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[[File: Sorry_Title.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Sorry! programme title]][[File: Sorry_DVD.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Sorry! DVD]]'''Sorry!''' was a BBC TV sit-com starring the late Ronnie Corbett as Timothy Lumsden, a librarian in his 40s who cannot escape from his domineering mother’s mother's apron strings. Seven series of six episodes each were broadcast between 1981 and 1988. The programme also featured Barbara Lott and William Moore as Timothy's mother and father, and Marguerite Hardiman as his sister Muriel.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081937/ Sorry! On IMDB.com]</ref> Two episodes featured scenes filmed on the SVR.
==Filming on the SVR==
===Series 1: 1981===Episode 6 of Series 1 "'''Curse of the Mummy'''" was first screened on 16 April 1981. During a visit, Timothy's sister Muriel prevails upon Timothy to leave home and tries to help him escape. Pursued by their parents, she they take a taxi to Leigh Bridge station where Muriel just manages to catch a train while Timothy is caught in a crowd on the platform and fails to do so. <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0705308/?ref_=ttep_ep6 Sorry! Curse of the Mummy on IMDB.com]</ref> The scene was filmed at [[Bewdley]] with shots in the booking office, from the footbridge and on platform 2.
<gallery mode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">Sorry_S1E6_screenshot_Bewdley_1.jpg|The taxi arrives at Leigh Bridge stationSorry_S1E6_screenshot_Bewdley_2.jpg|The pursuing throng enters the booking officeSorry_S1E6_screenshot_Bewdley_3.jpg|Timothy runs down the stairs of the footbridgeSorry_S1E6_screenshot_Bewdley_4.jpg|Muriel has boarded the train</gallery> Although the series was set in the then-present day (the early 1980s), the rolling stock included GWR-liveried carriages. In March 2016 the Express and Star posted a [https://twitter.com/ESPhotoArchive/status/715521458651459585/photo/1 photograph on Twitter] of Ronnie Corbett filming at Bewdley in 1983. This may be a misdated reference to the filming above; the next series after that date included only a brief scene in a DMU compartment which may have been filmed on the SVR but is not immediately recognisable as such(it does not match the interior of the SVR's DMU). ===Series 5: 1986=== In spring 1986, SVR News 79 reported that future filming in 1986 would include a further edition. Episode 6 of Series 5 "'''It's a Wonderful Life, Basically'''" was first screened on 21 June 1986. The episode’s plot paid homage to the classic James Stewart film"It's a Wonderful Life", with Timothy wishing that he had never been born and discovering the consequences. <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0705319/?ref_=ttep_ep6 Sorry! It's a Wonderful Life, Basically on IMDB.com]</ref> Two scenes were filmed at [[Level crossing at Hill Farm, Northwood Lane|Northwood Lane level crossing]] which, as with the 1982 episode of [[L For Lester]], had been specially fitted with barriers. Both scenes involved a close encounter with a passing freight train, but with very different outcomes. The train was hauled by one of the SVR’s Class 8 shunters and included two easily recognisable SVR wagons, [[GWR 105873 'Mica B' Refrigerated Meat Van| white Mica B 105873]] and [[Esso Oil Tank Wagon 2686|Esso Oil Tank Wagon 2686]]. The platform of [[Northwood Halt]] is also seen on the first occasion. <gallery mode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">Sorry_S5E6_screenshot_Northwood_1.jpg|Timothy at the level crossingSorry_S5E6_screenshot_Northwood_2.jpg|A car is trapped on the level crossingSorry_S5E6_screenshot_Northwood_3.jpg|The train approaches Northwood HaltSorry_S5E6_screenshot_Northwood_4.jpg|Timothy survives the encounter</gallery>
A DVD box set ‘Sorry! The Complete Collection’ is available in the BBC ‘Classic Comedy’ series.
==See also==
[[List of film and TV productions filmed on the Severn Valley Railway]]
 
==References==
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==Links==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry!_(TV_series) Sorry! on Wikipedia]
*[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081937/episodes Sorry! episode list on IMDB]
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