Washing on TV

[washboy2005]

Washing on TV....

ITV's Cold Feet had a few washing machines in it too,

Zanussi Nexus - Adam and Rachel own this machine, You see actor James Nesbitt crouched in front of it reading the side of a really old box of Daz powder.

AEG Lavamat 660 or similar, this is in the first ever pilot episode David and Karen own it, you dont see or hear it in action.

Creda/Hotpoint Brown and White Pete and Jenny own this in the pilot episode, its tucked into an alcove.

After the pilot episode, David and Karen have had a new kitchen installed and have an integrated Servis/Diplomat washer dryer with rainwave style door, dials and huge orange power light. You see Karen unloading the machine, theres a box of "Radion" on the worktop. Ah how I miss Radion!!!

Pete and Jenny have a new kitchen installed also, they get a Zanussi from the era of the RSI machines. In Later Series their Zanussi Washing Machine gets replaced with a Zanussi Dishwasher from the same era.

Take Care
Dan

 

[aquarius1984]

grr

Jon i cant view the link you put on. Using my mobile to surf today. Where you getting all these brookie clips from? Would love for brookie to be back. Cant beat a good ol corkhill domestic fight lol. CALM DOWN! CALM DOWN! Nick

 

[aquarius1984]

Victor Meldrew

and his wife margaret had a SERVIS quartz 600 the first type when the show 1st started. Then they had a 1988 brown white hotpoint. Then at the end they had a zamussi turbodry washer dryer. Sadly no machines in action though. I remember a film on tv once called BOB AND SUE or something which showed a brown white hotpoint going into distribute and spin with the real noises! . It was an odd scene as the camera was pointed directly at the washer door and thats all the shot was.

 

[mrjms]

Washing On TV

Does anyone know what type of washer Aunt Bee on the Andy Griffith Show had? It was kept outside on the back porch...must have been pretty chilling out there doing laundry in the winter time. I don't remember ever seeing her doing the laundry in any of the shows.

 

[hoovermatic]

Annie Sugden at Emmerdale Farm had a very old Indesit FL with a super fast 380 rpm. Her son Jack later had a Hotpoint TL which I coveted for years!

 

[hotpointfan]

Adding to reply 32

It's a bit late to add to this thread, but I was watching the 1997 Christmas Special, 'Endgame' of One Foot in the Grave, I noticed the washing machine was a Bosch WFB2000. As far as I am aware, there is no other appearance of this machine in any other episodes, as after this episode it was replaced with a Zanussi TurboDry or Quick'n'Clean.

 

[hotpointfan]

2point4 Children

Although mentioned several times on here, BBC sitcom 2point4 children had plenty of washing machine's.

Here is the episode in which Rona was supposed to get married, she ends up dangling from the ceiling in her wedding dress, and her Hotpoint 95** is on view, this later turned into a Hotpoint dryer..

 

[hotpointfan]

Again..

Also in 2point4 Children, a little later on, Rona had a Servis Multivent Dryer, which can be seen in the is picture. I guess they bought a dryer instead of a washer because it was cheaper? Or maybe lighter?

 

[hotpointfan]

Others include..

In 2point4 Children also, Rona had a Hoover Electronic 1100 A3110, Bill had a Ignis, then an Ariston, and also a Zanussi Nexus… as well as a wide variety of vacuum cleaners as well.

 

[pedro]

2point4children

In the episode 'Greed' (available to watch on YouTube) Bill and Ben's washing machine has a feature role in it...not sure which make it is but it's worth a watch...

 

[hotpointfan]

Pedro

Someone mentioned it once, its an Ignis machine, available through the GUS catalogues…

http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?38243

 

[hotpointfan]

Brookside

Once again I apologize to resurrect this thread, but whilst trawling through the Internet, I found this Brookside clip from 2002, in which, a Hoover Logic can be seen, instead of the Zanussi's that are usually seen.

Who had the Dyson though?

Straight from the start the Logic is unloaded.

 

[matthewza]

Stuart Little...

Does anyone know what washing machine was used in the 1st Stuart Little movie? The one he got trapped in. I distinctly remember it was a front loader that looked to be designed like an american tumble dryer, in that the back of the drum didn't move, because it had a fill flume that filled from the top back centre. Just curious.

