1962 Missing Found Ulster Television

[williammcgregor]

TV Brain has most, if not all, episodes missing for ...

With A Fiddle And A Flute

including

Series 3 26.11.1962 "Opening of new UTV Studio" ( missing, believed never to have been recorded)

In Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive is ...

Location: Belfast, Havelock House Year 1962 Date Transmission 26/11/1962 Length: 27 minutes 31 seconds

Audio: Sound Format: DVC black and white Rights Holder ITV

Description: At the start of the Sixties, Ulster Televisions' most popular programme was the traditional music series With A Fiddle and a Flute (1961-1964)

It was also the first network programme made by Ulster Television. A professional tenor, Peter Tomelty, was the host of this popular television series - it even beat Coronation Street in the ratings!

Set in a farmyard-style kitchen, this episode features Maureen Tyson, Teresa Clifford, Sean Maguire, Mary McEvoy, Thompson Twins (Elaine and Derek) and the Arthur Burns Traditional Dancers.(No mention of opening of new UTV Studio in this description)

I have watched this and it is complete with end credits that include Designer: Roy Gaston and Director: John Scholz Conway
(whose imdb makes interesting reading for tv he did later, outside Northern Ireland)

The 1963 ITV Yearbook has this series as a musical programme.

Elaine and Derek Thompson appeared in the film Gonks Go Beat 1964 - shown 1965.

Derek Thompson became an actor and is familiar to us all as Charlie Fairhead in BBC's Casualty.

[Alan Turrell]

Strangely enough, William a few weeks ago I bought a record by Elaine and Derek called "One Little Robin" from 1961 on Parlophone I guess it's the Elaine and Derek that you mention here, I never realised he was Derek Thompson from Casualty interesting stuff.

[williammcgregor]

Thanks for the info Alan, that would make Derek Thompson only around 13 in 1961 as his date of birth is the 4th April 1948 according to Wikipedia.

[Kev Hunter]

There is are uploads of a publicity sheet and also the sheet music for One Little Robin here : www.45cat.com/record/r4783
I wouldn't have recognised him as the same guy who later appeared in The Long Good Friday and Casualty!

[williammcgregor]

Alan, Kev and all ...

More on Elaine and Derek (Thompson) ...

Here is Elaine today, please click on the link ...

Therein, there are photos and gen on both of them and also that they formed as Odin's People late 1966.

As such, Elaine says they did tv and radio appearances, and yet I cannot come up with any UK Television appearances for Odin's People.

I am sure that, as the forum abounds with great researchers, which is just about everyone, they will come up with their TV appearances.

Kev, at almost 19, Derek looks more like he does today, than when he was 14 in the With A Fiddle and A Flute ...

www.elainejohns.com/about.html

Derek Thompson on link below, was the highest paid actor at the BBC in 2017, see the amounts ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Thompson_%28actor%29

www.irishrock.org/irodb/bands/odinspeople.html