! By the time you reach the 1950s, its safe to assume that the programme in question is lost unless you are very, very lucky. 6.05 News Westward headhunted her to edit and present its new women's interest programming. 7= Army Game 50% It was broadcast in 197374 and looked at hobbies. [2] By 17 January, the deal was done. The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), The National Broadcasting Company at the Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society Mass Communications History Collection, The Papers of Tom Brokaw: A Life and Career - University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections, ProQuest Historical Newspapers & Periodicals. 5 Professional Boxing (Rediffusion) 52 7= Take Your Pick this film explores the development of language and the concept of 'More' and 'Less' by way of experiments with children of different ages. 10.05 The Blackpool Show - Tony Hancock with Frankie Howerd, The Kaye Sisters, Lenny the Lion, John Junkin and Peter Gordeno 7.00 Double Your Money Music and Lyrics: John Bartlett and Terry Roper. Networked programmes are of course also covered. No recordings of the end of Westward Television were known to exist until 2012 (the 30th anniversary of the end of Westward), but then a full video recording of the evening, including the segment of STV's wiped Hogmanay show, was recovered by the classic television organisation Kaleidoscope. 8 Double Talk 39% 7 Compact (BBC July 11) 42% The full title of the programme was 'Westward News, Farm and Country Edition.' 11.55 News 1 Take Your Pick 62% 5 Coronation St 48% (Feb 28) From 730,000 homes in May 1961, three years later there are 1,100,000 homes, 68% of all homes in the region. Uploaded by 9 Bootsie and Snudge 44% 6.35 What do you Say? One of the best known programmes was Treasure Hunt, a game show presented by Kenneth Horne and Keith Fordyce, among others, which ran for 14 years and at one stage featured Jethro as the pirate co-host.[15]. A 45 second clip of an unidentified puppet show follows. 10 Film: Last Witness (BBC) 50%, TAM ratings for Westward TV area w/e Nov 25th 1962 5= Val Doonican Show (BBC) You can order records in advance to be ready for you when you visit Kew. HYDe Park 8262 . 5.00 * Shirley Temple Story Book - Mother Goose 7.00 Treasure Hunt An illustration of a horizontal line over an up pointing arrow. Landmark- This was a 1965/ 1966 quiz , with local Women's Institutes competing. A Westward celebrity is missing. Producer: Roger Gage. A number of experts would visit to present regular features: Ted Tuckerman would present a fishing spot called Tight Lines, Jon Miller (the zoologist, and also presenter of Southern Television's How) would present a spot about nature, architect David Young would examine local architecture of interest, and Topline Broadhurst would present regular gardening spots. 3 Black and White Minstrels (BBC) 42% Westward Television Limited | The National Archives Home Discovery HO 245/1032 Start new search Print Discovery help Bookmark You are in The National Archives' catalogue HO - Records. In early January 1969, plans were drawn up for a merger between Westward and the Keith Prowse company, as Peter Cadbury was chairman of both. Originally, there were three presenters Barry Westwood, Reginald Bosanquet and Kenneth MacLeod who rotated on a weekly basis. The weeknightly Westward Diary had two halves, separated by a commercial break. 6.05 * Westward Diary - special Christmas edition with Kenneth Macleod 10.10 Public Eye - Nobody Kills Santa Claus We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. The South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA) is the regional film . The Derry's Cross studios were designed by the architects Treadgold and Elsey, who had previously designed the TWW Studios at Pontcanna, Cardiff and Arno's Court, Bristol (Howett 1994). Check coronavirus cases in your area with our interactive map. In 1973 the Countryside Commission opened the South West Coast Peninsula Walk from Minehead in Somerset to Swanage in Dorset via Land's End. 9= Coronation St 44% (Feb 26) 6 Ward 10 (Sept 29) 54% Another popular long-running programme featured a puppet rabbit, Gus Honeybun, who appeared with the duty announcer who read out birthday greetings to the region's children: The story went that Gus was found wandering Dartmoor by a Westward Outside Broadcast unit. 4= Dixon of Dock Green (BBC) The news would be read by the duty announcer, so MacLeod's role on the Diary was not as a newsreader but a presenter holding the whole package together. Another "changing trend" is television viewing, a 50 second clip is shown from a Western, in fact Bonanza, before a graph shows Westward Television's increasing number of viewers. Westward Television Menu. 9= Coronation St41% (Aug 21) Description. [17] A second series began on 24 September 1962 and moved to 7pm.