WHAT'S NEW IN AVENGERLAND
2013
4th
May - Another great find from Geoff Dodd who has traced this distinctive farm from Where the Money Is.
THE SAINT: Where the Money Is (Roger
Moore: Summer 1968)
O2: Ridge Village - At the end of the episode the kidnappers take Simon to pick up
the ransom money from this barn (Ridge Farm, Crossoaks Lane/Deeves Hall
Lane).
(Identified by Geoff Dodd, 4th May 2013)
24th April - The one has been on
the books for a long time, but has at last been identified by Sam Denham.
THE SAINT: The Covetous Headsman (Michael
Truman: 1962)
Beades Mews, NW3
- Beades Mews/New End/Streatley Place junction in Hampstead, NW3 –
Simon Templar
(Roger Moore) goes to consult his ex-resistance colleague Antoine
Louvois about
Georges Olivant (Beades
Mews/New End/Streatley Place junction in Hampstead).
21st April - Tavistock of the
Britmovie forum has done some sterling work to identify these
locations from the opening sequence of The
Beckoning Fair One.
JOURNEY TO THE UNKNOWN: The Beckoning Fair One (Don
Chaffey: 1968)
(Identified April 2013 by Tavistock of the Britmovie forum)
Wilton Square, N1
- The peace of a quite Chelsea square is broken by the sound of air
raid sirens.
Awyne Place/Alwyne Road N1
- An air raid has started and Crichton (Clive Francis)
rushes to the Chelsea home of Alison with a marriage licence.
Baring Street, N1
- A woman covers the windows of her shop with blackout shutters and
nearby pub (The Baring) is evacuated as an air raid is announced by the
sound of sirens and the drone of aircraft engines.
31 Alwyne Road, N1
- An air raid has started and Crichton (Clive Francis) rushes into the
Chelsea home of Alison (31 Alwyne Road) with a marriage licence after
getting leave unexpectedly. Decades
later Mr. Barrett (Larry Noble) helps Jon Holden move into the house
that he has rented.
19th
April - Geoff Dodd is on fire this month, he has just
found this very tricky location from THE
NEW AVENGERS.
THE NEW AVENGERS: Dead Men Are Dangerous (Sidney
Hayers: Spring 1977)
F55: Beaconsfield Cricket Club, London
Road junction with Minerva Way, Beaconsfield
- John Steed (Patrick Macnee), Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey (Joanna
Lumley) relax off duty playing a few cricket strokes. Between them they
christen the ‘purdka’ and Steed notices a strangely familiar figure in
the distance.
15th April - Another
lightning fast identification from Alan
Field.
JOURNEY TO THE UNKNOWN: Poor Butterfly (Alan Gibson:
October 1968)
A406 North
Circular, NW4 - Commercial artist, Steven Miller
(Chad Everett) has received an
invitation to attend a weekend party in the country and sets off out of
London his1929 Bugatti (outside Brent Cross Shopping Centre and
near Claremont Road, redeveloped).
12th April - Mike Richardson has
sent in these three locations fromTHE
AVENGERS: Sell Out.
THE AVENGERS: Sell Out (Don Leaver: June 1962)
Hammersmith
Flyover, W6 - Steed and Doctor King drive
to Heathrow Airport in an AC sports car.
THE AVENGERS: Sell Out (Don Leaver: June 1962)
Tunnel Road
East, Heathrow Airport - Steed and Doctor King drive
to Heathrow Airport in an AC sports car.
THE AVENGERS: Sell Out (Don Leaver: June 1962)
Great West Road,
Brentford - Steed and Doctor King drive
to Heathrow Airport in an AC sports car (they pass was the now
demolished Firestone Factory).
8th April - After an intensive
search Geoff Dodd has
at last found thios elusive location from Death's Door.
THE AVENGERS: Death's Door (Sidney Hayers:
June 1967)
M23: Hilfield Lane
- Melford gets a fright when a cyclist suddenly turns in front
of his car as he and Steed drive to the conference (Hilfield Lane
between Hilfield Castle and
Hilfield Farm).
