"""Radio Times"" listed Papa Lazarou as the 8th funniest comedy sketch of all time. The series was cited as an inspiration for the later Canadian television series ""Death Comes to Town"", a reunion project for the Canadian sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall. The League of Gentlemen The League of Gentlemen is a British comedy television series that premiered on BBC Two in 1999. The show is set in Royston Vasey, a fictional town in Northern England, originally based on Alston, Cumbria and follows the lives of bizarre characters, most of whom are played by three of the"
"Brown. Brown played the part of the town's mayor in a cameo appearance. Filming of the television series took place in the Derbyshire village of Hadfield, located in a Pennines valley. The ""Local Shop"" is a purpose-built building on nearby Marsden Moor. The League considered a number of filming locations before settling on Hadfield. Another town to feature prominently in the series was Bacup in Rossendale, and the West Yorkshire town of Todmorden was used for some later scenes. The town as it appears in the TV show has a sign which ominously declares ""Welcome to Royston Vasey. You'll never"
"of the series, the townsfolk, mistaking the source of the ""special stuff"", free Barbara and burn down Edward and Tubbs' shop. Guests in series 2 include Sian Gibson (as Sian Foulkes) and the comedian Roy Chubby Brown, in the role of the Mayor of Royston Vasey. As noted above, the town of Royston Vasey is actually named in tribute to Roy Chubby Brown, that being his actual birth name. The third and final series focused on a different character each week but with the overlaps creating a more complex layering of the plot, more akin to a one-off episode of"
"series. For television, Spent was renamed Royston Vasey - the given name of comedian Roy Chubby Brown, who appears in the series, notably as the Mayor of Royston Vasey in series 2. Along with ""The Fast Show"", the series is credited with the revival of the sketch show format in BBC comedy. Its influence can be seen on later series, particularly ""Little Britain"" (the first series of which was directed by Steve Bendelack and script-edited by Gatiss). Filming took place mainly on location in the north Derbyshire town of Hadfield and consequently had no live audience. A laugh track was"
"characters from the TV series enter into the real world through a portal below the church (actually in Ireland). The statue featured in the series and film's opening credits is the war memorial, commemorating lives lost in the First and Second World Wars. Hadfield, Derbyshire Hadfield is a town in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England. The population of the town's wards in the 2011 Census was 6,305. It lies on the south side of the River Etherow, the border between Derbyshire and Greater Manchester, at the western edge of the Peak District close to Glossop. Hadfield lies between Bottoms"
"as part of the DfT Rolling Stock Plan. Glossop line The Hadfield–Glossop line is a railway line connecting the city of Manchester with the towns of Hadfield and Glossop in Derbyshire, England. Passenger services on the line are operated by Northern. The line is the surviving section of the Woodhead Line, which was electrified in the early 1950s but passenger services east of Hadfield were withdrawn in 1970, followed by complete closure in 1981. Hattersley was opened in 1978, around 750 m east of the then Godley, to serve the 1960s Hattersley estate, and in 1985 the Flowery Field and"
"an address in Eddleton. Neither town actually exists. However, there are several references to the characters being in the West Midlands throughout the series, as when Hyacinth said that she could become the ""Barbara Cartland of the West Midlands Social Circuit Scene"" in the episode ""The Hostess"". In another episode, police officers wearing West Midlands Police jumpers escort Richard home and several West Midlands Travel buses are also seen throughout the series. Richard and Hyacinth Bucket's car is a Rover 200-series (SD3) saloon. Early episodes show a light blue 1987 216S bearing the number plate D541 EXL, but later episodes"
"who analysed certain vowel sounds in Royston, Wakefield and Barnsley. She found that Wakefield and Barnsley residents had very similar pronunciations for the sounds under consideration, whereas Royston residents had different pronunciations that were more similar to those associated with the Midlands. The comedian Charlie Williams was born in Royston in 1927. He played football for Doncaster Rovers and later found fame as one of the comedians on the TV programme ""The Comedians"". Royston, South Yorkshire Royston is a suburban village within the Metropolitan borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, but"
