I can reveal that the quest is for none other than a VIP with winking eyes, long ears, and buck teeth. Listed here are additional resources for conducting research on the National Broadcasting Company. 2.00 Christmas Fare with Cliff and The Sahdows ITA Looking back: Westward Television reports 40 years ago They will facilitate your search, but wont search for you. 7= Army Game 50% 4= Mrs Thursday Celebrate 60 years of ITV in the south west of England with some Westward TV archives. An illustration of a horizontal line over an up pointing arrow. 9= Coronation St41% (Aug 21) 10= Emergency- Ward 10 (April 19) When colour television came to the region on 22 May 1971, the Golden Hind was re-shot against a blue background with the caption altered to include a small stylised ship image in a box in the lower left corner, followed by an outlined 'Westward TV' caption, with 'TV' in red. 3.07 Chipperfield's All Star Christmas Circus - with Arthur Haynes and Richard Hearne 7.00 Treasure Hunt 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. 12.30 Gus Honeybun and Yogi Bear John Doyle reports 40 years ago. 8= Crossroads (Aug 3), Westward TV area TAM ratings w/e 8 Oct 1967 The National Broadcasting Company at the Library of Congress Westward TV's policy of developing new ideas and new programme formats during 1977 while continuing to build on the popular foundations of its regular West country productions. Bernard Leach & Barbara Hepworth British Universities Film - BUFVC 12.50 World of Sport A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System, State Funeral of Winston Churchill (1965). We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! 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. This was bought by TWW, Tyne Tees, Ulster and Grampian. 7= Crane 50 A Westward celebrity is missing. 2 Double Your Money 61% 11.40 Faith for Life; Close down Treasure Hunt with host Keith Fordyce, Kenneth Horne in charge for a spell in the mid Sixties. 3 Dixon of Dock Green (BBC) 56 7= Star Movie (Stalag 17) 4= Legends of the West 54% Agriculture was an important industry in South West England during Westward Television's franchise. Bristol Water is urging people to stay safe and not swim in the water at spots like Chew Valley or Cheddar Lake this weekend. 7= Here and Now 4= Coronation Street (Nov 19) 51% There are a handful of television archives and museums in the United States that together contain hundreds of thousands of hours of television programs. 5.55 News; A Christmas Message Dr Ramsey Hastings Mann's Westward Ho! 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 . He had begun his television career as a props man at Associated-Rediffusion, where he first met Kenneth MacLeod. for Westward area 29 April - Westward Television starts broadcasting. 7= Ward 10 (Nov 23) An illustration of a magnifying glass. 1.00 News; Christmas Box with Noelle Gordon and Eula Parker, also Frank Ifield, Dorothy Ward Westward TV Archives - Rewind 11.20 Towards 2000 - Cities of the Future These are such programmes as the nightly back-bone of the company, Westward Diary, a. weekly Westward Report, the twice - weekly Sports Desk, thrice -daily news 5 Professional Boxing (Rediffusion) 52 * Local Weather Forecast and Close down This was followed by the full version of TSW's ident. The Good Old Days, Juke Box Jury, TAM ratings for Westward TV area w/e 7 July 1963 The news would be read by the duty announcer, so MacLeod's role on the Diary was not as a newsreader but a presenter holding the whole package together. To mark the change, Westward's ident was re-shot in colour.[7]. Westward Television had a dual policy for its local programming: it produced a wide range of programmes of particular interest to the south-west's rural and agricultural communities, whilst simultaneously producing programming designed to stimulate its audience's interest in new areas. 7= Spotlight 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. Royal Smithfield Show with Don Rickard, Westward TV Agricultural Correspondent. Script: Stuart Hutchison and Roger Gage. Westward Television's corporate branding focused on the sea, and mainly used a ship emblem for their on-screen look. So as we say goodbye from Westward in 1981. TSW then began with a short video clip of a champagne bottle being opened, accompanied by the short audio version of the station ident "That's Soul, Write". (Friday December 23rd 1966, Westward TV only, 6.05-6.30pm) This information will help us make improvements to the website. 7= Dixon of Dock Green (BBC) Clive Gunnell also made documentaries about inland areas that were also contributed to About Britain. The comedy programme was followed by further continuity, an epilogue, weather and shipping forecast and closedown - all with TSW branding. One of the best known programmes was Treasure Hunt, a game show presented by Kenneth Horne and Keith Fordyce, among others, which ran for 14 years and at one stage featured Jethro as the pirate co-host.[15]. A 45 second clip of an unidentified puppet show follows. web pages The company now operates up to two sailings per day. (Howett 1994) By the time Westward began broadcasting, Derry's Cross had cost Westward over 500,000, with the company committed to spending another 20,000 on the studios by April 1962. 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 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) 7= Tarzan 46% 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. 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. 6.15 Spin Along Santa with Alan Freeman, Joe Brown, The Viscounts, Tommy Bruce, Christine Campbell, host Leslie Hoare 1 Coronation Street (July 10) 51% 11.30 University Challenge Tournament - quarter finals [31] He had already walked the new Two Moors Walk from Plymouth to Lynmouth and filmed his journey for Westward Diary. 1 The Dark Number 56% (BBC) 5.50 * Christmas Message - by the Bishop of Crediton 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. 7= Saturday Show (BBC) 52% It was renowned for its devoted, high-quality local programming and presentation, but squabbling between its local management and the London-based management board was to result in its loss in the 1980 franchise round. 10.10 Rhapsody in Blue film starring Robert Alda From leading . 3= Coronation Street50% (Apr 30) 4.45 Small Time - Fireside Story with June Thorburn PLYMOUTH 69311 4-7 Woodstock Street, New Bond Street, London W.1. This footage is courtesy of South West Film and Television Archive. Finally a clip from Westward's quiz Treasure Hunt with Kenneth Horne getting into some difficulty reading a viewer's name and address 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 company's first chairman was Peter Cadbury, who had left the board of Tyne Tees Television to set up the company and bid for the south-west franchise, which he won against 11 competing bids. 2= Coronation Street (18 Oct) Sorry about the quality of the transfer, this is a 1990s copy videoed off the wall while the film was projected. privacy policy, Domestic and leisure services > Radio and television, GB/NNAF/C124128 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B26706 ), Westward Television Ltd, independent television programme contractors. 7.30 HMS Paradise - Hail Lieutenant Hathway- and Farewell 9.00 News This is part of a newer collection of uploads as I have recently got access to some digitised VHS tapes that have been in storage for some time. Well, it's very nearly the end of 1981 and, for Westward Television, it's the end of its franchise to provide an independent television service for the south-west. No recordings of the end of Westward Television were known to exist until 2012 (the 30th anniversary of the end of Westward), but then a full video recording of the evening, including the segment of STV's wiped Hogmanay show, was recovered by the classic television organisation Kaleidoscope. The weeknightly Westward Diary had two halves, separated by a commercial break. After this a 20 second clip of a viewers' questions type programme. Shaw made the first announcement on TSW: let's say welcome to 1982 from your new television station, Television South West, with the promise of a full-bodied blend of the new and the familiar.