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Anglia TV Schedule for Monday January 25th 1965
4.35 Crossroads
5.00 Seeing Sport
5.25 Movie Magazine
5.55 News; About Anglia
6.30 Portrait of a Village
7 All Our Yesterdays
7.30 Coronation Street
8 Crane- Man in the Gold Waistcoat
8.55 News; Weather
9.10 The Image, play with Dinsdale Landen
10.30 In Search of a Holiday
11 News; Dateline
11.15 Local News, Weather
11.18 Reflection, Close.
Note- Anglia TV's Romper Room was, at this stage, being shown twice weekly, each Tuesday and Friday at 5pm
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Anglia TV Schedule for Friday July 2nd 1965
1.45 Wimbledon 1965 - Men's Singles Final
4.35 The Romper Room
5.00 Criss Cross Quiz - with Danny Blanchflower
5.25 Mister Ed - Horse Party
5.55 News
6.05 About Anglia
6.35 Crossroads
7.00 Contest - Chris Kelly with Haverhill versus Ramsey
7.30 Emergency- Ward 10 - Mrs Charles' future continues to cause anxiety
8.00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - The Magnus Beam
8.55 News
9.10 Peyton Place - Betty makes a decision that alters the lives of her relatives
9.40 The Man in Room 17 - Confidential Report
10.35 News Headlines
10.38 Cinema
11.05 Dateline Westminster
11.20 Anglia News Headlines and Weather
11.25 Reflection- Rev Dr John O'Neill, Westminster College Cambridge
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Anglia TV Schedule for Sunday December 6th 1965
11.00 Holy Mass from Sacred Heart, Moreton, Wirral
12.15 Science in the Garden
12.35 Les Trois Coups -12.55
1.50 Weather Trends
1.52 Farming Diary - John Jenkins with Factory Farming in the Future
2.20 The Best Years of Our Lives - film with Frederic March
5.10 Match of the Week - Ipswich Town v Rotherham Utd
5.40 Mr Piper
6.00 Weather Forecast; News
6.15 Ring a Bell - No 10 Love and Serve, the story of the Earl of Shaftesbury
6.35 About Religion - Rev Who?
7.05 In Our Time - Rev L Johansen Berg- Anglia TV Production
7.10 A Date With Music - Steve Race with the New English Singers
7.25 Danger Man - Are You Going to be More Permanent?
8.25 The New London Palladium Show - Jimmy Tarbuck with Richard Hearne, The Honeycombs
9.25 News
9.35 Redcap - A Question of Initiative
10.35 The Eamonn Andrews Show,
followed by Late Weather Summary
11.25 Postscript- Rev Alan Robson, Chaplain of Norwich College of Education
Note- One feature of some of Anglia's schedules in the 1960's was of the inclusion of an extra long film on Sunday afternoons.
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Anglia TV Schedule for Friday March 25th 1966
11.07 Schools
4.35 The Romper Room
5.00 Lost in Space - The Keeper, part 2
5.55 News
6.05 About Anglia
6.35 Crossroads
7.00 Country Style with Cy Grant , Bill Clifton, Paddy Bell
7.30 Emergency- Ward 10
8.00 The Fugitive - The White Knight
8.55 News
9.10 Election Broadcast (another bore no doubt)
9.20 Cinema
9.50 The Liars
10.45 Late Night Final
11.00 Election '66
11.25 The Full Man - The Novel: Landscape and Background with Kenneth Haigh, Avice Landon
11.53 Reflection - Rev Quentin Jackson, St Mary's Friary
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Anglia TV Schedule for Sunday August 14th 1966
