LITTLEHAMPTON TV SHOWS

DoctoR who

Climping Beach near Littlehampton was the location for two classic era Doctor Who stories.

The Enemy of the World was broadcast across six episodes, from December 23 1967 to January 27 1968, and starred Patrick Troughton, Deborah Watling and Frazer Hines. 

In November 1967, four days of filming took place on Climping Beach, with most of the scenes shot there turning up in the opening part of episode 1, now available to watch for UK viewers on the BBC Iplayer. Alternatively you can view screenshots. There was also an addiitional scene filmed at Arun Yacht Club, Riverside West, Littlehampton.

Terror of the Zygons was a four part adventure broadcast between August 30 and September 20, 1975, starring Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen and Ian Marter. The Climping beach scenes (filmed in March 1975 ) are mostly seen in the opening two episodes, also on BBC Iplayer and in screenshots.

Thanks to Jamie Noakes for this Littlehampton Gazette news clipping about the Tom Baker filming, published April 4 1975.

mINDER (1980)

Season Two, Episode One
Title: National Pelmet
Broadcast: Sept 11 1980. 

On a trip to the seaside with Arthur Terry is asked to mind a race-horse called Pelmet and is happy to do so when he meets Jocelyn, the attractive female jockey. However it is stable girl Rita who takes a shine to the minder and her ex-husband who proves to be part of a scam involving the horse.

This Minder fan page has some screenshots of the locations used for this particular episode, including Littlehampton.


tHE INBETWEENERS

Season Two, Episode One
Title: The Field Trip
Broadcast: April 2 2009

Season two of The Inbetweeners opens with a characteristically eventful field trip to Swanage on the Dorset coast. However, this episode was actually filmed in the West Sussex resort of Littlehampton. Sex-mad Jay propositions an ice-cream seller, and the four friends almost get lost at sea and have to be rescued by Littlehampton’s own RNLI crew. 

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