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| Detective and Mystery
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| The Ghost Train |
1941 |
Liskeard Station, Cornwall, & Dawlish Warren
& Teignmouth in Devon |
| Arthur Askey humour at a haunted
station when passengers get stranded. |
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| Dracula |
1979 |
Tintagel, St Michael's Mount, Cornwall |
| Laurence Olivier and Donald Pleasence
in a Stylish version of the Bram Stoker story |
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| The Return of Sherlock Holmes |
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Lizard Peninsula - Kynance Cove, Mounts Bay,
Lanyon Quoit, Cadgwith, W. Penwith Moors, Boskednan - Nine Maidens
standing stones in Cornwall |
| The Devil's Foot |
1986 |
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| Acclaimed and stylish version created
closely and accurately after the style of the original stories |
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Miss Marple in:
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| Sleeping Murder |
1986 |
Otterton, Sidmouth, Lympstone, Starcross |
| Nemesis |
1986 |
Paignton, Budleigh Salterton |
| The Mirror Crack'd |
1992 |
Torbay & Dartmouth Railway, Burgh Island,
Devon, Bishops Lydeard Station & W Somerset Railway |
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| Poirot in: |
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| Peril At End House |
1992 |
Salcombe, Devon |
| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd |
1999 |
Castle Combe, Wiltshire |
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| Mrs Bradley Mysteries: |
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| The Worsted Viper |
1999 |
Clovelly in Devon and Trevose Head in Cornwall |
| Diana Rigg in a Lavish murder-mystery
stories set in the 1920's |
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| The Thirty-Nine Steps |
1978 |
Portland, Dorset |
| Robert Powell in the remake of the
John Buchan novel. |
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| The Wyvern Mystery |
1999 |
Northleach and Stanway House in Gloucestershire |
| Derek Jacobi in the period C19th
thriller/love story, full of suspense and intrigue. |
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| Sleuth |
1972 |
Athelhampton House, Dorset |
| Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine
as a successful thriller writer invents a murder plot which
rebounds on himself. |
| The Classics and Period Dramas |
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The House of Eliott
BBC |
1991-94 |
Bristol; Bath; Pittville Pump Room and Little
Promenade in Cheltenham, Stroud, Painswick House in Glos.
Minehead Station and seafront in Somerset |
| Chronicled the rise of a London
fashion house in early 1920s. |
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| Persuasion |
1994 |
Bath, and Lyme Regis in Dorset |
| Based on Jane Austen's novel set
in England in 1814. |
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| Berkeley Square |
1997 |
Bristol - Vyvyan Terrace, Clifton; Stanway House, Chavenage,
Gloucester City in Glos, & Priddy in Somerset |
| Costume drama series about three
nannies in Edwardian England. |
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| Twelfth Night |
1995 |
Lanhydrock, Cotehele, Mt Edgcumbe, Prideaux
Place, St Michael's Mount, Trebarwith Strand all in Cornwall |
| Helena Bonham-Carter, Imogen Stubbs
and Nigel Hawthorne in a lively version of Shakespeare's play |
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| Moll Flanders |
1996 |
Charlestown Harbour, River Fal, Turnaware Point
in Cornwall & The George Inn, Norton St Philip in Somerset,
and Lacock in Wilts |
| A C17th tale of incest, adultery,
bigamy and theft. |
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| Amy Foster |
1996 |
Bodmin, Port Quin, Pentire Head, Crackington Haven,
Port Isaac, Charlestown, St Breward, Michaelstow, Pencarrow
Head, Blisland, Cornwall |
| Based on a Joseph Conrad short story,
the film tells the tale of a Russian shipwrecked near an isolated Cornish
village in the C19th. |
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| Mansfield Park |
1998 |
Charlestown, Cornwall and Lulworth Cove in Dorset |
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| The Remains of the Day |
1993 |
Powderham Castle, Devon, Weston-Super-Mare, Dyrham
Park in Somerset, and Corsham Court in Devon, and Bath |
| Anthony Hopkins as a butler comes
to realise that his loyalty and respect for his employers has
been misplaced. |
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| Sense & Sensibility |
1995 |
Saltram House, Flete Estate, Berry Pomeroy,
Compton Castle in Devon and Montacute House in Somerset and
Trafalgar House, Mompesson House and Cathedral Close, Salisbury
in Wilts |
| Version of Jane Austen's story of
two sisters trying to find husbands despite the fact that the
