Summer of Rockets (2019) was originally announced in May 2017 alongside two other BBC mini-series commissions, which were the three-part Little Women (2017) and the three-part A Very English Scandal (2018).
Summer of Rockets (2019) is a six-episode British Cold War television miniseries, which premiered on BBC Two in the United Kingdom on 22 May 2019. The series was written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff and stars Keeley Hawes, Linus Roache, Timothy Spall and Toby Stephens. It is a semi-autobiographical story based on Poliakoff's childhood and his father, Alexander Poliakov.
Filming began in Oxford and in London in May 2018. Filming also took place in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in July 2018 at Benington Lordship, and at Reddam House, Berkshire in August. Filming also took place at The Royal Masonic School for Girls in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire in August 2018 and at the former RAF Upper Heyford air base in Oxfordshire.
The streets outside the Ropery at the Chatham Dockyard in Kent were used to film the 1950's civil defense exercise in the series and the upper floors of the Ropery itself featured as civil defense training rooms.
The streets outside the Ropery at the Chatham Dockyard in Kent were used to film the 1950's civil defense exercise in the series and the upper floors of the Ropery itself featured as civil defense training rooms.
Toby Stephens has the same appearance, voice and mannerisms has Craig Maclachlan in the Dr Blake Mysteries TV series.