Filming at University College London - TV (fiction)

TV (fiction)

• The Sooty Show filmed around UCL in episode 'Hot Air Balloon'.
• Never the Twain used main Quad as "Lord Smallbridge's House".
• Minder used Quad in episode 'Sorry Pal, Wrong Number' (Season 4, 1984)
• Agatha Christie's Poirot, 9th series, "5 Little Pigs" episode, filmed in old main library entrance and in main quad. In addition, "Four and twenty blackbirds" was filmed in the UCL Main Library's Law reading room. Also used British Museum Reading Room, and Room 34 whilst in the area. Also episode Hickory Dickory Dock was used filming of both the Cruciform Building and the main UCL Quad and exterior.
• Spooks (Series III, episode II) features the front quad and the Gustav Tuck Lecture Theatre.
• BBC Four's 2005 remake of The Quatermass Experiment used the part of Gower Street which runs past various laboratories in the scene where Carroon breaks into a Chemistry laboratory. The original 1953 version had been rehearsed at the Student Movement House on the same street.
• The opening of The Complete Guide to Parenting' (2006) uses scenes shot in UCL's Quad. Some scenes from certain episodes were also filmed here.
• Britz, a film made by Channel 4 (2007) uses many parts of UCL: the Main Library, and parts of the Cloisters are used for cadaver dissection rooms.
• Burn Up (BBC 2008) - portico and quadrangle used as the High Court of Justice
• Silent Witness uses the main Quad (carefully avoiding the Observatories), the main door, and the South and North Cloisters as well as the Octagon. And, while they were in the area, they also used the ULU and Senate House buildings/ surrounding areas.
• Law and Order: UK (ITV) - for 2011 series, use of main quad, space under portico, cloisers among other smaller parts.