MOUNT'S BAY BOOKS

A Jack Hargreaves Collectors' Bibliography

'Fishing for a Year' : highly collectable, highly scarce title in a 1st edition.
Reprinted by Medlar Press in the mid-1990's as a limited edition of 975 copies

'How' 1970's slim paperback of puzzles from the TV series [ with Fred Dineage,
Bunty James and Jon Miller] Published by Picolo/TV Times. 'How' annual(s) were also issued

'Out of Town' A Life on Television

'The Old Country'

'The New Forest' A Portrait in Colour

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There is also a biography of Jack by Paul Peacock (Pub: Farming Books & Videos)

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'Out of Town: An English Country Diary' (1992), a Video selection from Out of Town
much sought after; the - only - video produced at the time (*new videos, see below).

Jack also recorded a series of vinyl LP's; one on 'Know Your Fish'; one on dog training
'Know your Dog'; 'Know Your Pony' (1977) and 'Country Walking' (all Response Records),
Also released on cassette - all now highly collectable

'The Old Country' - and presumably (although never seen) 'Out of Town' - were also produced as 'audio books'.

Early in his career Jack edited 'Lilliput' magazine, copies of which occasionally surface

He contributed to 'The Angler's Bedside Book', edited by Maurice Wiggin and published in 1965, with a piece entitled
'Fishing For Television'. A nice black & white photo' of Jack aged about 50 is also included in this book.

The theme music to 'Out of Town'/'The Old Country, Recuerdos DeLa Alhambra, written by Francisco Tarrega
was released by John Williams on an album (CBS 61843) and as a 45-rpm vinyl single by Juan Martin
(issued as 'Out of Town'). The earliest episodes featured a vocal theme of 'Out of Town' recorded by Max Bygraves.

Hargreaves was the much-loved presenter of 'Out of Town' and 'How' for Southern Television (itself a respected channel).
He was also instrumental in creating programmes for local viewers such as 'Farm Progress' and 'House Party'.
After the demise of Southern, he later moved to Channel 4 to present 'The Old Country' in 1985 until he retired.
There are several web sites with information/background/photos' on Jack - try the TV-Ark or just run a Google search.

(cassettes) (vinyl LP's)

(VHS videos)

VIDEOS: 'Out of Town: An English Country Diary' (Telstar, 1992, deleted) Extracts from 'Out of Town'. *Remains highly collectable.
2004/5 : 'Out Of Town' Volumes 1-9. Each of these videos contains 3 episodes from 'Out of Town'.
DVD's were released during 2004/5 although were not widely available for copyright reasons until January'06.

*The only reasonably 'scarce' video now is the original 1992, 'An English Country Diary' compilation issued by Telstar on VHS *

'Jack once said: "...You can ruin anything, if you make it available to everybody."

Copyright: Tv logos Southern Television/TVS/Tim Scott/All copyright holders acknowledged. The information on this page is for guidance to collectors only and should not be relied upon in any way as definitive.

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23/02/08