• The Looney: An Irish Fantasy
  | pub_date = 1987 ...rdback)]</ref> with the paperback edition in 1988.<ref>[[w:British Library|British Library]]: [http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/U4IKP79Y8BIUJ9LM2KSVF95PHAN2FBA16HEABQ
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• Irene Handl
  |death_date= {{death date and age|df=yes|1987|11|29|1901|12|27}} |years active= 1937–1987
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• Bernard Woolley
  ...)|MA (Oxon)]] is one of the three main fictional characters of the 1980s [[British sitcom]] ''[[Yes Minister]]'' and its sequel, ''Yes, Prime Minister''. He w ...Hacker]]. However, his loyalties are split between his Minister and his [[British Civil Service|Civil Service]] boss, Sir [[Humphrey Appleby]]. Whilst he is
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• I Didn't Know You Cared
  '''''I Didn't Know You Cared''''' is a British television comedy set in a working-class household in South Yorkshire in th The novels narrate the story of which Carter's thoughts are an integral part. A recurr
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• List of Blackadder episodes
  This is an '''episode list''' of the [[British sitcom]] ''[[Blackadder]]''. Dates shown are original airdates on [[BBC One | link3 = List of Blackadder episodes#Series 3: Blackadder the Third (1987)
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• Our Man in Havana (film)
  '''''Our Man in Havana''''' is a 1959 British spy comedy film shot in [[CinemaScope]], directed and produced by [[Carol R ...s Wormold, a [[vacuum cleaner]] salesman, is recruited by Hawthorne of the British [[Secret Intelligence Service]] to be their Havana operative. Instead of re
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• Blackadder the Third
  | first_aired = {{start date|1987|9|17|df=y}} | last_aired = {{end date|1987|10|22|df=y}}
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• Slartibartfast
  ...tor [[John Le Mesurier]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Cook |first=John R. |title=British Science Fiction Television: A Hitchhiker's Guide |publisher=[[I.B. Tauris]] ...the Galaxy Companion |last=Gaiman |first=Neil |publisher=Titan Books |year=1987 |isbn=1-85286-013-8 |author-link=Neil Gaiman}}</ref>}}
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• Terence Alexander
  ...and television actor, best known for his role as Charlie Hungerford in the British TV drama ''[[w:Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]'', which ran for nine series ...ms-tv-people/4ce2b7cf03543|title=The Honour of the School (1970)|publisher=British Film Institute}}</ref>
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• Ian La Frenais
  ...n [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], and completed his [[National Service]] in the [[British Army]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Weight |first=Richard |title=Porridge (BFI TV ...5), both directed by Clement; they also substantially wrote the latter. In 1987, they wrote and produced ''[[Vice Versa (1988 film)|Vice Versa]]''.
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• Dick Clement
  ...work on the unofficial James Bond movie ''[[Never Say Never Again]]''. In 1987, they wrote and produced ''[[Vice Versa (1988 film)|Vice Versa]]''. Their t ...e Commitments (film)|The Commitments]]'', which won the [[Evening Standard British Film Awards|Evening Standard's Peter Sellers Award for Comedy]] and the [[B
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• Ray Alan
  ...g age, entering a talent contest at the age of five at his local [[Gaumont British|Gaumont]] [[movie theatre|cinema]]. Alan wrote four novels: ''Death and Deception'' in 2007 and ''A Game of Murder'' in 2008 (both pub
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• Bill Wallis
  '''William Wallis''' (20 November 1936 – 6 September 2013) was a British character actor and comedian who appeared in numerous radio<ref>[https://bo ...[[Yes Minister|Yes, Prime Minister]]'', and ''[[The Beiderbecke Tapes]]'' (1987), in which he played a beleaguered Amsterdam hotelier. One longstanding rol
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• Herbert Lom
  | nationality = {{hlist|British|Czech}} ...professionally as '''Herbert Lom''' ({{IPA-cs|ɦɛrbɛrt lom}}), was a Czech-British actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939. In a career lasting more tha
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• Ronald Frankau
  ...: the Frankau Jewish Connection", ''Jewish Quarterly'' Vol. 34 no. 4 (128) 1987</ref> His mother's siblings included [[Henry Irving]]'s mistress [[Eliza D ...], became a comedy writer and co-created the Channel 4 sitcom [[Peep Show (British TV series)|Peep Show]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/art
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• June Whitfield
  ...series)|Happy Ever After]]'' (1974–1979) and ''[[Terry and June]]'' (1979–1987). From 1992 to 2012, Whitfield played Edina Monsoon's mother in [[Jennifer ...ation]] of all twelve of [[Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie]]'s Miss Marple novels on [[BBC Radio 4|BBC Radio 4]].<ref name="EpiList">{{cite web |title=Miss M
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• Tom Jones (1963 film)
  '''''Tom Jones''''' is a 1963 British [[comedy film]], an adaptation of [[Henry Fielding]]'s classic 1749 novel ' ...Best Film|Best Film]] and [[BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film|Best British Film]].
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• Dennis Potter
  ...as one of the most influential and innovative dramatists to have worked in British television. ...ward Potter (1906–1975),<ref>''[[Arena (UK TV series)|Arena]]'' interview, 1987</ref> was a [[coal miner]] in this rural mining area between Gloucester and
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• Les Dawson
  ...]], Manchester, on 2 February 1931,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Les Dawson {{!}} British comedian |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Les-Dawson |url-status=d ...cks (UK TV series)|Opportunity Knocks]]'' in 1967 and worked as a comic on British television for the rest of his life.
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• Willie Rushton
  ...years of [[Conscription in the United Kingdom|national service]] in the [[British Army|army]], where he failed officer selection.<ref name=Sherrin/> He later ...''Private Eye''{{'}}s Lunchtime O'Booze), from bizarre skulduggery in the British colonies (where the soldiers holding back the politicised rabble bear a str
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