• Twice a Fortnight
  '''''Twice a Fortnight''''' is a 1967 British sketch comedy television series with [[Terry Jones]], [[Michael Palin]], [[Graeme As in the case of the radio [[comedy]] programme ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'', and the telev
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• The Tony Hancock Show
  | genre = [[Sketch comedy|Sketch show]] ...son|Ray Galton and Alan Simpson]].<ref name="BBC Comedy">{{cite news|title=Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy|first=Mark|last=Lewisohn|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=20
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• Drake's Progress
  | genre = [[Sketch comedy]] '''''Drake's Progress''''' was a British sketch show that aired on [[BBC Television]] from 1957 to 1958. It was co-written
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• Before the Fringe
  ...fore The Fringe - BBC2 Sketch Show|first=British Comedy|last=Guide|website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref> ...eries of sketches were made up by performers who had been veterans of such shows. They included:
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• Milligna (or Your Favourite Spike)
  {{Infobox Radio Show | home_station = [[w:BBC Radio 4|BBC Radio 4]]
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• Sykes and a Big, Big Show
  | genre = [[Sitcom]]/[[Sketch show]] ...ld Snoad]] and [[Douglas Argent]].<ref name="BBC Comedy">{{cite news|title=Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy|first=Mark|last=Lewisohn|publisher=[[BBC]]|year=20
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• Band Waggon
  '''''Band Waggon''''' was a comedy radio show broadcast by the [[BBC]] from 1938 to 1940. The first series featured ...y 2016</ref> and was the first comedy show to be designed specifically for radio. Together with ''[[Monday Night at Eight|Monday Night at Seven]]'', it esta
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• Bob Oliver Rogers
  ...was a radio producer employed by the [[w:British Broadcasting Corporation|British Broadcasting Corporation]], between 1973 and 1979, at the BBC's [[w:New Bro He principally produced light entertainment shows for the BBC's national radio stations, including comedies, quizzes and panel games. He died of natural c
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• A Kick Up the Eighties
  '''''A Kick Up the Eighties''''' was a 1981–1984 [[BBC 2]] comedy [[sketch show]] starring [[Robbie Coltrane]] (Series 2), [[Tracey Ullman]], [[Richar ...oadcast on BBC2 between 3 January 1984 and 24 January 1984. A contemporary sketch show with a nod to the then emerging wave of [[alternative comedy]], a stro
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• Sez Les
  ...[[w:ITV (TV network)|ITV]] from 1969 to 1976.<ref>Lewisohn, Mark (2003). ''Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy'', BBC Worldwide Publications.</ref> Les Dawson an [[Category:1969 British television series debuts]]
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• Maurice Wiltshire
  | occupation = BBC Radio producer, [[w:Screenwriter|scriptwriter]], newspaper editor (Based on information in the Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy, The Goon Show Companion by Wilmut & Grafton, and
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• A Show Called Fred
  '''''A Show Called Fred''''' is a [[sketch comedy]] series best known for being an early television work by [[Peter Se It was predominantly a [[sketch comedy]], attempting to translate the audio antics of ''The Goon Show'' int
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• Four Yorkshiremen sketch
  ...The_Four_Yorkshiremen,_2014_(crop).jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Four Yorkshiremen sketch at ''[[w:Monty Python Live (Mostly)|Monty Python Live]]'' in 2014]] ...events to mark 50th anniversary |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/monty-python-reveal-events-to-mark-50th-anniversary-1.3938624 |access-d
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• Santa on Patrol
  ...nway|isbn=978-1844861057|page=181}}</ref> Although audio recordings of the sketch exist, it is not otherwise known to have survived (See [[Wiping]]). Mainwaring returns to the hall and delivers a speech which shows how confident he is regarding the outcome of the war. In return, the men sh
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• Peter Cavanagh (impressionist)
  | nationality = British ...18 February 1981) was an English comic [[impressionist]], popular on [[BBC radio]] in the 1940s and 1950s when he was known as "The Voice of Them All".
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• Duncan Wood
  ...director and writer, who has been described as "the founding father of the British TV sitcom".<ref name=mccann/> His best-known achievements were to produce ...io [[w:variety show|variety]] programmes, such as ''[[w:Workers' Playtime (radio programme)|Workers' Playtime]]'', on which he worked with up-and-coming com
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• The Charlie Drake Show
  | genre = [[Sitcom]]<br>[[Sketch comedy|Sketch]]<br>[[Stand-up comedy|Stand-up]] '''''The Charlie Drake Show''''' is the name of four British comedy programmes that aired from 1958 to 1968. Starring comedian Charlie D
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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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• Show 35
  ...'', but for ease of reference using the show number and ''Handsome Harry'' sketch name is to differentiate them. The first British public broadcast was on the [[BBC Home Service|Home Service]] on Tuesday, {
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• Charlie Chester
  ...il 1914&nbsp;– 26 June 1997) was an English [[comedian|comedian]], [[radio|radio]] and television presenter and writer, broadcasting almost continuously fro ...evision]] as ''The Charlie Chester Show'' in 1949 and became a standup and sketch show for the next 11 years. Frequent cast members included Edwina Carroll,
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