Buddy
Buddy was a BBC educational drama, developed to get children reading, shown in both a daytime and evening slot and made by the producer of the coming out drama Two of Us, Roger Tonge. Cavendish…
Category: Hastings
Look and Read: The King’s Dragon
This drama, part of the BBC Schools Look and Read educational strand, was mostly filmed in Hastings in the winter of 1975. Locations included Hastings Castle, the West Hill Lift, and at St Clement’s Caves…
Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Dame Judy Dench with the help of a pal track down the former members of a dance band. Ian Holm finds Joan Sims working in a bar on Hastings Pier, playing the piano.
Kavanagh QC
Dame Penelope Wilton and Roger Lloyd Pack featured in a scene shot by Hastings pier, in this courtroom case about a female MP accused of sexual misconduct. Bottle Alley and Marine Court also made an…
Pulaski
Roy ‘Last of the Summer Wine’ Clarke tried something different with this modern-day detective drama. Actor David Andrew played the priest turned detective of the title, who then gets involved in solving real crimes. Filmed…
Thomas and Sarah
The second series of the Upstairs Downstairs spin-off, starring Pauline Collins and John Alderton started in filming in Hastings in July 1079. But a strike meant filming was abandoned and the footage from the four…
Quiller
Michael Jayston starred in this small screen adaptation of the Elleston Trevor’s spy tale, previously a hit film. Hastings stood in for France.
Father Brown
St Clements Caves was used as a location for this earlier adaptation of the G.K. Chesterton clergyman turned detective adventures. Kenneth Moore donned the cassock.
Journey to the Unknown
In The Last Visitor of this often supernatural and spooky anthology series, the action centred around Butler’s Emporium in George Street, Hastings.