Film and Barry Island
The holiday camp was used to film scenes in the "Shangri-La" holiday camp in the Doctor Who serial Delta and the Bannermen. The island was also a location for Doctor Who in the 2005 series episodes "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances", standing in for a bomb site in 1941 London.
The BBC television series Gavin & Stacey is partly set and filmed in Barry.
The Island also served as the setting for Pleasure Park on ITV Wales as part of the It's My Shout short film series. Part of the Island including the Pleasure Park was used in the serial The Mad Woman in the Attic, part of the third series of the Sarah Jane Adventures.
The third and fourth series of the BBC supernatural drama Being Human were set and filmed in Barry, and were aired in early 2011 and 2012, respectively.
The film Submarine was partly filmed in Barry.
"Warship Class" from the 2008 debut album by Silvery is set in Woodham Brothers scrapyard and mentions Barry Island.
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