Buses on Screen - TV shows N-Nl


UK TV: Nation On Film (BBC documentary strand)
Episode: Package Holidays
Made up of little seen archive film, including home movies - this particular show includes footage of a Thames Valley Bristol Lodekka FLF coach:
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As part of an advertising film there's also this view of a Manchester Corporation Leyland Tiger Cub airport coach
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....and a view of an SRN4 hovercraft:
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The New Avengers (ITV thriller series)
Episode: Sleeper
Central to the episode is Jack Crump's Denham coaches VHV111G; this AEC Reliance/Plaxton Elite was new to Glenton Tours and has that operator's distinctive central entrance. It's seen on a fake tour of London:
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Several buses are seen through its windows, the inevitable AEC Routemaster seen on route 12, a DMS Daimler fleetline, and a London Country Green Line Leyland-National:
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The New Statesman (Yorkshire TV comedy series)
Ex-London Transport AEC Routemaster/Park Royal RM1414 (414CLT) was supplied by the Museum of Transport, Manchester (thanks Bob Wingrove)
New Tricks (BBC crime series)
Chris Hough reports "The episode broadcast on 7 May 2007 featured a London Transport Leyland RTL at Battersea Power Station as the retired detectives investigated a fifty year old murder. There was a broadside exterior view and shots of the platform and upper deck interior"
Colin Read adds "I would put money on it having been RTL139. Cobham Bus Museum have been doing some filming for New Tricks and since the RTL resides there, q.e.d." Can anyone confirm for sure?
Nice Guy Eddie (BBC private eye serial)
Ricky Tomlinson stars in this Liverpool-set show, which has glimpses of various Arriva Wright-bodied singledeckers, and a Metrobus and Leyland Titan of Glenvale Transport. Ewood Eddie notes a Halton Transport Dennis Dart in one episode.
Nigella Feasts (The Food Network cookery series)
Geoff Cook notes that in one episode Nigella Lawson boards First London VNW32387 (LK04HZV), a Wright Gemini bodied Volvo B7TL.
Night Flight (BBC drama)
In one scene Edward Woodward is seen waiting as coach xx53OBO arrives in National Express livery on service 460 to London.

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updated 28 April 2008
Buses on Screen - TV shows N-Nl