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The floor management team, led by Steve Pierson, and accompanied by Laura McNeill, mime to Curtis Steiger, You’re all that matters to me. VT recorded the Pebble Mill rehearsal for posterity.
Thanks to Laura McNeill for making the grabs available.
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The fame of Pebble Mill obviously spread far and wide; this grab is of a French reporter filming a piece about industry in the Midlands – including BBC Pebble Mill. It must date from the early 1970s.
Thanks to Gary Jordan, who found the film in the French INA archive, two years ago, and took the grab.
Copyright resides with the original holder, no reproduction without permission. Thanks to Les Podraza for making the cast and crew photo available.
(This iPlayer link is to an item by South Today about the making of Howards’ Way)
The end of 1st September 2015 marked the 30 years anniversary of Howards’ Way, the sailing drama series, which was likened to a British version of the US drama Dallas.
The series was hosted at Pebble Mill, and recorded on location in Southampton, with some of the interiors being recorded in Studio A.
Here is the Radio Times synopsis for the first episode, courtesy of the BBC Genome project:
“A serial in 13 parts devised by GERARD GLAISTER and ALLAN PRIOR
Episode 1 written by JILL HYEM
‘I’m sorry, Jan … It may be selfish, but I intend to spend the rest of my working life doing something I want to do.’
Title music
SIMON MAY and LESLIE OSBORNE Film cameraman JOHN KENWAY Designer MYLES LANG
Script editor JOHN BRASON Director PENNANT ROBERTS Producer GERARD GLAISTER”
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/14bd8b49c7524441b9e9a278e19e74d7
Thanks to Paul Burton for pointing out the anniversary, and the South Today piece.
The following comments were posted on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Dawn Trotman: ‘I think it is John Kenway yet it was John Willey who shot the first and second series.. I edited the first series with Nigel Pardoe-Matthews and the second on location with Sharon Pemberton and Lynne Hawkins..great fun.. We always knew it would be successful..It was our Dallas..’
Maggie Humphries: ‘Not John Kenway,, it’s Jimmy Monks, Grips who worked on the series.’
Lesley Weaver: ‘Maggie Humphries is right, it is the lovely freelance grip Jimmy Monks near left of camera and far right is David Evans a lovely freelance Camera operator. Can’t really work out who’s behind camera. I worked on the second series so I ought to remember. In the clip I remember Tony ‘O’ sparks from Lee North and Susie Peck is the designer talking about the costumes, lots of others I remember too.’
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The lunch time magazine series, Pebble Mill at One, regularly brought out books, like the one pictured here, which collected together programme details for viewers to enjoy. Elements like the recipes always proved very popular, and in fact there were several books published of Michael Smith’s recipes.
Thanks to Pete Simpkin for sharing a still of this book.