Number 264
Grouchowww.lostshows.com/default.aspx?search=grouchoThursday July 8 1965 7.30 -8.0 pm Groucho
Half an hour of comedy and quiz IN WHICH GROUCHO MARX
meets the people of Britain. COMPERE Keith Fordyce
Questions and answers verified by Whitaker's Almanack
Programme Devised by Robert Dwan and Bernie Smith
Directed by Ronald Marriott Rediffusion Network Production
Number 265
Sing A Song Of Sixpencewww.lostshows.com/default.aspx?search=sing+a+song+of+sixpenceFriday 18 June 7.0 -7.30 pm Sing a Song of Sixpence
with Ronan O'Casey and Anne Nightingale, invites you to team up with guest
celebrities - and play a new musical quiz game that tests your knowledge of song lyrics
Editor Ruth Phillips Musical Director Ronnie Cass Directed by Peter Yolland
Rediffusion Network Production
Number 266
Riviera Policewww.lostshows.com/default.aspx?search=riviera+policeMonday 20 September 8.0 -8.55 pm Riviera Police
with Frank Lieberman Brian Spink in
There Comes A Point by Max Marquis
cast includes Laurence Payne Pauline Letts Anna Cateret David Bauer Patrick Mower
Veronica Hurst. Sets designed by Barbara Bates Director Ian Fordyce
Story edited and produced by Jordan Lawrence Rediffusion Network Production
No man, however wealthy, can treat everyone with utter contempt indefinitely.
There comes a point...
Number 267
Blackmail Series 1www.lostshows.com/default.aspx?search=blackmailFriday September 24 9.45 - 10.40 pm Blackmail
Ronald Radd Cyril Luckham David Sumner and Elizabeth Shepherd in
A Nice Little Family Fiddle
with Gerald Cross Terence Longdon Garfield Morgan Gary Watson and Wendy Varnals
Designer John Clements Story Editor Reuben Ship Director Marc Miller
Producer Stella Richman Rediffusion Network Production
When Gordon Good, property tycoon, finds that the De Jonge, Masterman family - staid,
respectable merchant bankers - is thwarting his plans for a vast building project a fierce
battle begins, with blackmail as Good's ultimate weapon. But who was really being
blackmailed - the De Jonge, Masterman family or Gordon Good?
Friday 3 December 9.40 - 10.35 pm Blackmail
Dudley Foster Ann Bell Helen Fraser and Adrienne Corri in
First Offender by Reuben Ship
Designed by John Clements Story Editor Reuben Ship Directed by Peter Collinson
Producer Stella Richman Rediffusion Network Production
Never give in to a blackmailer. But Joey Griffin's problem is that he can't say no -
especially to blackmailing women. No men believe Joey Griffin's story in tonight's
edition of Blackmail. But all women will
Born to BLACKMAIL...
Blackmail an ugly word. A word which most of us link with crime and the extortion of money.
But there are many forms of Blackmail. And they are forms which we put into operation every
day, says STELLA RICHMAN Producer of the new Friday series Blackmail.
If there were to be an Eighth Deadly Sin it would surely be BLACKMAIL. The small daily
blackmails we use on each other - often, quite unwittingly. All those terrible sentences which
start with 'unless'
Wife to Husband: "Unless you get a better job, I won't have a baby".
Father to Daughter: "Unless you give up seeing that boy - you needn't bother to come home again".
Senior Executive to Big Boss: Unless we go ahead with my deal, I feel I'll have to ask you to
accept my resignation".
Which of us can truthfully say that we have committed this eighth deadly sin?
We start in the cradle; the baby crying as the mother leaves the room. The tears stopping as the
anxious mother comes back to the child. It goes on through childhood into maturity...
It is this kind of emotional blackmail which fascinated us. Which made us start Blackmail.
Along with love and hate, blackmail seems to be a compulsion in all of us. It can be so subtle that
great hurt is inflicted before we have time to assess what is happening. We are all, from time to time,
willing and unwilling victims of blackmail. That is, in fact, how this series started.
My little girl - Cookie - is nine. I had had a particularly bad day both as a Mother and as a Producer.
I hated everyone. The moment I put my foot inside the front door, I was greeted with
"can I have some money to buy..."
"No, you can't." I said. "Oh please", she said. I stormed up to my bedroom slamming doors.
Two minutes later, two shining eyes stared at me round the bedroom door and she said " If you
give me five shillings I'll be your best friend."
Anything for peace - I had taken the money out of my purse and Cookie was half-way up the
street to the shops before I realised I had been a victim of blackmail.