Murphy’s Mob, an early 1980’s children’s TV series set at a football club, was partly filmed at Vicarage Road.  The series featured a bunch of kids who supported the fictitious Dunmore United.  One of the main sets used was a junior supporters clubhouse which was supposedly inside the stadium.  Whilst this was filmed at a TV studio, Vicarage Road was regularly shown and any match footage used would feature the Hornets.

After a couple of years the manager Mac Murphy moved to United’s cross town rivals who, from the darkest recesses of my memory I think were called Dunmore Town.  This occurred at the same time as filming moved to Derby County’s Baseball Ground.  I assume this was partly done as the programme was made by Central TV and Derby was obviously closer to their studios in Birmingham than Watford.

Disappointingly rather than being true supporters and sticking with the team in yellow, red and black the kids quickly moved on to support Murphy’s new team and Dunmore United were never heard of again.