family lose their money and home and have to move into
a smaller cottage. |
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| Rebecca |
1996 |
Charlestown, Cornwall & Mothecombe in Devon |
| Charles Dance, Diana Rigg, Faye
Dunaway star in a Daphne Du Maurier story - Diana Rigg won a
Best Supporting Actress award |
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| Tess of the D'Urbevilles |
1997 |
Kilmington, nr Axminster, Wonham Barton, nr
Bampton in Devon; Minterne Magna, Swanage Pier and town,
Chettle, Burton Bradstock and Cerne Abbey in Dorset and Brushford
and Northmoor House near Dulverton in Somerset |
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| Far From the Madding Crowd |
1967 |
Purbeck, Abbotsbury, Horton Tower, Maiden Castle,
Dorset, and Devizes in Wilts |
| Thomas Hardy novel about a headstrong
girl who causes unhappiness and tragedy. |
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| The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1981 |
Lyme Regis, Dorset and Kingswear, Dart Valley
Railway and Torbay in Devon |
| A gentleman forsakes his fiancee
for the abandoned mistress of a French seaman in 1867 intertwined with
the modern story of the actors playing the Victorian roles. |
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| Restoration |
1994 |
Mapperton House and Forde Abbey in Dorset, and
Brympton d'Evercy in Somerset |
| Costume drama set in 1660's about
a young doctor who falls out of favour with Charles II. |
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| Emma |
1995 |
Locations around Sherborne and Dorchester: Mapperton
House, Almshouses at Evershot in Dorset, and East Coker Church
in Somerset |
| Jane Austen's story of matchmaking
that goes awry. |
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| The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling |
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Golden Cap, Mapperton, Powerstock, Dorset |
| The adventures of a foundling in
C18th England who is brought up by the Squire and eventually
marries his daughter. |
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| Martin Chuzzlewit |
1994 |
Sudeley Castle, Gloucester Docks, Gloucestershire |
| Charles Dickens' novel of Victorian
London. |
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| Our Mutual Friend |
1997 |
Upper & Lower Slaughter, Eastleach in Glos. |
| Anna Friel, Timothy Spall and Pam
Ferris star |
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| Vanity Fair |
1998 |
Cheltenham, Gloucester Docks, Miserden in
Gloucestershire |
| The story of Becky Sharp - determined
to scale the heights of society at any cost |
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| Elizabeth |
1999 |
Stogursey Church & Montacute House, Somerset,
and Athelhampton in Dorset |
| Drama-documentary about the life
and reign of Elizabeth I |
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| Wives & Daughters |
1999 |
Marshfield, Glos; Great Chalfield Manor
and Corsham Court in Wilts, and Charlestown in Cornwall |
| Period drama about middle-English
society on the eve of the Industrial Revolution |
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| Pandaemonium |
2000 |
Stolford, Hestercombe Gardens, Nether Stowey,
Holnicote Estate, Wookey Hole, Quantocks and other locations
around West Somerset, and Charlestown in Cornwall |
| The story of the relationship between
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. |
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| Pride & Prejudice |
1995 |
Luckington Court, Lacock, Wiltshire |
| Lavish adaptation of the Jane Austen
novel about the Bennett sisters. |
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| Cider with Rosie |
1998 |
Stroud area, Sapperton and Clevedon Pier and Cheltenham
Film Studios, Gloucestershire, and Avening in Somerset |
| Laurie Lee's classic story about
growing up in a rural village after WWI |
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| Maurice |
1987 |
Gloucester Docks, Gloucestershire |
| The life of Cambridge homosexual
- from a semi-autobiographical novel of E M Forster |
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| Heavy Weather |
1995 |
Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire |
| Peter O'Toole and Richard Briers
in this P G Woodhouse story |
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| Separate Tables |
1958 |
(Hotel Miramar) Bournemouth, Dorset |
| Film version of the Rattigan play
about the emotional tension between boarders in an English seaside hotel. |
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| A Respectable Trade |
1997 |
Bath, Charlestown in Cornwall and Corsham Court
in Wilts |
| Period drama set in Bristol about
love, greed and ambition set against the slave trade in 1788. |
| Just Visiting |
2001 |
Berkerley Castle in Gloucestershire. |
| Remake of French film 'Les Visiteurs'.
