Take Me Home: BBC drama filmed in Shropshire released on DVD
A BBC drama filmed in Shropshire has been released on DVD for the first time.
Take Me Home, starring Keith Barron, Maggie O'Neill, Annette Crosbie and Reece Dinsdale, was filmed in Telford during the late 1980s.
Familiar sites include the famous town park spider's web and parts of Telford Shopping Centre.
Although the series isn't explicitly set in Telford, it is set in a new Midlands town known for its rapidly developing technology sector.
It tells the story of Kathy, played by Maggie O'Neill, who moves to the town and falls in love with a local taxi driver. Both of them are married, and so have to sneak behind their partners' backs.
Their affair plays over a backdrop of the social and economic changes of the 80s.
The programme was shown across three 60 minute episodes from May 2 to May 16 1989.
But not until Telford taxi drivers had their say – and a few changes were made.
They said the BBC threatened their livelihoods, because the programme makers needed to make the difference between a taxi, or hackney cab, and a private hire car more clear.
They said the lead actress was getting into the wrong kind of cab.
The BBC solved the issue by fitting make-believe hackney carriage licence plates to the back of the vehicles - in other words, making it clear visually that they were taxis, and not private hire cars.
