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  • | studio = Ivorygate Films [[Category:1968 films]]
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  • | caption = A scene from the film: sports day [[Category:1968 films]]
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  • ...es (screenwriter)|Jack Davies]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a9e2c88|title=The Fast Lady (1963)|publisher=British Film I ...ford ([[James Robertson Justice]]), the domineering and acerbic owner of a sports car distributorship.
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  • * [[Eric Sykes]] – Willoughby, Sports Officer [[Category:1960s war comedy films]]
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  • ...Corporation|Associated British Picture Corporation]] (ABPC)<br />Guardsman Films<ref name="Brooke" /> ...ought-after vehicle. They trade him an [[Austin-Healey 100-6|Austin-Healey sports car]] and 100 guineas (£105) for his Swiftmobile, which promptly breaks do
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  • ...ucated as an Oppidan scholar at [[Eton College]] where he also excelled at sports. He worked in the 1950s for the [[New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation]], b ...ng others. Increasingly disabled by [[rheumatoid arthritis]] from the late 1960s, Woodall's frequent appearances on ''The Goodies'' (1970-1981) would have b
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  • | studio = Grand Films ...urant's most prominent customer. In the annual [[The Boat Race|Boat Race]] sports event, he bribes the coach of the [[Oxford University|Oxford]] rowing team
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  • ...ries was Searle's most famous work and inspired a popular series of comedy films. ...f girls who had been murdered with pitchforks or succumbed to violent team sports, sometimes with vultures circling; girls drank, gambled and smoked. It is r
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  • ...ish for 'Italian Job |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/i-had-a-better-idea-writers-original-finish-for-italian-job-435666.htm ...rity of ''The Italian Job'' led to several parodies and allusions in other films and productions, including the 2005 episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' titled
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  • ...and 9 April 1974 on [[BBC One|BBC1]]. It was the colour sequel to the mid-1960s hit ''[[The Likely Lads]]''. It was created and written, as was its predece ...llier]] ([[James Bolam]]). The word "likely" in the title referred, in the 1960s series, to those showing promise, but also to those likely to get up to wel
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  • ...schedules since the heyday of the old [[BBC Light Programme]] in the early 1960s. ...im Bellybutton appeared in an espionage sketch spoofing the [[James Bond]] films. These sketches tended to lampoon famous celebrities of the day. For exampl
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  • ...e Goon Show]]'' scripts. He became a TV star in his own right in the early 1960s when he appeared with [[Hattie Jacques]] in several popular [[BBC]] comedy === 1960s ===
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  • ...Near Greek Tragedy (1968)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b2efc81|title=Maureen Bullock Loves Sir (1968)}}</ref> ...but starred most of the TV cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bfc62ad|title=Please Sir! (1972)}}</ref>
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  • ...eenwriter. He was the leading figure of the British [[satire boom]] of the 1960s, and he was associated with the [[anti-establishment]] comedic movement tha ...nce]]. Following the success of the show, the duo appeared together in the films ''[[The Wrong Box]]'' (1966) and ''[[Bedazzled (1967 film)|Bedazzled]]'' (1
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  • ...ained a successful film career, starring in a string of [[Ealing Studios]] films including ''[[Sailors Three]]'' (1940), ''[[Champagne Charlie (1944 film)|C ...b |title=Eating out with Tommy Trinder (1941) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69e3dd0c |website=Bfi |access-date=29 December 2021}}</ref>
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  • ...star of cinema and [[music hall]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba14f3df1|title=Gracie Fields|website=Bfi.org.uk}}</ref><ref> ...in the United States (when she was paid a record fee of £200,000 for four films). Regardless, she never enjoyed performing without a live audience, and fou
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  • ...sh actress, known for her roles in the [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' films]] and for playing [[w:Peggy Mitchell|Peggy Mitchell]] in the [[w:BBC One|BB Between 1964 and 1974, she appeared in nine ''Carry On'' films, including ''[[Carry On Spying]]'' (1964), ''[[Carry On Doctor]]'' (1967),
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