Watched a few episodes of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? Last night.In the episode of "No Hiding Place" where the lads are trying to avoid hearing the final score of Bulgaria v England before watching the highlights later that night,there is a scene in the hairdressers where Bob mentions to Terry that one of the hairslylists once had a trial for Burnley.
It got me thinking of how many other times has Burnley randomly cropped up in dialogue on tv shows or films.
When I say Burnley I mean reference to either the club or town.

The coach scene on the Inbetweeners film

Phoenix Nights ‘Burnley Wallet’

Whistle Down the Wind:

They'll all come and see Him.
Who?
Oh, everybody. Shepherds, wise men, lords, ladies, bishops and people. The Mayor of Burnley.

Yeah I thought "Whistle Down The Wind" but I couldn't recall the actual dialogue.

I raise you The National Theatre.

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'Hangmen', one of the best pieces of theatre I've seen, a wonderful dark comedy.
The play is set primarily in an Oldham pub in 1965. One of the key plot points involve the landlords daughter visiting a friend who is in a Burnley psychiatric hospital.

"...in Burnley?" - One person laughed every time mentioned. Can't remember who...

Trailer
https://youtu.be/jcpcMeJ-1Vc

Who remembers Hetty Wainthrope Investigates? One of the lads in there often wore a burnley T shirt

North west tonight weather forecast always has Burnley highlighted

Colin Buchanan regularly wore a Burnley shirt in "All Quiet On The Preston Front" but I don't recall Burnley itself being mentioned.

Monty Python's Flying Circus - Where Michael Palin's character says "there's been a Burnley" when he means "burglary".

In an episode of eastenders afew years ago
2 lads referred to us as little Burnley.

Inbetweeners 2 movie. Not very complimentary!!

The Burnley v Colchester thread reminded me of this from Alas Smith and Jones:

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Slightly off topic but here's a pic of yours truly (I know, not too good, is it ?) at the West Brom game. Everyone who's seen it assumes I'm joining in with something like "No Nay Never". My missus, perceptive as ever reckons, especially as nobody else seems to be singing, that that's my "Ref-er-ee, what the **** are you playing at?" face.
Anyway, the pic, a screenshot taken from a TV station showing the WBA game, was sent to me by an ex teaching colleague...............from Mongolia.

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CombatClaret wrote:I raise you The National Theatre.

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'Hangmen', one of the best pieces of theatre I've seen, a wonderful dark comedy.
The play is set primarily in an Oldham pub in 1965. One of the key plot points involve the landlords daughter visiting a friend who is in a Burnley psychiatric hospital.

"...in Burnley?" - One person laughed every time mentioned. Can't remember who...

Trailer
https://youtu.be/jcpcMeJ-1Vc

Does anyone remember David Morissey in One Summer?He was a top actor even then.

Flatline wrote:Does anyone remember David Morissey in One Summer?He was a top actor even then.

Got the fuĺl series on 3 DVD discs

evensteadiereddie wrote:Slightly off topic but here's a pic of yours truly (I know, not too good, is it ?) at the West Brom game. Everyone who's seen it assumes I'm joining in with something like "No Nay Never". My missus, perceptive as ever reckons, especially as nobody else seems to be singing, that that's my "Ref-er-ee, what the **** are you playing at?" face.
Anyway, the pic, a screenshot taken from a TV station showing the WBA game, was sent to me by an ex teaching colleague...............from Mongolia.

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Don't mean to be rude, but I've never seen a veteran Burnley supporting Borg drone before.

Got another!

In an episode of " Auf Wiedersehen Pet " Oz mentions the Newcastle v Burnley Semi Final.

Not strictly film as I don't think it gets mentioned in the screen adaptation with Michael Caine but, Harry Palmer - the main character in The IPCRESS File by Len Deighton - is from Burnley and it's specifically mentioned as such in the first page or so.

Like I said, probably didn't get a mention in the film version as it'd be difficult to square it with Caine's cockney patter but that didn't hold them back in Get Carter I suppose.

Ross Noble cake on floor...YouTube

I don’t know if it counts, but there’s an Alec Guinness film, The Card, which is set in Bursley, which I always took as a slight variation.

eversteadiereddie - how did Tin Tin in the orange shirt get in on the pic ?

I don't ever want to go to Burnley - John Cooper Clarke

john'sroseyspecs wrote:Don't mean to be rude, but I've never seen a veteran Burnley supporting Borg drone before.

Cheeky sod but affirmative I only exist to perform my designated task within the Clarets Collective.

Geoff Tipps declares that he doesn’t want to work in Burnley in the third series of The League Gentlemen

No mention of Burnley in this Whistle Down The Wind clip but just thought it worth a mention that Alan Barnes who played young Charles Bostock is still going on the turf.
Last I heard anyway.

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Dazzler wrote:Got the fuĺl series on 3 DVD discs

Just watched the first two parts recently,first time since it came out.It's even better than I can remember,some of the lines about Scoucers are hilarious!

evensteadiereddie wrote:Cheeky sod but affirmative I only exist to perform my designated task within the Clarets Collective.