Matthew

 

[liamy1]

Stuart little

I remember there being something on the movie make commentary section (whole movie plays, but the makers/cast talk about the scenes in the movie all the way through) of the DVD, and they mentioned about the washer, mentioning that normally TL are more popular, but in order for that scene to work they had to use a FL. I'm not sure if they mentioned a model. But it may be worth looking on the DVD.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Two shows and two young brothers flooded the laundry room from putting too much soap (a whole box, actually) and that's Bobby on 'The Brady Bunch' and Young Theodore "Beaver" on 'Leave It To Beaver'...

The Brady's had an Avocado Whirlpool, while the Cleavers laundry room, in black and white most likely had a washer in White, and like the rest of their appliances, maybe a GE...

-- Dave

 

[hotpointfan]

Brookside (again)

Here's Ron loading up a Jetsystem, I can't remember the model number but it looks identical to the one that Gail own's in Coronation Street, and I'm sure Eddy on AbFab had one too at one point.

2.20 in

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmO3mbCLAdc

 

[aquacycle]

The Zanussi in AbFab was a jetsystem washer, then suddenly became a washer dryer 2 episodes into series 2 and then switched back to a washer again at the end of the series.

I spotted Michael Palin's Servis Quartz matching set in the film "A Fish Called Wanda"

 

[henene4]

Though not TV...

I found a Hotpoint in some maps in a computer game called GMod. They should be something like a WT960, if I remember correctly.

 

[hotpointfan]

AbFab

Didn't the washer disappear when she got the new kitchen? I'm sure that at one point there was no washer. It could have been after Patsy set the kitchen on fire.

Eddy also had that awesome looking Zanussi fridge with the tree compartments.

 

[aegokocarat]

Pretty sure that fridge Edina had was a Creda?
Towards the end, the blue "American" fridge freezer was actually two blue Smeg Piano fridge freezers sat side by side

 

[chrisjayuk]

Hi
Edina definitely had a Creda fridge freezer. Somewhere in my file of Creda brochures I I have it's leaflet. Must have a rummage.

Chris

 

[aquacycle]

Jacob, series 1 and 2 had the Jetsystem that turned into a washer-dryer that turned back into a jetsystem. Series 3 had a Directa after Patsy burnt the kitchen down. You don't see a washer in series 4 or 5.

The Fridge/Freezer is also a Zanussi, not a Creda.

 

[aquacycle]

A few others...

Watching "Desmond's" and they had an Arison Margahrita 800.
Anne & Martin had a merloni Bendix in "Ever Decreasing Circles"
Barbara Liversidge had a Zanussi washcraft in "Barbara"

 

[aquacycle]

Eddy's Fridge/Freezer

 

[hotpointfan]

Zanussi

Thanks Chris, I'm sure it was a Zanuusi. It had that bluey green strip on the top like on the washers. Didn't she have a slimline Zanussi dishwasher at one point as well?

Was there some sort of advertising thing going on there with Eddy and the Zanussi's, like there was on Brookside?

 

[aquacycle]

She did have a Zanussi Slimline dishwasher to match the washing machine, but it was only there in episode 1. It had disappeared by episode 2.

I'm not aware of any advertising deal going on with either AbFab or Brookside. Likely that the BBC/C4 got a deal with Zanussi for X amount of appliances for a certain price.

 

[hotpointfan]

Chris

Thanks for that Chris.

Would it be when they were furnishing the sets/houses, and they were looking for interior object etc? Zanussi just happened to come in at that stage then?

 

[vacbear58]

Brookside

Although I was never a big fan of it I remember when Brookside started it was wall to wall Zanussi. However, there may be a simpler explanation in that, as I recall, it was filmed inside real houses (the "estate" being built for the purpose) rather than in a studio and the builder may just have got the best deal from Zanussi for the whole job. There may of course have been product placement but I don't recall any particular emphasis on using appliances, it always seemed to me just set dressing

Al

 

[aegokocarat]

Thank you for clearing that up, Chris, wasn't aware that Zanussi did them
This is the fridge that Edina had in the final series before Ab Fab ran in 2011 and 2012

 

[carmine]

Since there is so much talk of Brit shows...

This might be the ideal time to mention something I noticed on Coronation Street... A Very American-looking TL in the breakroom area at the Underworld knickers factory. Anyone else ever notice/mention this?