9 London Palladium Show 51% 1.05 Christmas Box - with Noele Gordon Networked programmes are of course also covered. It developed a reputation for homely presentation and for being more ambitious than Westward but lost in the auction-style 1991 franchise round when it was deemed to have bid too much money for its franchise. 7= Ward 10 (Nov 23) 6.30 Stars in the West - Theatre Royal Drury Lane, with Laurence Harvey The Westward Beat Competition had a panel of judges that included Brian Epstein and Dick Rowe and was won by The Rustiks.[21]. For more details of these cookies and how to disable them, Script: Stuart Hutchison and Roger Gage. 6.15 Spin Along Santa with Alan Freeman, Joe Brown, The Viscounts, Tommy Bruce, Christine Campbell, host Leslie Hoare 5.05 Weaver's Green 10= Criss Cross Quiz 51% 10= Take Your Pick, TAM ratings for Westward TV area w/e Dec 3rd 1961 8.55 News 4 Ironside 49% (BBC) 1.00 News; Christmas Box with Noelle Gordon and Eula Parker, also Frank Ifield, Dorothy Ward Music and Lyrics: John Bartlett and Terry Roper. And you need to expect to find that broadcaster unwilling to help you search and, if they do find the clip in question, not able to provide you a copy for free. 8= Crossroads (Aug 3), Westward TV area TAM ratings w/e 8 Oct 1967 Westward Television Menu. 5= Sunday Palladium Westward's small size and the structure of ITV (which, at the time, deliberately made it hard for small and medium-sized ITV companies to contribute to the network) meant it produced comparatively little output for the network. Swizzley 9.10 No Hiding Place 100,000 Halfpennies Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events, All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, 20th cent: corporate and programmming records, About our On April Fools' Day, 1973, Westward broadcast a film about the village of Spiggot, which had boycotted decimalisation and were still using pre-decimal currency. The show's run (which was broadcast at 5.20pm on Fridays after being pre-recorded in Studio One on the preceding Wednesday) was short-lived. Established in 1993, it is one of the largest regional film archives in the UK and holds the Westward Television and TSW (Television South West) independent television collections as well as a significant number of donated . 8.00 * Hawaiian Eye - I Wed Three Wives Westward Television's corporate branding focused on the sea, and mainly used a ship emblem for their on-screen look. A 45 second clip of an unidentified puppet show follows. Bristol Water is urging people to stay safe and not swim in the water at spots like Chew Valley or Cheddar Lake this weekend. 5.45 News 11.30 Faith for Life - Miss Evelyn Carr of the Royal Sailors' Rest Devonport tells Rev John Ashplant of the work of Aggie Weston (1873-1918) The tune that accompanied the colour television ident was originally a nautical fanfare on brass instruments, based on the song "Come Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl", arranged by Paul Lewis. Many Westward personalities, such as announcer Sheila Kennedy, also contributed articles to the magazine. I no longer have the original film which has since made its way to an archive. It's been 40 years since the Brittany Ferries link between Plymouth and Roscoff first began. Westward Television Menu. Westward Television and Television South West (TSW) The largest single collection made up of the news and programme libraries of the ITV broadcasters for the South West region from 1961 to 1992. In November 1963[19] The Beatles had to be smuggled into Derry's Cross through a tunnel to record an interview with continuity announcer Stuart Hutchison for the programme, due to the number of fans outside the studios. 7.00 Treasure Hunt The first half concentrated on the regional news, whereas the second half included other items of interest to local viewers. The National Broadcasting Company at the Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society Mass Communications History Collection, The Papers of Tom Brokaw: A Life and Career - University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections, ProQuest Historical Newspapers & Periodicals. 10= Emergency- Ward 10 (April 19) 3 Bertram Mills Circus (BBC) 53% I can reveal that the quest is for none other than a VIP with winking eyes, long ears, and buck teeth. .. 10.30am Small Time - The Christmas Tree 7= Peyton Place 51% (Wed 10th) Another "changing trend" is television viewing, a 50 second clip is shown from a Western, in fact Bonanza, before a graph shows Westward Television's increasing number of viewers. 