Roads and signs on TV and movies

[wrinkly]

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From tonight's episode of "Requiem" on BBC1:

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[bothar]

perhaps this thread is similar
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[Gareth Thomas]

Is there an existing thread for this subject?

From tonight's episode of "Requiem" on BBC1:

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At least it's a 4-zone number, so they got that right. But otherwise? Yuck!

[nick_dunn]

Apologies for the low quality of the image, spotted this on Emmerdale a while back. Now we can relax knowing what became of the A648 and B6523! Wonder if they got their info from the SABRE Wiki.

[Gareth Thomas]

I'd like to think so! Especially since they have the right zone and not duplicated a real number.

How about this one from "Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story"?

[Beardy5632]

There's this classic on an episode of Vera.

[RichardA626]

I was watching some old Mr Bean episode at the weekend.

While Bean & his Mini are timeless, a lot of the street scenes have many cars that are practically extinct these days.

[Osthagen]

The music video to Bush’s ‘Machinehead’ features scenes of various motorways (including the signs) in Greater London.

[haymansafc]

The original Hollyoaks intro used to feature the predecessor to this sign on the M53! Sadly, it pre-dates Google streetview.

Here's the old intro I'm on about. It first appears about six seconds in - in the background.

[Bryn666]

There's this classic on an episode of Vera.
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Vera leaves Whitley Bay shocker.

[Robert Kilcoyne]

There's this classic on an episode of Vera.
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Vera leaves Whitley Bay shocker.

I don't think that you would see the A3 and Southsea signposted from as far away as Chandlers Ford or Eastleigh.

[Johnathan404]

More importantly you wouldn't have the ferry symbol seeing as the A33 also carried a significant amount of port traffic.

But in terms of road numbering it's a good job.

[wrinkly]

So what's actually going on in that picture? Where was it taken and did they modify the sign? What date was the programme set? It looks roughly like a sign that might have existed before the M3 reached Soton.

[sethmate]

So what's actually going on in that picture? Where was it taken and did they modify the sign? What date was the programme set? It looks roughly like a sign that might have existed before the M3 reached Soton.

That looks like the a1 / a19 junction just north of Newcastle looking northwards before they did the recent remodelling of that junction about 4-5 years so.

Never watched Vera before but they set up in our village for a couple of weeks last summer filming the most recent series. They used our village garage in some scenes.

[c2R]

This wiki page: Fictional_Road_Numbers

Feel free to add any relevant numbers and their TV programmes to the page.

[Beardy5632]

So what's actually going on in that picture? Where was it taken and did they modify the sign? What date was the programme set? It looks roughly like a sign that might have existed before the M3 reached Soton.

It's the Seaton Burn junction looking north. The reason they've modified the sign is because the episode was related to a body falling off a bridge in Newcastle and ending up in a skip in Portsmouth.

[Osthagen]

So what's actually going on in that picture? Where was it taken and did they modify the sign? What date was the programme set? It looks roughly like a sign that might have existed before the M3 reached Soton.

It's the Seaton Burn junction looking north. The reason they've modified the sign is because the episode was related to a body falling off a bridge in Newcastle and ending up in a skip in Portsmouth.

If watch the actual episode and look closely at the much smaller sign in the foreground, its possible to make out an untampered 'A19 (A189)'.

[trickstat]

I was watching some old Mr Bean episode at the weekend.

While Bean & his Mini are timeless, a lot of the street scenes have many cars that are practically extinct these days.

Quite a few years ago I read a newspaper article about old photos of busy street scenes. I can remember the writer saying that the best way of attempting to date such a photo was to look at the cars. This was because buildings will often hardly change for decades while the clothes that people are wearing can be misleading because fashions tends to be cyclical.

[Glen]

The original Hollyoaks intro used to feature the predecessor to this sign on the M53! Sadly, it pre-dates Google streetview.

Here's the old intro I'm on about. It first appears about six seconds in - in the background.

It's this sign, surely (or the one before it).

There's also this sign in a well known intro.

Which I'm guessing was an older sign in this location.

[wrinkly]

This was because buildings will often hardly change for decades while the clothes that people are wearing can be misleading because fashions tends to be cyclical.

The late 60s/ early 70s are usually easily identifiable from the fashions.