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Iconic Comedy Locations Homage

Started by Tony Tony Tony, December 07, 2018, 01:40:56 PM

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Bobtoo

Pennan is the only other comedy location I can think of that I've gone looking for.

P1040484 by RichardB5, on Flickr

The phone box in the film wasn't real, they put a fake one to the left of the pier towards the left of this picture.


Brundle-Fly

Robin Askwith cycles down Borehamwood High Street in the opening credits to Confessions Of A Window Cleaner (1974). Quite literally a two-minute walk from Pinewood Studios. How tight that location budget must have been?  Timmy Lea wouldn't be able to ride his bike so haphazardly down the middle of that particular road today. Or get away with being a light-hearted borderline sex offender, come to that.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e9zj7jTZAU

studpuppet

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on December 08, 2018, 11:33:10 AM
Robin Askwith cycles down Borehamwood High Street in the opening credits to Confessions Of A Window Cleaner (1974). Quite literally a two-minute walk from Pinewood Studios. How tight that location budget must have been?  Timmy Lea wouldn't be able to ride his bike so haphazardly down the middle of that particular road today. Or get away with being a light-hearted borderline sex offender, come to that.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e9zj7jTZAU

Or even Elstree Studios... You'd have more difficulty find an early seventies British film that Borehamwood High Street WASN'T in, let alone any ITC TV series from the sixties. The oddest thing is that the Eastenders set is directly behind those shops and yet they seldom use it for location shooting. (Also, officially it's Shenley Road.)


Bennett Brauer

Quote from: studpuppet on December 08, 2018, 12:27:22 PM
Or even Elstree Studios... You'd have more difficulty find an early seventies British film that Borehamwood High Street WASN'T in, let alone any ITC TV series from the sixties.

Also Here Come the Double Deckers and plenty of Children's Film Foundation stuff.

Bobtoo

There was an episode of Second Thoughts that was filmed locally https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0697193/?ref_=ttep_ep4 . Bill keeps finding that the places he remembers have changed, culminating in them finding this petrol station where he was expecting to find a wilderness. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@56.4301564,-2.9332436,3a,75y,349.29h,103.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1saejJZC9H3rVnbs7qs0HHRg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

I realise that's stretching the definition of iconic a bit.




Brundle-Fly

Quote from: studpuppet on December 08, 2018, 12:27:22 PM
Or even Elstree Studios... You'd have more difficulty find an early seventies British film that Borehamwood High Street WASN'T in, let alone any ITC TV series from the sixties. The oddest thing is that the Eastenders set is directly behind those shops and yet they seldom use it for location shooting. (Also, officially it's Shenley Road.)

Yes, Elstree not Pinewood. Gottem' mixed up. Cheers

Mr Banlon

Turner's Old Star in Wapping (World of Pub)


studpuppet

Re-live Robbie Coltrane's sea wall walk at Hope Cove in Devon:


studpuppet