Popular Culture
Several films and television programmes were shot in whole or in part in Welwyn Garden City, including
- The Tweenies
- Superstars (Stanborough Lakes and Gosling Sports Stadium)
- UFO (Gravel pit in Cole Green Lane)
- Holby City (Exterior shots of Queen Elizabeth II hospital)
- Kellogg Company's cornflakes "Train Buffet Car" commercial (Railway station)
- Hot Fuzz (interior scenes of theatre production and theatre bar shot in the Barn Theatre)
- The World's End (another Pegg/Frost franchise coming out in 2013)
The film Battle of Britain shot scenes at Panshanger Aerodrome and the film of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock was made at the Associated British Picture Corporation's Welwyn Garden City studios.
Welwyn Garden City is sometimes referred to on account of its name or suburban character, for example in George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying, a sketch by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones in Alas Smith and Jones, the TV series Porridge and Strange, in the lyrics of Billy's Line by Red Box, and in a song by Edwyn Collins.
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