Which long running BBC comedy was set in the coastal town of Walmington-On-Sea?
"most recent public appearance was at the Dad's Army 40th Birthday celebrations at the Imperial War Museum in London shortly before his death. He died on 20 August 2008 in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, one month after his 90th birthday. His funeral was held on 5 September. Eric Longworth Eric Longworth (20 July 1918 – 20 August 2008) was a British actor, best known for his semi-regular part in the popular BBC comedy ""Dad's Army"" as Mr. Gordon, the town clerk of Walmington-on-Sea. Eric Groves Longworth was born in Shaw and Crompton, Lancashire. He had decided from an early age to become"
"produced the original idea but needed an experienced man to see it through. Mills suggested David Croft, and so their partnership began. When an episode was shown to members of the public to gauge audience reaction prior to broadcast of the first series, the majority of the audience thought it was very poor. The production team put the report containing the negative comments at the bottom of David Croft's in-tray. He only saw it several months later, after the series had been broadcast and had received great acclaim. The show is set in the fictional seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea, on"
"It doubled as Walmington-on-Sea in the 1971 film version of ""Dad's Army"". John Laurie, one of the main actors, lived in Chalfont St Peter. ""The Miller's Tale"" episode of the BBC Television drama ""The Canterbury Tales"" was filmed in and around Chalfont St Giles as was an episode of the BBC Television sitcom ""As Time Goes By"". It was the location for the filming of of ""Peep Show"". The village is also mentioned in the series 3 episode of ""Jeeves and Wooster"" entitled ""Bertie Sets Sail"", when Bertie Wooster likens Lord Wilmot Pershaw's demeanour to ""a wet weekend in Chalfont"
"a fictional platoon of the Home Guard, a volunteer army formed from those ineligible for conscription by age, minor physical inability or occupation, to defend the United Kingdom from German invasion following the fall of France. Over the nine television series, the action is set in various places in Walmington-on-Sea, the interiors of which were built in the television studios, while the exterior scenes were filmed at various Norfolk locations. These included a pleasure pier (filmed in Great Yarmouth) with a 20-foot (6m) wide gap blown in the middle to prevent it from being used as a landing stage by"
"On the Waterfront (TV series) On the Waterfront was a BBC Saturday morning children's programme, filmed at Brunswick Dock, Liverpool. It was hosted by Andrew O'Connor, Kate Copstick, Bernadette Nolan and Terry Randall. The programme ran for two seasons in 1988 and 1989, and consisted of comedy sketches interspersed with cartoons, competitions and music. The Executive Producer was; Martin Hughes, the Producer; Stephen Rider Haggard The writer Russell T Davies, later a BAFTA Award-winner for his work on programmes such as ""Queer as Folk"" and ""Doctor Who"", worked on the series, writing the script for a comedy dubbed version of"
"producers, Southern Television. Lymington was occasionally featured in the 1980s BBC series ""Howards' Way"". The 656-page crime novel 'Power Without The Glory,' published in 2007, was set in Lymington and its theme was yachts and smuggling. An active programme of exchange visits is coordinated by the local Twinning Association Lymington Lymington is a port town on the west bank of the Lymington River on the Solent, in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England. It faces Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to which there is a car ferry service operated by Wightlink. It is within the civil parish of Lymington and"
"Army"", which followed the formation and running of a platoon in the fictional south coast town of Walmington-on-Sea, and is widely regarded as having kept the efforts of the Home Guard in the public consciousness. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television from 1968 to 1977. The sitcom ran for 9 series and 80 episodes in total, plus a radio version based on the television scripts, two feature films and a stage show. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers and is still repeated worldwide. The Home Guard consisted of local"
"the French children's drama series ""The Flashing Blade"". The series is notable in giving the human and puppet double-act Bodger and Badger their first TV exposure. On the Waterfront (TV series) On the Waterfront was a BBC Saturday morning children's programme, filmed at Brunswick Dock, Liverpool. It was hosted by Andrew O'Connor, Kate Copstick, Bernadette Nolan and Terry Randall. The programme ran for two seasons in 1988 and 1989, and consisted of comedy sketches interspersed with cartoons, competitions and music. The Executive Producer was; Martin Hughes, the Producer; Stephen Rider Haggard The writer Russell T Davies, later a BAFTA Award-winner"
