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- TriviaFlying sequences using large-scale model Lancasters were shot at RAF West Malling in Kent. One of the radio controlled models crashed during filming. An article in the local press dated 24 May 1971 gives the reason for the crash as "interference from a local radio station". The article is accompanied by a photograph of special effects man Eric Faulkner carrying the damaged model Lancaster across the airfield. Avro Lancaster PA474 was also used in the filming of the show. Prior to being transferred to the care of 44 Squadron based at RAF Waddington in 1965, for conversion back to WW2 condition, this aircraft had appeared in two feature films: Operation Crossbow and The Guns of Navarone.
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Good Lancaster series.
Pathdinders is a very good TV series from the 1970s which I found in my local library as a 12 part DVD. I'd never heard of the series before (I was only 5 years of age in 1972) yet it is surprising that this has never been re-shown on TV down the years. Incredible.
Sadly, the producers only seem to have had use of one Lancaster during filming as that's all you ever see. But the reconstuction of the pathfinding raids over Germany is first class. Of course, some episodes are totally unrealistic, like the one where three of the crew go on the run in Germany - it turns a little bit into a sort of Keystone Cops episode, with the Germans made out to be utterly stupid and naive.
Very good, however.
Sadly, the producers only seem to have had use of one Lancaster during filming as that's all you ever see. But the reconstuction of the pathfinding raids over Germany is first class. Of course, some episodes are totally unrealistic, like the one where three of the crew go on the run in Germany - it turns a little bit into a sort of Keystone Cops episode, with the Germans made out to be utterly stupid and naive.
Very good, however.
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- frankiehudson
- Sep 1, 2007
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