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The Inter City Firm (ICF) is an English football hooligan firm associated with West Ham United, which was mainly active in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. The name came from the use of InterCity trains to travel to away games. [1] They were the subject of a 1985 Thames Television documentary, Hooligan. [2] [3]
A Thames TV camera (a Marconi Mark 3) at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford. The station continued formats inherited from its predecessors. These included the variety show Opportunity Knocks, Armchair Theatre, the last series of The Avengers, and the detective thrillers Callan and Public Eye, all inherited from ABC
Today was Thames Television's first regional news magazine programme, shown in the London area from 1968 to 1977. It was hosted by Eamonn Andrews, Bill Grundy and others. [1] For nine months, the programme featured Barbara Blake Hannah, the first Black reporter on British television, who was eventually driven off-air by racist complaints. [2] [3]
B&B (TV series) Bang on the Money; The Benny Hill Show; The Best of Magic; Bill Brand (TV series) The Bill; Blankety Blank; Bless This House (British TV series) Blockbusters (British game show) Bognor (TV series) The Boy Merlin; The Brack Report; Break the Safe; The Brian Conley Show; Britain's Got Talent: The Champions; Burnside (TV series)
2 October – The Times reports that Thames Television have paid the BBC £300,000 in compensation to make up for the additional costs it paid for new episodes of Dallas. [37] 3 October – Roland Rat, the puppet rodent who saved an ailing TV-am in 1983, transfers to the BBC. Commenting on the move, he says, "I saved TV-am and now I'm here to ...
At the start of 1988, weekend contractor LWT launches its own regional news service, ending the agreement whereby Thames produced the Friday evening regional news insert into LWT's Friday night magazine programme The Six O'Clock Show. 8 April – Thames transmits the controversial documentary Death on the Rock as part of its This Week series. 1989
co-production with Thames Television Van der Valk: 1972–1973 1977 1991–1992 The Sweeney: 1975–1978 Danger UXB: 1979 Quatermass: Minder: 1979–1994: co-production with Thames Television (1979–1991) and Central (1993–1994) Fox: 1980: co-production with Thames Television Widows: 1983–1985: Reilly, Ace of Spies: 1983: King and Castle ...
Bill Grundy Born William Grundy (1923-05-18) 18 May 1923 Manchester, Lancashire, England Died 9 February 1993 (1993-02-09) (aged 69) Stockport, England Nationality British Occupation Broadcaster Known for Today interview with the Sex Pistols Children 6 William Grundy (18 May 1923 – 9 February 1993) was an English journalist and broadcaster. As the host of Today, a regional magazine programme ...