"temperatures typically being around 1 degree lower than in surrounding areas, and on cold clear nights up to 5 to 10 Celsius lower. The nearest Met Office weather station is at Santon Downham to the NW The external scenes for the BBC1 TV series ""Dad's Army"" were filmed in and around the town with Thetford's flint buildings doubling for Walmington-on-Sea. The Dad's Army Museum is located in the town's Guildhall building. In December 2007 it was announced that a statue of Arthur Lowe who played the leading character Captain Mainwaring would be erected in the town. The statue, depicting Captain"
"town is called Market Shipborough. The pub the ""Startled Duck"" in the TV series is better known as the ""Greyhound Inn"", in which the Earl of Orford created the first coursing club open to the public, in 1776. Kingdom's office is Oakleigh House, near the town square (formerly the house of the Head Master of Hamond's Grammar School), with the coastal scenes filmed at Wells-next-the-Sea on the north Norfolk coast. Swaffham Swaffham is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated east of King's Lynn and west of Norwich. The civil parish has"
"House on Oxford Road, just south of the city centre. The hit series ""Cutting It"" was set in the city's Northern Quarter and ran on BBC1 for five series. ""Life on Mars"" was set in 1973 Manchester. Also, ""The Street"", winner of a BAFTA and International Emmy Award in 2007 is set in Manchester. Manchester is also the regional base for the BBC One North West Region so programmes like North West Tonight are produced here. The BBC intends to relocate large numbers of staff and facilities from London to MediaCityUK at Salford Quays. The Children's (CBBC), Comedy, Sport (BBC"
"low water. Such was the tenacity of local mariners that a tradition sprang up that survives to this day, whereby those so inclined make the journey to the Sands for a leisurely few hours in pursuit of this very English pastime.. An annual cricket match was until 2003 played on the sands at low tide, and a crew filming a reconstruction of this for the BBC television series ""Coast"" had to be rescued by the Ramsgate lifeboat when they got into difficulty in 2006. When the Royal Marines School of Music existed at Deal, it played a game of cricket"
"in peace with his prize pig The Empress, but his family is always at hand to complicate his life. Offering a reluctant helping hand is his loyal and long-suffering butler, Beach (Mark Williams/Tim Vine). The series was produced by Mammoth Screen and was filmed on location at Crom Castle, near Newtownbutler, in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Some scenes were also filmed at Florence Court, a National Trust property near Kinawley in south-west County Fermanagh. The producer was Spencer Campbell and the director was Paul Seed. It was the first adaptation of ""Blandings"" for British television since the BBC's film of"
"his ""Bramblewick"" series set in Robin Hood's Bay – ""Foreigners"", ""Three Fevers"", ""Phantom Lobster"" and ""Sally Lunn"", the second of which was filmed as ""Turn of the Tide"" (1935). He died in Fowey, Cornwall, on 8 June 1966 and the house he lived in (21 Passage Street) was named ""Bramblewick"" after his book series. Leo Walmsley Leo Walmsley (1892 – 1966) was an English writer. He was born at 7 Clifton Place, Shipley in the county of West Yorkshire in 1892, and two years later his family moved to Robin Hood's Bay on the coast of present-day North Yorkshire, where"
"Laing, George Layton, Jonathan Lynn, Bernard McKenna, Gail Renard and Phil Redmond. Series 1 Doctor at Sea (TV series) Doctor at Sea was a British television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of Doctors at sea. The series follows directly from its predecessor ""Doctor in Charge"", and was produced by London Weekend Television in 1974. Despite it predecessors having much larger series' Doctor at Sea only was limited to thirteen episodes and one series. It was reported that only one series was to be produced as costs for this series was a"
"Collins (""The Rationalist"" and ""The Marriage of Souls""), and in ""The Forest"" by Edward Rutherfurd. In Tom Clancy's ""Patriot Games"", a Wightlink ferry heading from the Lymington ferry terminal is intercepted and a prisoner extracted in heavy seas. Several men on board the ferry are murdered. The 1980 Christmas special of the ITV children's show ""Worzel Gummidge"" was filmed in the town during the summer of that year. During filming a sudden wind blew the titanium dioxide that was being used as a replica of snow into homes, shops and businesses, causing damage and a large compensation bill for the"
"rather be reading Whiffle's 'On the Care of the Pig', cannot imagine a way out, until an air gun confiscated from young Master George shows the way. The story was adapted for television by the BBC, broadcast in March 1967 as the third of six half-hour episodes, under the title ""Lord Emsworth and the Crime Wave at Blandings"". The series starred Ralph Richardson as Lord Emsworth and Stanley Holloway as Beach. The master tapes of all but the first part were wiped, and no known copies of the other five episodes exist. In 1985, the story was adapted into the"
