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| − | 8 days of filming took place in March of that year using [[LMS Jinty 47383 | LMS Jinty (4)7383]]. SVR News included a photograph of 7383 and 4 carriages standing at [[Arley]] taken during filming on Sunday 23 March, and stills from the programme show [[Northwood Halt]]<ref>SVR News 80, pp 10-11.</ref><ref>[https://www.stourbridgelineusergroup.info/files/Platform-2---Issue-19--A4-Large-Print-.pdf 'Platform 2', Stourbridge Line User Group, Issue 19, March 2020] (Retrieved 26 January 2022)</ref>. | + | 8 days of filming took place in March of that year using [[LMS Jinty 47383 | LMS Jinty (4)7383]]. SVR News included a photograph of 7383 and 4 carriages standing at [[Arley]] taken during filming on Sunday 23 March, and stills from the programme show [[Northwood Halt]]<ref>SVR News 80, pp 10-11.</ref><ref>[https://www.stourbridgelineusergroup.info/files/Platform-2---Issue-19--A4-Large-Print-.pdf 'Platform 2', Stourbridge Line User Group, Issue 19, March 2020] (Retrieved 26 January 2022)</ref>. Part 3 'Lovely Days' has footage interspersed through the first half of the episode. |
== See also == | == See also == | ||
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Detective The Singing Detective Wikipedia page] | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Detective The Singing Detective Wikipedia page] | ||
*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090521/ The Singing Detective on Internet Movie Database] | *[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090521/ The Singing Detective on Internet Movie Database] | ||
| + | *All episodes on the [https://archive.org/details/the-singing-detective/ Internet Archive] | ||
Latest revision as of 11:40, 29 August 2022
The Singing Detective was a noir-styled 1986 six-part BBC TV serial drama, written by Dennis Potter and starring Michael Gambon. Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his wartime childhood in the Forest of DeanWilliam Dean, Chief Locomotive Engineer of the Great Western Railway 1877-1902 and Chandleresque detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations, with himself in the title role. It won six BAFTAs and other awards.[1]
Filming on the SVRSevern Valley Railway
8 days of filming took place in March of that year using LMS Jinty (4)7383. SVRSevern Valley Railway News included a photograph of 7383 and 4 carriages standing at Arley taken during filming on Sunday 23 March, and stills from the programme show Northwood Halt[2][3]. Part 3 'Lovely Days' has footage interspersed through the first half of the episode.
See also
List of film and TV productions filmed on the Severn Valley Railway
References
- ↑ Internet Movie Database (Retrieved 15 February 2017)
- ↑ SVRSevern Valley Railway News 80, pp 10-11.
- ↑ 'Platform 2', Stourbridge Line User Group, Issue 19, March 2020 (Retrieved 26 January 2022)