6th
April - An unexpected find from Geoff Dodd as it is
so close to Borehamwood.
THE
HUMAN JUNGLE: Skeleton in the Cupboard
(Roy Baker. ???)
Q33: Barham Avenue, Borehamwood
- The home of Dr Fisher (Allan Cuthbertson) where
Dr. Corder (Herbert Lom) goes to talk about the Brindley family
(Hispania,1Barham Avenue).
2nd
April - After a good few years Geoff Dodd has at
last identified this location from the THE
BARON episode Diplomatic
Immunity.
THE BARON: Diplomatic Immunity
Craven Road, W2 –
After taking a sharp corner in his Jensen, Mannering
decides that his car is being followed by a Jaguar (Craven
Road at the junction with Westbourne Terrace, looking towards
Praed Street).
6th March - A very pleasant
surprise today. Daniel
Bauer has spent the last few days searching for the
hairpin road seen in THE
PRISONER: Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling and today he has
found it. This footage was originally taken from material shot for the
Pan-Am travelogue WINGS OVER AUSTRIA,
which was
market as stock footage by World Backgrounds and also used in
THE SAINT: The Russian Prisoner
which lead to another identified location. Thank you and well done
Daniel.
Silvretta Hochalpenstraße,
Vorarlberg, Austria: THE
PRISONER: Do Not Forsake Me Oh My
Darling
Potter drives up a steep mountain
pass following the radio signal leading to Number 6.
(Identified by Daniel Bauer, March 6th, 2013)
Silvretta Hochalpenstraße,
Vorarlberg, Austria: THE SAINT: The Russian Prisoner
Simon Templar and Irma Jorovitch drive from Geneva through the alps to
Lucerne via a winding mountain road.
Piz Buin, Gasthof, Bielerhöhe am
Silvrettasee, Austria - THE
SAINT: The Russian Prisoner
Simon Templar and Irma Jorovitch arrive at
Lucerne hotel near the Villa Bauregarde. where Karel Jorvitch
is being held
(Identified by Daniel Bauer, March 6th, 2013)
5th
March - Following on from Geoff's find, Alan Field has
manged to piece together another part of the jigsaw. "This
(image below) is Hollybush Lane. "The sequence starts
outside what is now Greentiles Nursery, and heads towards Hollybush
Farm, and its, now demolished, barns."
H73: Hollybush Lane, Denham
- THE NEW AVENGERS: Eagles Nest
(Desmond Davis: April 1976)
Gambit helped himself to the white Citroen to follow the van from the
conference centre (Gambit 's point of view).
3rd
March - Geoff Dodd has found this very tricky location
from THE NEW AVENGERS:
Eagles Nest.
The area has changed much and the original camera work was very
creative. Certainly hard to find, but Geoff has at last found it.
H32: Quarry Cottages, Willets Lane,
Nr. Rush Green - THE NEW
AVENGERS: Eagles Nest (Desmond Davis: April 1976)
Gambit
helped himself to the white Citroen to follow the van from the
conference centre (Southlands Road at the junction with Hollybush Lane
looking towards New House Farm).
14th February
- Sam Denham
has found
this junction from THE NEW AVENGERS:
House Of Cards. This is Fingest, where Skirmett Road
converges with Dolesden Lane. All this recent work on THE NEW AVENGERS
is giving us a much clearer picture of the area used for the filming of
the series which should make further research a little easier.
E2: Fingest - THE NEW AVENGERS: House Of Cards
(Ray Austin: Spring 1976)
Perov and Cartney on their way to Steed’s place (Skirmett Road
converges with Dolesden Lane).
27th January - Many thanks to David Sinclair who
has sent this link to the
very useful Hampstead
Garden
Suburb web site.
He was also kind enough to point out that a location listed as
"Unknown" on Location Spotting Page 75 had already been idenified in
2004. Please let us know if you spot
any mistakes on the site so we can correct them.
