Penny's Mum and Dad's house is just behind Thorpe Bay Station and the church they got married in is Wakering church
Both Paul Nicholas and Jan Francis were eleven years younger than their respective on-screen mothers.
In an interview on This Morning in 2019, Paul Nicholas described the series as "brilliantly written" and "absolute gold dust".
The final 1986 special of Just Good Friends, which was first broadcast on Christmas Day that year, attracted a massive audience of nearly 21 million viewers.
Exteriors filmed in Essex around Southend, Thorpe Bay and Wakering