The inner courtyard, redressed in complete mediaeval style.
Outer courtyard – with specially built “extension”
to main Castle frontage |
| The Other Boleyn Girl |
2002 |
Berkerley Castle in Gloucestershire. |
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| Dead Famous |
2003 |
Berkerley Castle Deer Park in Wiltshire. |
| Richard I episode filmed in the
Deer Park and the Mary Queen of Scots episode |
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| Henry VIII |
2003 |
Berkerley Castle in Gloucestershire. |
| Period drama filmed in the Inner
courtyard, Castle Meadow, Great Hall, Long Drawing Room and
Grand Staircase |
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| Childrens' TV and Movies &
Animal Films |
| Dr Dolittle |
1967 |
Bath, and Castle Coombe, Wilts |
| Musical about a vet who talks to
his patients and travels to the South Seas in search of the
Great Pink Sea Snail. |
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| Animal Magic |
1962-84 |
Bristol Zoo |
| Legendary wildlife programme for
young viewers - Bristol has always been specialist centre for
wildlife production. |
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| Animal Ark |
1997 |
Bristol - Stoke Hospital, and Gloucester City, Frampton-on-Severn,
Glos |
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| Aquila |
1997 |
Redcliffe Caves, Bristol; Mendips, Charterhouse,
Black Rock Nature Reserve, Cheddar Gorge and Berrow Beach
in Somerset |
| Children's drama series about two
boys who discover a time-travelling space ship. |
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| When the Whales Came |
1989 |
Isles of Scilly - Bryher & Samson |
| Set in 1914, a recluse and a boy
persuade fisherman on the Isles of Scilly to rescue a beached
whale, an act which brings them luck. |
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| The Witches |
1990 |
Headland Hotel, Newquay, Cornwall |
| Intended as children's entertainment,
but just as much fun for adults. Roald Dahl story about a boy
who has been turned into a mouse and who plots with his gran
to thwart witches' plans to poison all the children in Britain. |
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| International Velvet |
1978 |
Holbeton, Mildmay Colours Inn (Holbeton), Mothecombe
in South Devon |
| Story of a hostile orphan who becomes
an international horsewoman. |
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| Gulliver's Travels |
1995 |
Shaftesbury, Bridport, Golden Cap, Dorset |
| Ted Danson and Peter O'Toole star
in the classic children's tale |
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| The Phoenix & the Carpet |
1997 |
Studland area, Warmwell Quay, Dorset |
| Neil Morrissey stars in Nesbitt's
children's tale. |
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| The Famous Five |
1995 & 1996 |
Rowberrow Forest, Cheddar Showcaves, and Dunster
Castle in Somerset; Bristol; Bath, and Woodchester Mansion
in Gloucestershire. |
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| Chicken Run |
2000 |
Aardman Animation studios in Bristol |
| P.O.W. escape-movie - but with chickens! |
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| The Three Musketeers |
1993 |
Charlestown, Pentire Head, Rumps, Pelyn, Lostwithiel
all in Cornwall |
| Re-make of the Alexandre Dumas story
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| Television Drama and Comedy |
| Shoestring |
1979-80 |
Bristol |
| Gumshoe Eddie Shoestring takes on
cases arising out of Radio West telephone calls. |
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| Casualty |
1986 |
Bristol and environs |
| Ever popular hospital drama series |
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| Hornblower |
1998 |
Royal William Yard, Plymouth, Devon |
| Naval costume drama about life afloat
during Nelson's day. |
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| Down to Earth |
2000 |
Countryside around Exeter, Devon |
| A family swaps the rat race for
life on a Devon farm. |
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| Harbour Lights |
1998 & 1999 |
Bridport and surrounding area in Dorset, and
Beer, Quarry Caves in Devon |
| Ups and downs of a harbourmaster.