"All at Sea (TV series) All at Sea is a short-lived British children's television sitcom set in a bed and breakfast. It stars Nicola Stephenson, Steve Edge, Ryan Wilkinson, Olivia Cosgrove and Sam Hattersley amongst others. It is filmed on location in Scarborough and various locations around South Manchester (principally Stockport) and at studios in Manchester. The house filmed is located in Bowdon, Altricham. It is produced by CBBC (CBBC's in-house production company) A second series began airing in September 2014. The series was nominated for the 2014 Kids' BAFTA awards for Best Comedy. It was nominated again in 2015"
"After the war, he moved to Hampshire with his wife, where their three sons were born. The family moved to the Isle of Wight in 1956, to take up management of a pub. Whilst certain of his adult novels enjoyed wide success and translation, he is also fondly remembered for the 'Bunst' children's series, starring eccentric inventor Audacious Cotterell and his youthful sidekick, Bunst (a contraction of his nickname, Bunstuffer). Certain bibliographies include only the latter four of these as 'Bunst' books; however, all six involve the same principal characters. Several of Lymington’s short stories were collected in ""The Night"
"Kilmington was used as a location for the 1998 LWT adaptation of ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"". The celebrity chef and TV presenter Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has his River Cottage H.Q. at a farm in the Axe valley. He has since purchased an old inn that once provided the ballroom of the town, now converted to an organic produce shop/market and canteen. The hamlet of Abbey Gate lies to the south of the town near the A35 and A358 intersection. Other villages within of Axminster include Chardstock, Colyford, Combpyne, Dalwood, Hawkchurch, Kilmington, Membury, Musbury, Raymond's Hill, Rousdon, Shute, Smallridge, Tytherleigh, Uplyme and"
"the late Glyn Daniel's novel ""Welcome Death"" (1954). Some areas of the town have been used in the recording of the recent series of ""Doctor Who"" and ""The Sarah Jane Adventures"" (created by BBC Wales). The local tearooms were used in the 2007 making of ""Y Pris"" filmed by and shown on S4C. Llantwit Major Llantwit Major () is a town and community in Wales. Situated on the Bristol Channel coast, it is one of four towns in the Vale of Glamorgan with the third largest population (13,366 in 2001) after Barry and Penarth, and ahead of Cowbridge. Llantwit Major"
"Game On (UK TV series) Game On (alternatively Two Men and a Blonde in Finland and The Game of Life in Portugal) was a British sitcom which ran for three series, and aired on BBC2 from 27 February 1995 to 6 February 1998. The central characters are three childhood friends from Herne Bay in Kent; laddish agoraphobe Matthew Malone (Ben Chaplin in the first series and Neil Stuke in the second and third), man-eater Amanda ""Mandy"" Wilkins (Samantha Womack née Janus), and wimpish Martin Henson (Matthew Cottle). When into their twenties, the trio move into and share a flat in"
"rated PG for Parental Guidance in Australia and PG in New Zealand for violence and coarse language. Howards' Way Howards' Way is a television drama series produced by BBC Birmingham and transmitted on BBC1 between 1 September 1985 and 25 November 1990. The series deals with the personal and professional lives of the wealthy yachting and business communities in the fictional town of Tarrant on the south coast of England, and was filmed on the River Hamble and the Solent. Most of the location filming for the series was carried out in Bursledon, Hamble, Swanwick, Warsash, Hill Head, Lee-on-the-Solent, Lymington,"
"the wife accidentally spends a night aboard a Royal Navy ship with a male friend after she is stranded following a party. Despite knowing the essential innocence of both husband and wife, their sinister new butler uses information about their discretions to demand blackmail payments. ""TV Guide"" gave the film two out of five stars, calling it an ""innocuous comedy,"" but also finding it ""enjoyable."" Two on the Tiles Two on the Tiles is a 1951 British comedy film directed by John Guillermin and starring Herbert Lom, Hugh McDermott and Brenda Bruce. It was made at the Walton Studios by"
"to John Drummond. As John Newton Chance: ""Night of the Big Heat"" was adapted twice. The first, a 1960 TV version set on Salisbury Plain, was directed by Cyril Coke and adapted from the book by Giles Cooper. The second was a 94-minute feature film set on a remote island off the English coast; made by Planet Films, it was directed by Terence Fisher and starred Patrick Allen, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. John Lymington John Lymington (1911–1983) was born John Richard Newton Chance in London. He was a prolific writer of short stories, children's literature, mystery and science fiction"
