The author looks back to the sixties, the pinch experiments and the contribution that Dr Pease made to them, and to the theoretical work which was being pursued at that time. The work on pinches which included the ZETA device, the Mark IV torus, TIBER and FAUST (a hard-core pinch) started to decrease in the 1960's. The work saw an improvement in plasma parameters, electron temperature moving up to some 200 eV, and confinement time towards a millisecond or so. During this period there was a significant advance in understanding in the theoretical requirements for the stability of these devices, on ideal MHD and resistive MHD. Dr Pease was very active in stimulating that work and that led to the present work on the Reverse Field Pinch. Later in this period he was very active in setting up experiments which were to be conducted in 1969 on the T3 tokamak in the Soviet Union.