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unusual facts about Yorkshire Television



Blackburn Mercury

A full-scale non-flying replica of Mercury II configuration was constructed for the Yorkshire Television series Flambards and is now displayed at the Yorkshire Air Museum.

Burley, Leeds

Burley was the back drop for the television drama Harry's Game, in which houses on Burley Road were portrayed to be Belfast which Yorkshire Television considered too dangerous to use for filming.

Cotherstone

Hannah Hauxwell, who became famous through a Yorkshire Television documentary, farmed near Cotherstone and in 1998 moved to the village itself.

Hannah Hauxwell

In the summer of 1972, Hannah was discovered by a friend of a researcher at Yorkshire Television while out walking in the Yorkshire Dales.

Ian Mackintosh

Employed at Yorkshire Television after Warship, he created and wrote most of the episodes of Wilde Alliance, Thundercloud, and The Sandbaggers.

Interstellar ark

The novels were made into a 13 episode series for Yorkshire Television and SciFi Channel in 1997

Jennifer James

She auditioned and won the role of Joyce in The Second Quest, directed by David Jason, for Yorkshire Television in 2003.

John Crosse

In the early 1970s, he joined Yorkshire Television where he was noted for his authoritative Received Pronunciation accent, shared by a number of his colleagues at YTV, such as Redvers Kyle; the company's presentation was much more similar to BBC Television (out-of-vision announcers with RP accents) than that of other ITV companies at the same time, some of which used friendlier in-vision announcers.

Keith Barron

One of his best-loved and best-remembered roles was in the 1980s Yorkshire Television sitcom Duty Free.

Luddenden

The area including fellow nearby town of Bramham was used for filming external scenes in the 1980s ITV Yorkshire Television situation comedy series In Loving Memory, starring Dame Thora Hird and Christopher Beeny.

Mike Gwilym

His most high-profile role was as Sid Halley in The Racing Game, a six-part Yorkshire Television series based on Dick Francis's 1965 novel Odds Against.

Paula Wilcox

In 1991, Wilcox returned to situation comedy as Ros West in a Yorkshire Television sitcom called Fiddlers Three opposite Peter Davison before playing the character of Ivy Sandford in the pilot of Frank Skinner's Blue Heaven on Channel 4 in 1992 - the show then went on to became a series.

Renee Short

Later in her career she received a regular credit as 'Parliamentary Adviser' to the Yorkshire Television sitcom The New Statesman.

Santa Cruz massacre

The massacre was witnessed by two American journalists—Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn (who were also attacked)—and caught on videotape by Max Stahl, who was filming undercover for Yorkshire Television.

Syd Lawrence

Yorkshire Television gave the Syd Lawrence Orchestra a regular spot on the comedy show Sez Les.

Tracy Brabin

Brabin is best remembered for her roles as clumsy waitress Sandra opposite David Jason in A Bit of a Do (ITV), Tricia Armstrong in Coronation Street from 1994 to 1997 and Ginny in Richard Harris's Outside Edge.


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Burley, Leeds

The Haddon Hall public house was used for filming in the Beiderbecke Tapes while Burley Park railway station is sometimes used as Hotton railway station in Yorkshire Television soap opera Emmerdale.

Earl Richmond

Incidentally, Yorkshire Television also hired Richmond's fellow Radio London DJs John Crosse and Paul Kaye as announcers, as well as Keith Martin from Radio Caroline and Terry Davis from Radio North Sea.

Follyfoot

Follifoot (note the slightly different spelling) is a small village just three miles from Harrogate, not far from the Yorkshire Television studios in Leeds.

Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!

Locations used for outdoor filming of the series were in Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire and Elvington, North Yorkshire, while indoor filming was done at Yorkshire Television Studios, "Kirkstall Road, Leeds" themselves.