Re: Jack Hargreaves out of town -the lost episodes
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 12:05 pm
Southern Television, of which Jack was a Director, dumped all the old film in a skip! He was long-retired by then ( with no pension!), but his son-in-Law, Simon Baddeley has rescued a lot of them, and with what is on Youtube and the DVD collections, there's hundreds of hours of Jack out there again..this time forever.
"How" was also Jack's idea, as was Bernard Venables' "Mr.Crabtree Goes Fishing". Jack wrote a very similar book, " Fishing For A Year" which was illustrated by Bernard and which has just been re-released.
Some more from Simon here:
https://vimeo.com/channels/164955/32410186
Jack led an interesting life that seems almost absurd when you first learn of it. A complicated and difficult boy, he became a man with an equally complicated life. From designing the naked-women frieze around the Windmill Theatre, to being seconded to General Montgomery's staff and later being a founding part of the new world of television. The Yorkshire 'country boy' was in fact born in South London and sat on the Nugent Committee after World War 2 to decide what military property, forcibly seized from private ownership during the war, would be returned to farming use. Sadly, not enough of it ever was and these sites, long flogged-off or given away by HMG have been easy prey for 'property developers'.
Jack got his OBE for that....I'd have given him a damned good piece of my mind..........Jack's viewpoint being that the countryside was only there to feed the towns..........hmmmmmmm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hargreaves
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"How" was also Jack's idea, as was Bernard Venables' "Mr.Crabtree Goes Fishing". Jack wrote a very similar book, " Fishing For A Year" which was illustrated by Bernard and which has just been re-released.
Some more from Simon here:
https://vimeo.com/channels/164955/32410186
Jack led an interesting life that seems almost absurd when you first learn of it. A complicated and difficult boy, he became a man with an equally complicated life. From designing the naked-women frieze around the Windmill Theatre, to being seconded to General Montgomery's staff and later being a founding part of the new world of television. The Yorkshire 'country boy' was in fact born in South London and sat on the Nugent Committee after World War 2 to decide what military property, forcibly seized from private ownership during the war, would be returned to farming use. Sadly, not enough of it ever was and these sites, long flogged-off or given away by HMG have been easy prey for 'property developers'.
Jack got his OBE for that....I'd have given him a damned good piece of my mind..........Jack's viewpoint being that the countryside was only there to feed the towns..........hmmmmmmm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hargreaves
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