The Train Now Standing The Train Now Standing The Train Now Standing is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1972 to 1973. Set in a quiet country railway station, the series starred Bill Fraser, known by that point for playing Smudge in the sitcoms "The Army Game" and "Bootsie and Snudge". The outdoor scenes for "The Train Now Standing" were filmed at the then disused Bodiam railway station in East Sussex. War veteran Hedley Green has been the station master of Burberry Halt railway station for 30 years. It is a quiet, run-down country station on the Milchester line that sees three
British comedy films Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Margaret Rutherford, Irene Handl and Leslie Phillips. Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series. Recent successful films include the working class comedies "Brassed Off" (1996) and "The Full Monty" (1997), the more middle class Richard Curtis-scripted films "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994) and "Notting Hill" (1999) the pop-culture referencing "Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy" ("Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End"), and a movie based on a real life event "The Boat That Rocked" (2009). In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the