Month: July 2010

Legendary actor Roger Moore – star of the James Bond movies and other ATV series The Persuaders! – is the debonair playboy Simon Templar in the series that made him a global star, The Saint. This release contains all monocrome episodes.   Legendary actor Roger Moore – star of the James Bond movies and other ATV series The Persuaders! – […]

Legendary actor Roger Moore – star of the James Bond movies and other ATV series The Persuaders! – is the debonair playboy Simon Templar in the series that made him a global star, The Saint.   Legendary actor Roger Moore – star of the James Bond movies and other ATV series The Persuaders! – is the debonair playboy Simon Templar […]

Legendary scriptwriter Brian Clemens is probably most well- known for his work on The Avengers and The Professionals, but arguably his best work is Thriller – a series he made for Lord Lew Grade’s world-famous ATV Network in the mid-70s. Legendary scriptwriter Brian Clemens is probably most well- known for his work on The Avengers and The Professionals, but arguably his best work […]

Four veterans of the French Resistance, reunited nearly thirty years after the war, join forces to meet adventure, danger and excitement as perilous as anything they faced during the war.   Four veterans of the French Resistance, reunited nearly thirty years after the war, join forces to meet adventure, danger and excitement as perilous as anything they faced during the […]

Conrad Phillips stars in the classic 1950s action adventure series – William Tell.   Conrad Phillips stars in the classic 1950s action adventure series – William Tell. This thrilling adventure series, produced by ITC for ATV Network and ITV, will appeal to people who enjoyed Network’s previous releases of The Adventures of Robin Hood. Storyline   Set in the fourteenth […]

One of ATV’s best-loved series, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) takes the standard “private eye” formula that ITC was well known for and turned it on its head by making one of the partners a ghost! Starring Mike Pratt as the earthy, rugged Jeff Randall and Kenneth Cope as his late partner Marty Hopkirk, the glamour is supplied by Annette Andre […]

The Director General of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Mark Thompson, today gave his support to the suggestion the BBC should publicly publish its top talent’s earnings.   Thompson gave his support to the idea – which was suggested by executives of the BBC Trust last week – on political series The Andrew Marr Show.   “We absolutely accept the idea […]

Mainstay BBC TV and Radio presenter Terry Wogan has hit out at the salaries of BBC personalities. The Irish host said the money paid to celebrities to work at the beeb are “far too high.”   Wogan, who became famous in the UK as one of the original voices of Radio 1 before switching to television with ATV Network productions Saturday Variety […]