Thames Television

Thames Television was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding area on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992.

Formed as a joint company, it merged the television interests of British Electric Traction (trading as Associated-Rediffusion) owning 49%, and Associated British Picture Corporation—soon taken over by EMI—owning 51%. It was both a broadcaster and a producer of television programmes, making shows both for the local region it covered and for networking nationally across the ITV regions. The British Film Institute describes Thames as having "served the capital and the network with a long-running, broad-based and extensive series of programmes, several of which either continue or are well-remembered today."[1] Thames covered a broad spectrum of commercial public-service television, with a strong mix of drama, current affairs and comedy.

After Thames was acquired by FremantleMedia it was merged with another Fremantle company, Talkback Productions, to form a new independent production company Talkback Thames; consequently Thames ceased to exist as a separate entity. However, on 1 January 2012, the Thames brand was revived and Talkback Thames has now been split into four different labels; Boundless, Retort, Talkback and Thames within the newly created FremantleMedia UK production arm.

Television and Movies

 * This Is Your Life
 * The Benny Hill Show
 * The Sooty Show
 * Father, Dear Father
 * The Morecambe & Wise Show
 * The Avengers
 * Carry On Christmas Specials
 * Hattytown Tales
 * Bless This House
 * Drive In (TV series)
 * The Edward Woodward Hour
 * Alcock and Gander
 * Six Days of Justice
 * Thirty Minutes Worth
 * Rainbow
 * Love Thy Neighbour
 * Alice Through the Looking Glass
 * The Tomorrow People
 * The World at War
 * Man About the House
 * Whodunnit?
 * Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings
 * Jamie and the Magic Torch
 * Chorlton and the Wheelies
 * George and Mildred
 * The Talking Parcel
 * Give Us a Clue
 * Shelley
 * Button Moon
 * Cockleshall Bay
 * Rod, Jane and Freddy
 * Danger Mouse
 * The Wind in the Willows
 * Name That Tune
 * Alias the Jester
 * Creepy Crawlies
 * T-Bag
 * Opportunity Knocks
 * Count Duckula
 * Learn with Sooty
 * The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads
 * The BFG
 * Mr. Bean
 * Spatz
 * The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
 * Victor & Hugo: Bunglers in Crime
 * Oliver Gets Lost
 * Terry Pratchett Truckers
 * Take Your Pick!
 * Men Behaving Badly
 * Avenger Penguins