Soap Operas
We recently had a request to find the Neighbours set, and we always like to keep our readers happy, so here is the real Ramsay Street.
If you view in ‘Hybrid’ mode you might accuse my of telling fibs, as this cul-de-sac’s real name is “Pinoak Court”. In the soap it’s called Ramsay Street after the Ramsay family who used to live there.
We might as well make a worldwide soaps tour out of it, so let’s head by the small town that was built for the abysmal failure of a soap called “Eldorado”.
Broadcast by the BBC in 1992-93 it was supposed to be a cross between Eastenders and Neighbours but achieved the success of neither and was swiftly cancelled. I wonder what goes on there now?
Set in the fictional West Yorkshire village, Emmerdale is another popular UK soap which is actually filmed near Harrogate in the grounds of Harewood House.
Previously featured: Coronation St & Eastenders
Thanks: John Seddon, Martyn Webster & Bruv
If we’re doing TV and movie sets:
Here’s the town center film lot where “Gilmore Girls” is currently filmed. In fact, it looks like they’re filming on it when this picture was taken
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And right nearby is where Desparate Housewives is shot:
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I cant believe you didnt include this one aswell
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I know its not going anymore but it surely must have been the first soap to use real houses and worth a mention.
The first link goes to Emmerdale, not Ramsay Street!
I’ve never actually watched the soap “Take the High Road”, but I know that it opened with a shot of this “haunted” hotel/castle I stayed at once:
http://www.syha.org.uk/SYHA/web/site/Hostels/LochLomond.asp
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Cookie, ah - good point! That one’s even better as it’s called the same name.
Rob, thanks - now fixed.
You missed one of the longest-running of all - and how surprising to discover that Norah Batty actually lives in UpperThong
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Hi I was just wondering does anyone know where they film Passions??? the town is called Salem in the Soap…. Just wondering i would like to see that
the eldorado set is still there and going strong although a little weathered now. Urbanizasion has now become a hotel and the old town still sits but is eerily empty.
the hotel has a website http://www.hotelciudaddelcine.es
they are quite happy for you to wander around the set and take pictures.
more pics taken may 2008 here:
http://www.myspace.com/eldorado_golden_dreams