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Eighties Season for BBC Television: GATV has been providing equipment for three dramas rediscovering the 1980s. Domestic televisions were provided for 'Royal Wedding', camera and monitors for 'Money' and a full set of studio cameras plus monitors for 'Worried About the Boy' to enable a recreation of the 'Top of the Pops' studio in the early 1980s. The picture shows the recreated studio.

GA-TV supplied several 1970s vintage tv studio cameras and microphones for 'The Damned United' starring Michael Sheen as football manager Brian Clough and Colm Meany as Don Revie. The picture shows an EMI 2001 with an implant rig to simulate 'practical'

BBC4's series 'The Curse Of Comedy' kicked off with 'The Curse Of Steptoe': 'Harold' played by Jason Isaacs & EMI 203 tv cameras and other vintage studio equipment by Golden Age TV. 2008 RTS award for Production Design which, "convincingly transported the audience back to the behind-the-scenes television world of 40 years ago."

New productions include 'Hancock & Joan', a drama for BBCTV set in the mid-1960s with Ken Stott as 'the lad 'imself'. Picture shows studio technicians and a dressed 'working' Pye Mk3 camera with a Mole mic boom.

Feature film entitled 'Hippie Hippie Shake', concerning the 'OZ' magazine obscenity trial of the early 1970s. GA-TV supplied vintage tv news (pictured), tv studio and tv outside broadcast equipment.

The BBCTV astronomy programme 'The Sky At Night' celebrated on April 1st 2007, 50 years. A special edition featured a recreation of 'Lime Grove Studio E' using GATV equipment including a Marconi Mk III image orthicon camera suitably dressed for the occasion. Filmed at Teddington Studios, the show starred Sir Patrick Moore as himself and impressionist Jon Culshaw as 'Patrick Moore' in 1957.

Golden Age Television supports the 'TV70' event at the Alexandra Palace in London to celebrate 70 years of the BBC's electronic television service opened at 3 pm on Nov 2nd 1936. Three operational Image Orthicon cameras and support equipment run from 'Unit 3' enabled the making of a commemorative programme.

'TELEVISION INNOVATIONS-50 Technological Developments'by Dicky Howett. This unique and concise pictorial account of television technology was described by one reviewer as 'un-put-downable' and 'informative, honest,amusing, highly recommended'. With 136 illustrations, some especially sourced, this carefully researched-limited print run, 128 page book- charts many innovative tv technological advances including the Iconoscope, Image Orthicon, Vidicon and Plumbicon tubes and the CCD. Also featured are pedestals and camera cranes, video tape, lenses, lighting and video recording evolutions plus much more. Famous manufacturers highlighted include EMI, RCA, Vinten, Marconi, Taylor-Hobson and Philips - Further details from Kelly Publications 01884 256170. www.kellybooks.co.uk. Copies 14.95 UKP post free (in the UK)

Golden Age Television Re-creations provided a large quantity of period tv and film equipment, including many tv monitors and 1970s colour receivers for the Steven Spielberg Oscar nominated movie 'MUNICH' premiered in Dec 2005. Available on DVD.