26th
January - Sam Denham has found
a real gem of a location. Long thought to be part of ATV
Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Sam has studied the sequence and
discounted the
ATV Studios. He has also managed the next step by identifying the
locations as the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, Here
is the Bing Maps link.
UFO:The Responsibility Seat (Alan
Perry: August 1969)
Crystal
Palace National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace Park, Surrey
- Ed Straker (Ed Bishop) escorts Jo Fraser (Jane Merrow) back to her
car after she has interviewed him at the Harlington-Straker Studios
(Crystal Palace National Sports Centre). She watches him walk away to
his duties on the back-lot then makes her way back to Straker's
office..
26th January - A complete list of MAN OF THE WORLD
locations, known and unknown has been added. A work in progress with
more unknowns that knowns. Help turning the former into the latter
would be appreciated.
Work still to be done on adding locations found towardss the end of
last year to the guide.
15th January - Paul Stroud has sent
in a comprehensive list of
locations for THE ZOO GANG.
This includes unknown locations a
as well as all the ones he has traced over the years. Please follow
this link
to get to all the juicy details:
1st January - Happy New Year and
the first location found in 2013 is...
THE PERSUADERS!: Element of Risk (Gerald Mayer:
23rd Feb 1971)
F54: Tara Stables, Colley Hill Lane,
Hedgerley, Slough, Berkshire, SL2 4AT - The farmhouse where
Danny and Lord Brett are held the night before the raid on the Amercian
Air base.
2013
31st December - Many thanks to Peter Astaire for
finding this location so quickly.
THE NEW AVENGERS: Sleeper (Graeme Clifford:
September 1976)
Roland Gardens, SW7
– As Steed (Patrick Macnee) and Gambit (Gareth Hunt) run through a
deserted London following Purdy's carthey pass Steed's hotel where
Steed notices thet George, the hotel porter,wears red socks. Both men
duck into a doorway when they hear a bus aproaching.
29th Decenber - Mike Richardson's
eagle eye spotted this one.
THE AVENGERS:
Return of the Cybernauts
(Robert Day: May 1967)
N35: Tykes Water Lake, Bridge and
approach road, Aldenham Park - The Cybernaut (Terry Richards)
carries the unconcious Neville (Charles Tingwell) towards Beresford's
house.
27th
December - THE NEW
AVENGERS: Obsession
(Ernest Day: May 1977)
F42: Springwell Chalk Pit, Springwell
Lane, Harefield - Larry Doomer's father is stopped at a road
block in a middle eastern country and killed.
DEPARTMENT S:
The Shift That Never Was
(John Gilling: Autumn 1968)
Hams Hall Power Stations,
Warkickshire (demolished) - Establishing shots of Northover
Atomic Power Station.
RANDALL AND HOPKIRK
[DECEASED]: Could You
Recognise the Man Again? (Jeremy Summers: April 1969)
Whitehall, SW1 -
Jeff and Jeane race through London in order to get to the court in
time fro Jeff to give his wintess statement (back projection).
20th
December - A couple of absolute gems from Mark Pond. First
clarification about the location of the The Ministry Building from Angles of Death and secondly,
identification of the field where the aircraft is waiting in The Morning After.
THE NEW AVENGERS: Angles of Death (Ernest Day:
April 1977)
H74: South Bucks District Council
offices, Windsor Road, Slough (demolished) – The Ministry
Building where Steed
(Patrick Macnee) confronts Peter Manderson (Terence Alexander) about
his little secret and tells him to drive.
THE PERSUADERS!: The Morning After (Leslie
Norman: 1971)
F21: Denham Aerodrome, Denham - Lars
Seelman is kidnapped by Kristen and Jon and drien off the road and
into a airfield where a Cessna aeroplane is waiting for them
(The
field opposite Denham Aerodrome end of the runway 24).
12th December - Alan
Hayes has sent in a nice collection of locations from THE AVENGERS: The Frighteners.
THE AVENGERS: The
Frighteners (Peter Hammond, June 1961)
Berwick Street, W1 -
Coventry Street, W1 -
Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 -
