Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/ITC productions task force

Welcome to the ITC WikiProject! This page has been setup to help focus on the creation, editing and discussion of articles related to ITC Entertainment, Associated TeleVision and AP Films. If you're a fan of The Prisoner, The Saint, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Thunderbirds. The Muppet Show or ITV history, then please consider joining! And if those names mean nothing to you, then why not join in and find out about some absolute gems of TV history... we're desperately short of (active) members.

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• WikiProject Television
• WikiProject British TV shows

Scope

The scope of this project includes all articles about and related to the Incorporated Television Company including:

• ITC Entertainment and all of the TV shows and films produced by and for the company:

Such as The Prisoner, Department S, The Adventures of Robin Hood

• AP Films and Century 21 Productions and their productions:

Such as Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

• Lew Grade and the other key people involved in the company:

Producers of associated companies (such as Hannah Weinstein for Sapphire Films)

Contract players (Roger Moore, Patrick McGoohan)

Regular staff (such as composer Edwin Astley or producer/writer Dennis Spooner)

• Our productions bible, with links to each Wikipedia article, was created by Redvers and is affectionately titled the Lew List
• Our staff bible, with links for each member of staff and a list of the ITC shows they worked on, is currently in progress.

News

Old news can still be viewed at the news archive.

• Can't Stop the Music added to ITC Distributions category - nice to see that there are still some articles out there that we've missed... there could be more! Howie ☎ 09:16, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
• Also, the Template:ITC_Distributions_Chronology has been created by me, a while back now, so take a look. Should we be using this on all ITC related pages like other TV articles do? Howie ☎ 09:18, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
• 'Added: The Adventures of William Tell - this page has too much info on guest stars (see discussion page) and needs to be broken down into sections; Sword of Freedom and The Scarlet Pimpernel (television series) - both stubs really, and The Scarlet Pimpernel should really be renamed to include "The Adventures of" beforehand. Howie ☎ 10:00, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
• Major project page overhaul Howie ☎ 11:01, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
• Article created for ATV Today. Needs more work and more references, but is a good start. TheRetroGuy (talk) 23:54, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Participants

• User:HowardBerry.
• ➨ ❝REDVERS❞
• User:23skidoo
• User:Wootking
• User:CzechOut
• User:TheRetroGuy
• User:REVUpminster
• User:SuperMarioMan
• User:Jcamts
• User:Ant_ie
• User:Londonclanger
• User:Sjones23

Goals

• Create an informative article, which has in-depth information about each production, including:

ITC infobox

Introduction:

Production history

Number of episodes

Production team

Synopsis

Details of the typical kind of setup of the show - most of these were pretty formulaic remember!

Style

Swashbuckler? Action adventure? Spy-fi?

Cast and Guest Cast

Lead actors - what other ITC productions were they in?

Guest cast - how notable were they?

Music

Composer (theme and incidental)

Was it used in international broadcasts? (Danger Man example)

Has it been used in other productions since?

• Make sure each page has an infobox with a picture from the title caption, or of the DVD release sleeve - preferably Region 2 European covers, as the UK is where these series originated.
• Make each related page have a similar layout so that there is eventually a universal page layout for these entries.

Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

• I'd really like to see the main ITC Entertainment article finally reach good article status. I think it's a shame we don't have any good or features articles in the scope of our project. Howie ☎ 10:52, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Templates

Userbox

There is a userbox available to place on your user page.

• {{Template:User ITCWP}}

Project Banner

• {{WikiProject ITC-Distributions}}

Use this template on a discussion page of a relevant article.

Stub templates

• {{ITCDistributions-stub}}

Page Layout Templates

• {{Template:Infobox television}}

Use this infobox for ITC related pages.

• {{Template:ITC Distributions Chronology}}

Renders an infobox displaying ITC's productions by category and date

Categories

• Category:ITC Distributions

Wikipedia articles on ITC Productions

• The above link lists the ITC articles on Wikipedia, although there were a few missing that I added today (Shirley's World, Whiplash, Moses the Lawgiver... and most incredibly, Raise the Titanic). There are a few still without an article though: Will Shakespeare, starring Tim Curry; and Ghost Squad. Howie ☎ 19:12, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

New Wikipedia articles related to ITC Productions

• Captain Scarlet vs the Mysterons, the terrible 1981 re-edit job, is now up as a stub. ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 14:46, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
  • I don't believe this one is worthy of a separate article. IMO it should be merged with the TV series article. I don't think there should be separate articles on the Space:1999 re-edits either as in my opinion they are covered sufficiently in the main article. This one runs the risk of being marked for AFD as a potential duplicate of the TV series article. 23skidoo 14:59, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
    • Okay. Propose it on AfD and see what people think. ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 15:11, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
      • I didn't say I would, but having spent a lot of time at AFD this is the type of article that would likely be nominated. I would probably vote merge with the TV series article if this were to occur. 23skidoo 15:27, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
        • I think a merge would be a good idea. Same goes for The Persuaders! edit jobs if any are still out there. I know there's certainly a redirect page for Mission: Monte Carlo (goes to the main Persuaders! article). HowardBerry 17:11, 12 November 2005 (UTC) (I still have that Capt.Scarlet re-edit on video!)

Please feel free to list your new ITC Productions-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

• Monty Berman ➨ ЯEDVERS
• List of Thunderbirds episodes (4th January, 2007)
• added Richard Harris (television writer) CzechOut 01:26, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
• added Tony Williamson (television writer) CzechOut 01:26, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
• greatly expanded Dennis Spooner CzechOut 01:26, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

New ITC stubs

• The Adventurer (series) 10:33, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (series) 11:03, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
• Court Martial (series) 11:36, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
• The Adventures of Ellery Queen 16:34, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
• The Zoo Gang 19:56, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
• The Beachcomber (series) 13:53, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
• Man of the World 15:13, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
• Seaway 16:17, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
• The Sentimental Agent 16:33, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
• Cannonball (series) 17:15, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• The Buccaneers (series) 20:50, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• The Des O'Connor Show 21:32, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Bonkers! 12:12, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• Diver Dan 12:12, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• Espionage (series) 13:21, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• The Forest Rangers 14:20, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• The Four Just Men 16:24, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• From a Bird's Eye View 19:42, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• The Gale Storm Show 20:32, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• The Halls of Ivy 10:43, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans 11:25, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• Interpol Calling 12:59, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• Sword of Freedom 16:03, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• This Is Tom Jones 16:29, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• The New Adventures of Charlie Chan 17:15, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• New York Confidential 20:23, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• The Invisible Man (1958 series) 11:19, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
• The Julie Andrews Hour 13:57, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
• OSS (series) 14:40, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
• Television Programs of America 19:44, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
• Robert S. Baker 09:45, 5 August 2007 (UTC)