Maine Road TV/Film location

[Leveblue]

BBC Nationwide did a series of features on City around 1977/8

They also brought out a book, like an annual type thing, which covered the season they filmed.

Which I’m pleased to say I still have.

 

[CelticBhoyCityBlue]

BBC Nationwide did a series of features on City around 1977/8

They also brought out a book, like an annual type thing, which covered the season they filmed.

Which I’m pleased to say I still have.

Thin, A4 size book, only about 20 pages? I think i've got that one in my collection.

 

[Big Dave Watson]

Didn't Nationwide hold the final there in the 70's for a nationwide football skills competition for young lads. I remember Colin Bell demonstrationg how to shoot through hoops suspended from the crossbar.

Also, there was a fly on the wall documentary shot in the early 80's during Malcolm Allisons second spell. You can usually pick up a DVD copy on ebay for around a fiver.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

The Lovers??
Remember it being filmed at both Old Trafford grounds, but dont recall Maine Road in it - happy to be proved otherwise!

Yeah, there's a short sequence in episode four of series two with Richard Beckinsale and Robin Nedwell outside a main stand turnstile.

Ahh thanks, I was thinking about the film, dont really recall the series

 

[Gary James]

There are quite a few others. When I get chance I'll dig out what I can.

Cracker - one episode had someone murdered down a back entry near Maine Road and in one scene you catch a glimpse of part of the Main Stand frontage.

C.1989 - a programme about a footballer who was kidnapped (and held in Fort Ardwick before it was demolished). He was a 'City' player and they filmed scenes at Maine Rd and used part of City V Liverpool as a game in the prog (that day Jason Beckford, I think, played and the actor wore the same numbered shirt and so during match scenes Beckford looked like the actor - the actor was someone who used to be in Eastenders).

I can't remember the name of that drama at the moment.

In 1926 "The Ball Of Fortune" starring Billy Meredith was filmed on 'the great grounds of the north and midlands'. I've looked at a small amount of surviving footage and I think Maine Road was used for part of the film (it makes sense - Meredith was a City coach at the time and Maine Rd was the newest & best ground in the country).<br /><br />-- Fri Dec 03, 2010 8:41 am --<br /><br />There's also:

(1948) Cup-Tie Honeymoon (a Manchester Films movie).

Directed by John E Blakeley, this was the first film to be made at the Manchester studio, starring Sandy Powell, Dan Young, Betty Jumel and Pat Pilkington (later Pat Phoenix, Coronation Street’s Elsie Tanner). The film, based around the theme of football with scenes shot at Manchester City’s Maine Road stadium, was released to coincide with the beginning of the 1948 football season.

 

[bluesteve1964]

Can't see 'Blue Moon Rising' mentioned. Think there is a clip of one of the 'stars' in a home movie on the pitch as a mascot with his dad.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

There was a British sit com in the mid 80s called The Brothers McGregor.

The opening title sequences were of Maine Road, the alleyway next to Meskis Ice cream factory.

One of the scouse brothers was the black lad who played Denzil in Only Fools and Horses.