"itself, which Jeremy Dyson (writer) and Steve Pemberton (actor) proclaimed, ""Bacup was the furthest we went into Lancashire. Bacup was our hot favourite, but it was too frightening - when we arrived there was this cartoon drunk with a bottle shaking his fist at us. Bacup in real life was worse than Royston Vasey"". Various towns within the Rossendale Valley were used for filming scenes of the BBC TV series ""Hetty Wainthropp Investigates"" during the 1990s. The 1980 drama ""Juliet Bravo"" was filmed in Rossendale. During autumn 2008 areas around Rossendale were used in the filming of the BBC TV"
"Edward Kemp in 1872. Gaddesden Place and its grounds have been frequently used as film locations. The house was used as the location for Villa Diodati in Ken Russel's 1986 horror film, ""Gothic"", in which Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne) entertains Mary Shelley (Natasha Richardson) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (Julian Sands). It has also appeared in the TV series ""Lewis""; in ""The Once and Future Ex"" episode of Jeeves and Wooster (1993), as Lord Worplesdon's New York residence; and in the Foyle's War episode, ""A Lesson in Murder"". Other productions that have shot at Gaddesden Place have included ""Fanny by Gaslight"""
"actress Helen Cherry, and television commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme. Statistician Harry Campion, who played a leading role in the development of official statistics after the Second World War, was born in Kearsley in May 1905 and brought up in Worsley. Arthur Thomas Doodson was a mathematician and oceanographer born in Boothstown in March 1890. Footballer Ryan Giggs caused controversy in the mid-2000s when he bought a Victorian mansion on the outskirts of the village for £1.9 million and demolished it to build a new house which cost up to £4 million. Worsley Worsley () is a town in the metropolitan borough"
"the Derbyshire town of Glossop, Bolton town centre and Manchester. St John's Church in Farnworth doubles for St Cecelia's, the main location of the series. The local Sixth Form College (Glossopdale Community College) participated in the filming of the show, and several of the children from its lower school appear in two episodes where a school choir features. Creator and writer Debbie Horsfield worked closely with the head of music at Glossopdale, Chris O'Hara, and its head of music technology, Colin Hanson-Orr. Local Glossop based band My First Hello provided two songs for the series - ""I'm Not Your Hero"""
"Glossop line The Hadfield–Glossop line is a railway line connecting the city of Manchester with the towns of Hadfield and Glossop in Derbyshire, England. Passenger services on the line are operated by Northern. The line is the surviving section of the Woodhead Line, which was electrified in the early 1950s but passenger services east of Hadfield were withdrawn in 1970, followed by complete closure in 1981. Hattersley was opened in 1978, around 750 m east of the then Godley, to serve the 1960s Hattersley estate, and in 1985 the Flowery Field and Godley stations were built (Godley around 500 m"
"Bulls Head, The Wheatsheaf and The Queens Hotel. In addition, a microbrewery, Howard Town Brewery, is located in Old Glossop. In 2013, Old Glossop was used for filming in the BBC drama series ""The Village"", starring John Simm and Maxine Peake. The Parish Church of All Saints and the former Duke of Norfolk school building appeared in the series. Old Glossop Old Glossop is a parish village and the original part of the town of Glossop in the High Peak area of Derbyshire, England, about 15 miles east of Manchester and 23 miles west of Sheffield. The village is on"
"the Worcestershire village of Broadway, and the Wiltshire village of Biddestone, including the White Horse pub. Studio work was completed on the Isle of Man in the Mountain View Media Village studios in Lezayre. In the fictional village of Gladbury, every twenty-five years an angel visits the candlemaker and bestows a miracle upon whomever lights the Christmas Candle. The whole town believes in the candle except the new pastor, Rev. David Richmond. It is 1890 and the Haddingtons make candles and the town and church use them. It is the Christmas season and the pastor preaches the Advent themes and"
"series, including ""Die Another Day"", the Harry Potter films and the BBC TV series ""Butterflies"". The film ""Hot Fuzz"" was set in Gloucestershire where Simon Pegg, who co-wrote and starred in the film, grew up. ""A Girl's Best Friend"", the pilot for the proposed ""Doctor Who"" spin-off ""K-9 and Company"", was filmed in Gloucestershire. The setting is the fictional town of Moreton Harwood. The fictional town of Leadworth in ""Doctor Who"" is in Gloucestershire. It is the home of companions Amy Pond, Rory Williams and River Song in their childhoods and young adulthoods. A fictional Brimpsfield was the village, home"