11.00 Holiday Service -12.15
2.50 Weather Trends
2.52 Farming Diary
3.20 Opportunity Knocks!
4.10 The Dickie Valentine Show
4.40 The Magic Boomerang My Friend Higgins
5.05 Man of the World - The Bandit rpt
5.59 Weather; News
6.15 Tingha and Tucker
6.35 What Do You Say? Religious Quiz, Grampian TV versus Southern TV
6.55 In View guest Kenny Lynch
7.25 Whisky Galore! film starring Basil Radford
9.00 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Franchot Tone in The Final Performance
9.55 News
10.05 The Bruce Forsyth Show - with Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Tom Jones
11.05 Crisis A Lion Amongst Men starring James Whitmore, Tommy Sands
followed by Weather
11.55 Postscript Rev Alfred Bull, of St Mary Magdalene Ipswich
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Anglia TV Schedule for Wednesday July 5th 1967
1.00 The Royal Show with Raymond Brooks-Ward, Lionel Hampden
1.45 Wimbledon 1967
4.33 Anglia Newsroom
4.35 The Romper Room
4.55 The Adventures of Robin Hood Six Strings to his Bow rpt
5.25 Country Boy Jack Hargreaves
5.55 News
6.05 About Anglia
6.35 Sixth Form Challenge Bradford Grammar School versus Roedean School
7.00 All Our Yesterdays
7.30 Coronation Street
8.00 Danger Man No Marks for Servility
9.00 Half Hour Story Maxine Audley in Between Men
9.30 Cinema
10.00 Andrew Gardner with the News at Ten
10.30 Professional Wrestling
11.15 The Music People with Ronnie Hilton (Scottish TV Production)
followed by Weather
11.45 Reflection Rev D Melville-Jones, Organiser of Religious Instruction Norfolk Education Committee
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Anglia TV Schedule for
Boxing Day 1967
(this was a Tuesday)
10.40 The Romper Room
11.05 Return to Oz
11.55 Robin Hood - The Prisoner rpt
12.20 The Lady is a Square - film with Frankie Vaughan
1.55 News
2.00 World of Sport
4.45 Popeye
4.55 Do Not Adjust Your Set
5.20 Zoo Time
5.50 Results Round Up
5.55 News
6.05 About Anglia
6.35 Crossroads
7.00 The Benny Hill Show
8.00 Great Expectations film with John Mills rpt
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Down At the Old Bull and Bush - with The Bachelors, Bud Flanagan
11.30 Reflection - Rev Quentin Jackson of St Mary's Friary
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Anglia TV Schedule for Tuesday March 19th 1968
11.05 Schools
3.03 Anglia Newsroom
3.05 The Romper Room
3.30 The Budget
5.25 Come Here Often
5.55 News
6.05 The Price to Pay - About Anglia special on the budget
6.35 Crossroads
7.00 Carry On Constable (film)
8.35 Geordie Girl - Susan Maughan with Alan Price
9.05 The Budget- Roy Jenkins for the Government
9.20 Cinema - Hepburn and Tracy
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Market in Honey Lane - Balance of Payment
11.30 Reflection - Rev George Reed, Rector of Barking with Damsden
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Anglia TV Schedule for
Friday November 1st 1968
11 Schools
4.05 Anglia Newsroom
4.10 The Romper Room
4.30 Crossroads
4.55 Bugs Bunny
5.20 The Discotheque
5.50 News
6.00 About Anglia
6.30 University Challenge
7.00 Time for Blackburn
7.30 Custer
8.30 Never a Cross Word
9.15 Frost on Friday
10.00 News
10.30 Cinema
11.00 Probe
11.30 NYPD
11.55 Reflection
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Anglia TV Schedule for
Sunday November 16th 1969
11 Holy Communion
12.15 Sunday Session-1.30
1.55 Weather; Farming Diary - with John Slater
2.30 The Baron - smugglers are using the Baron's Paris office
3.25 University Challenge
3.55 Match of the Day
4.45 The Golden Shot - guest Bruce Forsyth
5.30 The Forest Rangers - The Wolf
followed by The Weather
6.00 News
6.15 All Creatures Great and Small - The Ant & The Dove/ Kaaman
6.35 Tomorrow's Child - Whose?
7.00 Stars on Sunday with James Mason, Moira Anderson
7.25 Royal Variety Performance
10.25 News and Weather
10.35 The Avengers - My Wildest Dream
11.30 Tonight - with David Nixon
12.05 Reflection - YMCA Week of Prayer and World Fellowship
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TAM ratings w/e 26th June 1960
(Anglia TV Area)
1 Ward 10 ATV 67%
2 No Hiding Place A-R 65
3 Twenty Questions A-R 55
4 Delfont's Sunday Show ATV 53
4= Bonanza ATV presentation * 53
6 The Variety Show Granada 52
6= Boxing BBC 52
8 Knight Errant 60 Granada * 50
9 Criss Cross Quiz Granada 48
9= Wagon Train Anglia presentation * 48
(*=NOT in National Top Ten)
TAM ratings w/e 4th September 1960
(Anglia TV Area)
1 Rawhide 67%
2 Bonanza 66*
3 Ward 10 (Aug 30th) ATV 65
4 Ward 10 (Sept 2nd) ATV 60
5 Snapshot Hour A-R 59
5= No Hiding Place A-R 59
7 Mess Mates Granada 57*
8 The Love of Mike A-R 55
9 Delfont's Sunday Show ATV 50
10 Wagon Train 49*
(*=NOT in National Top Ten)
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Some local Anglia TV programmes
About Anglia was the local news magazine. Among the many famous names to work on it were Chris Kelly and Bob Wellings. Dick Joice was perhaps the best remembered local host.
