Ashes to Ashes Episode Review
Brief: Del’s busy selling Trigs gran’s genuine antique urns. Trouble is, one of them is Trigs Granddad’s last resting place! Also Grandad keeps feeling a haunting feeling, now who could be behind that ?
Transmitted: 28.10.1982
Duration: 30 minutes
Viewing Figures: 9.8 million
When Trigger’s Grandmother passes away, the Trotters gather round to offer their condolences. Ever the considerate friend, Del offers to take some of her valuables off Trig’s hands – he wouldn’t want just anyone to come along and rip him off, after all.
Del spots two urns that might be worth a bob or two, but Rodney and Grandad agree that they must contain the ashes of Trig’s Grandfather. As they remember he was an avid bowler, they decide to scatter his ashes on the local bowling green – but to no avail.
A second plan to throw his ashes into the Thames is scuppered, and a passing road sweeping lorry eventually sucks them up – a poetic ending when they remember that Trig’s Grandad was a road sweeper too.
Episode Observations
- In Ashes to Ashes, tv camera can be seen moveing away from the door as del looks into hall to his bedroom
- In Ashes to Ashes, At the start of this episode.. when del is talking to rodney.. notice there is only 1 car parked.. when the camera cuts back to Rodney there r many cars parked in the backdrop behind him!
- In Ashes to Ashes, In The Scene at triggers house, watch when trigger shuts the door for the first time, The Wall Nearly Falls Down!
- In Ashes to Ashes, When Del is talking to Trigger on the phone, notice he covers the earpiece, not the mouthpiece!
- In Ashes to Ashes, the actor who played the River Policeman comes back in a later episode to play a different character! He returns as the vet in Sleeping Dogs Lie! You can check this with the cast list – both characters are played by the actor John D. Collins!
- In Ashes to Ashes, Trigger rings Del and Del says he is at Gatwick airport, but Trigger told Granddad, who answered the phone, that he was ringing because Del had been leaving messages on his answering machine. Trigger can’t know that Del’s been leaving messages if he’s at the airport!
Ashes to Ashes Script
The script will be downloadable from here
Real fools
Del and Rodney build a nuclear fallout shelter on top of Nelson Mandella House
Reality:
Harlech Tower (Nelson Mandela House). The garages are no longer there.
The Bowling Green
Could this be the bowling green used?
The market scene in the episode – could be here
Ashes to Ashes location
You can find this on a street corner in Chapel Market Islington
It is actually found in 2 episodes the first one is The Second Time around and the second episode is Ashes to Ashes
When Del & Rod are on the river, just before the River Police move them on. In the back ground you can see a Pub and Wapping Old Stairs, The pub is called ‘The Town of Ramsgate’ on Wapping High Street (great food!!). This pub belongs to my parents and is know as one of the oldest London pubs on the river. Historically Wapping Old Stairs is also where Judge Jefferies was arrested, and then hanged.