Granada Television--The First Generation

by Edited by John Finch, Michael Cox, and Marjorie Giles

• ISBN13: 9780719065149
• ISBN10: 0719065143
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2003-11-08
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This is a rich and readable collection of memoirs of those who worked at Granada during the first thirty years of its existence. It captures a climate of creative activity unique in the history of broadcasting, referred to now as the Golden Years of British Television. Lords Birt and Macdonald, Sir Denis Forman, Michael Parkinson, Michael Apted, Stan Barstow, Nick Elliott, Victoria Wood, Kenith Trodd, Jack Rosenthal, Anna Ford, Chris Kelly and Alan Plater are just a few of the many well known contributors who were responsible for creating the foundations on which Granada's considerable worldwide reputation was based. Shows like World in Action, Brideshead Revisited, A Family at War, Coronation Street, What the Papers Say, and many more described in this book were pioneers in their respective fields.

Author Biography

John Finch was a writer, producer and editor at Granada for over twenty years, Michael Cox was an Executive Drama Producer at Granada TV, and Marjorie Giles was a Producer at Granada TV throughout most of these thirty years.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Editors' foreword	viii
Preface: Granada 1957-92
DAVID PLOWRIGHT CBE	ix
Introduction: the development of commercial TV in Britain
JULIA HALLAM	1	(24)
Captains of industry	25	(10)
LORD BIKT OF LIVERPOOL, NICK ELLIOTT, SIR DENIS FORMAN
Granada and the north	35	(22)
COLIN CLARK, MARJORIE GILES, GEOFF LANCASHIRE, ANDY MAYER, MICHAEL PARKINSON, JACK ROSENTHAL CBE, JIM WALKER, CLAUDE WHATHAM
The Granada experience	57	(18)
GRAEME MCDONALD OBE, CHRISTOPHER MORAHAN, JEREMY PAUL, BRIAN TRUEMAN, HERBERT WISE
Production trainees	75	(12)
MICHAEL APTED, GORDON MCDOUGALL, CLAUDE WHATHAM
Drama	87	(50)
JIM ALLEN, STAN BARSTOW, DEREK BENNETT, JAMES BRABAZON, ROBIN CHAPMAN, MICHAEL COX, HARRY ELTON, RICHARD EVERITT, JOHN FINCH, ARTHUR HOPCRAFT, WALTER MARINER, ALAN PLATER, PHILIP PURSER, JOHN STEVENSON, KENITH TRODD, CLAUDE WHATHAM, PETER WILDEBLOOD, VICTORIA WOOD OBE
The illustrations	137	(22)
Remembered	159	(8)
Peter Eckersley by JACK ROSENTHAL CBE, Gerry Hagan by JOHN STRETCH, Harry Kershaw by JACK ROSENTHAL CBE, Philip Mackie by DEREK BENNETT
Comedy and music	167	(16)
BRIAN ARMSTRONG, MICHAEL COX, JOHNNIE HAMP, CHRIS KELLY, BARRY TOOK, LESLIE WOODHEAD OBE
Factual programmes	183	(34)
BRIAN BLAKE, DAVID BOULTON, RICHARD CREASEY, BARRIE HEADS, TIM HEWAT, VANYA KEWLEY, KURT LEWENHAK, LORD MACDONALD CBE, CLAUDIA MILNE, PATRICIA OWTRAM, ARTHUR TAYLOR
Spirit of Granada	217	(48)
LESLEY BEAMES, ANNA FORD, NORMAN FRISBY, BILL GILMOUR, ERIC HARRISON, STEVE HAWES, PETER MULLINGS MBE, PADDY OWEN, DENIS PARKIN, DAVID ROBINSON, ROY SHIPPERBOTTOM, MARK SHIVAS, JACK SMITH, LIZ SUTHERLAND, ANN SUUDI, CAROLE TOWNSEND
Short ends	265	(6)
BRIAN ARMSTRONG, PHIL BIRNBAUM, DIANA BRAMWELL, BRIAN COSGRAVE, BILL GILMOUR, LOIS RICHARDSON, ROY STONEHOUSE
Timeline	271	(5)
Biographies	276	(7)
Index	283