Where was Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? filmed?
1973 TV show.
- Newcastle upon Tyne
The story is set in Newcastle upon Tyne, so the filming stayed close to the setting.
Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed
- Set in
- Newcastle upon Tyne; Tyne and Wear
- Filmed in
- Newcastle upon Tyne
About Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
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- First aired
- 1973
- Cast
- James BolamRodney BewesBrigit Forsyth
- Genre
- Sitcom
The story
The word "likely" in the title referred, in the 1960s series, to those showing promise, but also to those likely to get up to well-meaning mischief.
This results in Terry viewing Bob as a class traitor and believing his own army experience and solid working-class ethos gives him moral superiority.
As implied in the lyrics to the programme's theme song, the 1970s series plays on both lads' feelings of nostalgia for the lost days of their reckless youth.
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Filmed nearby
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- Good Omens United Kingdom (30 mi from Newcastle upon Tyne)
- The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe Middlesbrough (32 mi from Newcastle upon Tyne)
- Macbeth Bamburgh Castle (44 mi from Newcastle upon Tyne)
- Mary, Queen of Scots Hermitage Castle (50 mi from Newcastle upon Tyne)
- Testament of Youth North Yorkshire Moors Railway (60 mi from Newcastle upon Tyne)
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