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Films and TV Programmes filmed locally

As part of our 2020 temporary exhibition, ‘Location, Location, Location: Egham and Area Behind and in Front of the Camera’, (revived and updated in 2024) here is our full list of Films and TV Programmes filmed locally.

It includes documentaries, reality shows, short films intended for widespread public viewing but not items produced primarily for local viewing, social media or news bulletins.

Egham/Egham Hythe

1953 Spaceways

1964 Seance on a Wet Afternoon

1970 Take a Girl Like You

1977 Spiderweb (Royal Holloway short film)

1990 Poirot, series 2: The Kidnapped Prime Minister (ITV)

2000 Real Rooms (documentary series, BBC)

2002 Ali G Inda House

2007-2008 Holby Blue, 2nd series (BBC)

2008 Honest, series (ITV)

2014 Where Best we Belong (Royal Holloway short film)

2015 The Sex Change Spitfire Ace (documentary, Channel 4)

2016 Assisted (Royal Holloway short film)

2016 Eyes Wide Open (Royal Holloway short film)

2017 Surprise (Royal Holloway short film)

2018 Law Enforcement (Royal Holloway short film)

2018 The Ghost on the Bridge (Royal Holloway short film)

2018-2019 The Reluctant Landlord (Sky One)

2023 Bangers and Cash, series 7: episode 5, including the Argson factory (Air TV for Yesterday)

2023 The Death of Jim Buckley (Kingston University short film)

Egham Hythe Swan Sanctuary

1994 Wildlife on OneNatural Neighbours (documentary, BBC)

1994-2004 Animal Hospital (documentary, BBC)

1997-2002 Pet Rescue (documentary, Channel 4)

Runnymede

1950 Traveltalks: Land of Tradition (short documentary)

1952 Whispering Smith Hits London

1978 You’re Driving Me Crazy

1990 Burning Embers, season 1: Rights of Men and Women (documentary, Rob Walker Productions)

2003 Castle (documentary series, Lion TV)

Runnymede: The Thames

2010 Take That The Flood (music video)

Englefield Green

1966 The Wrong Box

1966 The Family Way, church scene in St Jude’s Church Englefield Green

1967 Casino Royale

1968 Sherlock Holmes, season 2, (BBC) some scenes filmed at Kingswood

1975 Seeing and Doing, On a Building Site (Thames TV) featuring children from Surrenden School

1982 Minder, season 3: Dreamhouse (ITV)

2011 Familial Ties (Royal Holloway short film)

2011 My Week with Marilyn

2012 Outside Bet, church scene in St Jude’s Church Englefield Green

2014 Edge of Heaven, series, (ITV) some scenes in St Jude’s Church Englefield Green

2017 Highway Romance (Royal Holloway short film)

2021 Sed Libera Nos A Malo/But Deliver us from Evil (short film, in St Jude’s Church Englefield Green and St Mary’s Church Thorpe)

Bishopsgate School

1971 Public Eye, season 5: Come Into the Garden, Rose (Thames TV)

Savill Court Hotel

2000 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (BBC)

Runnymede Campus

1960 A French Mistress

1993 Bhaji on the Beach

2009 Dread

2009 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

2010 Luther, 1st episode (BBC) 

2010 Lewis, series 4: Falling Darkness (ITV) 

2011 Nero Crush on You (music video)

2011 Downton Abbey, series 2: final episode (ITV) 

2013 Midsomer Murders, series 15: The Sicilian Defence (ITV)

2018 A Very English Scandal (BBC)

Royal Holloway

1968 Salt & Pepper

1971 Incense for the Damned

1973-78 Second City Firsts (BBC2)

1992 Howards End

2001 Antiques Roadshow (reality show, BBC)

2002 Midsomer Murders: Murder on St Malley’s Day (ITV) 

2006 Basic Instinct 2; Risk Addiction  

2009 Trinity

2010 Slipping (Royal Holloway short film)

2011 Miss Emma (Royal Holloway short film)

2012 Celebrity MasterChef (reality show, BBC)

2013 Spinalonga (Royal Holloway short film)

2013 Downton Abbey: The London Season (ITV)

2014 Stargazing Live (documentary, BBC)

2015 The Avengers: Age of Ultron

2015 The BBC1 Classics Serial (1981-8) (Royal Holloway External Relations video)

2015 The Forgotten 1970s Drama of Granada TV (Royal Holloway External Relations video)

2016 Gareth Malone’s The Choir: Best in Britain (reality show, BBC)

2016 Great British Railway Journeys, season 7: Egham to Henley-on-Thames (documentary, BBC)

2016 Hallelujah (Royal Holloway short film)

2016 Sir David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (documentary, BBC)

2017 Delirium

2017 Imagineer (Royal Holloway short film)

2017 Judwaa 2

2017 Kill Me Now (Royal Holloway short film)

2018 Astral

2018 Pantham

2018 Cheat (ITV)

2019 Born a King

2019 Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, season 2: Blue Gold (Amazon Prime)

