'TV Times' coverage of the #ATVElstree 'General Hospital' 1976 episode 'Twice Shy', penned by David Fisher

'Vice Versa' ATV Elstree 1981 - 'TV Times'

'Echoes of Louisa' was indeed the final #ATVBirmingham drama for youngsters, starting April 1981 ... though there was one final hurrah in this field from #ATVElstree, albeit with strong comedy overtones - 'Vice Versa' began in September '81 and even managed a TV Times cover!

ITC Entertainment Press Pack feature story for the #BrianClemensThriller 'The Eyes Have It'

Director Shaun O'Riordan observations on his directorial debut on #ATVElstree #BrianClemensThriller 'The Eyes Have It', recounted in a feature story in the #ITCEntertainment Press Pack for the episode

From May 1975, a promo for the week's offering on ABC-TV's late-night 'Wide World of Entertainment', including #ATVElstree #BrianClemensThriller 'Good Salary - Prospects - Free Coffin', featuring Kim Darby and Keith Barron

In summer 1996, Saturday afternoons on 'Bravo' TV in the UK were enlivened by a run of #ATVElstree #BrianClemensThriller episodes ... promoted by wittily made and voiced trailers like this

swan attacks Steel atop ATV House!

Swan attacking Steel on top of ATV House in London

David McCallum's encounter with a special-effects swan on the roof of ATV House in London, 'Assignment 3' of #ATVElstree #SapphireandSteel

An in-character Leslie Crowther promoting #ATVElstree 'Saturday Variety' (1972)

Included on various DVD releases of the series, a detailed restoration featurette on the extensive work carried out on #ATVElstree #BrianClemensThriller in creation of the new digital masters during the early to mid-2000s

Studio prep shots taken during the recording of #ATVElstree #SapphireandSteel 'Assignment 3'

#ATVElstree 'General Hospital' cast members 1972

Cast members in jovial mood from the early days of the #ATVElstree daytime serial 'General Hospital' (1972-79) - no connection with the long running US series

A great cast, startling imagery and baffling mystery abound in the series 3 episode of #ATVElstree #BrianClemensThriller titled 'Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are'

Camera script for Hunters Walk episode 'Incident'

Camera script page for the lost #ATVElstree 'Hunters Walk' S1 episode 'Incident' penned by series creator Ted Willis, providing details of cast, crew and the production schedule. Original date of broadcast on ITV was 16 July 1973.

When #ATVElstree redeveloped their daytime medical serial 'General Hospital' into a peak-time series of individual stories in 1975 .. a dynamic, upbeat theme by Johnny Pearson substituted the original music by Derek Scott ... here it is in a clip of the closing titles
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Happy 88th birthday to Tommy Steele, pictured in the 1970 production of Twelfth Night, also starring Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson. #TommySteele #ATVElstree #WilliamShakespeare #Shakespeare

For example, for the final 'Assignment 6', Episodes 1 [VTR 5757] and 2 [VTR 5758] are listed together in #ATVElstree Studio D on 21, 22, 23 and 24 November 1980

What is certainly true is that studio recording of the series was invariably for a combination of two standard episodes - rehearsals and booked studio time - as had been the practice for #ATVElstree 's daytime/25min eps of 'General Hospital' some years earlier

Sapphire & Steel Episode Guide: Classic Creepy Sci-Fi Series | Spooky Isles Was Sapphire & Steel the perfect blend of British horror and time-traversing science fiction? RICHARD PHILLIPS-JONES looks back on the creepy classic television series from 1979 to 1982

'Spooky Isles' introductory guide to #ATVElstree 's memorably intense otherworldly 'series of serials' 'Sapphire & Steel', penned by @rpjwrites.bsky.social www.spookyisles.com/sapphire-and...

'TV Times' listing for 'Playhouse: Refuge for a Hero' from September 1972. The play starred John Thaw

John Thaw starred in an early-1970s #ATVElstree 'Playhouse' - 'Refuge for a Hero' which aired on ITV on 6 Sep 1972. Happily it survives intact in the archives.

'One Deadly Owner' with Donna Mills

'One Deadly Owner' newspaper ad for original US broadcast

Tonight at 6.40pm on @rewindtv.bsky.social in the UK the #BrianClemensThriller 'One Deadly Owner' ... followed by the two concluding episodes of #SapphireandSteel. A splendid #ATVElstree double! Watch on Freeview Channel 95 and Sky Channel 182

See Millicent Martin in ATV Elstree's Mainly Millicent on TPTV Sunday 8th December at 7:40pm. Guest stars include Kenneth Cope. #ATVElstree #TalkingPicturesTV #MillicentMartin

Just a heads up that Series 2 repeats of #ATVElstree #BrianClemensThriller are now on Tue and Thu evenings in the 6.40-8.00pm slot on @rewindtv.bsky.social in the UK ... Freeview Channel 95, also available on Sky TV ... tomorrow Thu 28 Nov it is 'Once the Killing Starts' starring Patrick O'Neal

Overview of the #ATVElstree studios in Borehamwood, the main 4-studio production centre for #ATV productions from 1960-83 following conversion from film studios (used by #CentralTelevision for a couple of years until their Nottingham site was ready) ... since 1983 #BBCElstree

An early-70s multi-series #ATVElstree drama that failed to achieve a DVD release was 'Crime of Passion', somewhat surprising as it all survives, the vast majority of episodes being colour videotape masters, with only 3 installments of the first series as b/w film copies

This was television... #ATVElstree #ATVNetwork #ITV Well here we are.

First page of the camera script for the (now lost) #ATVElstree 'Hunters Walk' episode 'Not Me' by Richard Harris, videotaped in Studio D ... including details of cast, crew and production ... note 'Strike' refers to removal of studio set materials and not any industrial action!

On-set with cast and crew at #ATVElstree studios for 'Assignment 2' of #SapphireandSteel, colloquially known as 'The Railway Station' story ... the series currently being repeated on Rewind TV in the UK