Mark Shivas is a British television producer and executive. He began his career at BBC Television in the 1960s, and quickly became one of the department's noted producers. He achieved particular success with the costume drama The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) and Dennis Potter's Casanova (1971), the former of which earned three Emmy Award nominations in 1972. BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which began in 1936. ... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... The Six Wives of Henry VIII was a series of six plays produced by the BBC in 1971. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Dennis Christopher George Potter (May 17, 1935 – June 7, 1994) was a controversial English dramatist who is best known for several widely acclaimed television dramas which mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. ... Casanova is a British television drama serial, written by the acclaimed television playwright Dennis Potter. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... An Emmy Award. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...

Other notable productions he oversaw included the anthology series Black and Blue (1973), which included the play Secrets by Michael Palin and Terry Jones. The play was wiped from the archives, as was standard practice at the time, but a recording made by Shivas on an early domestic video format from the mastertape at the BBC and transferred onto VHS in the 1980s preserved a copy, later allowing it to be released as an extra feature on the Ripping Yarns DVD set. 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... Secrets is a one-hour 1973 BBC Television play by Michael Palin and Terry Jones, starring Warren Mitchell as the owner of a chocolate factory. ... Michael Edward Palin (born May 5, 1943 in Sheffield, Yorkshire) is a British comedian and television presenter. ... Terry Jones Terence Graham Parry Jones (born February 1, 1942) is a British comedian and writer. ... Wiping or junking is an economic move by television companies in which old videotapes and telerecordings were wiped (deleted) and reused or were destroyed. ... The videocassette recorder (or VCR, more commonly known in the British Isles as the video recorder), is a type of video tape recorder that uses removable cassettes containing magnetic tape to record audio and video from a television broadcast so it can be played back later. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... Top view VHS cassette with US Quarter for scale Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed The Video Home System, first released in 1976, better known by its acronym VHS, is a recording and playing standard for video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by JVC (with some of its... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... The Complete Ripping Yarns (book) by Michael Palin (right) and Terry Jones (1999) Ripping Yarns was a British television comedy series loosely in the style of Monty Pythons Flying Circus, written by former Pythons Michael Palin and Terry Jones. ... DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...

In 1988 Shivas became Head of Drama at the BBC, a position he occupied until 1993 when he moved across to head up the Corporation's fledgling film arm. In recent years, he has returned to producing as a freelancer. Some of his most noted productions since then have been the second series of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologues in 1998 and the 2003 espionage drama Cambridge Spies. 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cathy Come Home, a 1966 entry into The Wednesday Play anthology series, voted the best drama and second highest programme overall in the British Film Institutes 2000 survey of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Alan Bennett (born May 9, 1934) is an English writer and actor. ... Talking Heads is a series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television by the acclaimed British playwright Alan Bennett. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Espionage is the practice of obtaining secrets (spying) from rivals or enemies for military, political, or economic advantage. ... Cambridge Spies was a 2003 four-part BBC drama concerning the lives of the Cambridge Five from 1934 to the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean to the Soviet Union. ...

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External links

• Mark Shivas at the Internet Movie Database
• CV at pfd.co.uk