"and the surrounding area, which poses as the fictional town of ""Causton in the county of Midsomer"". In the British TV series, ""[[Sorry! (TV series)|Sorry!]]"" starring [[Ronnie Corbett]], the exterior town scenes were filmed in Wallingford. Corbett's character, Timothy, drank in the Dolphin [[Public House]]. The Christmas special ""[[Professor Branestawm]]"" starring [[Harry Hill]] as well as [[David Mitchell (comedian)|David Mitchell]], [[Simon Day]], [[Ben Miller]] and [[Miranda Richardson]] was filmed mainly in Wallingford. it aired in 2014. In the town: Wallingford used to return two [[Member of Parliament|Members of Parliament]] (cut to one in 1832 and none in 1885). Its prominent"
"the Lancashire town of Bolton, the film is still fondly regarded by those from the area. He continued to direct many popular TV series of '70s, '80s and '90s including ""King of the Castle"", a 1978 production of ""Wuthering Heights"" for the ""BBC"", ""The Dark Angel"" for BBC2, ""Rumpole of the Bailey"", ""Follyfoot"", ""The Wednesday Play"", ""BBC""'s ""Cold Comfort Farm"" in 1968, ""Tales of the Unexpected"", 1966 BBC mini-series ""The Three Musketeers"", ""The Little World of Don Camillo"", ""The Return of Sherlock Holmes"" and ""Inspector Morse"" and many more. ""Peter Neill, a colleague who worked with Hammond on various productions"
"individual series, and as a Box Set, are available. Mrs. Wembly's catch-phrase, ""Just the One"", in particular, became associated with the series and entered common British lexicon for a time. On the Up On the Up is a British situation comedy written by Bob Larbey, about the failure of a millionaire's marriage, and his relationship with his assorted live-in staff. Tony Carpenter is a self-made millionaire who turned his South London minicab firm into a successful chauffeur-driven car service. He lives in a large detached mansion in Esher, surrounded by Rolls Royces and BMWs, with a domestic staff who respect"
"On series. It was based on the 1947 stage play ""Off the Record"", written by Ian Hay. In the course of a drunken reunion, two old friends (one a junior Government minister, the other a Royal Navy officer in uniform about to take command for the first time) switch clothes before passing out. Next morning, their changed clothes result in a series of cases of mistaken identity. The film follows the efforts of each to reunite himself with his own destiny. The fictional ship HMS ""Sherwood"" in the film is played by a ""Daring""-class destroyer. Other ships shown include the"
"Carry On series on screen and stage The ""Carry On"" series is a long-running British sequence of comedy films, stage shows and television programmes produced between 1958 and 1992. Distributed by Anglo-Amalgamated from 1958 to 1966, and the Rank Organisation from 1967 to 1978, the films were all made at Pinewood Studios. The series' humour relied largely on innuendo and double entendre. There were thirty-one films, three Christmas specials, one television series of thirteen episodes, and three West End and provincial stage plays, all made on time and to a strict budget. Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas were the series'"
"station on the Isle of Portland. For example, the departure of Blake and Hardy was filmed in front of Devonport's original main entrance, the Keyham Dock Gate (although there is some debate as to whether this was a interior studio shot). Smeaton's Tower on the seafront at Plymouth Hoe was used for the leave ashore scenes between ""Shorty"" Blake (Mills) and his wife Freda (Kay Walsh). The destroyer played HMS ""Torrin"". The film was the second most popular movie at the British box office in 1943. The film was one of the most successful British films ever released in the"
"the behest of a local hotel owner. From time to time, Weybourne railway station (as well as the NNR itself) is used for filming and on-screen TV appearances, most notably as Walmington-on-Sea railway station in the ""Dad's Army"" episode ""The Royal Train"", as Crimpton-on-Sea railway station in the BBC TV sitcom ""Hi-De-Hi!"" as well as the 1985 adaptation of The Moving Finger. Weybourne railway station Weybourne railway station is a station in Weybourne, Norfolk on the preserved North Norfolk Railway. It was formerly part of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway route between Melton Constable and Cromer. It is"
"century, particularly with day visitors to the city. In contrast to the redevelopment and liberal culture in Brighton generally, it has retained a traditional down-market ""bucket and spade"" seaside atmosphere. In 2016, the Brighton Fringe festival director Julian Caddy criticised the pier as ""a massive public relations problem"". The pier has featured regularly in British popular culture. It is shown prominently in the 1971 film, ""Carry on at Your Convenience"", and it is shown to represent Brighton in several film and television features, including ""MirrorMask"", ""The Persuaders"", the Doctor Who serial ""The Leisure Hive"" (1980) and the 2007 film, """"."