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Annual for 1958 THE ANNUAL FOR 1958 Every Viewer's Companion, with Souvenir Pictures of BBC and ITV Programmes and Personalities Edited by KENNETH BAILY Contributors include BERNARD BRADEN, JACQUELINE MACKENZIE EAMONN ANDREWS, ERIC ROBINSON TONY HANCOCK, BOB DANVERS-WALKER HUGHIE GREEN, CLIFF MICHELMORE JERRY DESMONDE, ROBIN DAY AMANDA BLAKE, HOWARD THOMAS ODHAMS PRESS LIMITED, LONG ACRE, LONDON ITV PUTS THE ACCENTOP ON GAIETY Dick Bentley contributes tothe ITV drive for laughter. In this picture, however, Dick has deserted his usual "act" and is playing a funny part in the musical play Balalaika. (Below) Sun- day Night at the London Palladium has been an important ingredientin the ITV recipe for gay, bright entertainment. A galaxy of American stars brought intothis show included film actress Constance Bennett.A former idol of the cinema, she tried a stage act on the modern TV audience. THE TELEVISION ANNUAL FOR 1958 CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS PAGE KENNETH BAILY'S TELEVIEW: TV Topics of the Year 7 JERRY DESMONDE says "I Asked the 64.000 Question" 23 COMICS! Some Funsters of the Small Screen 28 BOB DANVERS-WALKER keeps an "Appointment with Danger"30 MATT DILLON CAME ON MY PHONE. By THE EDITOR 36 AMANDA BLAKE puts in a word for "Saloon Girl Kitty" 39 TONY HANCOCK poses some "Problems of a Funny Man" 44 TELEVISION AND HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. By A DOCTOR 48 TALES-LONG AND SHORT: Pictures from the Serials and Film Series 53 AUSTRALIA TAKES TO TELEVISION. By ALAN SLEATH (sac) 58 HUGHIE GREEN tells his own TV story 65 ARMAND DENIS brings out his snapshots of "Michaela on Safari"68 EAMONN ANDREWS answers the Question Everyone Asks Him 71 YOUR FRIENDS THE STARS. By ERNEST THOMSON Peter Cushing 22 Joan and Leslie Randall 81 Bernard Braden 27 Alfred Marks 86 Maxine Audicy 42 Billie WhiteIan 100 Patricia Driscoll 51 Max Jaffa 114 Dennis Lotis 52 Eric Sykes 130 Joan Savage 64 David Jacobs 138 4 x II TERRY - EDDIE TOMMY ALFRED THOMAS GRAY TRINDER MARKS JACQUELINE MACKENZIE on "How to Stay in Television" 77 HEY, JEANNIE!-& CO. Jean Carson's Comedy Series 82 YOUR FILL OF TV PLAYS. ByMICHAEL ACKWORTH 87 IN PRISON: Pictures from a Notable BBC Programme 98 BERNARD BRADEN ruminates on the Age of the Visual 101 ROBIN DAY writes about "Independent TV News" 104 GUESS WHERE? TV Pictures from the Continent 112 CLIFF MICHELMORE discusses the work of a TV Interviewer 115 A FABULOUS EFFORT:KennethBailyonTelevision's Backroom Boys 120 THE BATTLE FOR YOUR FAVOUR. ByHOWARD THOMAS(ABC Television Ltd.) 131 THE BIRTH OF A BABY. ByBERYL RADLEY(BBC) 140 HE LOVES LUCY! All About Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball 145 TELEVISION FOR SCHOOLS. ByENID LOVE(BBC) 150 ERIC ROBINSON writes about Music in Television 155 INDEX 159 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 160 5 Television links monarchy to people. An outstanding and unforeseen development in this link has been Prince Philip's keen and lively use of television. He introduced the International Geophysical Year in the major BBC programmeThe Restless Sphere.He is shown in the studio then, with producer Anthony Craxton and executive Peter Dimmock. 6 KENNETH BAILY'S TELEVIEW The Editor comments on Television and the Crown : ITA Progress : BBC Problems TELEVISION AND THE CROWN BROADCASTING is a spur to our nationhood. We take it for granted these days; but there come moments, as when the Sovereign speaks on Christ- mas Day, in which we still feel the magic of radio. Few people are insen- sitive then to the sense of "family", bringing Britain and Commonwealth together around the Throne. And this is a realistic, not just a romantic feeling. The British people today regard the monarchy with due respect, but also with an affectionate loyalty which is the more sincere just because the Royal Family is known far more personally than in the days before radio. This Christmas of 1957 will see Queen Elizabeth appear on TV screens for the first time as she makes her traditional Christmas broadcast. Television is installed in sufficient homes now to make it possible for three-quarters of the population of Great Britain to watch Her Majesty speak from Sandringham. Having heard the Queen by radio, people throughout the Commonwealth will, a few days later, be able to see a film of her TV appearance in cinemas, and on television in Canada and Australia. Here is a development full of significance for the future relationship of monarchy and peoples in the world-wide Commonwealth family. And it offers further proof of the influence broadcasting has already exerted upon this supreme British institution. In an age of disillusionment, when thrones throughout the world have been scattered, the gift of broadcasting has been immensely valuable in assisting the stability of our own monarchy. We can discern now an historic