TV & Film Appearances                   

Chevette’s on Screen

 List of TV/Film’s/Documentary’s that the Vauxhall Chevette has appeared in either as background cars or as cars the characters have used..  If we have missed any please let us know.

The Worlds Greatest Rally Cars  (2000)          

The Final Conflict (1981)                     

Olsen-banden overgiver sig aldrig (1979)

The Professionals (1977-1983)

The Likely Lads (1976)

Minder (1979-1994)

Moonlighting (1974)

Glory Boys (1984)

 Lettre-Pour-L (1994)

The Jig Saw Man (1984)

Raining Stones (1983)

Inspector Morse (1987-2000)

This is England (2006)

Doctor Who (2005-to date)

Clarkson’s Car Years (2000)

30 Years of The RAC Rally (1991)

Greatest Years of Rallying (1970’s)

The Sweeney (1975-1978)

Dempsey and Make Piece

The New Avengers (1976 – 1977)

? (TBC)

The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond Film 1977). 

As this Bond film gets repeated on a regular basis I will tell you where you need to look in the film you need to look.  But you have got to be quick.  It’s the scene when Bond follows Jaws back to his Sherpa van.  When bond hides behind a tree you will see the red Chevette on the left.  It will then cut to a side shot of Bond and the Chevette is also in the background then.  This scene was filmed  Pinewood Studio not on location so the cars you see are UK models.   

Cavaliers on Screen.

 List of TV/Film’s/Documentary’s the Vauxhall Cavalier has appeared in either as background cars or as cars the characters have used.  If we have missed any please let us know.

Vauxhall Cavalier MK1.

Fifty Dead Men Walking. (2008)

The New Avengers (1976-1977)

The Biederbecke Affair (1985)

The Sweeney (1975-1978)

The History Boys (2006)

The Professionals (1977-1983)

Moonlighting (1982)

Penelope (2006)

Glory Boys (1984)

Quadrophenia (1979)

Hopscotch (1980)

The Fourth Protocol (1980)

The Sweeney (1975-1978)

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (1985-1987)

Dempsey and Make Piece

A Passionate Woman (2010)

Field of Blood (2011) (Opel Ascona B)

The Iron Lady (2012)

? (TBC)

The Sweeney 2 (1978)

This is The Sweeney 2 Movie.  The Cavalier features right at the start but is destroyed in an accident.  Though according to a check of the registration it was last on the road in 1990.   This suggest that two cars were used in filming.

Vauxhall Cavalier MK2.

The Crying Game (1992)

Bergerac (1981-1991)

The Fast Show (1994-2001)

Still Crazy Like as Fox (1987)

The Van (1996)

Keeping Up Appearances (1990-1995)

Lucifer (1987)

Bitter Vengeance (1994)

Blue Ice (1992)

Full Monty (1997)

Ashes to Ashes (2008-2010)

We received an email from Anni Ruecroft who co runs the biggest fan group for Ashes to Ashes  www.luigis.org.uk  she owns a mk2 Cavalier and was asked by the production company to allow them to use her car in the last series. The car is a 1982 Y reg 1300 L in antique gold and has been in her family from new in 1982. The car features in the final episode of Ashes to Ashes which is available as a DVD box set from all good retailers. With thanks to  Anni Ruecroft for providing the pictures and info.

Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill (1996)

Mr Bean (1989-1995)

Dealers (1989)

The Biederbecke Affair (1985)

The Prophet (1999)

The Glory Boys (1984)

Mona Lisa (1986)

Raining Stones (1993)

MacGyver: Trail to Domesday (1994)

To Play The King (1993)

Rab C.Nesbit (1990-1999)

The Bill (1984-to date)

The Cavalier MK2 features a lot in the early days of this hit police program.

Lovejoy (1986-1994)

Brassed Off (1996)

The Whistle Blower (1987)

Mr H Is Late (1988)

Clarkson’s Top 100 Cars (2001)

A Touch of Frost (1992-2009)

Clockwise (1986)

All or Nothing (2002)

Top Gear (Original Series and New)

Life on Mars (2006-2007)

Cavalier MK2 GLSi Saloon is used in the title sequence.  According to checks car is still on the road.

Taggart (1983-2009)

3 Blind Mice (2003)

Inspector Morse (1987-2000).

The best episode to watch is the one called ‘Driven to Distraction’ from 1989.  The plot revolves around a Vauxhall Dealer in Oxford.  You see plenty of Vauxhall’s all through the episode.  There is a new Cavalier MK3 on the forecourt of the Garage, a MK2 Cavalier Calibre which is also for sale.  Also Lewis is driving a blue F-Reg MK3 Cavalier.  Also featured is a MK1 Astra GTE, a Belmont SRI in the dealer ship, Senator police cars and Nova’s.

Vauxhall Cavalier MK3

Driving School (1997)

Midsummer Murders (1997-2009)

Bridget Jones Diary (2001)

Keeping Up Appearances (1990-1994)

Ladybird Ladybird (1994)

Magicians (2007)

The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (1997)

Les eadavres exquis de Patrick Highsmith (1990)

Shopping (1994)

Naked Video (1986-1991)

Patriot Games (1992)

Fifth Gear (2002-2009)

Harry Potter and the philosophers Stone (2001)

Braniac: Science Abuse (2003-2008)

Children of Men (2006)

If Only (2004)

Millennium: Fact or Fiction (2007)

How do they do it (2006-2009)

Cracker (1993-1996)
The Inspector Linley Mystery’s: Missing Joseph (2002)

Raining Stones (1993)

Dirty Pretty Thing (2002)

The Tomorrow People (1992-1995)

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Little Brittan (2003-2009)

All or Nothing (2002)

Coogan’s Run (1995)

The Thin Blue Line (1995-1996)

The Worst Week of My Life (2004-2006)

Top Gear (2002-2009)

Tale of the Mummy (1999)

Hamish Macbeth (1995-1997)

The Bill (1984-2009)