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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]
Thames Television was involved in an attempt to win the new Channel 5 licence [58] [59] [60] when it was first advertised in early 1992. Thames was the main shareholder in a consortium (alongside Warner Bros. Television and others) called Channel Five Holdings.
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 ...
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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.
Leo Gregory (born 22 November 1978) is a British film and television actor. Notable roles in television and film include EastEnders as Mikey, Samson and Delilah (1996), Octane (2003), Stoned (2005), Green Street (2005), The Mark of Cain (2008), Wild Bill (2011), The Hooligan Factory (2014), and Once Upon a Time in London (2019).
Monsignor Quixote is a 1985 British television gentle satirical comedy film made by Thames Television for ITV.Adapted from Graham Greene's novel of the same name — in a much shorter pastiche of Miguel de Cervantes's 17th-century tome Don Quixote — its teleplay is credited to Greene and Christopher Neame, with Rodney Bennett as the director.
World of Sport is a British television sport programme which ran on ITV between 2 January 1965 and 28 September 1985 in competition with the BBC's Grandstand.Like Grandstand, the programme ran throughout Saturday afternoon.