date in the history of our Constitution- that night when radio first linked a king to his people with such intimacy: "The King's life is passing peacefully to its close . .." Since then, television has become an even more faithful servant at the 7 I visittoanactive monastery, onCaldey Island, off the Pembroke- shire coast, was a new venture for BBC outside - broadcast units. Few parts of man's life today escape the TV camera. throneside. It has not only been the Corona- tions, two of which havebeenscreened, but the regular camera - watch on the working livesofourRoyal Family, which has 111110 made us aware of the realitiesof kingship. There was the searing insight granted by a TV close-up, as King George VI walked the windy tarmac at London Airport, to see Princess Elizabeth off to South Africa. All glimpsed the signs of suffering, bravely borne, but so soon to exact its final toll. There have been TV pictures of the growing family of our Queen, her consort and their children-the cameras following the Queen in France this past year-television tracing the public life of many members of the Royal Family. This summer has come an even closer contact through television with the Duke of Edinburgh using the medium for his own personal operation, in the educational causes which he is keen to promote. Working in the BBC studios as unassumingly and assiduously as any TV speaker, he rehearsed and learned the technique for the programmes he conducted about his world tour and about the Geophysical Year. These programme operations and appearances by the Duke would have been unthinkable only two years ago. They have established an additional relationship through television between Crown and people. They take more of the "stuffiness" out of the duties of Royalty, and add a touch of humanity instead. It is still too soon to judge the eventual effect broadcasting will have on the relationship 8 (Above) H.M. the Queen Mother visited the BBC studios to meet the famous Grore Family. (Below) Another TV "family", The Appleyards, appear in BBC children's television. (Above) ITVhas attempted to raise new comedians, as well as calling on the old. Arthur Haynes (left) was given a series, with Joan Savage and Ken Morris.(Below) In BBC's Dave King Show,the girl MackeI! Twins and boy Burt Twins joined singer Leigh Madison as new talent. Championswimmer Judy Grinham took an interest in the mysteries of a television studio when she appeared in BBC Sportsview's third anniversary programme. Watchingherisfellow - swimmer Margaret Edwards between the Royal Family and the nation. But nobody can doubt now that radio and television are contributing to the long-term history of our monarchial constitution. So striking has been the change, indeed, that though it is only ten years ago, it seems in another age that the late Queen Mary, graciously permit- ting TV cameras to watch her visit an exhibition, peremptorily com- manded the accompanying Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to stand upright "because the television is here." THE INDEPENDENT NETWORK INDEPENDENTtelevision-the ITA, ITV, "commercial", call it what you will-grows like a lusty adolescent, rapidly increasing its frame. The net- work is now spreading to Scotland and to South Wales and the South- West. Its "flesh", the audience within reach of the network, waxes fatter each month. Where the BBC, with a complete national network of transmitters, can hold an audience of 12 million on the greatest TV occasions, the ITA can already collar seven million with only a half - completed network. Until both organizations have equal transmission networks, all com- parisons of national audience sizes for their programmes are misleading. 11 "Top Tens" and "Top Twentys" are mere publicity gimmicks, devoid of realism, statistically or otherwise. The topmost of 1TA's "Top Ten" comes twenty-somethingth when counted by the BBC in the context of the Corporation's nation-wide audience-because ITA has not yet got a national audience. Comparisons of audience sizes within audiences receiving both BBC and ITA are more to the point. It seems from these that wherever ITA opens up, it rapidly collects more than half of the viewing audience, and for some of its programmes, considerably more than that. But, it then begins to appear, as viewers get used to ITA its superiority over the BBC in audience size slips down somewhat. During the past year the BBC has done some crowing over signs of renewed loyalty among viewers. Some of its programmes, especially out- side broadcasting, have registered larger audiences inthe BBC/1TA areas. Some of these same programmes had sunk pretty low when the challenger ITA came on the scene fighting fresh, and it is still too early to claim that two -channel viewers are becoming selective to the point of The growth of ITV has seen capital sunk in new studios.
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