Society doesn’t normally refer, even at his passing, to a successful talented prosperous inventive entrepreneur as ‘beloved’ but Tim was just that. After others had dropped by the wayside I am eternally grateful to Tim and Network for recovering, restoring and publishing my stepfather Jack Hargreaves' 'Out of Town' episodes on Southern TV from the 1960s and 70s. I'd been struggling with hours of incredibly intractable material over a decade. Tim contacted me in 2010, inspected some cans of vinegary reverse negative film stored in rusting cans plus separate boxes of equally aged 1/4" reel-to-reel tapes. "We can do this, Simon" he said to me in minutes of our first meeting. Those recordings had to be identified and by duct-taped to cans from which identification had often worn off. Once correctly matched, tape and film had to be digitised and synchronised - harmonising every hammer blow, engine start, fish splash, and a hundred other library sounds, to silent location film. Then came the work of adding titles, credits, and theme tune. Perhaps more challenging, since all film of Jack speaking from his studio 'shed' had vanished, was the matter of who would introduce each episode and make links between their parts. All we had was Jack's recorded voice on tape. We debated filling in the resulting blank spaces with screen-grabbed stills or even, via animation, to dub Jack's voice onto a later clip of Jack in the studio - an option we dismissed as 'zombification'. Then Tim persuaded me that I'd no choice but to stand in for my stepfather - a daunting honour which had me coached and rehearsing for months - not to copy Jack, but to provide a good working substitute that wouldn't get in his way. With direction from Tim’s film-making recruit, Paul Vanezis, this worked very well for viewers of Network’s first 'Further Out of Town', published after three other successful Network issues of my stepdad’s broadcasts. Tim Beddows was the driver. May the trumpets blow for him on the other side. My heartfelt condolences to the small group of very special colleagues who succeed him.