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  • ...levision audience of 21.3 million, at the time a record for the show. In the episode, Del and Rodney are invited to a [[fancy dress party]]. They ar ...l Boy]] (who is now Lord of [[Peckham]]) and [[Raquel Turner|Raquel]] live in a lavish high-rise building, ''Trotter Towers'', but Rodney himself is mere
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  • | alt = Prince Edmund, Baldrick and Lord Percy in purplse clerical cassocks ...the King to acquire lands from the [[Catholic Church]]. Most of the humour in the episode relies on [[religious satire]].
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  • | budget = £116,000<ref name="hamilton">John Hamilton, ''Beasts in the Cellar: The Exploitation Film Career of Tony Tenser'', Fab Press, 2005 ...lson-Keys and Roy Piper. It was produced by Tigon Pictures and distributed in the U.K. by [[Tigon Film Distributors Ltd.]]
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  • ...e 1960s. The Devil (Cook) offers an unhappy young man (Moore) seven wishes in return for his soul, but twists the spirit of the wishes to frustrate the m ...encer, but lacks confidence and is too socially inhibited to approach her. In despair at his life, he attempts [[suicide]] by hanging but is interrupted
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  • | notableworks = ''[[Pennies from Heaven (TV series)|Pennies from Heaven]]'' (1978)<br />''[[Blue Remembered Hills]]'' (1979)<br />''[[The Singing D ...ed as one of the most influential and innovative dramatists to have worked in British television.
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  • ...ome town, the [[seaside resort|seaside resort]] of [[Morecambe|Morecambe]] in Lancashire. ...2002 he was named one of the [[100 Greatest Britons|100 Greatest Britons]] in a BBC poll.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2208
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  • ...e British Empire|Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)]] in 1979.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id ...historyoffamilyo00stan|title=History of the Stansfeld Family of Stansfield in the Parish of Halifax and its numerous branches|year=1885|location=Leeds|pa
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  • ...film to star all six Python members before the death of [[Graham Chapman]] in 1989. ...n the [[w:Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)|Grand Prix]]. The film appears in a 2010 list of the top 20 [[w:cult film|cult film]]s published by ''The Bos
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  • ...[[Alexei Sayle]], and broadcast on [[BBC Two]] for two series, first shown in 1982 and 1984. The show focused on the lives of four dissimilar students an ...as voted number 31 in the BBC's [[Britain's Best Sitcom|Best Sitcom]] poll in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk:80/sitcom/top11to100.shtml|ar
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  • ...loves to dress in extravagant clothing. He is simply referred to as "Cat" in lieu of a real name. ...n years. After reawakening from stasis, Lister, the only known human being in existence, tells Holly to set a course for Fuchal, which is actually the ar
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  • ...er popularity in the 1990s. O'Grady subsequently dropped the character and in the 2000s became the presenter of various television and radio shows, inclu ...t a South London gay pub, the [[Royal Vauxhall Tavern]] (RVT), he gained a popular following among London's gay community and used his character to speak out
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  • ...red to as the "[[Fifth Beatle]]" in reference to his extensive involvement in each of [[the Beatles]]' original albums.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.t ...the music industry and popular culture, he was made a [[Knight Bachelor]] in 1996.
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  • | caption = Chaplin in the early 1920s ...5 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.
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