Thriller – Kill Two Birds (TV episode)
Date: 1976
Director: Robert Tronson
Production Company: Associated Television (ATV)
Stars: David Daker, Dudley Sutton, William Hoyland
Location(s): Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, London
Region(s): London T-Z, South East R-Z
Storyline:
A man’s sentence is not always complete when he leaves prison. The day of reckoning is ahead for a bank robber and it involves two attractive female American tourists.
Additional Information:
Season 6, Episode 5. Written by Brian Clemens Original ITV transmission: 8 May 1976
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- Capture 1
- 25 Feb 2016
Charlie Draper (David Daker) is pursued by a car. St. Quintin Avenue, London W10, approaching North Pole Road. Brewster Gardens is on the right before the Liquor Store.
Only the shops have changed. Replacing the google image loaded 2/9/12. SJ
- Capture 2
- 18 Feb 2019
View along North Pole road. Latimer road is the turning on the left.
The 'North Pole' gastro pub is on the left by the bus stop. Replacing the Google image loaded on 2 September 2012. SJ
- Capture 3
- 25 Feb 2016
Charlie Draper on foot takes a left into Latimer Road.
The dry cleaners on the corner is now a Fish Bar. Replacing the Google shot, SJ.
- Capture 4
- 25 Feb 2016
Further turned into Latimer Road.
The shoe repairer is now a picture framing shop. Replacing google. SJ
- Capture 5
- 25 Feb 2016
Corner of Snarsgate Street and Latimer Road.
The former cafe on the corner at 308 Latimer Road is now a Thai restaurant concealed by a new wall and a hedge. Google replaced. SJ
- Capture 6
- 25 Feb 2016
Just south of Snarsgate Street looking along Latimer Road towards the A40 Westway.
Only recognisable features are the red letter box and the two tower blocks in the distance along the A40. Google gone. SJ
- Capture 7
- 25 Feb 2016
Charlie walks into 324 Latimer Road.
Area looks a lot smarter today. I managed to get a lot closer than the google shot. SJ
- Capture 8
- 25 Feb 2016
View of the parade of shops located at the top of Latimer Road. The former dry cleaners far right.
Today a glass shop, picture framing shop and Fish bar... parked cars and railing! Google replaced. SJ
- Capture 9
- 18 Feb 2019
Front view of 32 Latimer Road
Today looks a lot less grubby. Again Google-replaced. SJ
- Capture 10
- 18 Feb 2019
Gadder (Dudley Sutton) and his henchmen look for Charlie around along the alley leading to the back of no. 324.
The alley has gone, replaced by a new house and a garage built next to no. 324. Google also gone. SJ
- Capture 11
- 02 Sep 2012
Sergeant Turner (William Hoyland) enters no. 324.
Hard to identify anything, but with this replacement of Google we can see that part of the terrace remains but industrial units have taken over the rows in the middle. SJ
- Capture 12
- 15 Apr 2025
Latimer Road looking towards the A40 Westway. On the left is Latimer Place with 'Saxbys'(?shop) on the corner. Just before at 274 Latimer Road is the now closed pub 'The British Volunteer'.
The 2012 GEV, now replaced, showed 'Saxbys' was now a cleaning company and it still is. The pub was a Greek restaurant, Ariadne's Nektar, but it closed recently and may well re-open as The Volunteer, serving the revived Allsop's according to a new painted sign on the corner. SJ
- Capture 13
- 02 Sep 2012
Charlie as a stowaway on a lorry outside the Bull Inn Hotel at Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire (supposedly somewhere in Dorset).
GEV
- Capture 14
- 02 Sep 2012
Charlie walks crosses Oxford Road towards the Bull Hotel at West Common, Gerrards Cross. The hotel also features in 'Wombling Free', 'Mask of Dust' and 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'.
GEV
- Capture 15
- 23 Jun 2020
Sally and Tracy drive by the Church of the Holy Cross in Church Lane, Sarrat near Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire. Location identified by Mairi Allard.
Off angle due to tree growth, Antony Blair replaces Mairi's Google shot.
- Capture 16
- 23 Jun 2020
Sally and Tracy pass the church in their Austin Maxi . . . . Mairi Allard locates this as passing the lych gate of the Church of the Holy Cross on Church Lane, Sarrat. John Scott adds that "The bridge that they drive across between the petrol station and the deserted farm is at Springwell Lock, Harefield, near Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire."
Mairi's Google capture is replaced by this original by Antony Blair.