Of course the long running Survival wildlife series came to national prominence and won Anglia many awards.
Countryman about local wildlife, which started as a feature in The Midday Show, was shown on Fridays from June 1960, hosted by Aubrey Buxton, later to be the founder of Survival. It was also shown in the TWW region from that autumn, as part of an exchange of programmes. The programme continued for some years, a later host being Colin Willock.
The Midday Show had the traditional quota of minor personalities as guest visitors, including Russ Conway on February 6th 1960, whilst film star Paul Carpenter was in the studio next day. Susan Hampshire, then unknown, continued as resident singer until February 19th 1960 when she left to take the lead in Follow that Girl. Her final day was described thus by AG Williams: "There was a family party spirit, for apart from farewells to fellow artists and other regular participants, the cameras swept round to include all the normally unseen staff and technicians." The show wasn't the same after her departure and was axed in that summer's schedules.
Anglia's first major documentary High Flight had the distinction of being networked on December 16th 1959; it was the RAF story, filmed at Coltishall base with Hughie Green interviewing a well known wartime pilot and also including some "exciting aerial sequences."
Town and Gown was a debate formed out of the Cambridge Union, chaired by "genial" Dr Glyn Daniel, a fellow of St John's and on the Anglia Board of Directors. The first thirty minute discussion was Television is Not Sound - a report says the subject "was treated in lively fashion by the speakers in a haze of tobacco smoke arising from churchwarden pipes." Originally scheduled for six fortnightly programmes, it was given a longer run since it was "worthwhile and ever full of unpredictable interest."
Arena with Brian Connell was a long running forum in home and foreign affairs. Eventually it was buried as a part of About Anglia, but was revived in its own 15 minute slot again in 1966.
Anglia ran a few local quiz programmes, one of the first being Disc Quiz in summer 1960. Music Match in 1963 was another music quiz with prizes of up to, don't faint, £100. Peter Fenn, best remembered later for his role in Sale of the Century, provided the music. Contestants had to guess the twenty tunes he played, often heavily disguised. In 1965 the top prize was still a mere £100.
Contest was the uninspiring title of a 1965 inter-town quiz hosted by Chris Kelly that aimed to discover which town knows the most about East Anglia.
There were quizzes for children too, one in 1964 being In Between introduced by Peter Tuddenham. He hosted another children's quiz the following year in Challenge Trophy
an inter-town battle for sixth formers. In 1966 it was Bob Wellings who hosted this quiz with the ten second clock.
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The first Anglia TV plays
Under George More O'Ferrall (see below), Anglia TV built up an impressive portfolio of drama productions, all the more so because the company was always struggling to compete with the Big Four of ITV.
Though their output was only sporadic, one could say it was quality rather than quantity.
The first Play of the Week, the Violent Years, Oct 27th 1959, is reviewed elsewhere on this page.
Second production was Sweet Poison (December 15th 1959) with John Ireland, Dawn Addams and Sandra Dorne.
Next was Carrington VC on January 26th 1960 with Richard Todd, Ann Todd and Dorothy Tutin.
The fourth was The Trap shown on Tuesday March 8th 1960 as part of the Play of the Week series. It starred Jennifer Daniel and Betty Bascomb, and came seventh in the national TAM ratings (61%).
In the TV Playhouse series, The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Muschamp was shown on April 29th 1960.
George More O'Ferrall (1907-1982)
was of the most distinguished producers of his era to emerge through television,
he had the distinction of directing the first ever play to be shown on British tv,
Murder in the Cathedral, in 1936.
He was awarded the medal for the Outstanding Achievement of the Year in 1947
for his BBC production of Hamlet. In the early 1950's he moved into films, but continued working
occasionally for the BBC, then in 1957 making his ITV debut in ABC's Armchair Theatre production This Was A Woman.
So it was something of a coup when the newly formed Anglia Television appointed him as Head of Drama in 1959 and his expertise gave Anglia a fine reputation for superb drama, producing many distinguished dramas,
such as A Letter from the General in 1962 with Anna Neagle.
He once said "this intimate medium has such scope for directors- and for the acting skill of saying one thing
while being seen to think something different."
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Carnival Time
Izeena ('The Zany')
Anglia TV's The Romper Room
Threepence.
Pictured below was Helen Youngman who was allowed to sit on Threepence, "she has never forgotten that thrill," said her mother in 2008.
watch from behind the scenes, which we duly did. I remember standing amid huge lights and cables with Dad and Vic and
seeing Miss Rosalyn and the six children on the set.