The 2 April 1977 show was a landmark edition, as part of the programme was broadcast outside the Midlands for the first time, on HTV Cymru Wales and HTV West, filling up their ' round-the-regions ' compilation of Saturday morning programmes called Ten On Saturday.

The show was produced by Fred Wolf Films Dublin for HTV and Sleepy Kids Company and originally aired on British television in 1994 on CITV, then, was aired later on in the United States of America on Fox Kids.

After a brief spell at Southern Television, he became well known as an in-vision announcer for Thames Television from 1976, also announcing during this period for ATV, and HTV West and presenting a weekend show on BBC Radio 2.

In 1970, Cash wrote and performed The Radio Programme, a twenty-six part sitcom / music show produced at HTV and sold to the ITV network, NBC, and stations across Europe.

In 1987 Bernie hosted a quiz show on HTV called Scribble.

During the mid-80s he played in the HTV production of Robin of Sherwood ( released as Robin Hood in the US ) with Jason Connery as Robin.

In the eighties came the historical adventures Smuggler and its later antipodean-based follow-up Adventurer and between them, the lavish HTV production Robin of Sherwood, which ran for three series.

Before the launch of S4C, Welsh-speakers had been served by occasional programmes in Welsh broadcast as regional opt-outs on BBC Wales and HTV Cymru Wales ( the ITV franchise in Wales ), usually at off-peak or inconvenient times.

Granada then went on to purchase all of UNM's television interests ( including its ITV franchises ), which brought Meridian, Anglia and HTV into its power, however due to regulation Granada was forced to sell HTV to Carlton.

In recent years, changes in rules concerning media ownership enabled Carlton to buy out many of the other ITV stations, including Central Independent Television, Westcountry, and part of HTV ( via Granada ), as well as the rights to the archives of ITC Entertainment and its former sister company ATV, and the Rank film archive.

* Peter Lewis ( announcer ), HTV West news reader.

* Some regions showed later episodes in an early evening timeslot of 17: 10, such as HTV from 1995, the region concluding the series on 5 March 1999 ( the last ITV region to complete the series ), and also Granada Television from 1994 until they aired the last episode during the autumn of 1996.

The region's ITV franchisees, Granada Television ( weekdays only until 1968 ) and ABC Television ( Associated British Corporation ) weekends ( launched in 1956 ), were on air much earlier than North Wales ' franchisee, WWN ( Teledu Cymru ) which launched in 1962 ( subsequently HTV Wales ) giving viewers more choice than they would with the Welsh transmissions.

He also wrote travel books, including A Traveller in Turkey, The Independent Traveller's guide to Turkey and A Dry Ship to the Mountains ( Down the Volga and Across the Caucasus in My Father's Footsteps ), the book version of the children's TV series The Clifton House Mystery ( produced by HTV West for ITV in 1978 ), and an appreciation of " Marie Lloyd and music hall " and a recollection of " Soho in the Fifties " ( a time and a place in which he had found one of his few natural homes ).

Other roles include the lead in The Borderers ( BBC, 1968-70 ), Tom Brown's Schooldays ( BBC, 1971 ) ( as Thomas Arnold ), The Stone Tape ( BBC, 1972 ), Sutherland's Law ( BBC, 1973-76 ), Children of the Stones ( HTV / ITV, 1977 ), and Danger UXB ( Thames Television / ITV, 1979 ), The House With Green Shutters ( BBC, 1980 ).

At the time the fourth service was being considered, a movement in Wales lobbied for the creation of dedicated service that would air Welsh-language programmes, then only catered for at ' off peak ' times on BBC Wales and HTV.

Following TWW's loss of contract, the Teledu Cymru name was once again utilised by the Independent Television Service for Wales and the West that ran the franchise until HTV could begin broadcasting.

Following the intervention of the ITA, a temporary service was set up — Independent Television Service for Wales and the West, broadcasting from the old TWW Pontcanna studios in Cardiff, and staffed by former TWW workers, until Harlech ( soon renamed " HTV ") was ready to take over its franchise early, on 20 May 1968.

