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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]
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Thames bid £32.5 million while Carlton Television placed a bid of £43.2 million, [46] and, since both Thames and Carlton were deemed to have passed the quality threshold, the licence was awarded to Carlton for having submitted the higher cash bid; the highest bidder in the auction, CPV-TV, was deemed to have failed on quality grounds. [47]
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]
The Thames ident is computerised. [12] 1985. 3 January – The last day of transmission using the 405-lines system. January – Thames does a deal with the international distributors for American production company Lorimar to purchase the UK broadcasting rights for American drama Dallas, at that time transmitted on BBC1.
A new Netflix true crime documentary, “What Jennifer Did,” recounts the chilling story of a young Canadian woman, Jennifer Pan, who allegedly plotted to kill both her parents in a murder-for ...
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 ...
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 ...