9= This is Your Life (BBC) 50% 4.10 Christmas Diary with Kenneth Macleod, Frederick Harvey, Burda Cann, Plympton School Choir, and Choirs of Wells 5= Coronation Street (May 12) we are informed the area is more than this traditional picture. for charity and voluntary groups; a slot called Pick of the Post in which viewers' letters would be read; and the popular[citation needed] Picture Puzzle, in which viewers had to try to guess the location shown in a photograph taken somewhere in the South West). 2 Take Your Pick 44% 1= Perry Mason (BBC) 64% During Westward's tenure, Derry's Cross had three studios. Lord Digby Collection On July 10th 1966, 2.40-3.10pm Westward showed Farm '66 A Border TV Production, a complete course of 37 programmes leading to a City and Guilds certificate in farm machinery written and presented by Alfred Luke. 6.05 Westward Diary; Weather 3 Family Solicitor 57% 1.00 News 7= Star Movie (Stalag 17) 9= Ward 10 (May 11), Week ending 27th November 1966 (Westward) A number of experts would visit to present regular features: Ted Tuckerman would present a fishing spot called Tight Lines, Jon Miller (the zoologist, and also presenter of Southern Television's How) would present a spot about nature, architect David Young would examine local architecture of interest, and Topline Broadhurst would present regular gardening spots. 22 April - The Huntshaw Cross transmitting station opens, providing better reception across north Devon. 8.00 Dickie Henderson Christmas Show guests Bernard Bresslaw, Hughie Green, Alfred Marks Some local news film as well as national ITN and TV-am film is held by Getty. A full episode of Gus Honeybun's Birthdays with Judi Spiers, produced by Westward Television sometime in 1980.All rights reserved and acknowledged SWFTA i. They come up against a very unpleasant villain, who in turn is badly hindered by a very mod-type Fairy Queen. 10.05 The Blackpool Show - Tony Hancock with Frankie Howerd, The Kaye Sisters, Lenny the Lion, John Junkin and Peter Gordeno 7 Compact (BBC July 11) 42% No events. To accommodate this, the length of Friday's edition of Diary was extended to an hour, and it occasionally featured a live studio audience. 11.50 Weather 7= Army Game 50% July 3rd 1966, 2.35-3pm reporter Don Rickard. 9= The Dakotas 41% Landmark- This was a 1965/ 1966 quiz , with local Women's Institutes competing. in north Devon, where he played. 4= Dixon of Dock Green (BBC) 8 London Palladium Show 51% By 1969, Westward had more than 100 correspondents across the region, reporting newsworthy local events, and eight film cameramen who would travel the region gathering footage and compiling reports. 5 Z Cars (BBC)48 This is later extended by a further year. 3 Black and White Minstrels (BBC) 42% Kenneth MacLeod had to present Westward Diary in what looked to viewers like almost total darkness, as the union permitted only the house lights to be switched on in the studio. 5= Double Your Money see our cookie policy. Westward Whiskey lead distiller Miles Munroe checks barrels in this Oregonian file photo. "Mr Cadbury back as chairman of Westward TV", Westward Television Ident from 28.12.1980, Bill Covington's website about The Rustiks, ITW Programme Listing for Westward Television, Transcript of detailed interview about Westward Television in 2000 with Kenneth Macleod on Liberal Burblings, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westward_Television&oldid=1151894394, Television channels and stations established in 1961, Television channels and stations disestablished in 1981, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2021, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. Then some of the backroom staff are shown in action. 10 Compact (BBC)48, Week ending April 21st 1963 1961. 10= Treasure Hunt (Westward)43 Virtually no material of this sort survives in the broadcasters archives, and for those reasons, the chances of your programme surviving are approaching zero. Westward TV area Taunton was at the forefront of a 1962 clash with TWW. 3= Coronation Street (Mar 23rd)53 Wyvern at War was purchased by three ITV regions. 5 Tales of Mystery 53% Close down, 11am The Morning Service - from The Church with the Holy Name Claygate 10= Crossroads 47% (Nov 23), Westward TV area Or, you can request a quotation for a copy to be sent to you. Westward's programming schedule was always published as a magazine for the public to access. 