• Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister
  ...n and Minnie Bannister''' are two characters from the 1950s United Kingdom radio comedy series ''[[The Goon Show]]''. Crun and Min were performed by [[Peter ...lm (musician)|George Chisholm]]'s trombone or performing on the saxophone. In the episode "[[The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea)]]" Hen
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• Trillian (character)
  ...to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases#Fit the Second|Fit the Second (radio)]] ...ra Dickinson]] (TV & radio)|[[Zooey Deschanel]] (film)|[[Susan Sheridan]] (radio)|Cindy Oswin (LP)}}
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• Sybil Fawlty
  | last = ''[[Children in Need]]'' (2007) | gender = Female
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• Old Mother Riley
  | gender = Female ...'. The ''[[Film Fun]]'' comic included an “Old Mother Riley” strip cartoon in the 1940s.
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• Wild, Wild Women
  ...elevision [[sitcom]] that aired on [[BBC One|BBC]] from 1968 to 1969. Shot in [[black-and-white]], it starred [[Barbara Windsor]] and was written by [[Ch ...s of the suffragette movement, but it was decided not to make much of this in the series.
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• Down Among the Z Men
  ...rding the professor, none of them realising that Harry now has the formula in his possession. ...[[Z Reserve|Z Men]], ostensibly an elite unit guarding atomic secrets but in reality a ragtag group of reservists, retreads, and others of marginal (at
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• The String Robberies
  ...beries''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the sixteenth show in the eighth series. ...the [[BBC Light Programme|Light Programme]] to 3.0 million listeners. Then in later years…
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• Mum's Army
  Mainwaring's plans to involve the women of Walmington in the [[platoon]] become rather too personal. ...could sew on their jacket buttons. The platoon are asked to bring as many female volunteers as they can.
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• Not with a Bang
  ...ke Grady (actor)|Mike Grady]] was the only cast member to reprise his role in the television series. ...y on how scientists have apparently isolated the hormone that causes aging in humans. The chemical is then accidentally released from a vial and the eff
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• Betty Marsden
  ...''[[Beyond Our Ken]]'' and ''[[Round the Horne]]''. Marsden also appeared in two [[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On films]], ''[[Carry On Regardless]]'' (1 ...past.co.uk|access-date=26 October 2018}}</ref> and grew up in near poverty in [[w:Somerset|Somerset]]. Her music teacher recognised her talent at the age
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• Doctor at Sea (film)
  ...e]] and [[Joan Sims]] from the first film, but this time playing different characters. This was [[Brigitte Bardot]]'s first English-speaking film. ...mes initial [[seasickness]] and settles into life on board. After arriving in a Brazilian port (a local woman demands two hundred [[Brazilian cruzeiro (1
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• Victoria Wood (1989 TV series)
  ...and [[w:Jim Broadbent|Jim Broadbent]] in a still from the episode 'Staying In' ...broke the [[fourth wall]] of TV and spoke directly to the camera, but not in every episode.
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• Kenneth Cope
  ...Hopkirk]]'', [[Jed Stone]] in ''[[Coronation Street]]'' and [[Ray Hilton]] in ''[[Brookside (television programme)|Brookside]]''. Kenneth Cope was born on 14 April 1931 in [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]], England.<ref>{{cite web |author=Born: 14 Jun
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• Tim Brooke-Taylor
  ...) <br /> ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'' (1972–2020) <br/> ''[[One Foot in the Grave]]'' (1997) ...so appeared as an actor in various [[sitcom]]s, and was a panellist on BBC Radio's ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'' for almost 50 years.
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• Carry On Loving
  ...iness rather than the evasive innuendo characteristic of the earlier films in the series. There are fictitious locations named for their sexual innuendo, ...on Sid's after-hours activities when he supposedly "[[vetting|vets]]" the female clients, including Esme.
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• The Vicar of Dibley
  ...]] following the [[Priests (Ordination of Women) Measure 1993|1992 changes in the Church of England]] that permitted the [[ordination of women]]. [[Dawn In ratings terms, it is among the most successful British programmes in the digital era, the Christmas and New Year specials entering the UK top 10
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• Dad's Army (stage show)
  | characters = | subject = The British Home Guard in World War 2
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• The Likely Lads
  ...uly 1966. However, only ten of these episodes have survived.<!-- The claim in this source that the audio of most of the missing episodes has survived is ..., broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 24 December 1974. This was followed in 1976 by a spin-off feature film ''[[The Likely Lads (film)|The Likely Lads]
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• Marvin the Paranoid Android
  ...to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases#Fit the Second|Fit the Second (radio)]] ...rtiary to Quintessential Phases#Fit the Twenty-Sixth|Fit the Twenty-Sixth (radio)]]
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• The Likely Lads (film)
  ...er that. Bolam denied there was a rift between the two men when Bewes died in November 2017. ...lma, and jaded with his social activities (the two things he boasted about in the television series).
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