Film and Television
Aldbury is a popular location for films and television. Among film and television series scenes filmed in the village are:
- Film:
- 1947: Jassy (the last production by Gainsborough Pictures)
- 1967: The Dirty Dozen (the scene at the beginning of the training exercise)
- 1969: Crossplot (last scene)
- 1999: Parting Shots A movie directed by Michael Winner, starring Chris Rea and Felicity Kendal. Various scenes shot opposite The Greyhound pub next to the village pond.
- 2004: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, the Greyhound pub (including a scene involving fox hunting cut from the cinema release but on DVD)
- Television:
- 1967: The Avengers, two episodes of the sixties TV series, episode "Dead Man's Treasure" town renamed "Swingingdale" original air date 21 October 1967 (UK). And the complete episode "Murdersville" renamed "Little Storping In-The-Swuff" original air date 11 November 1967 (UK).
- Inspector Morse, the TV detective series, the pub
- Shillingbury Tales series, filmed in 1980. The church, churchyard/graveyard and path to the primary school as well as the Greyhound pub also featured in a Dave Allen sketch (the race to the graveyard between two funeral parties)
- National Lottery, the initial advertisements (despite the fact that the shop was unable to sell tickets at the time)
- Marchlands TV Drama
- Midsomer Murders Written In Blood
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