“Detail, detail, detail”was the mantra offered by the the chief of the Floor Managing Section to new entrants making a start in their latest discipline. And he was right as it turned out. From recording the weather forecast to large scale live or recorded entertainment programmes the amount of detailed organised logistics had to be nailed down to the most miniscule of elements. Their is always a banana skin somewhere just waiting to knock you off your high horse.
I do want to know more. I remember many of those programs, never thought how they came to be made. Just seemed like magic!
Black and White Magic in the ‘old” days.