7.30 Emergency Ward 10 What can you expect when pubs, bars and restaurants reopen? 6 Criss Cross Quiz 51% 2 Coronation Street (Sept 27) 60% On 19 January 1972, there was a relaxation on the restrictions of broadcast hours that had been set by the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications. During the sixties the local South West TV company Westward Television produced a documentary TV programme about each of these artists. 10.52 Dial 999 - Extradition Ironically, Westward Ho! 7.30 Coronation Street - the men go off on a sports outing, while their wives get dinner ready [1] 1962 No events. This collection documents mass communications on both the national level and in the state of Wisconsin, and includes a large. Let us know. This footage is courtesy of South. 4= Mrs Thursday By the time you reach the 1950s, its safe to assume that the programme in question is lost unless you are very, very lucky. 9= Criss Cross Quiz 40% in the 5.00 Gus Honeybun's Birthdays The Mass Communications History Collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society was established in 1955 to document the importance of mass media in 20th-century American life. With over 1,000 different archival institutions represented, ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies. Another local music programme was Move Over Dad. (Friday December 23rd 1966, Westward TV only, 6.05-6.30pm) To the Westward Television Menu, Westward programmes Sold Help us improve catalogue descriptions by adding tags. You may have to present yourself, having made an appointment, at their premises on the South Bank in London. 1 The Dark Number 56% (BBC) Unlike the other ITV stations that lost their franchises in this round, Westward (having been run by successor TSW since August 1981) opted to hand over at midnight on 31 December 1981. It was presented by Roger Shaw, and recorded in front of a studio audience. But a New Year's Eve is also a time for looking ahead and, as Dr. Samuel Johnson said, 'New things are made familiar and familiar things made new.' 4 Laramie (BBC) 52 5 Hippodrome 55% In addition to these idents, Westward used a clock contained in a curved box with both analogue and digital displays, alongside the Westward Television stylised ship logo and name. 5= Harpers West One 54% Westward Television Menu, A mock West Country accent gives us a travelogue of the region, with pictures depicting rural pursuits. Hello and welcome to Westward TV and TSW. Again, this is a business-to-business organisation, so charges accordingly. In the early 1970s, A Date With Danton was a stand-alone weekly programme that provided a round-up of local arts and entertainment events. Westward Television Limited | The National Archives Home Discovery HO 245/1032 Start new search Print Discovery help Bookmark You are in The National Archives' catalogue HO - Records. 6 London Palladium Show 48% 1 Ward 10 (Tues) 59% A rather odd Christmas-themed start-up sequence from Westward TV. [35] Some of these films were featured in the About Britain strand in 1981. 10.05 The Pickwick Papers - film starring James Hayter 10= Coronation Street (Nov 20) Westward's most successful local quiz was undoubtedly This information will help us make improvements to the website. There was a regular spot called Help! we are informed the area is more than this traditional picture. To mark the change, Westward's ident was re-shot in colour.[7]. An illustration of a person's head and chest. 5 Coronation Street (Nov 22) 48% Music and Lyrics: John Bartlett and Terry Roper. web pages 7= Laramie (BBC), Week ending 27th Aug 1961 [31] He had already walked the new Two Moors Walk from Plymouth to Lynmouth and filmed his journey for Westward Diary. 9.10 This Week A service in Plymouth run by the NSPCC, which helps prevents online child sexual abuse, is expanding. 10= Sports Desk (Westward Nov 20) 43% And from all of us here on duty in these first few seconds of 1982, a happy new year from and with TSW. 11.00 Christmas Morning Service from the Church of the Ascension Wembley Westward Television Ltd, independent television programme contractors This page summarises records created by this Business The summary includes a brief description of the collection (s). The original leader on the film had the title written on it, along with 'Copy B' (or '13' as the text was smudged). 