I believe potentially, Anglia Television were to be the 'third prong' of the Trident, although they did handle some international programming marketing for the Norwich based company for a time, the ITA baulked at letting three regional franchisees come under one overall ownership.

This webpage gives a handy summary of all the main Thames idents, including when they were introduced. www.avid.wiki/Thames_Telev... During the 1968 franchise round, all three newcomers Thames, LWT and Yorkshire featured early b/w idents before more familiar colour ones emerged from Nov 1969

A series devised by Philip Levene, who at the time was heavily involved in scripting 'The Avengers' (alongside Brian Clemens)

Good choice, or maybe 'Nurse Will Make It Better'? 🎃

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This episode takes an inciteful and fascinating snapshot of British television drama production of the mid-70s www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVXw... Peter Fiddick would also front the adult learning show 'The Television Programme' from #WestwardTelevision in 1980/81 (which all survives)

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It's a fair cop! 😉

Magazine listings for the episode when broadcast by (West)German TV station ZDF ...

I guess the legal wig covered up the long hair style somewhat, and the barristers weren't often shot from the back either 🙂

... although - at a push - you could include the (very different) short-run 'Yellowthread Steet' in 1990.

John interestingly ran two careers in parallel - but separately. Alongside many acting roles, especially on television, he also co-wrote TV scripts with Andrew McCulloch (himself also an actor). 'Parkin's Patch' remained YTV's only full 'police series' until the arrival of 'Heartbeat' in the 1990s

A stunning piece of 'old-school' television drama - that of the 'electronic theatre' variety - where script, casting, performances, setting, lighting, direction, atmosphere, music and more all come together beautifully ... and fine at 8 episodes too, despite this coming about due to 'slot necessity'

You'll have to check, they looked OK to me. The 30 min one is a colour telerecording

From memory, Bravo aired the TVM of 'Possession' in 1996 (and also 'Sleepwalker'), as sales copies of the original version couldn't be traced/accessed at the time #BrianClemensThriller

A great watch tonight. 'Where the Action Is', with Edd Byrnes playing a suave, almost Bond-like character, Eddie Vallance. A completely different feel to last week's episode. #BrianClemensThriller rings the changes once again & delivers another fresh & thoroughly entertaining 65-minutes.

Yes, our British TV system/market - 3 and then 4 channels - was very different to the 'syndication' programming model designed for a multitude of local stations as in the US, Australia and a few other places. Only changed somewhat with the main arrival of satellite broadcasting in the 1990s

Reading the chapter in @martinmauthor1.bsky.social's book on how 'The Thrillers' package netted ITC $20-million in the first 8 months, selling to US stations. I bet many of them didn't realise it was the same series that some of them had finished repeating only a year earlier. #BrianClemensThriller.