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| Hannay |
1988-89 |
Gloucester Docks, Gloucester City |
| Adventures of John Buchan's officer-adventurer,
Richard Hannay. |
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| Butterflies |
1978-83 |
Cheltenham suburbs, Gloucestershire |
| A woman reached a stage in her life
when time seems to be passing her by and leaving her behind. |
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| The Monocled Mutineer |
1986 |
Somerton, Somerset |
| Adventures of Private Percy Topliss,
a dashing rogue, who led a British army mutiny on the eve of
the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 based on a true story. |
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| Randall & Hopkirk |
1999 |
Lacock, Wiltshire |
| Remake of cult sixties serial |
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| The Bill |
1999 |
'Tinder Box' |
| Princetown/Two Bridges area, Bone
Hill near Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Dartmoor, Devon |
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| Wycliffe |
1994-1998 |
All over Cornwall including Carn Galver, Reskajeage
Downs, Hemmick Beach, Cape Cornwall, Pentire, Godrevy, Rinsey,
Wheal Charlotte, Truro, Perranport, Wadebridge, Newquay, Porthtowan,
Portreath, Trelissick, Church Cove in Cornwall, and Plymouth
in Devon. |
| Cornish based detective Series based
on novels By W J Burley |
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| Pennies from Heaven |
1978 |
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire |
| Travels and off-beat adventures
of a song-sheet pedlar in the 1930's |
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| The Singing Detective |
1986 |
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire |
| Mingling of fantasy and reality
as bed-bound Philip Marlow fantasizes about his fictional detective
character, his own childhood and the hospital ward around him. |
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| Only Fools and Horses |
1981-
2002 |
Locations all around Bristol |
| Mingling of fantasy and reality
as bed-bound Philip Marlow fantasizes about his fictional detective
character, his own childhood and the hospital ward around him. |
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| A Hard Day's Night |
1964 |
The West Somerset Railway, Crowcombe Heathfield Station
in Somerset |
The harassed Beatles embark from
Liverpool by train for a London TV show. |
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| How to be a Prince |
2003 |
Berkerley Castle in Gloucestershire. |
| BBC documentary screened in Summer
2003 in the Morning Room, King Edwards’ Cell. Inner Courtyard.
