Films And TV Programmes Featuring Moors

[billy farmer]

I thought i would start a new Thread to see how many films and TV programmes Brit Movie Members can think of that have featured Moors, my favourite Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes long story The Hound Of The Baskervilles was largely set on Dartmoor, most film and TV versions of The Hound Of The Baskervilles have not featured any filming on Dartmoor, but have used either sets or other locations to represent Dartmoor, the 2 part BBC TV version of The Hound Of The Baskervilles from the 1968 Sherlock Holmes TV series (which starred Peter Cushing and Nigel Stock as Holmes and Watson) was largely filmed on Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor featured in an episode of Wycliffe (one of my favourite ITV Detective series), the episode was called Number Of The Beast (1996), the popular ITV Police Drama series Heartbeat was set and filmed on the North Yorkshire Moors, i know that a lot of films and TV programmes which were supposed to have Moors as locations have often used either a set or other location to represent a Moor, i am sure Brit Movie Members can think of many more films and TV programmes that have featured Moors (whether they be real Moors, sets or other locations used to represent a Moor).

Dartmoor (the setting for a large part of my favourite Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes long story The Hound Of
The Baskervilles)

[Maurice]

THE NATURE OF THE BEAST (Channel 4, 1988)
Location: Accrington, Lancs

VENUS PETER (1989)
Location: Orkney

The films are still not available on DVD.

[Maurice]

IMDb has 11 adaptations of LORNA DOONE. It's not clear if any of them used Exmoor.
The most recent adaptation (TV, 2000) was filmed in the Brecon Beacons.

[Sgt Sunshine]

Several scenes in the TV series Doc Martin were filmed on Bodmin Moor and the 1985 film Revolution used Burrator Reservoir on Dartmoor for some of its outside location shots.....
Cheers
Sgt S

[Maurice]

EL CID (1961)

THE 39 STEPS (1935) used Scottish locations, so it should be possible to identify the moor.

[Nick Dando]

This link features a lot of Moors.

IMDb Search

Nick

[Steve Crook]

This link features a lot of Moors.

IMDb Search

Nick

Steve

[zapsat1942]

I'll put my two penneth in

Curse of the werewolf (Yorkshire)

Hell is a City Pennines Possibly around Glossop) Trivia my No 1 Film

[Moor Larkin]

Modesty forbids me making comment..............

[Nick Dando]

Gone to Earth (Gone to Earth (1950) - IMDb) features the heather-clad hills of the Stiperstones range in Shropshire.

Nick

[billy farmer]

Hound Tor - The Locations Guide to Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures

[cassidy]

I once had the pleasure of driving the late great Anthony Newley to one of his fan club meetings. During the journey we spoke about "X the Unknown" which he told me was filmed on some wet and windy moors in Scotland.

[Steve Crook]

I once had the pleasure of driving the late great Anthony Newley to one of his fan club meetings. During the journey we spoke about "X the Unknown" which he told me was filmed on some wet and windy moors in Scotland.

Was that the wet & windy Scottish moor in the Beaconsfield gravel pits?
That's where most of it was filmed

Steve

[cassidy]

Who was I to argue with the great man. In any event all those years ago I didn't have the Jimmy Sangster autobiography or any of the Hammer books to disagree. Indeed, if he'd have told me that it was a wet and windy moor in Chelsea I'd have probably been quite happy. But in fact that was what he said. (Scotland not Chelsea). cassidy

Was that the wet & windy Scottish moor in the Beaconsfield gravel pits?
That's where most of it was filmed

Steve

[jaycad]

Both the 1967 and 1978 BBC versions of 'Wuthering Heights' and 'The Brontës of Haworth' mini series.

[billy farmer]

Maggie's Moor (TV Series 1980) - IMDb

The location filming for Maggie's Moor was done on Dartmoor.

[billy farmer]

I can remember that Dartmoor featured in at least two episodes of the ITV series The Bill (i think it is a two part story that i am thinking of), i can remember that Peter Ellis (Ch. Supt. Charles Brownlow) appeared in both episodes.

[billy farmer]

A clip from the CFF film Danger On Dartmoor (1980), the embedding was disabled by request for the YouTube Video below but you can watch the clip from Danger On Dartmoor on YouTube.

[billy farmer]

A list of the titles mentioned on imdb that feature the North Yorkshire Moors as a location.

1 Heartbeat (1992-2010) ITV Police Drama series

2 The Fast Show (1994-2001) TV series

3 Ivanhoe (1997) TV mini-series

4 The Royal (2003-2011) ITV Medical Drama series

5 Saving Planet Earth (2007) Documentary

6 Wuthering Heights (2009) TV Movie

7 Wuthering Heights (1992)

8 Keeping Mum (2005)

9 Breakfast at Barbie's (2005) short film

10 Brideshead Revisited (2008)

11 Rebels Without a Clue (2010)

[billy farmer]

The embedding was disabled by request for the two YouTube Videos below, but you can watch the episode of GhostHunters (featured in the two YouTube Videos below) on YouTube.