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  • '''Polly Sherman''' is a fictional character in the [[BBC]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Fawlty Towers]]''. Played by [[Conn Polly is the hotel waitress during the series, and one of only four staff members seen there, the others being Manuel, Terry and short lived chef Kur
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  • '''Manuel''' is a fictional character from the [[BBC]] sitcom ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'', played by [[Andrew [[Category:Fictional Spanish people]]
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  • ...United Kingdom general election|election triumph]]. Much to his department staff's shock, he willingly provides the school a grant in order to relocate foll ...at the school, and pose as caterers in order to recover the money. Whilst waiting for the school to be preoccupied with a dance routine in the main hall, the
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  • | image = Waiting for God title card.jpg | alt = Front view of large English manor home with large lawn, with text "Waiting for God" superimposed
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  • ...er, in the first four series of the sitcom ''[[Waiting for God (TV series)|Waiting for God]]'' in the 1990s before his death in 1993.<ref name="Express 22 Dec ...'' is set in the fictional village of Grantleigh in [[Somerset]], near the fictional town of Marlbury. The series begins with the funeral of Marton (''[[sic]]''
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  • The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional [[hotel]] in the seaside town of [[Torquay]] on the [[Torbay|English Rivier ...would anyone want to bomb the hotel, Sinclair replied, "We've had a lot of staff problems".<ref name="Real life">{{cite news |title=Real-life Sybil Fawlty d
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  • ...ury service]]; Victor and Margaret having a long wait in their solicitor's waiting room; and Victor and Margaret trying to cope during a power cut on the hott ...liberates elderly nursing home residents who were being mistreated by the staff, and in "Descent into The Maelstrom" he calls an incident room number and g
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  • ...sed in the London Plan|West London]], first appearing onstage as a lady-in-waiting in the school's production of [[Maxwell Anderson]]'s ''[[Mary of Scotland ( ...inema sales, as a result slashing film budgets and cutting their number of staff.{{sfn|Edelman|Kupferberg|1996|pp=65–66}}
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