Janice Willett

One of the programmes Willett produced for ABC was State Your Case, a show that invited viewers to write in for a chance to win £100 to help them fulfil a personal dream. Letters would typically be from parents wishing to visit their children overseas, young couples in need of a deposit for a house, or individuals with business ideas, including one viewer who wanted the money to build a rocket ship capable of reaching outer space. State Your Case began in ABC's northern region, but was aired nationally from February 1957. In March 1961, the programme aired "A Man Dies", a controversial Passion Play depicting Jesus Christ dressed in a pair of jeans.

On 11 April 1961 Willett was treated at the West Middlesex Hospital after Vance stabbed her in the shoulder during an incident at ABC's Teddington Studios. At his subsequent trial, held at the Old Bailey on 27 April, Vance was found guilty due to diminished responsibility and sentenced to three years' probation, after a psychiatrist successfully argued in his defence. He was ordered to spend twelve months of this sentence as a patient at London's St Luke's Hospital. Vance was dismissed by ABC, but later worked for Associated Television. She married composer and writer Norman Kay in 1969, and the couple had a daughter. Norman Kay died in 2001. A long-term resident of Richmond in southwest London, in her later years Willett became involved with the Richmond Society and took over responsibility for their publicity. She died on 6 November 2018.