Filmography
The 1998 film Get Real was filmed at various locations around the town.
Basingstoke’s North Hampshire Hospital was one of two hospitals used for the filming of Channel 4's hit comedy Green Wing.
An episode of Top Gear was filmed in Festival Place in November 2008. The episode was broadcast on BBC2 at 8:00 pm on 7 December. Jeremy Clarkson was testing the new Ford Fiesta in the town in the early hours of the morning.
In the first series of Ultimate Force, episode 2 "Just a Target", the assassination attempt towards the end of the episode was set in Basingstoke.
Basingstoke is mentioned briefly in a Monty Python sketch where Michael Palin is in the midst of hi-jacking a plane when the pilot (John Cleese) suggest he could drop him off at a "haystack just outside Basingstoke", the footage of Palin falling into the haystack and getting onto a coach is actually filmed on the outskirts of Basingstoke.
Many scenes from the Will Hay comedy film Oh, Mr Porter! were shot on the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway.
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