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===Film media=== In a ''[[Monty Python]]'' episode first shown in 1970 [[List of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes|(Series 2, Episode 9, Skit: Cosmetic Surgery)]], the name on the "desk" of Professor Sir Adrian Furrows indicates that the character has a [[Bachelor of Science|B.Sc]] from, among sundry other places, Cromer.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/ehKGlT2EW1Q Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20070228052038/http://youtube.com/watch?v=ehKGlT2EW1Q Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|title=Monty Python:Cosmetic Surgery|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehKGlT2EW1Q|website=You Tube|access-date=2 March 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In ''[[The Three Doctors (Doctor Who)|The Three Doctors]]'', a 1972β1973 serial in the long-running [[BBC]] television series ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the doctor's ally, [[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] mistakes the surface of an alien planet for the town, famously uttering, "I'm fairly sure that's Cromer".<ref name="bbc">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4cDhBdvjxfMXJvgHrbr1rnK/the-fourth-dimension|publisher=bbc.co.uk|title=BBC One - Doctor Who, The Day of the Doctor - The Fourth Dimension |access-date=29 December 2016}}</ref> Actor [[Nicholas Courtney]] improvised the line,<ref name="kaldorcity">{{cite web|url=http://www.kaldorcity.com/people/ncinterview.html|publisher=kaldorcity.com|title=Interview with Nicholas Courtney: 'Another time I put in a line was during "The Three Doctors," when the Brigadier looks out onto this alien landscape and says, "I'm fairly sure that's Cromer."' Nicholas Courtney interview, ''The Brig Remembered'' by Alan Stevens. This interview previously appeared in Celestial Toyroom Issue 400. |access-date=29 December 2016}}</ref> name-checking the place where he got his first professional job as an actor-cum-assistant stage manager.<ref name="telegraph">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8343786/Nicholas-Courtney.html|publisher=telegraph.co.uk|title= Nicholas Courtney's obituary. The Telegraph. 23 Feb 2011. |date=23 February 2011 |access-date=29 December 2016}}</ref> The final scenes of the 2013 film ''[[Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa]]'' were filmed on Cromer Pier.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/jul/24/alan-partridge-norwich-alpha-papa-movie-premiere | title=Alan Partridge goes back to Norwich roots for Alpha Papa movie premiere | work=[[The Guardian]] | date=24 July 2013 | access-date=31 August 2013}}</ref> Filming took place in the town during November 2014 of the [[BBC 1]] series ''[[Partners in Crime (UK TV series)|Partners in Crime]]''.<ref>[http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/big_turn_out_in_cromer_for_bbc_one_agatha_christie_show_casting_call_for_extras_1_3830362 Eastern Daily Press news report] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111130005/http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/big_turn_out_in_cromer_for_bbc_one_agatha_christie_show_casting_call_for_extras_1_3830362 |date=11 January 2015 }} Retrieved 8 April 2015.</ref> A [[BBC One 'Oneness' idents|BBC short]] fantasy β ''Wonderland'', first aired 1 December 2018, was filmed in Cromer featuring the pier. It depicts the distant personal relationship between a busy mother's lifestyle working with [[IT]] bizarrely crossed-over to her son's video-game-driven lifestyle, causing the screens of both to display corrupted fragments of each other's content, and everyone else's real-time frame to freeze, allowing mother and son to enjoy unique quality time together.<ref>[https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/bbcs-christmas-ad-freezes-time-one-magical-day-seaside/1519976 BBC's Christmas ad freezes time for one magical day by the seaside] Campaign Live, 1 December 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018</ref> The [[Theme music|musical theme]] is [[Emmy the Great]]βs ''Lost in You''.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-46421236/cromer-pier-a-star-of-bbc-one-this-christmas Seaside town is 'star' of Christmas TV] ''[[BBC News]]'', 2 December 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/bbc-one-christmas-film|title=BBC One launches Christmas film about cherishing time with loved ones|publisher=[[BBC]] Media Centre|date=1 December 2018|access-date=6 December 2018}}</ref> Several scenes in the 2018 TV series ''[[Angry Birds#Television adaptations|Angry Birds on the Run]]'' were filmed in Cromer. <!-- Exact locations: 52.9324, 1.3002 (ice cream store, E12) | 52.9333, 1.3011 (pier, E22) -->
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