In this episode, Rob Francis looks at how the Independent Television Authority reshaped the ITV network in 1967, why the need to protect ABC Weekend TV led to the creation of Thames Television, and how Rediffusion found itself pushed into a new structure where it no longer held control of the franchise it had built. Along the way, we explore the tension between creative success and corporate power, the human cost behind franchise decisions, and the frustration of lost archives that still haunt this era of television history.