Yellowthread Street (TV Series) - Bruce Payne (1990) - Chatham Road South, Kowloon

Many thanks to Arthur for spotting this location by identifying the multi-storey car park seen in the background.

Here is a brief reminder.

For some reason this did look familiar but I just could not place it, but now Arthur has told me that it is in fact a building in East TST called Auto Plaza I feel like slapping my head.

Of course, it is just background to the scene where Pak (played by Tzi Ma) follows a local stripper back to her flat whilst investigating a murder. He ascends to the roof top we see above and spies on her from there.

Sadly the angle is ambiguous and I'm not sure if this roof top was the one on top of the still standing Union Mansion building (built 1966) on the opposite side of Chatham Road South, or perhaps on a building that has since been replaced by Railway Plaza (build date unknown). It's too close to say one way or another but I am erring on the side of Railway Plaza because of the angle on the edge of the car park that we can see.

But anyway, here is a ground level Streetview to show that the car park is still there. You can just see it with a newer paint job peeking through the gaps in the trees.

Yellowthread Street (TV Series) - Bruce Payne (1990) - Peking Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

Here's another TST location from episode 2 - The Lost Man. It features Pak (played by Tzi Ma) following a fellow Vietnamese Boat refugee because he thinks she has something to do with the disappearance of a bar girl. His mark works in a place called The Players Club and Topless Bar. It turns out it was located along Peking Road. You can just see it on the right in this photo on FLICKR.

This scene follows the Bottoms Up club scene I covered a few posts ago, so it is quite feasible that the production crew got all these bar shots out of the way in one fell swoop rather than hopping from one side of the harbour to the other.

Yellowthread Street (TV Series) - Bruce Payne (1990) - Bottoms Up, Tsim Sha Tsui

One of Kowloon's former landmarks before closing down and moving over to Wanchai in the mid-00's. Made most famous by being featured on The Man with the Golden Gun in 1974 (although that was then located on Hanoi Road), but its *ahem* cheeky signboard raised more than a few eyebrows back in the day.

The club was located in the basement of 14 Hankow Road until around 2013 when the block it was in (the Mohan's Building, which also housed a service apartment complex called "Han Residence") was  demolished. A new high rise has since been put up in its place and the basement area now occupied by a Starbucks.

Yellowthread Street (TV Series) - Bruce Payne (1990) - Hung Hom Peninsula, Kowloon

A snippet from episode 2 (called The Lost Man) where Eddy (Tzi Ma) and Kelly (Catherine Neilson in overacting mode) head over to a newly reclaimed Hung Hom to deal with a crazy dude carrying a chopper.

The buildings you can see in the background of the top picture are the apartment blocks of Whampoa Garden. The dusty area the guys are driving on became the space that now holds the Harbourfront Horizon Hotel, and actually, right by the water is now where the Hung Hom to TST promenade now sits.