Talking Bikes - The IOM TT 1980

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A little bit of my history:
Talking Bikes - 1980
(this copy was made for me and given to me by Southern TV)
Director: John Coxall
Associate Producer: Bill Gamon
Prenter: David Bobin
Editor: Dave Knowles
Assistant Editor: ?
Dubbing Mixer: Tony Cunningham

TT Riders it the programme:
Mike Hailwood, Mick Grant, Ron Haslam, Charlie Williams, Graham Cosby, Joey Dunlop, Chas Mortimer, Jock Taylor, Benga Johansson, Peter Williams, Clive Pollington.
Also interview with Nick Harris.

The story of this episode:
Back in 1980 I was working as an editor at Southern Television in Southampton. I had gone there from ITN as an assistant editor and worked on 'Black Arrow', Famous Five, Afloat, and a documentary that went on to win an award For the Love of Helen which was directed by Mike Connor and the reporter was Paul Bryers. I in fact did some of the editing on this programme which was an all night edit coming in Thursday afternoon and being broadcast Friday evening.

Eventually not long after this I made my way to become the News Editor and soon after that I was promoted to become a full editor. My early days were spent editing pieces for Southerns magazine programme Day by Day.
In those early days I was working with people such as Alistair Stewart who had only just joined Southern having been at University. I remember cutting his first Day by Day programme which I think was on canal barge art.

In 1980 I was given a chance to to edit my first series called Talking Bikes. In fact Bill Gamon (who went on to become my partner in an Independent Production Company when Southern lost its franchise) asked for me to edit it because of my love of cutting music sequences.

Having only edited single programmes up to then I was a bit taken aback when over 80,000 feet of 16mm film (around 36 hours) appeared in my cutting room. Shortly after that John Coxall the director came in to see me and explained this needed to be made into 6 half hour programmes gave me a very brief verbal outline of what the programmes were about and said he was off on holiday and would look at them when he return in a month or so.

On looking through the rushes I immediately could visualise the programme I could make from the Isle of Mann TT footage so I set about editing that one first.

After a few weeks of work it was ready for dubbing so I asked Tony Cunningham from the sound department who I knew would not give me a hard time of the complex nature of the dub if he would mix it for me. We spent around five hours on the mix and once finished I took it back to my cutting room to view. As I looked through it I was not happy and I thought that if we were to redo it we could make it so much better therefore with caution and making sure that Ron Hussey the head of the sound department was not around I asked Tony if we could please remix it the following day. To my great relief Tony said he felt he had not done the best he could and agreed so after another five hours both of us were really happy with the results.

This programme is still top of my list of programmes I have ever done.

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