2019-21 The Split, series 2 (BBC)

2021 Call the MIdwife

Release date uncertain Brutus (Royal Holloway short film)

2022 You, season 4: Joe Takes a Holiday (Netflix)

2023 The Silent War: Origins (short film)

Thorpe/Thorpe Green

1929 Under the Greenwood Tree

1966 The Great St. Trinian’s Train Robbery

1973 The Creeping Flesh

1974 Craze

1976 The Sweeney: Selected Target (ITV)

2021 Sed Libera Nos A Malo/But Deliver us from Evil [short film, in St Jude’s Church Englefield Green and St Mary’s Church Thorpe]

2021 The Sandman, unconfirmed (Netflix)

Thorpe Park

1977 The Professionals, season 1: Private Madness, Public Danger (ITV)

1998 Russell Grant’s Postcards, season 1: Thorpe Park (Russell Grant’s World Productions)

1999 Prince William: A Royal Portrait (TV Movie)

2001 Yaadein

2008 Primeval, series 2: 3rd episode (ITV)

2008 The Inbetweeners, series 1: Thorpe Park (E4/Channel 4) 

2011 Embarrassing Bodies, season 4: episode 6 (reality show, Channel 4)

2016 Don’t Tell the Bride series 5: episode 8 (reality show, Channel 4)

2017 X Factor (reality show, ITV)

2018 The Big Audition (reality show, ITV)

2019 The Apprentice series 15 episode 6 (reality show, BBC)

2019 Coasters (short film)

2022 Sidemen, series 5: Sidemen $100,000 Vs $100 Theme Park

Virginia Water

1958 Further Up the Creek

1970 The Reckoning

1982 Scrubbers

2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkhaban

2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2006 As You Like It

2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

2008 Marple, series 4: Murder is Easy(ITV)

2009 Liar’s Dice

2010 Robin Hood

2011 Memories of Your Devotion (Royal Holloway short film)

2014 Into the Woods

2016 Azhar

2016 The Legend of Tarzan

2016 Black Mirror: Hated in the Nation (Netflix)

2017 The End of the F**cking World (Channel 4/Netflix)

2018 Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda

2019 Angel Has Fallen

2020 The Witches

2020 Cursed (Netflix)

2022 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 3 The Secrets of Dumbledore(unconfirmed)

2023 Andaz Tera Mera

2023 The Witcher season 3 (Netflix)

2024 Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 (Amazon Prime)

2024 Levon’s Trade (unconfirmed, not yet released)

Callow Hill Sandpit

1958 The Camp on Blood Island

1959 Don’t Panic Chaps!

1959 The Stranglers of Bombay

1961 The Curse of the Werewolf

1962 The Pirates of Blood River

1963 The Devil-Ship Pirates

1963 Siege of the Saxons

1966 Doctor Who Season 3 story 25: The Gunfighters (BBC)

1966 Doctor Who Season 3, story 26: The Savages (BBC)

1967 The Mummy’s Shroud, possibly Callow Hill Sandpit

Cumberland Lodge

2010 The King’s Speech

Fort Belvedere

1978 Edward & Mrs. Simpson (Thames TV)

Great Fosters

1949 The Romantic Age

1956-1960, 1971-1972 Whacko (BBC)

1957 You Pay Your Money

1958 A Night to Remember

1960 Surprise Package

1966 Lucy in London (CBS/ITV)

2023 The Witcher season 3 (Netflix)

Guards Polo Club

Release date uncertain Sport of Kings (documentary series)

Holloway Sanatorium

1981 The Cure Charlotte Sometimes (music video)

1982 Adam Ant Goody Two Shoes (music video)

1983 Bonnie Tyler Total Eclipse of the Heart (music video)

1983 Bucks Fizz London Town (music video)

1983 Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon (music video)

1984 Alphaville Forever Young (music video)

1986 Slaughter High

1987 Inspector Morse, 1st episode: The Dead of Jericho (ITV)

1988 Jack the Ripper, TV Movie/Mini Series (ITV)

2014 The Art of Gothic; Britain’s Midnight Hour: The City and the Soul (documentary, BBC)

Wentworth Estate

1986 Slaughter High

2011 The Iron Lady

2013 The Wrong Mans, season 1: Inside Mans, filmed at Copse Manor(BBC)

2014 Black Sea, filmed at Copse Manor

2018 The Split (BBC)

2018 Silent Witness, Series 21, Family, two-part series finale (BBC)

Wentworth Golf Club

2015 Being Kevin Pietersen (documentary, Sky Sports)


Sources of Information:

Egham Museum

https://www.imdb.com;

https://www.reelstreets.com/;

http://www.british-film-locations.com/;

https://findthatlocation.com/;

https://www.doctorwholocations.net/;

https://www.themoviedb.org;

Surrey Live https://www.getsurrey.co.uk;

Fellner, Chris (2019) The Encyclopedia of Hammer Films. Lanham, Maryland:Rowman & Littlefield