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Wales Today: 21st May 2007
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Details of Victoria Pier on TV/Film from 1956 to present are included below, please scroll down the page and follow the links for more info.

If you can help with any extra information etc. about anything listed here, please do get in touch.

If you would like to use Victoria Pier as a location, please get in touch.

Following the interest in "Puppets Piers and Penguins", BBC Wales decided to film a one-off documentary following a year in the life of Victoria Pier... of course, as it turned out, 2008 came to be quite a year

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Filming Pier Pressure in November 2008

Ah... so that's what they were doing!
Director Carwyn Jones (right) with Jib Camera Operator Jeff Thomas lining up a flying shot of the Pier Pavilion.

Internet Links about this:
Director/Producer Carwyn Jones official website

BBC Pier Pressure website (and message board)

Internet Movie Database Page (please vote!)

As part of a month of TV and Radio programmes broadcast about Colwyn Bay in Spring of 2007, this documentary film follows The Unique Harlequin Puppet Theatre, Victoria Pier and the Welsh Mountain Zoo as they all prepare for the coming tourist season.

Internet Links about this:
Director/Producer Carwyn Jones official website

Internet Movie Database Page (please vote!)

Broadcast in conjunction with the BBC Restoration series, this documentary features 4 restoration projects that are already underway, including Victoria Pier. 

Internet Links about this:
Community Channel Restoration Page

Internet Movie Database Page (please vote!)

The wonderful Patricia Routledge CBE (perhaps best loved as Mrs Bucket) and Dominic Monaghan (Merry in Lord of The Rings) filmed an episode of Hetty Wainthropp Investigates in Colwyn Bay, including several scenes on the Pier and in the Pier Pavilion.

Internet Links about this:
Internet Movie Database Page (please vote!)

John Inman presented a documentary looking at the fate of Britain's seaside piers including Victoria Pier.

Internet Links about this:
Internet Movie Database Page (please vote!)

This series was a regular summer attraction attracting audiences of up to 20 million, even though it was not fully networked. It started in ABC's first year of broadcasting in 1956, and was hosted from the outset by McDonald Hobley. It included the contest for Great Britain's Television Bathing Beauty Queen, Fashion Queen and Adonis.  Sadly no recordings are currently known to exist, it sounds like a great programme!

Do you remember this series? Were you in the audience at the Pier when one of the 3 episodes was filmed here? Perhaps you were even in the programmes or a member of the crew? - I'd love to hear you recollections.

The two lovely ladies in the photo below are Eira Roberts and Jill Laurence. They must be in their late sixties/seventies now...

Does anyone know if this reference is to the same Eira Roberts? It seems pretty likely...
There is also an Eira Roberts here on imdb who was in The Enigma Files
An Eira Roberts was Miss Blackpool 1955 as listed here 

Internet Links about this:
Internet Movie Database Page (please vote!)

Whirligig-tv Website (great source of 1950's TV Nostalgia and the photo above)

Dinosaur TV Website (lots of information about this programme)

Of course, Victoria Pier has featured on TV news many times. She has also been seen in various other programmes and films, which we are trying to verify.  If you can help with any further information, photos or clips please get in touch!