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  • Anyone remember a TV series set in a British EMbassy?

    From MB@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 2 06:10:27 2022
    The news reports today of bits of the Chinese satellite coming down in Australia reminded me of a BBC TV series many years ago (1970s?) set in
    a British Embassy in an undefined country possibly the Balkans.

    One episode featured a Russian satellite coming down in the country and Russians, British and Americans all trying to get to the debris first.
    I was at university and someone recognised the "satellite" as an old TV
    set chassis he found in a quqrry where they must have done the filming.

    It sounds very similar to The Embassy Lark which was a Navy Lark spin
    off that is repeated on Radio 4 Extra but by him recognised the debris
    so it must have been on TV.

    I have searched and cannot find any references to such a programme.

    Any remember it?

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  • From NY@21:1/5 to MB@nospam.net on Tue Aug 2 09:45:33 2022
    "MB" <MB@nospam.net> wrote in message news:tcabk4$19sn0$1@dont-email.me...
    The news reports today of bits of the Chinese satellite coming down in Australia reminded me of a BBC TV series many years ago (1970s?) set in a British Embassy in an undefined country possibly the Balkans.

    One episode featured a Russian satellite coming down in the country and Russians, British and Americans all trying to get to the debris first. I
    was at university and someone recognised the "satellite" as an old TV set chassis he found in a quqrry where they must have done the filming.

    It sounds very similar to The Embassy Lark which was a Navy Lark spin off that is repeated on Radio 4 Extra but by him recognised the debris so it
    must have been on TV.

    I have searched and cannot find any references to such a programme.

    Any remember it?

    Would it be Farrington of the FO, with Angela Thorne? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090428/reference/

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  • From jon@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 2 09:26:10 2022
    On Tue, 02 Aug 2022 09:45:33 +0100, NY wrote:

    "MB" <MB@nospam.net> wrote in message
    news:tcabk4$19sn0$1@dont-email.me...
    The news reports today of bits of the Chinese satellite coming down in
    Australia reminded me of a BBC TV series many years ago (1970s?) set in
    a British Embassy in an undefined country possibly the Balkans.

    One episode featured a Russian satellite coming down in the country and
    Russians, British and Americans all trying to get to the debris first.
    I was at university and someone recognised the "satellite" as an old TV
    set chassis he found in a quqrry where they must have done the filming.

    It sounds very similar to The Embassy Lark which was a Navy Lark spin
    off that is repeated on Radio 4 Extra but by him recognised the debris
    so it must have been on TV.

    I have searched and cannot find any references to such a programme.

    Any remember it?

    Would it be Farrington of the FO, with Angela Thorne? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090428/reference/


    The programme who's name I cant remember had Denholm Elliott in as the
    British Attache.

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to jon on Tue Aug 2 09:42:07 2022
    On 02/08/2022 in message <tcaqji$1d17k$1@dont-email.me> jon wrote:

    The programme who's name I cant remember had Denholm Elliott in as the >British Attache.

    IMDB is brilliant when you have half an answer:

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001186/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

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    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
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  • From MB@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 2 13:41:20 2022
    On 02/08/2022 09:45, NY wrote:
    Would it be Farrington of the FO, with Angela Thorne? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090428/reference/

    I don't think so and sure it was BBC.

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  • From Brian Gaff@21:1/5 to MB@nospam.net on Wed Aug 3 10:11:52 2022
    Well does not ring any bells here I have to say.
    The plot line is certainly hardly new though, is it. The lighter fragments
    of the Chinese rocket that did possibly enter over Oz are a bit of an anticlimax really.


    Brian

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    "MB" <MB@nospam.net> wrote in message news:tcb61i$1gb1e$1@dont-email.me...
    On 02/08/2022 09:45, NY wrote:
    Would it be Farrington of the FO, with Angela Thorne?
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090428/reference/

    I don't think so and sure it was BBC.

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