Part of the reason why the company was targeted was that the management buy-in group that had taken over Channel Television earlier in the same year was led by two former HTV executives-Huw Davies ( chief executive ) and David Jenkins ( finance director ).

In the end, the bid either failed or was abandoned ; Granada sold HTV to Carlton and Channel Television itself was sold again, this time to Iliffe News and Media, part of the privately-owned Yattendon Group plc.

Although Westcountry was in Plymouth, transmission for the channel was run by HTV Wales staff at HTV's presentation centre in Culverhouse Cross, Cardiff with continuity announcers based at the Plymouth studios.

The new identity, produced by Lambie-Nairn was used across all of Carlton's franchises ; Carlton London, Carlton Westcountry and some elements on HTV.

HTV was the only region owned by Carlton not to be subject to a full rebrand as Carlton.

Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network.

It was shot on film, and almost entirely on location, mostly in the north east and south west of England ; HTV West in Bristol was the base of operations and most of the filming was done in and around Bristol and its surrounding counties.

As the series was expensive to make, HTV could not afford to produce it alone and no more episodes were made.

The company itself acquired new inverters when in 1994 the Mirror Group brought 20 % stake in company, In September 1995, Scottish TV acquired a 20 % stake in HTV worth £ 36 millio, n as part of a deal with Flextech which allowed for an enlarged Scottish Television, with Flextech holding a 20 % stake while the Mirror Group stake was diluted to 16 per cent.

Operated by a specially created Welsh Fourth Channel Authority, S4C would air programmes in Welsh as made by HTV, the BBC, or from independent companies.

* Once Upon a Forest ( 1993, theatrical feature, co-produced with HTV Cymru / Wales, distributed by 20th Century Fox )

Granada continued to expand by acquiring Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television for £ 652m in 1997 and bought UNM for £ 1. 75billion in 2000 – by which it acquired Anglia Television and Meridian Broadcasting and some divisions of HTV – the remaining divisions passing to rival company Carlton due to competition laws.

Although not widely known, it has been reported that in 2000, amid takeovers of the other licensees by Carlton, Granada and SMG, Channel Television had plans to buy HTV, valuing the company at £ 450 million.

The sequence featured clips from various films and Disney cartoons, backed by a funky jazz number known as " Atomic Butterfly " ( which also seems to have been used for Sports Arena, an HTV Wales sports programme in the early 1970s ).

Both " HTV West " and " HTV Wales " stayed with their then-current idents ; however upon Carlton's purchase, the animated introduction and music to the idents were replaced by the sequences and audio in use with Carlton's graphical package.

However, only three years later, all the high-bidding licensees – including HTV which had virtually bankrupted itself to put forward a massive £ 25 million bid to win the Wales and West licence – were allowed to reduce their licence payments in some cases by more than half.

Derek Batey Border TV's Assistant Controller of Programmes became the frontman for one of ITV's most popular daytime quiz shows of the 1970s and early 1980s, Mr. and Mrs. ( A separate version of Mr. and Mrs. was also produced by HTV at the same time.

HTV, now known as ITV Wales, is an independent television company established by David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech, and the company was initially known as Harlech Television until 1970.

They were joined by HTV in 1996.

Children of the Stones is a television drama for children produced by HTV in 1976 and broadcast on the United Kingdom's ITV network in January and February 1977.

HTV had become available after Granada acquired it as part of United News and Media's broadcasting assets, but were forced to sell it to comply with ownership regulations.

Six months after the launch, the company joined up with Meridian Broadcasting, HTV, Channel Television and S4C to create a joint advertising operation.

Six months after the launch of Meridian, the new company joined up with HTV, Westcountry, Channel Television and S4C to form a joint advertising company operated by Meridian and HTV.

Brislington houses the HTV West Studios on Bath Road and this is situated next to the historic Arnos Vale Cemetery which is currently undergoing restoration after a lengthy public and newspaper campaign.