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  • | birth_place = [[Beverley|Beverley]], [[East Riding of Yorkshire|East Riding of Yorkshire]], England ...n [[Beverley]], [[East Riding of Yorkshire]] where he attended the local [[Beverley Grammar School|grammar school]]. After leaving school he became a trainee i
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  • '''Bryan Pringle''' (19 January 1935 – 15 May 2002) was an [[English people|English]] character actor who appeared for several decades in television, f ...gain in [[Guy Hamilton|Guy Hamilton]]'s production of the [[Beverley Cross|Beverley Cross]] play ''One More River'' at the [[Duke of York's Theatre|Duke of Yor
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  • <div class="Sellers"><span class="Bold">Big Brother:</span> Attention people of England state. Thanks to derationing and the free market the price of te ...Bold">Big Brother:</span> STOP! Enough. Now here is a special announcement from Big Brother!</div>
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  • ...n was born in [[w:Aldershot|Aldershot]], Hampshire, England, with [[Romani people|Romany]] blood on his mother's side. He was an accordion player and singer ...ry On'' films]]) but the format was not right for George and he swore that from then on, he would always write his own material. He quickly became a househ
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  • ...6 April 1995) was an English television, film and stage actor and comedian from the [[w:music hall|music hall]] tradition. ..., pg18</ref> His first stage appearance was aged 10 when he joined a group from [[Gale & Polden]] called the 'Five O'clock Follies' as an acrobat.<ref name
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  • ...rapnel shell|shrapnel]] from a German shell), he was honourably discharged from the service with a pension. ...a, London|Chelsea]] in 1941, and they had a son named James. On his return from the war, he reinvented himself with stronger [[Scotland|Scottish]] roots, d
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  • ...r=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-861388-1|pages=215–216}}</ref> He came from humble beginnings and left school at the age of twelve. At the outbreak of Demobilised from the army, Miller found work to be in short supply, and he had lost his moth
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  • Originally planned as a spin-off from ''[[The Day Today]]'' (1994), the pilot (then called ''Torque tv™'') was One drug mentioned was a fictitious drug called "Cake", described as being from [[Czechoslovakia]], despite the country no longer existing when the episode
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  • ...ealising it may upset her, Gaz decides to keep the paternity of Corinthian from Janet. ...ries 7. Donna works at the Archer after taking over the manager's position from [[#Tim Claypole|Tim Claypole]], but seeking to move onwards, obtains a job
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  • ...adio comedy writer David Quantick. "It's so blank that it can be filled by people as diverse as Paul Merton and Graham Norton, who don't have to adapt their ...}}</ref> To this, Messiter added a rule disallowing players from deviating from the subject, as well as a scoring system based on panellists' challenges.<r
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  • ...her replacement is Julie, played by [[Judy Flynn]], who is in all episodes from series two onwards, except for the 1996 Christmas special. ...g throughout the building. Witness to the madness is 17-year-old jobseeker Beverley.
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  • | birth_name = Kenneth Charles Williams<!-- only use if different from name --> ...lar panellist on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s comedy panel show ''[[Just a Minute]]'' from its second series in 1968 until his death 20 years later.
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  • ...roft also directed some episodes) and [[Jeremy Lloyd]], with contributions from [[Michael Knowles (actor)|Michael Knowles]] and [[John Chapman (screenwrite The idea for the show came from Lloyd's brief period in the early 1950s working at [[Simpsons of Piccadilly
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  • ...nt]]. Later it expanded to contain words from the [[Yiddish language]] and from 1960s [[drug subculture]] slang. It was a constantly developing form of lan ...e, at a time when homosexual activity was illegal, to disguise homosexuals from hostile outsiders and [[undercover police]]men. It was also used extensivel
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  • | {{marriage|[[Beverley Cross|Alan Beverley Cross]]|23 August 1975|20 March 1998|end=died}} ...chive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130710172828/http://www.tribute.ca/people/maggie-smith/3122/|archive-date=10 July 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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  • ...to [[BBC One]] from 5 May 1998 to 2004 and its sister channel [[BBC Two]] from 26 February 2006 to 4 June 2008. ...r ''[[Red Nose Day 2011]]'' as part of marathon panel show ''24 Hour Panel People''.
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  • ...nd [[Current affairs (news format)|current affairs programmes]], broadcast from 19 January to 23 February 1994 on [[BBC2]].<ref name="MulveySexton2015">{{c ...y briefly referred to. In addition, the programme dips into other channels from time to time, presents clips of fictitious upcoming [[BBC Television|BBC]]
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  • ...]] for the BBC, which ran for three series from 1998 to 2000, and specials from 2006 to 2012.<ref>{{cite web | title = The Royle Family – Queen of Sheba ...s' home, largely in the telly-centric living room, with the humour derived from the conversations held therein. Aherne and Cash co-wrote every episode, alo
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