Matlock On Film and Television
- Coming Down the Mountain, The BBC drama was set partly in Matlock although nothing was filmed there.
- Women in Love, Ken Russell's Oscar winning 1969 film, uses a house at the top of New Street (No. 80) as the home of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. The house is currently a B&B. St. Giles' Church in Church Street was the setting for the wedding of Laura Crich.
- Peak Practice, the ITV series, used locations in Matlock, including Highfields School, Victoria Hall Gardens and Henry Avenue, although the main village location is Crich and nearby Fritchley.
- Dead Man's Shoes, the 2004 film by Shane Meadows, was filmed in and around Matlock.
- In Denial of Murder, 2005 BBC dramatisation of Matlock Mercury editor Don Hale's campaign to free Stephen Downing.
- Starlings, a drama new to Sky 1 in 2012, is set in Matlock.
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