Quest for Love

Colin Trafford (Tom Bell) arrives at Imperial Physical Industries in Watford to demonstrate a new invention. Dave W searched his distant memory for this view and came up with Exhibition Road, London SW7 looking south at one of the Imperial College buildings

Dave provides this historic Google Earth View to orientate us, it can be replaced when a more modern shot can be taken of the building that has since undergone some updating. (RL)

The scientist enters the modern IPI building where his friend Tom Lewis and Sir Henry Larnstein are waiting. Dave wonders whether continuity would reveal this to be a reverse shot of Capture 1. (RL)

When the demonstration goes wrong, Colin is transported to a parallel reality where there has been no Second World War and John F. Kennedy is still alive. Thames Street in Windsor, Berkshire. The passageway to the left leads to The Goswells.

Too much trouble to pick out the moulding these days I suppose. (RL)

Colin learns that he's an author in this world. Outside, what is now, The King & Castle public house on Thames Street. The building was formerly a chemist shop but became a pub in 1967.

Too busy to pop in for pint. (RL)

A Taxi Driver (Sam Kydd) acknowledges Colin after being hailed. Park Street in Windsor.

One of a number of parking tickets that I saw. (RL)

Colin asks to be taken to Imperial Physical Industries in Watford. Park Street, Windsor, also seen in 'Carry On Again, Doctor' and 'No Sex Please, We're British'.

Parking remains a problem. (RL)

The alternate IPI is a very different establishment. This is the ornate doorway to the Administration Block at Pinewood Studios.

The Taxi Driver waits as his fare enters the building through the doorway. The Administration Block on Main Road at Pinewood.

A closer view of the doorway detail. The Administration Block at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire.

Colin asks the Taxi Driver to take him back to London. Kensington Gore in SW7 with the Royal Albert Hall in the left background.

Spoilt by the Removals van that never removed itself. (RL)

The cab pulls up outside the address that Colin found on his driving licence.

The best that could be achieved with the Removals van pulled up outside. (RL)

The bemused man looks up at the building that is apparently where he lives.

At last an unobstructed shot, well, almost. (RL)

Colin enters the apartment block where he discovers that he is married to the beautiful Ottilie. Albert Court, London SW7. A clearer shot of that canopy that also appeared in 'The Hideout'.

That canopy, long gone. (RL)

Finding that the relationship with his wife is less than ideal, Colin attends the first night of his play with her. The Theatre Royal on Suffolk Street, London SW1 as seen from Charles II Street.

The same location by Peter who remarks "not quite the right angle due to a fleet of parked tourist buses".

Following a party at which he gets drunk, Colin heads to the Mansion House where Sir Henry Larnstein is being honoured at a Royal Society dinner.

Inside the building, Sir Henry is persuaded that Colin has travelled from another plane.

Ottilie (Joan Collins) and her 'new' husband talk after Sir Henry explains to her what has happened. Looking towards Prince Consort Road in SW7. The location also features in 'Interlude', 'The Mutations', 'Seven Keys', 'The Thirty Nine Steps' from 1978 and 'The Ipcress File' among others.

TLC has clearly been expended in the meantime. (RL)

As the pair walk together, Ottilie recovers after faltering. Beside Beit Hall on the steps leading up from Prince Consort Road.

Greenery adds to the scene. (RL)

Colin opens the door for his wife before asking questions about his life as they driving away. Outside the Royal Albert Hall in London SW7.

I "think" I have the right place, a bit tricky after the 2004 alterations to the south entrance. SJ

The couple head to a favourite restaurant for lunch. The Old House Hotel, currently called The Sir Christopher Wren, on Windsor's Thames Street.

Now pedestrianised save for taxi's and hotel parking. (RL)

The camera pans with the Rolls Royce Wraith as it comes to a stand. Thames Street, Windsor.

Now you get the red carpet treatment. (RL)

Colin runs around the front of the car to catch up with his wife.

Total calm whilst I was there. (RL)

The next day, the two drive into town after a night of passion. Dave moves into Chelsea and Kensington to find Walton Street SW3 looking towards Lennox Gardens. The location is also seen in 'Trio' and 'Street Corner'. (RL)

And the hoarding to the left has been there for 10 years. SJ

Ottilie gets out of the car and crosses the street to enter her hairdresser's salon. Once in Walton Street, London SW3 Dave then focuses his attention on No 3. (RL)

Aah, scaffolding. SJ

As she opens the salon door, Ottilie watches her husband drive on to his club, where he is told that his wife has a terminal heart condition by his friend Tom. Much changing of shop fronts but the remaining pavement inspection cover in front of 5 Walton Street, most recently the home of a delicatessen, secures it for Dave. (RL)

Inspection cover in all its glory. SJ

The trauma caused by Ottilie's death throws Colin back to the real world. Now the Gielgud Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue W1, Dave believes that the centre picture is the curved frontage door that is wholly in Rupert Street. Is that Beryl Reid as Madame Arcati? (RL)

When he can't recreate the accident that sent him to the parallel existence, Colin begins to search for the alternate Ottilie in his own world.

Colin finds that, in this world, the woman that he has fallen for is named Tracy Fletcher and had been adopted.

A former Neighbour (Joan Benham) tells Colin that the Fletchers died some years ago.

The Neighbour continues, explaining that the Fletcher's daughter became a teacher in Slough.

Colin leaves to visit the school where Tracy taught. The Coach House at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, also seen in 'Echo of Diana', 'The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones', 'Carry On Don't Lose Your Head', 'The House in Nightmare Park', 'Island of Terror' and 'The Vulture'.

Discovering that Tracy is now an air hostess, Colin races to London Airport to meet her flight from San Fransisco.

Colin runs inside the terminal to find out when the flight is due back. Outside the since replaced Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport. The location can be seen in 'Bellman & True', ‘Scream . . . and Die!’, ‘Cone of Silence’, ‘Midnight Lace’, ‘Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River’ and ‘Three Hats for Lisa’.

With Sylvia (Geraldine Gardner) following, Jimmy (Neil McCallum) tells Tracy Fletcher (Joan Collins) that he'll send flowers to her home as they make their way from the airport.

Colin dashes through the airport looking for Tracy when he finds that the flight landed some time ago.

Forcing an obstructive official to give him Tracy's address, Colin runs back to his car.

Colin reaches his Daimler Sovereign and speeds away. The writing is on the wall, Queen's Building at Heathrow Airport in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The location was seen in 'Alfie Darling'.

Sylvia and an increasingly tired Tracy arrive home from the airport.

Sylvia leads the way from the car and opens the front door as tiredness overcomes Tracy.

Not long afterwards, Colin arrives outside Tracy's house.

Desperately close to finding the woman he loves, Colin runs to the front door.

A devastated man looks back towards the house after Sylvia protects her friend from this stranger by pretending to be Tracy.

When Jimmy's flowers arrive, Colin notices that they are Ottilie's favorite and he dashes back to the house, pushing his way inside to find Tracy.