And my dad was the person on top of the turtle when it was on the horizon, paddling away. He was a scenery production carpenter at the time and did a lot of water based extra work for Anglia TV owing to him being a qualified lifesaver and swimming teacher. He was the duty lifeguard on the day too. They did shoot it initially in Devon, but a lot of the footage was lost so they had to re-shoot it in Norfolk. He has some stills of the set and you can see the Hunstanton cliffs in the background. They are very distinctive and definitely not Ibiza! They had a lot of fun using sun lamps to turn an English beach into the Caribbean! It was a nice day helpfully, but the palm trees were all plastic. The sea was calm though, otherwise a roiling North Sea would have spoilt it! As for the production itself? Less said the better! Not one of the best is dad's verdict!
