Editing Howards' Way (section)

{{Short description|British TV drama series (1985–1990)}}
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| image                = Howards Way.jpg
| caption              = Main title caption (From Series Two to Series Six)
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| genre                = [[Drama]]
| creator              = [[Gerard Glaister]]<br/>[[Allan Prior]]
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| starring             = [[Maurice Colbourne]]<br/>[[Jan Harvey]]<br/>[[Glyn Owen]]<br/>[[Dulcie Gray]]<br/>[[Stephen Yardley]]<br/>[[Tony Anholt]]<br/>[[Susan Gilmore]]<br/> [[Tracey Childs]]<br/>[[Edward Highmore]]<br/>[[Cindy Shelley]]<br/>[[Ivor Danvers]]<br/>[[Patricia Shakesby]]<br/>Sarah-Jane Varley<br/>[[Nigel Davenport]]<br/>[[Lana Morris]]<br/>[[Sian Webber]]<br/>[[Kate O'Mara]]<br/>[[Jeff Harding (actor)|Jeff Harding]]
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| theme_music_composer = [[Simon May]]
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| country              = United Kingdom
| language             = English
| num_series           = 6
| num_episodes         = 78
| list_episodes        = 
| executive_producer   = 
| producer             = Gerard Glaister
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| runtime              = 50 minutes
| company              = [[BBC Birmingham]] ([[Pebble Mill Studios]])
| channel              = [[BBC One|BBC1]]
| first_aired          = {{start date|1985|9|1|df=yes}}
| last_aired           = {{end date|1990|11|25|df=yes}}
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'''''Howards' Way''''' is a television drama series produced by [[BBC Birmingham]] and transmitted on [[BBC1]] between 1 September 1985 and 25 November 1990. The series deals with the personal and professional lives of the wealthy yachting and business communities in the fictional town of Tarrant on the south coast of England, and was filmed on the [[River Hamble]] and the [[Solent]].

The series was notable for its pioneering camerawork onboard yachts, often filming multiple yachts racing in choppy waters and high winds, and its extensive location shooting mainly on the south coast of Britain. Most of the [[location filming]] for the series was carried out in [[Bursledon]], [[Hamble-le-Rice|Hamble]], [[Swanwick, Hampshire|Swanwick]], [[Warsash]], [[Hill Head]], [[Lee-on-the-Solent]], [[Lymington]], [[Hythe, Hampshire|Hythe]], [[Southampton]] and [[Fareham]]—all in [[Hampshire]]. The [[The Jolly Sailor, Bursledon|Jolly Sailor pub]] in Bursledon featured in several episodes.<ref>{{cite news |title=BBC - Hampshire - When Howards' Way ruled the waves |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/hampshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8159000/8159018.stm |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=22 July 2009 |access-date=29 July 2014}}</ref>

All interiors were filmed in Studio A at the now-demolished [[BBC Pebble Mill]] studios in [[Edgbaston]], [[Birmingham]]. Extensive two-storey sets were constructed inside the studio (the Howards and the Urquhart homes were both functioning two-floor sets). The smaller Studio B (used for regional news) was also occasionally used as an on-screen fashion photography studio. Other areas of the large 1970s TV and radio complex (opened in 1971) were used for the many board room scenes in the series, with long corridors and lifts sometimes doubling as a busy hospital and meeting rooms became lavish corporate hospitality suites.