Resistence to Sean's Burnley is futile ! Love the passion in that picture

Flatline wrote:Does anyone remember David Morissey in One Summer?He was a top actor even then.

To be honest I thought Spencer Leigh who played Icky was destined to become more sort after than Morrissey.
I think the full series was re-run only once which was a year or so after first airing
Not seen it on tv since.

Wasn't Eli Pledge from Nearest and Dearest a big Burnley fan. I seem to remember Burnley being mentioned in the series.

djt2006 wrote:Wasn't Eli Pledge from Nearest and Dearest a big Burnley fan. I seem to remember Burnley being mentioned in the series.

You're probably right,It was set in Colne.
They ran a pickle factory.

Not Burnley but Clitheroe is referenced in Lost.

Regular mentions in Corrie.

My favourite references to the club itself are often indirect and more subtle, like a few years ago, when doing a scene in a hospital ward, there was a duty board with the names Eyres, Parkinson, Kilby, all written on.

'Bank on Dave' mentions Burnley a couple of times.

It's Grim Up North by the Jams mentions Burnley.

Mike Summerbee is in Escape to Victory

2 May 1998 before Cooke's brace I'll never forget seeing Kettley doing the weather and they'd marked Burnley on the map and he said "fingers crossed for a glorious day in Burnley".

Clockwork Claret wrote:2 May 1998 before Cooke's brace I'll never forget seeing Kettley doing the weather and they'd marked Burnley on the map and he said "fingers crossed for a glorious day in Burnley".

I remember Kettley once referenced the big Lancashire derby...Burnley v Rochdale

evensteadiereddie wrote:Slightly off topic but here's a pic of yours truly (I know, not too good, is it ?) at the West Brom game. Everyone who's seen it assumes I'm joining in with something like "No Nay Never". My missus, perceptive as ever reckons, especially as nobody else seems to be singing, that that's my "Ref-er-ee, what the **** are you playing at?" face.
Anyway, the pic, a screenshot taken from a TV station showing the WBA game, was sent to me by an ex teaching colleague...............from Mongolia.

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Did you get your PL badges done at the club shop? Just as they look like the proper size rather than the tiny ones I've seen on some replica shirts!

Good spot. The shirt's Jeff Hendrick's match - worn from last years' Poppy Auction, he's one of the few players to wear a Large sized shirt so that narrowed it down a bit for me and luckily it turned out to be relatively - I stress relatively - cheaper.
I wore it on Monday v Newcastle and backed JH to score first. Happy days indeed.
It almost made the traffic and road closures on the M6 worthwhile !

Dazzler wrote:Got another!

In an episode of " Auf Wiedersehen Pet " Oz mentions the Newcastle v Burnley Semi Final.

"Won two nowt, super Mac scored twice and we smashed up a Little Chef at Wetherby on the way home"

Windsor Davies in Carry On Abroad (I think) plays with a ball and claims he once had a trial for Burnley.

djt2006 wrote:Wasn't Eli Pledge from Nearest and Dearest a big Burnley fan. I seem to remember Burnley being mentioned in the series.

You're right. Jimmy Jewell ( Eli) comes home from work singing "It's very nice to go travelling to Blackburn, Burnley and Colne" to the tune of the Sinatra song where the lyric is " London, Paris and Rome" I remember this as a kid as it was the first time I recall Burnley being mentioned on T.V ( Pity the 'other lot' got a mention as well !)

Burnley is babylon a sonh by russ abott

evensteadiereddie wrote:Slightly off topic but here's a pic of yours truly (I know, not too good, is it ?) at the West Brom game. Everyone who's seen it assumes I'm joining in with something like "No Nay Never". My missus, perceptive as ever reckons, especially as nobody else seems to be singing, that that's my "Ref-er-ee, what the **** are you playing at?" face.
Anyway, the pic, a screenshot taken from a TV station showing the WBA game, was sent to me by an ex teaching colleague...............from Mongolia.

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Terence Stamp's let himself go, hasn't he?

I remember the Burnley supporting antiques guy, Eric Knowles, being on to with a lot of silver - I think it was a collection of stolen items for which they were trying to find the owners. In pride of place was a large silver trophy complete with claret and blue ribbons.

Not Burnley but not too far away, I remember my hometown Haslingden getting a bizarre mention on Dinner Ladies. The canteen Handyman once said that he had worked in a brothel in Haslingden. When everyone looked at him in amazement, he explains that he had done the rewiring

I remember Burnley being mentioned in an episode of The Bill about football hooligans once!
Also Jodi Latham was in an ITV programme called The Fixer which got a few Burnley references.

The first mention according to a friend of mines relative called Gershom who was told this by his Father That once a long time ago a man was given some stones with 613 laws on them of which one set were broken in a fit of temper and had to be re written the original stone was larger than the replacement and the last of the 10 was shortened and should have read thy shall not covet any other team than Burnley but due to transaltion and the cut down statement it ended up thy shall not covet.
He also had some mumbling about some other words written on the first rules to do with some guy with a goatee called ean but due to damage of these stones could have been another letter.

In one of the Batman games on playstation there is an area of the city called Burnley.

A guy in Emmerdale used to wear a Burnley bobcap