"It's just this and lousy weather that holds us together."

[altariel]

Via watervole.

But not Callan.

ETA: OK I have to stop watching this now.

Comments

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

In a way, I think the BBC can claim some credit for Callan as well. Back in those days, the ITV companies saw the BBC as their main rival, and knew that, in order to compete, they had to match the standards the BBC set. It was when they stopped thinking like that that they stopped producing decent television, and their audience collapsed. So the market economists were wrong there, then.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I just read a Malcolm Bradbury novel about independent TV making in the 80s, Cuts. Very funny, satirical in the style of Waugh.