South Hams locations have appeared on screen many times over the years.  Here's a sample some more memorable appearances:

Detective and Mystery Movies

Sleeping Murder
1986
Paignton & Dartmouth Railway

Nemesis
1986
Burgh Island

The Mirror Crack'd
1992
Paignton & Dartmouth Railway, Burgh Island,

Poirot in Peril At End House
1992
Salcombe

The Classics and Period Dramas

Sense & Sensibility
1995
Saltram House, Flete Estate, Berry Pomeroy, Compton Castle
Version of Jane Austen's story of two sisters trying to find husbands despite the fact that  the family lose their money and home and have to move into a smaller cottage.

Rebecca
1996
Mothecombe
Charles Dance, Diana Rigg, Faye Dunaway star in a Daphne Du Maurier story - Diana Rigg won a Best Supporting Actress award

The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
Kingswear, Dart Valley Railway
A gentleman forsakes his fiancee for the abandoned mistress of a French seaman in 1867 intertwined with the modern story of the actors playing the Victorian roles.

Childrens' TV and Movies & Animal Films

International Velvet
1978
Holbeton, Mildmay Colours Inn (Holbeton), Mothecombe in South Devon
Story of a hostile orphan who becomes an international horsewoman.

Television Drama and Comedy

The Onedin Line
1972-80
Bayard's Cove, Dartmouth, Kingswear, Dart Estuary
Series about a young man's rise to wealth and power through the establishing of his own shipping line in the late C19th

Down to Earth
2000
Dartmouth & surrounding countryside
A family swaps the rat race for life on a Devon farm

Factual & Religious

Songs of Praise
2004
Dartmouth played host to this staple of Sunday evening television

Return of the Chef
2005
Celebrity chef John Burton Race and his family return to England from their year-long French Leave to open a restaurant in Dartmouth.

Antiques Roadshow
2005
Two episodes of this long running antiques show were filmed at Dartington Hall