Spode Under the name 'Spode Ltd' the same factories and business was continued after 1970. In 2006, the business merged with Royal Worcester. The merged company entered administration on 6 November 2008. The brand names and intellectual property were acquired by Portmeirion Group on 23 April 2009. On 23 April 2009, Portmeirion Pottery purchased their rival Royal Worcester and Spode brands, together with some of the stock, after they had been placed into administration the previous November. The purchase did not include Royal Worcester or Spode manufacturing facilities. Many items in Spode's Blue Italian and Woodland ranges are now made at
The Name of the Game (TV series) writing credits on the series, and served as story editor for the third-season Robert Stack episodes. Segment Producers / Executive Producers included David Victor ("The Man From U.N.C.L.E." etc.), Dean Hargrove ("U.N.C.L.E.," "Perry Mason Returns," "Diagnosis Murder" etc.), Gene L. Coon ("Star Trek" etc.), and Leslie Stevens ("The Outer Limits," "Mystery Movies" etc.) The Universal Studios headquarters building was used for the exterior shots of the "Howard Publications" building. The show's opening graphic used each actor's name, zoomed out to form a line drawing of the face of each of the primary stars in turn, with the face each time