A-Z of Fictional Places.

Alternative "M" - ""Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh 1940's/50's BBC Radio comedy, featuring Richard Murdoch and Kennth Horne. Action centred on the antics of staff at an obscure RAF airfield, loosely based on the one at Moreton-in- the-Marsh, Glocs. Slightly before my time, but I have heard some recorded episodes. Apparently "binding" was RAF slang for "grumbling". It was a bit like "The Navy Lark".
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P PORTWENNN - ficticious Cornish village which features in the ITV comedy-drama "Doc Martin". First broadcast in 2004. Martin Clunes plays the title character, Dr. Martin Ellingham.
 
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Or, P for a double - Peyton Place. Fictional setting for Grace Metalious 1956 novel made into a film in 1957 and a TV series in the 1960s.

Q - Quahog. Fictional city in Rhode Island, primary setting for animated TV series, Family Guy.
 
mikemiller said:
Alternative "M" - ""Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh 1940's/50's BBC Radio comedy, featuring Richard Murdoch and Kennth Horne. Action centred on the antics of staff at an obscure RAF airfield, loosely based on the one at Moreton-in- the-Marsh, Glocs. Slightly before my time, but I have heard some recorded episodes. Apparently "binding" was RAF slang for "grumbling". It was a bit like "The Navy Lark".
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P PORTWENNN - ficticious Cornish village which features in the ITV comedy-drama "Doc Martin". First broadcast in 2004. Martin Clunes plays the title character, Dr. Martin Ellingham.
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Used to go through Moreton-in-the-Marsh on the train to Evesham. The theme song always came back to me though like you I was a bit young to remember the programme. My father always spoke of it with affection.
 
Alternative "Q" - Quazatron- computer game and underground city location, on the planet Quartec. Designed to be played on the ZX Spectrum (1986). You controlled robot KLP-2 (Klepto) to destroy enemy robots and scavenge their spare parts to help you on your mission. Quite strategic. Good fun!
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R ROYSTON VASEY - ficticious small town which featured in the surreal black-comedy series , "League of Gentlemen". Shown on BBC 2 (1999-2002). The writers said that it was loosely based on Alston in Cumbria, although the filming took place in various locations in the North. One of the characters wore a Millers shirt.
 
Or, R - Rivendell. Valley which features in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, location of the House of Elrond, lord of the elves.
 
S SOUTH PARK - US animated tv sitcom, set in the ficticious town of South Park, Colarado. The stories are based around a group of four boys, and are a satirical view of small-town America. Written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. First broadcast in 1997.
 
U UTOPIA - probably the most famous of the lot. Imaginary place where everything is perfect. First featured as an island in the Sir Thomas More book "New World" (1516). The name comes from the Greek phrase for "No Place".
 
Just realised that I miseed a few "sitters " earlier - "N" - Never Never Land (for a double) which featured in Peter Pan ... and "L" - Land of Grey and Pink" , described in the opening track of album "In the land of Grey and Pink" by Caravan (1971) . Clip on YouTube. (y)
 
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V- For a double: Val Verde. Fictional South or Central American location used in several Hollywood films, first in Commando (1985) and later in Predator, Die Hard 2 and the TV drama series Supercarrier.
 
... or "Vallhalla" - majestic hall of Norse mythology, where warriors killed in battle go after death. "Valhalla" means "Hall of the slain" in Old Norse.
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W WALLABY CREEK - location in Australian children's tv programme "Skippy the bush kangaroo". Often quite a dangerous place with quicksand, fierce wild animals, escaped convicts , etc.! First shown in Australia in 1968 on TNC Channel 9, later shown on ITV in the UK. Starring Ed Deveraux as the Park Ranger Matt Hammond and Gary Pankhurst as his young son. The film location was Waratah Park near Sydney.
 
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Z - Zenda. Castle in the fictional kingdom of Ruritania in the 1894 novel The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope.
 
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