[18]. 10= BBC: What's My Line, 3.00 The Queen; Chipperfield's Circus 5= Taxi! 6= Professional Wrestling 10= Englebert, W/e 24th December 1967 (Westward) 1 Val Doonican Show (BBC) 55% 9= Take Your Pick, Week ending A mock West Country accent gives us a travelogue of the region, with pictures depicting rural pursuits. Local teams competed for The Golden Key. Or, you can request a quotation for a copy to be sent to you. June 20th 1965, 2.55-3.10pm, with Farmers Weather. 10.35 Out of Town 4 Till Death Us Do Part (BBC) 39% They included: Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. 5.55 News 3= Wagon Train 55% Westward's most successful local quiz was undoubtedly 7= Compact (Feb 20 BBC) 57% An illustration of a magnifying glass. So as we wish you a happy new year from Westward, it's also goodbye and thank you for all your support and kindness over the past 20 years. A fancy dress Christmas party is interrupted by shattering news. Programmes from before about 1977 are spotty in the broadcasters archives, getting less likely to have been kept the further back in time you go. They come up against a very unpleasant villain, who in turn is badly hindered by a very mod-type Fairy Queen. Westward Diary visits the open-air Minack Theatre. Westward also entered two programmes for the American National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awards: Breakout, the second part of the Wyvern at War programme, and Battle of Trafalgar, Westward's contribution to the Action at Sea series (Friday December 23rd 1966, Westward TV only, 6.05-6.30pm) 3= Burke's Law where adventure and untold fortune await you! for the Westward TV area There is a 40 second clip from Coronation Street, while The Beverley Hillbillies rates 45 seconds. A bill before the Oregon Legislature would use public dollars to set up a new state agency to promote . She edited a new programme for women . 29 April - Westward Television starts broadcasting. No events. we are informed the area is more than this traditional picture. Then some of the backroom staff are shown in action. 2 Top of the Pops (BBC) 54 All rights in the Westward and TSW material are held by The Box. (Friday December 23rd 1966, Westward TV only, 6.05-6.30pm) 2 Double Your Money 54% For non-Westward intelligensia, it is none other than, gasp, Gus Honeybun! 1963 No events. 5= The Informer 48% Westward Television Menu, Westward also entered two programmes for the American National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awards: Breakout, the second part of the Wyvern at War programme, and Battle of Trafalgar, Westward's contribution to the Action at Sea series, Westward's most successful local quiz was undoubtedly 3= Take Your Pick 61% Five million visitors arrive annuallly by road and rail. 1 Top Secret 51% 7= Saturday Show (BBC) 52% [1] 1962 No events. 7= Candid Camera44 This site is not affiliated with any broadcaster, production company or design/marketing/talent agency. A guide to researching the radio and television broadcasts of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in the collections of the Library of Congress. They come up against a very unpleasant villain, who in turn is badly hindered by a very mod-type Fairy Queen. Top BBC: Perry Mason Again, this is a business-to-business organisation, so charges accordingly. Music and Lyrics: John Bartlett and Terry Roper. Swizzley Treasure Hunt with host Keith Fordyce, Kenneth Horne in charge for a spell in the mid Sixties. 6= Professional Boxing (BBC) Westward Television asked Diary reporter Clive Gunnell to walk the new route and film his journey. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. Local programmes are shown, with a brief clip of a beauty contest. As Channel Television took its network feed from Stockland Hill, this obliged Channel to affiliate to ABC. 3 Dixon of Dock Green (BBC) 56% I can reveal that the quest is for none other than a VIP with winking eyes, long ears, and buck teeth. 