Wed, 18 Feb 1998 09:34:57 -0500, Oliver wrote:
> Where
> were the episodes filmed (things like Czar's and Jasper Street etc. I
> always assumed it was near London (Black Cab) but I was never sure exactly
> where the outside shots were taken. I also recognise that Black Cabs can be
> found all over England. In Luton (my home town, of sorts) there are a lot
> of them but also a lot of mini-cabs (Cars basically, to
> non-Englanders/Brits) too.
The locations for the first series at least were shot in Uxbridge,
Middlesex, which is sort of near enough to London to just about
qualify as being *in* London - certainly, it's on the London
Underground, not that that really counts for much either way. Czar's
is (or at least was) a real cafe, I think, although they changed the
name for the series, obviously - there's a nice wide shot of the
street in one episode, where you can see that it's next to a sofabed
shop, and there's a street sign that, if you freeze frame, you can
just make out it's called "Hercies Street." Or is it Hercies Road?
Anyway, that is a real street in Uxbridge. (The PG Programme Guide
confirms this, by the way, but this is how I sussed it out, many
moons ago.) I'd guess that when the filming of the interiors moved
to the studio, in the second series, the exteriors started to go down
the same line, although I think that on the whole, the second series
seems pretty consistent with the first. I think that the
general idea seems to be that "Norbridge" itself is somewhere
around London, possibly analogous to somewhere like Croydon.
Certainly, it's got its own train station. However, with the third
series, it all became a bit more vague. Point of note, though, "La
Brasserie" (in "The Big Hello") is in "Bromley Road," which is at
least conceivable as the name of a street in London (there's a
Bromley on the Kent/London border).
The phone numbers sort of suggest London (there's at least one 081
number), but at the same time they're sort of evocative of the good
ol' days (which I really am too young to remember) when phone numbers
had four digits. There's a whole article there, which Steve Lyons
has written for the PG Prog Guide. The PG phone numbering system is
*totally* screwy. As Steve observed, it's no wonder they have so
many problems with the exchange going down and constant wrong
numbers.
I'm just off to ring my aunt in Dublin...er, Glasgow.
David.
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