"implication in the Bye Plot. He was arrested in Worcester on 13 August that year and executed in Winchester on 29 November. Huddington Court Huddington Court is a 15th-century moated manor house in the village of Huddington in Worcestershire, England, some six miles east of Worcester. It was described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as 'the most picturesque house in Worcestershire'. It was the home of the Wintour family, of which the Gunpowder plot conspirators Robert, Thomas and John Wintour are the most notorious . The house is a private residence and is not open to the public. It has been"
"village is within of Hadfield railway station on the electrified line. All trains run through Dinting to Glossop and back through Dinting to Manchester Piccadilly. The railway, known as the Woodhead Line, used to run through to Penistone and Sheffield via the Woodhead Tunnel but passenger services were withdrawn in 1970. Goods trains ran until 1981, after which Hadfield became the terminus of the line. It is just off the B6105 road, that links with the A628 road, from Manchester to Barnsley and Sheffield, over the Woodhead pass. The B6105 starts in Glossop, on the A57, that Links Manchester to"
"live ""locally"". A third thread follows Pauline Campbell-Jones, the local Restart officer with a pen obsession and utter contempt for the attendees on her Restart course, and her fall from grace at the hands of her malevolent colleague, Ross, who poses as a course attendee. Guests in series 1 include Don Estelle, playing the role of the Royston Vasey zookeeper, whose zoo is located on a traffic island (until the animals go missing). The second series sees a deadly epidemic of nosebleeds grip the town's inhabitants, killing many. The series concludes after some confusion over the cause of the nosebleeds,"
"was said to be in Suffolk though location filming for the TV Series of ""Dear Ladies"" took place in the Cheshire towns and villages of Knutsford, Great Budworth and Nantwich. In some episodes of ""Dear Ladies"" Stackton Tressel appears to be larger than a village with a town council, department store (Ahlers) and several other shops. The name of Stackton Tressel is based upon the village of Acton Trussell in Staffordshire, birthplace of Patrick Fyffe. Stackton Tressel Stackton Tressel is a fictional, archetypical English village. Originally featuring in the 1974 Edinburgh Festival and then on the London stage, the exploits"
"2005 in the United Kingdom. Jeremy Dyson proposes to the other members of The League of Gentlemen a new series in which everyone in Royston Vasey wakes up with a tail. The other writers are keen to move on to new projects instead. He is confronted by three characters from the series; Papa Lazarou and the Tattsyrups, and tries to run but falls off a cliff. At the church the vicar, Bearnice Woodall, tells Pauline Campbell-Jones and Mr. Chinnery that there are signs of The Apocalypse occurring. Hilary Briss has escaped from prison and holds Herr Lipp hostage, using him"
"'Kingsmarkham' in the television series ""The Ruth Rendell Mysteries"". Romsey locations appear throughout the series concerning Inspector Wexford played by George Baker. The location used for the fictional police station was the former Romsey Magistrates Court in Church Street. A fictional ""Underground car park in Romsey"" is referred to in an episode of the hit-TV series ""Absolutely Fabulous"". Romsey Romsey ( ) is a market town in the county of Hampshire, England. It is northwest of Southampton, southwest of Winchester and southeast of Salisbury. Neighbouring the village of North Baddesley, just over 18,000 people live in Romsey, which has an"
"the investigation continues, relationships in the family become strained. Jamie turns for support to his father David (Paul McGann). But Rosie finds she cannot suppress the growing fear that her son might be guilty of something truly terrible, and turns out he is. The series was filmed in and around the town of Southwold in Suffolk (just ten miles south of Britain's most easterly point, Lowestoft), as well as the nearby village of Walberswick. Shops on Southwold high street became the backdrop for many scenes, with local residents given the chance to appear as extras to keep the plot as"
"well as the aforementioned footballers, the following people have or have had links with Huyton ""Boys from the Blackstuff"" episode ""Jobs for the Boys"" was partly filmed in Woodlands Road, Roby. also starred in the Blackstuff was Huyton Actors Gary Bleasdale & James Culshaw. Huyton Huyton ( ) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, in Merseyside, England. It is part of the Liverpool Urban Area, sharing borders with the Liverpool suburbs of Dovecot, Knotty Ash, and Belle Vale. Huyton has close associations with the neighbouring village of Roby: both were part of the Huyton with Roby Urban"
"creator, Steve Pemberton). In the live shows, when Pam Doove was auditioning for a part in the Christmas Nativity Play, directed by Ollie Plimsolls, Pam had to audition in front of Ollie's Legz Akimbo colleague Dave (Pemberton), who said that Ollie couldn't make it ""for obvious reasons"" (Shearsmith plays both Pam and Ollie in the television series). The film was made in 2005. The plot is that Royston Vasey is coming to an end and that the locals appear in the real world to try to save it. In the beginning Jeremy Dyson is killed by Tubbs, Edward, and Papa"