3= Coronation Street (Mar 25th) ABC Weekend's filmed topical archives are held by British Path but that archive also includes decades of newsreel and news film - patience is required when searching. Division within HO - Commissions and committees (advisory and investigative), conferences and Royal Commissions. As with most other ITV companies, the station also produced a nightly Epilogue under the title of Faith for Life, produced largely from the continuity studio. To the Westward Television Menu 9 Steptoe and Son (BBC) 44% On 19 January 1972, there was a relaxation on the restrictions of broadcast hours that had been set by the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications. 3 Bertram Mills Circus (BBC) 53% 3 Family Solicitor 57% 1968. in the So as we say goodbye from Westward in 1981. TSW then began with a short video clip of a champagne bottle being opened, accompanied by the short audio version of the station ident "That's Soul, Write". Westward's programming schedule was always published as a magazine for the public to access. 5.55 News 5 Z Cars (BBC)48 Close down, Covering the West 5= Double Your Money Close down, 11am The Morning Service - from The Church with the Holy Name Claygate 1 Star Movie Dial M for Murder (WTV) 36% You may have to present yourself, having made an appointment, at their premises on the South Bank in London. It took five series before he reached the south coast. 1.00 News; Christmas Box with Noelle Gordon and Eula Parker, also Frank Ifield, Dorothy Ward During Westward's tenure, Derry's Cross had three studios. 10= Criss Cross Quiz 51% 2.40 Farm '66 -Materials with Alfred Luke (Border TV) Local teams competed for The Golden Key. 2 Route 66 49% Hastings Mann's Westward Ho! 5.45 News In 1981 the studios, along with the company, were purchased by TSW; in 1993 the building was sold to a firm of solicitors and converted into offices. 4 Take Your Pick 55% A Westward celebrity is missing. This footage is courtesy of South. Westward's region was surrounded on three sides by the sea, which was strongly reflected in Westward's output and its company logo, a silver model of the Golden Hind. on June 28, 2020, 259987-westward-windows-screenshot-settlers-camp.jpg. 3= Lorna Doone (BBC) John Doyle reports 40 years ago. Westward Television Menu. 6.05 Westward Diary; Weather 3.07 Chipperfield's All Star Christmas Circus - with Arthur Haynes and Richard Hearne It starred Tamar le Bailly as Maggie[22] and was produced and directed by John King,[23] the father of wildlife photographer and presenter Simon King, who featured as "The Buzzard Boy" in Episode 5.[24]. Contents 1 History 1.1 Franchise loss 1.2 Closure 2 Studios 3 Identity 4 Programming 4.1 Local programming 4.1.1 News and current affairs 4.1.2 Children 4.1.3 Agriculture These include the Library of Congress, the Paley Center for Media, and The UCLA Film & Television Archive. 12.30 Gus Honeybun and Yogi Bear 1= Variety Parade 48% 1= Dixon of Dock Green 48% (BBC) A 1965 18 minute promotional film from Westward Television. 2.00 The Cyril Stapleton Show - guest stars Ronnie Carroll, Cleo Laine, Janie Marden This had proved popular and led to the new series Walking Westward.[30]. [31] He had already walked the new Two Moors Walk from Plymouth to Lynmouth and filmed his journey for Westward Diary. Westward TV area 2 Coronation Street (July 8) 47% 6.15 Spin Along Santa with Alan Freeman, Joe Brown, The Viscounts, Tommy Bruce, Christine Campbell, host Leslie Hoare 10.05 The Pickwick Papers - film starring James Hayter This is an almost complete programme by Westward TV (a UK regional ITV company) from the 1960s. Well, it's very nearly the end of 1981 and, for Westward Television, it's the end of its franchise to provide an independent television service for the south-west. 1 The Dark Number 56% (BBC) He closed Westward Television with this announcement: Many thanks to our friends at Scottish Television, north of the border. .. 10.30am Small Time - The Christmas Tree 1 Coronation Street (Sept 24) 60% Three further Westward programmes were shown on the complete network, while three others were networked to the 'little network' of regional companies, including the children's series Go!
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