) is a television series produced originally by Rediffusion, London, then, by the fledgling Thames Television for British commercial television channel ITV from 26 December 1967 to 14 May 1969.

That same year, the three Goons reunited for a televised re-staging of a vintage Goon Show for Thames Television, with John Cleese substituting for the late Wallace Greenslade, but the pilot was not successful and no further programmes were made.

* Man About The House ( 1974 ) Film version of the popular TV series, playing himself at the Thames Television Studio finale.

After a merger in July 1968 ABC Television became Thames Television which continued production of the series, although it was still broadcast under the ABC name.

* The World at War ( 1974 ), a 26-part Thames Television series that covers most aspects of World War II from many points of view.

** ITV companies GMTV, Carlton Television, Meridian Broadcasting and Westcountry Television start broadcasting, replacing TV-am, Thames Television, TVS and TSW respectively.

* July 30 – Thames Television starts transmission in London.

Other small screen roles include performances in The Sweeney ( Thames Television for ITV, 1978 ), Lovejoy ( BBC ), Waking the Dead ( BBC ), Kavanagh QC ( Carlton Television for ITV, he played a concentration camp survivor in the episode Ancient History ), The Merchant of Venice ( BBC, 1980 ) and Gormenghast.

In 1991, Enfield played Dermot in the sitcom Men Behaving Badly along with Martin Clunes, Caroline Quentin and Leslie Ash, originally on Thames Television.

Other film treatments have included a 1983 British television documentary produced by Thames Television, narrated by Sir Dirk Bogarde entitled, Schindler: The Documentary ( released in the US in 1994 as Schindler: The Real Story ), and a 1998 A & E Biography special, Oskar Schindler: The Man Behind the List.

He amazed the cast and crew by doing many of his own stunts, although Thames Television said his increasingly ill health did force the use of a stunt double for some scenes.

In a British television documentary about his career, his widow Eleanor told producers of Thames Television that Keaton was up out of bed and moving around, and even played cards with friends who came to visit at their house the day before he died.

The first six-part series ran from 22 June to 27 July 1968, the second ( by which time ABC had become Thames Television ) from 27 November to 1 January 1969.

After a stint between 1974 and 1978 as the host of the Thames Television murder-mystery game show Whodunnit !, Pertwee took the starring role in Worzel Gummidge, based on the books written by Barbara Euphan Todd.

Television roles included the recurring role of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk in five of the six episodes of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1970 ), the villainous Nasca in Thames Television's Aztec-themed drama The Feathered Serpent ( 1976 – 78 ), a guest starring spot in the comedy series The Goodies in the episode " The Baddies ", as well as episodes of Paul Temple, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Doomwatch, The Persuaders !, A Family at War, Coronation Street, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Colditz, Play for Today, Z-Cars, Special Branch, Sutherland's Law, The Sweeney, Jason King, Survivors, Crown Court, Angels, Warship, Van der Valk, Space: 1999, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Only When I Laugh ( Series 2, Total Episode # 9 ), Nanny, Minder, and the first episode of Inspector Morse in January 1987.

This included voices for Danger Mouse alongside Terry Scott, The BFG, Count Duckula, Hugo from Victor and Hugo and Toad from The Wind in the Willows, all produced by Cosgrove Hall for Thames Television / ITV.

During the 1960s and ' 70s, he was involved in shows for the BBC and Thames Television ( as well as Frankie Howerd Reveals All for Yorkshire Television in 1980 ).

Abbott was a researcher and reporter at Thames Television from 1980 to 1983 and then a researcher and reporter at the breakfast television company TV-am from 1983 to 1985.

( The film was later remade for Thames Television in 1978.

This was followed in 1971 by a six-episode series Sykes and A Big, Big Show for the BBC and a special Sykes: With the Lid Off for Thames Television.

Even Hudson, experienced in Arctic sailing and determined as he was, must have had qualms as he slid down the Thames.

In 1725, Newton was born in Wapping, a district in London near the Thames.

By its terms the boundary between Alfred ’ s and Guthrum ’ s kingdoms was to run up the River Thames, to the River Lea ; follow the Lea to its source ( near Luton ); from there extend in a straight line to Bedford ; and from Bedford follow the River Ouse to Watling Street.

One well-known story ( quoted in Berry, page 261 ) was that he saw the change of direction of a wind vane on a boat on the Thames, caused not by an alteration of the wind itself, but by a change of course of the boat relative to the wind direction.

It opened in July 1903 in Kingston upon Thames, but the show was unsuccessful and it closed after two weeks.

There was also proposals for a bridge to span the Thames, for a redeveloped Riverside stand and a museum.

The Riverside was originally terracing that backed onto the Thames.

The club's first ground was Siemens Meadow ( 1905 – 1907 ), a patch of rough ground by the River Thames.

His body was gibbeted — right-to hang in an iron cage over the River Thames at Tilbury Point — as a warning to future would-be pirates for three years.

In 1667, when Defoe was probably about seven years old, a Dutch fleet sailed up the Medway via the River Thames and attacked Chatham.

The kingdom was bounded to the north by the River Stour and the Kingdom of East Anglia, to the south by the River Thames and Kent, to the east lay the North Sea and to the west Mercia.

The show was filmed in a mansion on the side of the River Thames in Leatherhead.

Rich finds such as the Battersea Shield, found in the Thames near Chelsea, suggest the area was important ; there may have been important settlements at Egham and Brentford, and there was a hillfort at Uppall, but no city in the area of the Roman London, the present day City of London.

This suggests that the Thames was an important tribal boundary.

The Thames Barrier was completed in the 1980s to protect London against tidal surges from the North Sea.

Portland cement was used by the famous English engineer Marc Isambard Brunel several years later when constructing the Thames Tunnel.

As well as its downstream interests, Mobil was active in the North Sea and operated an oil refinery in Coryton ( opened in 1953 ), on the Thames estuary.

In 1999, he was created a life peer, as Baron Foster of Thames Bank, of Reddish in the County of Greater Manchester.

He was divorced from Sabiha Rumani Malik in 1998 and married Elena Ochoa Foster, Lady Foster of Thames Bank.

On December 1, an incident took place that sealed punk rock's notorious reputation: On Thames Today, an early evening London TV show, Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones was goaded into a verbal altercation by the host, Bill Grundy.

Part of the New Palace's area of was reclaimed from the Thames, which is the setting of its principal façade, the river front.

The Palace of Westminster site was strategically important during the Middle Ages, as it was located on the banks of the River Thames.

This was a prototype for a proposed Waterloo and Whitehall Railway that would have run under the River Thames linking Waterloo and Charing Cross.