According to the IMDb, BBC and HBO have produced the best TV series in the World. 900 International voters voted ‘Band of Brothers’ an average of 9.6 out of 10. It is the highest score (as voted for by a reasonable number of people, i.e. 200 voters) for any TV series on the huge database.

But what has this got to do with the Islands’ Well, a week ago I asked you that question a week ago, but nobody had the correct answer.

Dexter Fletcher, the second most promenant British actor in the series, had been to the Islands 12 years before BOB to film Michael Morpurgo’s ‘When the Whales Came’.

Dexter Fletcher

Since filming ‘When the Whales Came?, Dexter Fletcher’s other major success was his role in ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’, playing a character called ‘Soap’.

When the Whales Came

‘When the Whales Came? was the only film to be soley filmed on the Islands. It was written by Scilly enthusiast Michael Morpurgo.

The story was about a pair of children who befriend an old man. This man knows a terrible secret about the Islands and the Narwhales who sometimes come.

Michael Morpurgo

Morpurgo has written several fictional books about the Islands. One of his other successful books was called ‘Arthur’. It was about the legendary King Arthur, and set on the Islands. In the ledgend, during the Battle of Camlann, King Arthur was removed to the Isle of Avalon, which is proposed to be the Isles of Scilly.

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