10 Legends of the West 43% 7= Dixon of Dock Green (BBC) 5= No Hiding Place 42% Many of the other companies' factual output is dispersed or trapped in copyright hell. 7= Arthur Haynes Show The archive, renamed the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA) [6] in 2003, holds the entire surviving back catalogue of Westward and TSW programmes, and several tens of thousands of other items (which all have a connection to the south-west of England) donated by members of the general public. The series "examines successful farm management in the West County," introduced by Don Rickard. Manufacturing industry is increasing. Programmes were made on 16mm black and white negative film stock with inhouse printing and editing services. If the programme was after about 1977, you may be in luck but will need to contact the original broadcaster. Westward launched the career of many broadcasters who became well known nationally, won numerous awards for its programming, and heavily influenced its successor, TSW. 5 Coronation St 48% (Feb 28) 11.36 Weather The full title of the programme was 'Westward News, Farm and Country Edition.' 4= Film So Evil So Young Search the history of over 806 billion Westward Television Menu 1 Summer Playhouse 46% Script: Stuart Hutchison and Roger Gage. This footage is courtesy of South West Film and Television Archive. 7= Spotlight 2 Sykes (BBC) 58% For non-Westward intelligensia, it is none other than, gasp, Gus Honeybun! Celebrate 60 years of ITV in the south west of England with some Westward TV archives. 6= Coronation Street49 (Dec 24th) The first edition cost 5d, and featured a special article by Westward board member Daphne du Maurier. 10= This Is Your life (BBC), TAM ratings for Westward TV area w/e Sept 30th 1962 Agriculture was an important industry in South West England during Westward Television's franchise. David Rodgers was again one of the regular contributors. 2 Coronation Street (July 8) 47% 1967 3= Coronation Street50% (Apr 30) In 1980, Westward produced Maggie's Moor, a seven part networked children's drama series about a young girl living on Dartmoor during the Second World War. ArchiveGrid includes over 5 million catalog records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. There were filmed contributions from Alan Freeman, Jan Leeming and David Vine and many clips of Westward programmes were shown. 2 Coronation Street (July 31) 44% Another popular long-running programme featured a puppet rabbit, Gus Honeybun, who appeared with the duty announcer who read out birthday greetings to the region's children: The story went that Gus was found wandering Dartmoor by a Westward Outside Broadcast unit. 10 Film: Last Witness (BBC) 50%, TAM ratings for Westward TV area w/e Nov 25th 1962 Local teams competed for The Golden Key. Local programmes are shown, with a brief clip of a beauty contest. A fancy dress Christmas party is interrupted by shattering news. 8 Mrs Thursday 45% 12.05pm The Nativity (A-R) The Westward Diary team investigate, aided by Batman and Robin. The flagship programme was Westward Diary, which began as a regional magazine programme broadcast three times a week (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays) between 6:15pm and 7pm. I didn't want to like it and never get to finish the game. This was bought by TWW, Tyne Tees, Ulster and Grampian. 7.30 Emergency Ward 10 . 1.00 News; Christmas Box with Noelle Gordon and Eula Parker, also Frank Ifield, Dorothy Ward 11.20 Towards 2000 - Cities of the Future Factual programmes from pre-1993 ITV companies are in many different archives. 4 Harpers W1 47% 10.10 Rhapsody in Blue film starring Robert Alda They come up against a very unpleasant villain, who in turn is badly hindered by a very mod-type Fairy Queen. 4= Sports Desk (Westward) These include the Library of Congress, the Paley Center for Media, and The UCLA Film & Television Archive. 7= Sportsview (BBC) 6.35 What do you Say? 6.35 Saturday Film - The Cowboy and the Lady Many of the other companies factual output is dispersed or trapped in copyright hell. Westward/TSW factual programmes are held at SWFTA while ATV's factual output is at MACE. They come up against a very unpleasant villain, who in turn is badly hindered by a very mod-type Fairy Queen. Treasure Hunt with host Keith Fordyce, Kenneth Horne in charge for a spell in the mid Sixties. Then Sports Editor David Vine, host of Sports Desk, informs us that the station has covered no less than 48 different sports. There is a 40 second clip from Coronation Street, while The Beverley Hillbillies rates 45 seconds. 