You may think some of your favorite celebrities live the high life in the hills of Hollywood, the townhouses of New York or the chateaux of Switzerland, but you’d be wrong. For most them live in a quiet suburban street in Surbiton, England.

Yes, this is where you’ll find the likes of Michael Caine, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Mick Jagger, Keith Richard, David Bowie, Dirk Bogarde, The Beatles, Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Savile and many others. Well, that’s what writers and performers, John Sessions and Phil Cornwall would have us believe with their cult comedy series Stella Street.

Pitched as a “suburban soap”, Stella Street combined what we all think we know about the stars with soap opera conventions, to produce such memorable characters as ultra-violent gangster Joe Pesci, effete snob Dirk Bogarde and mind-numbing [soccer] bore Jimmy Hill.

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to see Al Pacino and Roger Moore playing Monopoly in Michael Caine’s front room to celebrate Zulu’s 33rd anniversary, or what would happen if a lobotomised Joe Pesci and drunk Jimmy Hill tried to cook a turkey “the way Delia Smith likes it”, Stella Street was the place to find out.

Stella Street was screened on the BBC between 1998 and 2001, with a special in 2004, and was directed by Comic Strip Presents… mastermind, Peter Richardson. If you’ve never been, I’d suggest a visit, for you’re bound to see someone you know. Oh, and Mick and Keith run the local convenience store.