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  • == Writers == ...[The Goodies]] [[Graeme Garden]] and [[Bill Oddie]] were among the regular writers. Chapman and Garden both trained as doctors. Graeme Garden also appeared as
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  • ...n instrumental in creating and naming the series, heading up a team of new writers. Whilst this option was eventually ruled out, it was generally acknowledged ...producer, John Simmonds, who in turn conveyed their nature to the cast and writers. In defence of the programme’s bold stance, Simmonds mentioned to Rich th
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  • ...pisodes were written by [[John Kane (writer)|John Kane]], with seven other writers also contributing some episodes. ...however, were unwilling to end a popular show, and so brought in fresh new writers. Legal complications meant that the name and setting had to change, and so
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  • '''Ford Prefect''' (also called '''Ix''') is a [[fictional character]] in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' by the British [[Category:Fictional extraterrestrial characters]]
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  • {{short description|Fictional character in Red Dwarf}} ...nk=Red Dwarf |first=Rob |last=Grant |author-link=w:Rob Grant |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=w:Doug Naylor |first3=Ed (director) |last3=Bye
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  • ...or |network=[[Dave (TV channel)|Dave]] |date=10 April 2009 }}</ref>}} is a fictional character from the British [[science fiction]] [[situation comedy]] ''[[Red ==Fictional history==
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  • ...link=Red Dwarf |first=Rob |last=Grant |author-link=Rob Grant |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=Doug Naylor |first3=Juliet (director) |last3=M '''Cat''' is a [[w:Character (arts)|fictional character]] in the British [[science fiction]] [[situation comedy|sitcom]]
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  • The series was set in the fictional Mountacres Monastery, with Nimmo cast as the well-meaning but inept novice ...by a sequel ''Oh, Father!'' in 1973, also starring Nimmo and with the same writers. In this series, Dominic left the monastery and became a Roman Catholic pri
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  • '''Private Frank Pike''' is a [[fictional character|fictional]] [[British Home Guard|Home Guard]] private and junior bank clerk, first po ...this is so, Pike has an older half-sister by Wilson's estranged wife. The writers, [[Jimmy Perry]] and [[David Croft (TV producer)|David Croft]], confirmed a
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  • ...dio 4|BBC Radio 4]] programme on the characters, they were named after the writers [[w:Sandy Wilson|Sandy Wilson]] and [[w:Julian Slade|Julian Slade]].<ref>{{ ...nalised in England and Wales [[w:Sexual Offences Act 1967|in 1967]].}} The writers and cast thought the characters worked very well as they were not simply th
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  • ...t after the BBC electrician strike disrupted the production. This gave the writers, Grant and Naylor, a chance to write a different finale to the series. They ...s meant to be served cold, and they had avoided the embarrassment that the fictional Rimmer would later suffer.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series 1 guide: Episode six:
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  • ...ntially played a fictional version of himself from the first series with a fictional version of writer [[Douglas Adams]]. [[Category:English comedy writers]]
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  • '''''The Huggetts''''' are a fictional family who appear in a series of British films which were released in the l ...all four scripts. [[Muriel Box]], [[Sydney Box]] and [[Peter Rogers]] were writers on ''Holiday Camp'' and ''Here Come the Huggetts'', and [[Ted Willis]] work
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  • ...', predominantly [[farce|farcical]] in nature, was set in the close of the fictional St Ogg's Cathedral and concerned intrigues and rivalries among the clergy i ...novel ''[[Nicholas Nickleby|Nicholas Nickleby]]'', and later used by such writers as [[P. G. Wodehouse|P. G. Wodehouse]], [[Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie]]
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  • ...link=Red Dwarf |first=Rob |last=Grant |author-link=Rob Grant |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=Doug Naylor |first3=Ed (director) |last3=Bye | ...link=Red Dwarf |first=Rob |last=Grant |author-link=Rob Grant |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=Doug Naylor |first3=Andy (director) |last3=de
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  • ...show was set in the British [[Embassy|Embassy]] in the [[fictional country|fictional country]] of ''Tratvia'' and was concerned with the various (mis)adventures The show is set in the [[boardroom|boardroom]] of fictional company British United Plastics, and concerns the business machinations of
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  • ...Gordon Brittas, the well-intentioned but hugely incompetent manager of the fictional Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. The show ran for seven series and 52 epis ...mpetent manager of Whitbury New Town [[Leisure Centre]]. He trained at the fictional [[Aldershot]] Leisure Centre. Completely tactless, totally annoying, and fo
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  • '''Sergeant [[The Hon.]] Arthur Wilson''' is a fictional [[British Home Guard|Home Guard]] platoon sergeant and [[Bank teller|bank c ...ke originally called him Daddy, until told to call him Uncle (although the writers have confirmed that Wilson is Pike's biological father). In "[[Menace from
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  • ...er=[[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford, England|date=2004 }}</ref> Writers [[Ben Elton]] and [[Richard Curtis]] were unfazed by this, referring to Geo [[Category:Fictional English people]]
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  • {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (fictional)}} '''''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''''' is a fictional electronic guide book in the multimedia scifi/comedy series [[The Hitchhike
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