In the early 1980s, Triangle was a BBC soap opera that took place on a North Sea ferry that went from Felixstowe to Gothenburg and then from Gothenburg to Amsterdam. The title of the show implied that there was a third leg between Amsterdam and Felixstowe, but this leg was not run by the ferry company. After three seasons, the show was canceled, but most people still remember it as "some of the funniest British TV ever made." The scripts were full of cliched relationships and stilted dialogue. This made the show the punchline of many jokes, especially on Terry Wogan's Radio 2 morning show, which embarrassed the BBC. In 1992, the BBC showed TV Hell, an evening of the worst shows on TV. The first episode of Triangle was one of the shows on that night's lineup. In the first series, the Tor Line's MS Tor Scandinavia was used as the ferry. This was replaced in the second and third series by the DFDS vessel Dana Anglia, probably because she had a less busy schedule and stayed in port longer, which made it easier to film on board.
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In the early 1980s, Triangle was a BBC soap opera that took place on a North Sea ferry that went from Felixstowe to Gothenburg and then from Gothenburg to Amsterdam. The title of the show implied that there was a third leg between Amsterdam and Felixstowe, but this leg was not run by the ferry company. After three seasons, the show was canceled, but most people still remember it as "some of the funniest British TV ever made." The scripts were full of cliched relationships and stilted dialogue. This made the show the punchline of many jokes, especially on Terry Wogan's Radio 2 morning show, which embarrassed the BBC. In 1992, the BBC showed TV Hell, an evening of the worst shows on TV. The first episode of Triangle was one of the shows on that night's lineup. In the first series, the Tor Line's MS Tor Scandinavia was used as the ferry. This was replaced in the second and third series by the DFDS vessel Dana Anglia, probably because she had a less busy schedule and stayed in port longer, which made it easier to film on board.
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