David Copperfield
A young Daniel Radcliffe featured in this BBC Dickens adaptation, with scenes shot by the river.
Category: TV
Marple
ITV tried hard to match the success of the Joan Hickson BBC Miss Marples with a series of new adaptations. Sadly, cast members went OTT and Geraldine McKewan just didn’t make her mark. But the…
Worzel Gummidge
When Mackenzie Crook and the BBC announced they were bringing back the Scatterbrook scarecrow, we had our doubts it would beat the Jon Pertwee/ Southern TV version, but we were wrong. This charming and thoughtful…
The Sculptress
Beachy Head and Seaford were just two of the locations for the BBC Drama that proved, yet again, what a brilliant actress Pauline Quirke is. She played the killer Olive Martin. The now demolished Beachcomber…
The Prisoner
Beachy Head features in the episodes Many Happy Returns and The Girl Who Was Death, although I suspect stock footage was used.
Two of Us
BBC Scene’s ground-breaking coming out drama for schools was made and screened at the time of Section 28 and was filmed on location in Seaford and the surrounding area. It came at a time when…
Mapp and Lucia
Rye was E.M Benson’s inspiration for the fictional town of Tilling and fortunately, for those responsible for the BBC’s recent production, much of the town remains untouched or was easy enough for set dressers to…
Foyle’s War
Hastings was the setting for the majority of the show Foyle’s War with St Just, in Croft Road used as the location for Foyle’s home.
Silent Witness
Extensive filming tool place around Brighton for this two-part story from season 22, starring Emilia Fox. In Brighton, to Brighton, the Lyell team are summoned to a waste dump in Brighton where a body part…