"play at Park School. In 1975, Barnstaple was the home of Norman Scott, the male model who was blackmailing local MP and Liberal Party Leader Jeremy Thorpe over an alleged sexual relationship between the two of them. According to the investigative journalists Simon Freeman and Barry Penrose, Thorpe’s colleague David Holmes phoned an accomplice, ex-airline pilot Andrew Newton, with instructions to intimidate Scott, whom he would meet at a hotel in Barnstaple. But it was a bad line, and Newton spent time hanging around Dunstable in Bedfordshire. Barnstaple Barnstaple ( or ) is the main town of North Devon, England"
"their home county of Dorset and its neighbouring counties in the south and west of England. Hardy's Wessex excluded Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, but the city of Oxford, which he called ""Christminster"", was visited as part of Wessex in ""Jude the Obscure"". He gave each of his Wessex counties a fictionalised name, such as with Berkshire, which is known in the novels as ""North Wessex"". The film ""Shakespeare in Love"" included a character called ""Lord Wessex"" – a title which did not exist in Elizabethan times. The ITV television series ""Broadchurch"" takes place in the Wessex area, primarily the county of"
"a lot of the characters and indeed the town are based on Pemberton's home town of Chorley, with Royston Vasey based on Adlington, a village within Chorley Borough. The character of Herr Lipp is believed to be based on a hospital chaplain Steve Pemberton encountered after suffering a heart attack in Germany and Pauline is primarily based on a restart officer of Reece Shearsmith's. Similarly, Ollie Plimsolls is based on a community theatre actor that Shearsmith had worked with. In the DVD commentary on the second series, Pemberton and Shearsmith state that Papa Lazarou's speech patterns are based on their"
"show returned in the summer of that same year, still being broadcast from Southampton studios and only shown to TVS viewers. Neil Buchanan had unofficially joined the cast as the resident caricaturist and another major cast member, Kim Goody, first appeared this season performing at the TVS theatre in Gillingham, where Percy held a job as handyman. Neighbours Martin and Hazel Edwards (Richard Addison and Jeannie Crowther) from No 75 also started to figure into the storyline, usually with Martin being at odds with Ethel. Now broadcast across all the ITV regions, the production moved to TVS's new Maidstone studios,"
"in the UK was grown and so Dorney has a public house named ""The Pineapple"", Grade II listed for its age, dating half to the 17th century and half to the 18th century. In 1961 a cornfield at Dorney was the scene of a nationally-reported abduction. A lone gunman, James Hanratty, abducted Valerie Storie and Michael Gregsten in a Morris Minor parked in the cornfield. He forced them at gunpoint to drive to a lay-by on the A6 at Maulden in Bedfordshire, where he shot and murdered Gregsten, raped Valerie Storie and shot her. She survived, paralysed. The village is"
"television director and actor. Stuart Anstis, one time lead guitarist with black metal band Cradle of Filth went to school in Bideford, and now runs a guitar shop there. Derry Brownson, formerly of the band EMF is frequently seen around town, and helps run a music studio in the town called Yard 1 studios. Actor Joss Ackland lives near Bideford. T. V. Smith and Gaye Advert, from the punk band The Adverts, are also from the town. Crime fiction author Hilary Bonner was born and raised in the town. Plymouth Argyle defender Gary Sawyer was born in Bideford. The actress"
"rural villages of a kind that were already changing rapidly by the time the series began, Nettles opined in a 2003 interview. The old-fashioned settings are true to the Graham novels: ""Although the books are set in the present,"" wrote one reviewer, Graham's country villages ""seem to come from another time"". ""The spirit is obviously of the '50s"", Nettles remarked, and the less crowded, less complicated village/world was clearly part of the books' appeal. Causton is represented by a number of Towns including Thame and Wallingford, in Oxfordshire. Causton police station is represented by the former RAF Staff College, Bracknell."
"to include areas to the north of Mansfield around Warsop, which had previously been part of the Bassetlaw constituency. D. H. Lawrence, in ""Lady Chatterley's Lover"", described Mansfield as ""that once romantic now utterly disheartening colliery town"". The 2005 and 2007 editions of Channel 4's programme ""The Best and Worst Places to Live in the UK"" named Mansfield as the sixth and ninth worst place to live in Britain, largely due to the poor performance of schools in the area at the time. This has recently improved due to a large reduction in crime, massive school improvements, and being known"