Thriller – A Midsummer Nightmare (TV episode)
Date: 1976
Director: Don Leaver
Production Company: Associated Television (ATV)
Stars: Joanna Pettet, Norman Rodway
Location(s): Hertfordshire
Region(s): South East E-L
Storyline:
Shakepeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream becomes ‘A Midsummer Nightmare’ when a girl’s knowledge of the bard helps her solve a twelve year-old murder mystery.
Additional Information:
Season 6, Episode 6. Written by Brian Clemens
Original ITV transmission: 22 May 1976
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- Capture 1
- 10 Nov 2019
Jody (Joanna Pettet) outside St. Marys Church in Hemel Hempstead, just off the High Street in the Old Town.

My, that tree has grown in the 46 years!
- Capture 2
- 10 Nov 2019
Jody finds the book shop closed at 48 High Street.

The same shop front, now the premises of Dacorum Borough Council.
- Capture 3
- 10 Nov 2019
In a later scene Ingram (Norman Rodway) leaves the bookshop.

A wider shot of the same location.
- Capture 4
- 10 Nov 2019
Ingram is rebuffed on High Street in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.

The same corner of the building which was built in 1888.
- Capture 5
- 10 Nov 2019
In the High Street. there is a Chemist at no. 65, L.T. Marriott at 63 and Terrys at no. 61.

Different names but the same row of shops.
- Capture 6
- 10 Nov 2019
The shop 'Hamblin' at no. 59 was a dispensing opticians, which later became 'Coton & Hamblin' with shops currently in Woolwich and Blackheath.

Currently, no. 59 is an off licence.

