Michael Grade Management & Representation. Among the artists whom Grade represented were Morecambe and Wise (he successfully negotiated the duo's defection from ATV to BBC2 in 1968) and Larry Grayson. Grade entered the television industry in 1973 when he joined London Weekend Television (LWT) as Deputy Controller of Programmes (Entertainment). During this time he bought the scripts of an Afro-American sitcom "Good Times" which had an all-black cast. Adapted as "The Fosters" (1976–77), it became the first British sitcom to have an entirely black cast. At LWT, Grade worked with both John Birt and Greg Dyke. After he became Director of Programmes
Cast Your Fate to the Wind for "A Charlie Brown Christmas"; the hiring would begin a long collaboration between Guaraldi and Mendelson that would see Guaraldi compose for numerous "Peanuts" television specials until his death in 1976. Cast Your Fate to the Wind "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" is an American jazz instrumental selection whose music was composed, and which was originally recorded, by Vince Guaraldi; later, lyrics for it were written by Carel Werber. It won a Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition in 1963. It was included on the album "Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus," which the Vince Guaraldi Trio released on