Thames Television (Established 1968)
Dates
- Existence: Established 30 July 1968
Biography
Thames Television, was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding areas from 30 July 1968 until 31 December 1992.
Formed as a joint company, it merged the television interests of British Electric Traction, Associated-Rediffusion and Associated British Picture Corporation. It was a broadcaster, a producer and a commissioner of television programmes covering a broad spectrum of commercial public-service television, with a strong mix of drama, current affairs and comedy.
Thames was acquired by FremantleMedia in 1993 and was merged with Talkback Productions to form a new independent production company, Talkback Thames. On 1 January 2012, the Thames brand was revived and Talkback Thames was split into four labels: Boundless, Retort, Talkback and Thames, within the newly created FremantleMedia UK production arm.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Christopher Palmer Collection
Circus programmes and VHS tapes from Billy Smart’s Circus and Chipperfields’s Circus collected during the 1970s and early 1980s by the TV producer, Christopher John Palmer. There are also a number of promotional photographs of artistes and other ephemera related to the circus.
Circus Friends Association Collection
This collection consists of a large library of books and journals, as well as archival material including posters, programmes, photographs, films, handbills, research material, scrapbooks, original artwork and many other items of ephemera relating to British, Irish and European circuses
Films, 1927 - 2007
Compilation of circus films showing acts on the ring as well as interviews with performers and proprietors, mainly produced by tv companies in the UK and Europe. Many of them narrated in German.
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- Subject: Jugglers X
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- Acrobats 2
- Animal trainers 2
- Art 1
- Boxing 1
- Circus workers 2
- Comedians 2
- Dance 2
- Diving 1
- Dwarfs (Persons) 2
- Escape artists 2
- Fairs 1
- Fakirs 1
- Family 1
- Fire eating 2
- Freak shows 1
- Gymnasts 2
- Human cannonball 2
- Magic 2
- Menageries 1
- Minstrel shows 1
- Motion pictures 1
- Music 1
- Music-halls 1
- Musical performances 1
- Pantomime 1
- Puppets 1
- Ringmaster 2
- Ringmistress 1
- Showman 2
- Showwoman 1
- Singing 2
- Skating 2
- Strong men 2
- Sword swallowing 1
- Trampolinists 1
- Transport 1
- Variety 2
- Ventriloquists 1
- Wall of death 2
- War 1
- Wild west 2
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- Wrestling 1
- Zoos 1 + ∧ less