Here then are just 16 TV shows or movies made here over the decades. With advance apologies for a couple of additional questionable inclusions, how many of this little lot have you watched? Have we also missed any more out? Email [email protected].
17. Vera
ITV's prime time police drama starring Brenda Blethyn, pictured left in 2015, is another regular visitor with the Headland, Middleton Beach, Horden Beach and Peterlee's Pasmore Pavilion among its locations. Add Ward Jackson Park to the list in 2022. Photo: FRANK REID 2015
18. Victoria
The National Museum of the Royal Navy Hartlepool has provided a fitting backdrop for the ongoing ITV drama about Queen Victoria's reign. Here's actor Peter Bowles, left, pictured in town in 2017. Photo: Other 3rd Party
19. And here's two which weren't filmed here
Alien 3's landscape scenes were filmed up the road at Dawdon, not Blackhall as is widely believed, while Canoe Man, the 2010 tale about John Darwin, was filmed by the BBC in Southwold, Suffolk. Photo: Other 3rd Party