We are growing excited by the increasin use of Bridport in TV and the media, why only the other day I was watching a Divvy Dee called Confetti (starring Tim from the office) and in it a couple of nerdy characters mentioned Bridders in a slightly derogatory fashion, we are all aware of West Bay as the setting for harbour lights and Huge Fearless Whitingsthorpe eating all of our road kill live on Channel 4, but can you recall any other incidences of Bridport in the movies or the TV? Was an episode of The Professionals filmed in Gundry Lane, are the rumours of Woody Allen scouring the area for locations true? Is Deal or No Deal recorded live at DaVinci's? Join in with your TV and Bridderwood memories and rumours and win a shiny new Bridport Radio MikkiMug (limited amount left)
Bridport on TV and in Movies
1. Confetti (Starring Tim from the Office (real name?) )
2. Harbour Lights (Starring wicksee (real name?))
3. Sky news (Bus stop frackarse)
4. Martin Cloones (probably)
5. World cup (nets)
6. Huge feraless Thingameebobajig
7. The Goodies filmed some guff at Parnham (eckythump) and mebbe in Bridders (many moons ago)
RE: BRIDDERS ON TV
A week or so ago I was watching a tribute program to the goodies. There was a sketch filmed in Beaminster square.
West Bay’s East Beach was used in the opening titles of ‘The Rise & Fall of Reginald Perrin’
RE: BRIDDERS ON TV
The Goodies filmed in Bridders using the stone wall in the South Street car park of what used to be The Volunteer Inn. They made lots of smoke pretending it was fog and climbed up ladders. This was in the late 1970s so probably the same time as Parnham.
RE: ROAD TO RUIN
It’s next to the village of ‘Rack’.
RE: BRIDDERS ON TV
It was the same time as Parnham – does anyone remember the Goodies’ Max Wall sketch filmed on what is now Bucky Doo? And what about the Dunlop Groundhog advert with Jackie Stewart shot on east pier?
RE: BRIDDERS ON TV
Huge furry whatshisname has featured bridport many times … oh wait you’ve already said that.
RE: BRIDDERS ON TV
what was that series called….wycleffs babies…rockliffs babies…well that featured bridport once. i am sure emerdale is filmed at pymore (which is sort of bridders. also, there is a scene in Troy where they first land on the beach (you know where pitts boat speeds ahead and lands before the king dude lands.) well that is really westbay. and then there is computer games… Grand theft auto III was originally based around Bridport. The popular online game called Runescape features a few villages that are laid out the same as westbay, burton and eype. ok so i have a good imagination, but one of the above is true…which is it? The Stretchy One
RE: BRIDDERS ON TV
Stretchy Nuts give us the answer, which of your cock and bukk claims is true? I reckon it must be Runescape because it is the most unremarkable.
RE: BRIDDERS ON TV
The chariot race in Ben Hur was filmed in Bridport. The chariot track was actually a circuit of South Street, Sea Road South and West Street. The film producers erected scaffolding along Sea Road South and packed it with extras in period costume who cheered madly every time a chariot (contructed from coverted Robin Reliants) drove past. The dolphins lap counters which were used in the film were later smashed up to make hardcore rubble which was used as a foundation for the drugtakers memorial bench which now graces our town at the junction of West and East Street. Also the galley slave scenes were filmed in Westbay. The bit where Charlton Heston is afloat on a piece of wreckage with Jack Hawkings was filmed in the sports centre swimming pool. They mixed gravy powder in the water and put a big sky coloured backdrop behind the actors.
RE: CULL THE GULL?
Now youv’e mentioned Milton Keynes i dare say there will be a mass sprouting of roundabout’s in the near future !
Not worth waisting energy over, amazing that one can get paid for something put together whilst visiting lovey London friends in the country. And people wonder why I stopped buy the Guardian! okay yah darling i’ll just pop on my Barbour and Hunter wellies.