• Does the Team Think?
  {{Use British English|date=July 2014}} '''''Does The Team Think?''''' was a radio [[panel game]] broadcast originally on the [[BBC Light Programme]] (and later on [[BBC R
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• Maurice Wiltshire
  ...known for [[w:My Brother's Keeper|My Brother's Keeper]] (1948), [[The Army Game]] (1957) and [[w:Douglas Fairbanks Presents|Rheingold Theatre]] (1953). ...n-times was script writing partner with [[Larry Stephens]] during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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• British comedy
  Throughout film, television, and radio, '''British comedy''' has become known for its consistently peculiar characters, plots, ...cal cartoons." |source=—[[Punch and Judy]] showman Glyn Edwards.<ref name="British seaside">{{cite news|title=Punch and Judy around the world|url=https://www.
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• Sid Colin
  | notableworks = ''[[How Do You View?]]'' (1949-1953)<br />''[[The Army Game]]'' (1957-1961)<br />''[[Living It Up (UK TV series)|Living It Up]]'' (1957 ...BFI}}</ref> He is best remembered for the television comedies ''[[The Army Game]]'' (1957–59), ''[[Up Pompeii!]]'' (1969–1970), and films including ''[
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• Ray Alan
  ...lish [[w:ventriloquist|ventriloquist]] and television entertainer from the 1950s until the 1980s. He was associated primarily with the dummies Lord Charles ...g age, entering a talent contest at the age of five at his local [[Gaumont British|Gaumont]] [[movie theatre|cinema]].
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• Bob Danvers-Walker
  {{Short description|British radio, television and newsreel announcer}} ..."Bob" Danvers-Walker''' (11 October 1906{{spaced ndash}}17 May 1990) was a British radio and [[w:newsreel|newsreel]] announcer best known as the offscreen voi
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• Larry Stephens
  | nationality = British ...aptain,<ref name="McCann" /> he returned to England, and began writing for British comedian [[Tony Hancock]] before Hancock became well known, and was Hancock
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• Leslie Crowther
  | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] | occupation = {{hlist|Comedian|actor|television presenter|game show host}}
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• Ted Ray (comedian)
  ...ber 1905&nbsp;– 8 November 1977) was an English [[comedian]] of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, on radio and television. His BBC radio show ''Ray's a Laugh'' ra ...hed to become a footballer.<ref name=odnb/> As a comedian of the 1940s and 1950s, he demonstrated his ad-libbing skills in his weekly radio show ''Ray's A L
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• William Franklyn
  {{Short description|British actor (1925–2006)}} '''William Leo Franklyn''' (22 September 1925 &ndash; 31 October 2006) was a British actor, perhaps best known for voicing the "Schhh... You Know Who" adverts f
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• The Army Game
  | image = The Army Game TV.jpg | caption = Imagery from the board game
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• Jerry Desmonde
  ...://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/573352 |title=Rooftop Rendezvous |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=5 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archiv ...l=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/823092 |title=Holiday Camp |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=5 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archiv
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• Barry Took
  | notableworks = {{nowrap|''[[The Army Game]]'' (1957–1961) <br> ''[[Bootsie and Snudge]]'' (1960–64, 1974) <br>''[ ...for several television shows in the 1950s and '60s, including ''[[The Army Game]]'' and its spin-off ''[[Bootsie and Snudge]]''. He co-wrote ''[[Beyond Our
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• Bob Monkhouse
  | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] ...'[[Celebrity Squares]]'', ''[[Family Fortunes]]'' and ''[[Wipeout (British game show)|''Wipeout'']]''.
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• Nicholas Parsons
  {{Short description|British actor and presenter}} | honorific_suffix = [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]]
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• Alfie Bass
  ...to prevent a march through the East End by the [[British Union of Fascists|British Union of Fascists]].<ref name="ondb">{{cite ODNB |last1=Sharp |first1=Rober ...re]] and [[George Bernard Shaw]]. During the 1950s, he continued to direct shows at Unity, and on one occasion appeared in court (along with [[Vida Hope|Vid
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• Arthur Askey
  ...Empire|OBE]] in 1969 and a [[Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in 1981; he continued to appear frequently on television, radi ...ch]] and [[Mickie Most|Mickie Most]]. He also appeared on the comedy panel game ''[[Jokers Wild (TV series)|Jokers Wild]]''. He made many TV appearances in
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• School for Scoundrels (1960 film)
  | studio = [[Associated British Picture Corporation|Associated British Picture Corporation]] (ABPC)<br />Guardsman Films<ref name="Brooke" /> '''''School for Scoundrels''''' is a 1960 British [[comedy film|comedy film]] directed by [[Robert Hamer|Robert Hamer]] (and
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• Max Bygraves
  ...an, singer, actor and variety performer. He appeared on his own television shows, sometimes performing comedy sketches between songs. He made twenty ''[[Roy ...producer [[Wally Ridley]], who also produced Bygraves' records during the 1950s.<ref name=leigh/>
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• Frank Thornton
  ...]], [[Harry Worth]], [[Reg Varney]] and [[Spike Milligan]] in their comedy shows and appeared in five episodes of ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'' during its first r ...ny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]'' and ''[[No Sex Please, We're British]]'', as well as television sitcom spin-offs. He appeared in ''[[The Private
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