5= The Informer 48% 5= Zero One (BBC)51 Westward Diary visits the open-air Minack Theatre. From 730,000 homes in May 1961, three years later there are 1,100,000 homes, 68% of all homes in the region. The collection is 38.75 liner feet and is broken up into sixteen series: Appointment Books, Artifacts, Biographical and Personal, Correspondence, Events and Speeches, Honors/Awards/Mementos, Photographs, Press Passes and Badges, Radio Commentary, Reporters Notebooks, Specials, Subject Files, Videos/Film/Audio Cassettes, Writings, Miscellaneous, and Duplicates. For nine months of the year, Westward broadcast Farming News[27] (later retitled Farm and Country News[28]) on Sunday lunchtimes presented and edited by Peter Forde. Following the loss of its franchise, Westward's management decided to sell up quickly, and the company (including its staff, premises and programme library) was purchased by TSW, early in 1981, for 2.38 million. The regional news was contained in a separate ten-minute Westward News bulletin, broadcast every weekday at 6.05pm, and subsequently supplemented by afternoon and late-night bulletins. ProQuest Historical Newspapers is the definitive newspaper digital archive offering full-text and full-image articles for significant newspapers dating back to the 18th Century. . 5= Taxi! It starred Tamar le Bailly as Maggie[22] and was produced and directed by John King,[23] the father of wildlife photographer and presenter Simon King, who featured as "The Buzzard Boy" in Episode 5.[24]. 1 Double Your Money 54% I can reveal that the quest is for none other than a VIP with winking eyes, long ears, and buck teeth. Have you found an error with this catalogue description? 2= Coronation Street (18 Oct) We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. The monthly show was presented by members of an editorial team that included David Rodgers, who later went on to become a familiar Westward TV staff presenter. In 2010 the buildings were demolished to make way for a new retail development. 1= Summer Spectacular 5= Treasure Hunt (Westward) 47% I can reveal that the quest is for none other than a VIP with winking eyes, long ears, and buck teeth. This site is not affiliated with any broadcaster, production company or design/marketing/talent agency. Treasure Hunt with host Keith Fordyce, Kenneth Horne in charge for a spell in the mid Sixties. Westward Television was the first ITV franchise-holder for the South West of England. 1 Val Doonican Show (BBC) 55% 12.30 Gus Honeybun and Yogi Bear 7= Treasure Hunt 51% (Westward) 1965 No events. Over 2 million pages have been scanned. If you provide contact details, we will be in touch about your request within 10 working days. A mock West Country accent gives us a travelogue of the region, with pictures depicting rural pursuits. 1967 saw Acres for Profit on Sunday afternoons. There are a handful of television archives and museums in the United States that together contain hundreds of thousands of hours of television programs. A 1965 18 minute promotional film from Westward Television. US President retweets video containing 'white power' chant, Leicester could see local lockdown following rise in coronavirus cases, Biden slams Trump over report Russia paid militants for attacks. 2 Double Your Money 54% The Case of The Missing Celebrity privacy policy. 4 Coronation St (16 Oct) 51% 5.50 Thank Your Lucky Stars - Shirley Bassey 9 Bootsie and Snudge 44% Fifteen-minute sections of Clive Gunnell's walk along the Cornish coast were broadcast by the US Public Broadcasting Service as curtain raisers to the BBC's original version of Poldark in PBS's Masterpiece Theatre series. Top BBC: Perry Mason Broadcasting from the South West of England on the transmitters of the Independent Broadcasting Aurthority. 1963 No events. Another "changing trend" is television viewing, a 50 second clip is shown from a Western, in fact Bonanza, before a graph shows Westward Television's increasing number of viewers. 6.55 In View - George Target, Julie Felix, Peter Moloney and guest Ted Moult 2 Double Your Money 55% The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), 4= Billy Cotton Show (BBC) Children's programmes: there are currently 12,000 members of the Gus Honeybun club. Since most of Westward's output was for Home consumption, not much of their limited output was sold to other companies. Westward Television Menu. 3= Ward 10 (May 14) 43%
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