The Last Post is a British television drama series first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One from 1 October to 5 November 2017.

It is set in the backdrop of the Aden Emergency and a unit of the Royal Military Police depicting the conflict and the relationships of the men and their families together and with the local population.

Moffat suggested setting the series in the 1960s at the end of the British Empire with military personnel posted with their wives to a strategically important place.

[3] The producers needed a location similar to Aden with coast, mountains and desert and a colonial architectural influence, settling on Cape Town.

A disused British naval base overlooking Simon's Town bay provided a scale which is often difficult to achieve for television.