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Ys on Film and other media |
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The Y has featured in a number of films and TV shows over the years, and even songs! In this page we hope to bring these appearances to your attention. If you have any stills or video clips (preferably both), please send them to the Webmaster and we will try to feature them here.
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Songs and MusicSongs and music featuring the MG Y Type. Music |
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Ruth Rendell Mystery - The Double 
YB 0781 being used in the Ruth Rendell Mystery series, Series 10 Episode 1 'The Double' where two identical women, one virginal and good and the other sexy and seductive, vie for the affections of a young stockbroker.
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From the Ground Up (1950)
"From the Ground Up" was a short 15 minute documentary film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Clive Dunn and Jack Ralph made in 1950. the MG Y Type can briefly be seen in the background on the left of the monument in the still.
Ruth Rendell Mystery - A Dark Adaptive Eye
"A Dark Adaptive Eye" is a psychological mystery/thriller movie made for TV in 1994, adapted from Ruth Rendell's novel of the same name, depicts a family on the edge. Two sisters, the elder obsessive Vera, and the younger, manipulative Eden, cut a path of jealousy, murder and revenge that leads to the destruction of their entire family. The MG Y Type appears in episode 2.
Unforgotten (2015)
"Unforgotten" is a British TV Series in 2015. The plot is set as the Police begin to investigate when the bones of a young man are found under the footings of a demolished house 39 years after his murder. The MG Y appears in Series 1, Episode 1.
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Lease of Life (1954)
Lease of Life is a British movie made in 1954 about a parson of a small rural community who knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community. Unfortunately the still is to blurred to make out the licence plate of the MG Y.
Lass es Liebe sein (2009) 
Rosamunde Pilcher - Lass es Liebe sein (Let There Be Love) is a German movie made in 2009 about Tom Richmond refused, although gifted, to succeed his father George as CEO of the family's private bank, to run an old-timer restoration firm with buddy David Fenner. It's love at first sight when Tom meets younger student Natalie Blum from Georgia, who is however focused on her intern job in the bank, as George's assistant to assess to damage caused by a trusted, disloyal key employee. George, who left Tom and his mother years ago, presumably for a younger woman, falls for Natalia, but she won't commit without love, despite pleas to be 'sensible' from her brother Victor, who points out they must provide for her young son Sascha. The MG Y/T shown in the titles is Y/T EXR 3253 currently owned by Anil Koshti.
 Rafael Vogt (star) with co-stars Stefan and Eva |
 Rafael Vogt (left) |
 Co-stars Stefan and Eva |
 Cars lined up for opening credit sequence |
 Anil Kosti's daughter Natasha with the YT on the rally route |
 Natasha with Michael Kissaum the Deputy Director |
 Natasha with the star Jenina Flieger |
 The YT by the Berliner Union Film van |
Huihun ye (1962) 
Made in 1962 in Hong Kong, Huihun ye (The Haunted Night) is an unauthorised reprise of Hitchcock's Vertigo. The film is based on the same plot with some alterations, most significantly the detective is prone to a heart attack instead of vertigo.
Agent Carter (2015)
Set in 1946 (so it actually predates the MG Y's birth by one year) Peggy Carter is relegated to secretarial duties in the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR). When Howard Stark is accused of treason, he secretly recruits Peggy to clear his name with the help of his butler, Edwin Jarvis. The MG Y appears in Season 2 Episode 8. Agent Carter was made in 2015 - 2016 as a TV series.
The Evolution of the Drift Angle (2002)
The Evolution of the Drift Angle — 50 Years of Rally is a documentary made in 2001 by Helmut Deimel Filmproduction.
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Y/T 3861 
My neighbour and I have a Xmas Day Treat for the grandkids when we take them for a drive to see if Santa is still about the neighbourhood. But every year we get ambushed by "Bad Santa's" with water guns - the kids just love it. Just at the end you can hear one of them saying - "do it again". All good clean fun in a YT ...
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Agetha Christie's Sleeping Murder (1987) 
An MG Y features in the second episode of Agetha Christie's Sleeping Murder (1987) staring Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. This is a still picture only.
Classic MG Cars
A YouTube Channel programme from The Great British Channel entitled Classic MG Cars. The programme was made at MG Car Club Summer Day Out, Blenhiem Palace, Oxfordshire, UK 29, June 2001. Watch out for the MG YT at about the 17 minute 20 second mark! There are lots of other lovely MGs in the video too. The overall programme length is nearly 59 minutes.
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Sommertreff 2014 - German TV channel RS1
A television report from 2014 Sommertreff meeting by German TV channel RS1.
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Unknown MG YB 
A 1952 MG YB brought to you by Beverley Hills Car Club, California, USA.
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Y 5020 and several other US MG Ys
MG Y Type MGs on the MG Cars Channel.
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Y/T 2778
Two video clips from Karl Borches participating in Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips-Gedächtnisfahrt. Graf Berghe von Trips was the Michael Schumacher of the 1950s. He died at Monza 1961.
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Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips-Gedächtnisfahrt. |
Oldtimerausfahrt im Rahmen der TripsTour 2014 |
Y/T 2548 
Atul Anand and YT 2548 appearing at the Heritage Motoring Club of India at 12th Auto Expo 2014 Greater Noida, India
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Dave Mullen and YB 0647 on Moel Famau
A Sunday trip down Moel Famau in a 1952 MG YB motor car and back along A494 with David Mullen.
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Sommertreff 2013
A short video clip from Sommertreff 2013.
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Y 6824
A short film of Y 6824 and found on YouTube. It looks like this film was made by some hikers who came across the car in a car park somewhere and liked what they saw!
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YB 0538 
A film made about YB 0538 and found on YouTube.
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Y/T 2851
A sales promotional video made by Hampton Motors, Quogue, New York, USA of YT 2851 and found on YouTube.
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John Twist, University Motors, on MG Y Types
John Twist, University Motors Michigan, Illinois, USA talks about the MG YT. Found on YouTube. Contains a few factual errors, but in nonetheless a good view of our cars.
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65 Years of MG Y Types, Abingdon, UK
A short clip celebrating 65 years of MG Ys in Abingdon, UK from 2012 found on YouTube.
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Y 6686 on 26 December 2012
Three videos shot on Boxing Day. 26 December 2012. These videos are also on YouTube!
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Y 1857 
Hiroshi Ogawa's MG Y 1857 from Japan. This video is also on YouTube!
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