BBC History. |
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| Heros and Adventurers |
| Scott of the Antarctic |
1948 |
Falmouth Docks, Cornwall |
| Story of ill-fated 1912 expedition
to the South Pole. |
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| Knights of the Round Table |
1953 |
Tintagel, Cornwall, and Haytor in Devon |
| King Arthur's legend Hollywood-style! |
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| The Eagle has Landed |
1976 |
Charlestown, RAF St Mawgan, Newquay Cornwall |
| WWII drama about enemy spies infiltrating
an English village with the intention of assassinating Churchill. |
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| In Which we Serve |
1942 |
Plymouth, Devon and Portland in Dorset |
| Splendid British war film about
survivors from a torpedoed destroyer who recall their life at
sea and on leave. |
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| Force Ten from Navarone |
1978 |
Plymouth Docks, Devon |
| Group of commandos are detailed
to blow up a vital bridge during WWII. |
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| The Dam Busters |
1954 |
Weymouth & The Fleet, Dorset |
| Story of the destruction of the
Ruhr dams in 1943 by Dr Barnes Wallis' bouncing bombs. |
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| The Onedin Line |
1972-80 |
Bayard's Cove, Dartmouth, Exeter Quay, Kingswear,
Dart Estuary, Devon; Mousehole and Charlestown in Cornwall and
Gloucester Docks and Cheltenham in Glos. |
| Series about a young man's rise
to wealth and power through the establishing of his own shipping
line in the late C19th. |
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| Romance |
| Truly, Madly, Deeply |
1990 |
(Goldney Hall) Bristol University |
| A woman grieving for her husband
is visited by his ghost and eventually comes to terms with her
loss. |
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Love Story
aka A Lady Surrenders |
1944 |
Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Cornwall |
| A half-blind airman falls for a
pianist with a weak heart - set in Cornwall during WWII. |
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| Poldark |
1975-77 |
Perranporth, Coast towards Pendeen & Levant,
Locations nr St Just, Trevellas Coombe, Prussia Cove, Mounts
Bay, Towednack Church, Godolphin, Mousehole, Keigwin Arms, Charlestown,
Port Quin, Porthcurno Beach, Lands End, many locations in second
series in East Cornwall around Lostwithiel, Porthluney
Cove by Veryan Bay, St Mawes Castle, St Winnow's Church, St
Agnes, Doyden Point, Lanhydrock, Trerice Manor, Port Holland,
Portloe, Luxulyan, St Enedoc's Church all in Cornwall |
| Based on Winston Grahams Four Poldark
novels, this C18th Cornish Romantic drama followed the life
of Ross Poldark |
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| Blue Juice |
1995 |
Newquay, St Ives, Mousehole, Chapel Port, Godrevy
in Cornwall |
| Charming and offbeat story about
surfers gathering in Cornwall for one last fling before succumbing
to life's responsibilities. |
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| The Camomile Lawn |
1991 |
Veryan & Portloe Harbour, Cornwall |
| Mary Wesley story |
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| The Shell Seekers |
1989 |
Lands End (State House Hotel), St Ives, Lamorna
Cove, Porthgwarra, Marazion, Cornwall |
| Rosamunde Pilcher story |
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| Oscar & Lucinda |
1996 |
Boscastle, Crackington Haven, Port Isaac, Bossiney |
| Story of ostracised gamblers in
C19th Australia who become star-cross'd lovers. |
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| Coming Home |
1997 |
Prideaux Place, Lelant, Godrevy Point, Penzance,
Porthgwarra Beach, Marazion, Cornwall |
| Rosamunde Pilcher Story |
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| Frenchman's Creek |
1998 |
Charlestown, Helston, Padstow, St Clements,
in Cornwall |
| Daphne du Maurier story |
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| Isadora |
1968 |
Oldway Mansion, Paignton, Devon |
| The eccentric 1920's dancer Isadora
Duncan reflects on her unconventional life. |
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| The Scarlet Tunic |
1996 |
Chideock, Seatown and Bridport in Dorset |
| Based on a Thomas Hardy short story,
the tale of a farmer's daughter who falls for a German cavalry office
planning to desert from his regiment. |
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| Land Girls |
1997 |
Dulverton, Bossington Beach, The West Somerset
Railway, Crowcombe Heathfield Station in Somerset, Pixton
Stables and Bampton in Devon |
| Story of three girls who worked
on farms in Dorset during WWII |
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| Thriller and Fun |
| Straw Dogs |
1971 |
St Buryan & Lamorna Cove, Cornwall |
| In a Cornish village a mild American
university researcher erupts into violence when taunted by villagers. |
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| Saving Grace |
2000 |
Port Isaac, St Endellion, Boscastle,Trebarwith
St Tudy in Cornwall |
| A widow tries to clear her debts
by cultivating marijuana plants. |
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| Water |
1985 |
Hartland Point and Abbey in Devon |
| Chaos on a Caribbean Island (supposedly!)
when industrialists check for mineral springs. |
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| Hung, Drawn and Quartered |
2004 |
Berkerley Castle in Gloucestershire. |
| Five episodes on historic cookery.
featuring mediaeval c | | |
