From EastEnders to The Muppet Show: The Elstree Centre programmes

Edward VII (ATV)

The BAFTA award-winning series (best drama of 1975) was based on the biography of Edward VII by Philip Magnus, the ATV drama starred Timothy West as the elder Edward VII and Charles Sturridge as Edward in his youth.  The drama charts the events that shaped the royal family through the life of Edward VII from his youthful years to his death in 1910.

Other dramas at ATV Elstree which had lavish sets constructed include Clayhanger (including a back lot street set), Disraeli and Hamlet.

 Holby City (BBC)

With the previous medical drama history at Elstree, it was only a matter of time before it would become home to a BBC hospital saga. Holby City, a spin-off from Bristol-produced Casualty, was launched in 1999. Set in the same hospital as its emergency department elder Holby City focuses more on the general hospital wards. The production didn’t use a studio at Elstree and instead, former office space in Neptune House had been refurbished to look like a real-life hospital and its wards.

Holby City departed the airwaves in March 2022, and since then EastEnders have been utilising the hospital ward sets.