> How many of the exotic venues of Sandbaggers episodes were, in fact,
> the places they purported to be? How many can be identified?
>
> Malta and Gibraltar obviously played themselves, as presumably did
> Brussels in "Enough of Ghosts".
I think only Malta actually played itself. Ray "Willie Caine" Lonnen
is on record somewhere as saying that most of the location work,
barring Malta and some exterior shots in London, was done in
Yorkshire. The episode that came specifically to mind was the Kola
peninsula in "First Principles." A lot of genuine stock footage
was used, of course, if sometimes a touch out of date. (Check out
the '60s vintage cars in the footage of Washington sometime. :) )
> But in "A Question of Loyalty", we see some wide shots of Mike in Warsaw;
> where was he?
I'm tempted to say Leeds, but I may be getting that scene mixed
up with another TV series.
> (And in the same episode, where is the bridge on which Karen
> gave Neil a clue? I never visited that part of London.)
Wasn't that the "moping bridge" (the one Neil went to in order to
mourn Laura)? I believe that's the Lambeth Bridge, which is just
upriver from the Westminster Bridge, which in turn is the one that
leads directly to Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament. The Lambeth
Bridge would be a quick walk from a lot of government offices in
Westminster.
Lonnen reported that the crew was told not to film one Westminster
building they wanted to use as the outside of SIS headquarters
because it really was too hush-hush to have attention called to it
like that. :)
-Micky,
popping in briefly again with her "London A-Z."