• It Never Rains...
  ...l, Rodney and [[Grandad (Only Fools and Horses)|Grandad]] go on holiday to Spain. All is going well until Grandad gets arrested. It has been endlessly raining for four days in [[Peckham]], and the Trotters have not been able to sell any of their sun-h
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• The Queen of Spain's Beard
  | image = Blackadder Queen of Spain.jpg ...he Black Adder]]'', the first serial in the ''[[Blackadder]]'' series. Set in late 15th-century [[Kingdom of England|England]], the episode parodies the
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• The Unlucky Winner Is...
  ...on 29 January 1989. In the episode, Rodney wins a holiday to [[Majorca]], Spain, the only catch is the organisers think he is fourteen. ...informing him of his success, Del declines to tell Rodney that he has won in the under-15 category. When at the airport, Del finally tells Rodney and Ca
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• Cassandra Trotter
  | last = ''[[Sleepless in Peckham]]'' ...m Uncovered | publisher=BBC | accessdate=30 September 2006}}</ref>) is a [[fiction]]al [[Character (arts)|character]] from the [[British sitcom]] ''[[Only Foo
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• Bob Danvers-Walker
  ...iously imitating Danvers-Walker's "perky tone" in a cod "newsreel" segment in his 2000 film ''[[w:Love's Labour's Lost (film)|Love's Labour's Lost]]''.<r ...e]], in 1925, moving on briefly to [[w:ABC Radio National|2FC]] in Sydney, in 1932, before returning to the United Kingdom the same year.<ref name="ODNB"
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• Witchsmeller Pursuivant
  | prev = [[The Queen of Spain's Beard]] ...er Pursuivant''. The story satirises mediaeval superstition and [[Religion in Medieval England|religious belief]].
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• Some Girls Do
  ...Drummond at a shooting party, and attempts to kill him by planting a bomb in his telephone after sleeping with him. Then Helga and Pandora try to kill D ...rive the powerboat in a scheduled race: Helga and Pandora also participate in the race and successfully capture the men and the boat, delivering them all
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• Grandad (Only Fools and Horses)
  ...acter is grandfather to [[Del Boy]] and [[Rodney Trotter]]. Pearce's death in December 1984 was written into the series with the death of Grandad. His pl The character was portrayed by [[Phil Daniels]] in the prequel series ''[[Rock & Chips]]''.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.b
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• Born to Be King (Blackadder)
  | caption = Dougal MacAngus (Alex Norton) in a Shakespearian-style duel with Prince Edmund (Rowan Atkinson) ...Adder]]'', the first series of the [[BBC]] sitcom ''[[Blackadder]]''. Set in late 15th-century [[Kingdom of England|England]], the episode takes a humor
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• The Archbishop
  | alt = Prince Edmund, Baldrick and Lord Percy in purplse clerical cassocks | next = [[The Queen of Spain's Beard]]
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• George Sanders
  ...|Castelldefels]], [[w:Barcelona|Barcelona]], [[w:Francoist Spain|Francoist Spain]] ...[[Tom Conway]]), and [[Simon Templar]], ''The Saint'', in five films made in the 1930s and 1940s.<ref>George Sanders The Guardian 26 Apr 1972: 5.</ref>
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• The Black Adder
  | caption = Title screen, showing [[Alnwick Castle]] in [[Northumberland]], a main location for the series. ...er") in his various attempts to increase his standing with his father and, in the final episode, his quest to overthrow him.<ref name="Comedy guide">''[h
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• The Lumberjack Song
  ...rview in 2007, Palin stated that the scene and the whole song were created in about 15 minutes, concluding a day's work, when the Python crew was stuck a ...(New York, NY, 2002), p. 194.</ref> was recorded at the Work House studio in London on 3 October 1975 and mixed at Harrison's Friar Park home the follow
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• The Black Adder (Blackadder)
  ...shall|first=David W.|title=Mass market medieval: essays on the Middle Ages in popular culture |year=2007|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-2922-6|page= ...t) resembles Elizabeth I (right) but the character is not explicitly named in the script.
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• The Comic Strip
  '''The Comic Strip''' are a group of British comedians who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their [[television]] series '''''The Comic St ...t night after the play's performances. He sourced the [[Raymond Revuebar]] in [[Soho]], but realising it was unsuitable for a theatrical production and r
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• On the Buses
  ...= Title card used from series 3 to 6; the animated titles were introduced in series 2. ...he corporation rejected ''On the Buses'', not seeing much comedy potential in a bus depot as a setting. The comedy partnership turned to [[Frank Muir]],
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• Blackadder
  ...Tim McInnerny, Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Tony Robinson and Hugh Laurie in ''Blackadder Goes Forth'' ...rotagonist]]s accompanied by different characters, though several reappear in one series or another, e.g., [[Melchett (Blackadder)|Melchett]] ([[Stephen
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• Curse of the Pink Panther
  ...n of ''[[The Pink Panther]]'' series of films created by [[Blake Edwards]] in the early 1960s. The film was one of two produced concurrently following th ...fus, and François all debuted in ''[[A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)|A Shot in the Dark]]'' (1964).
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• The Goodies
  ...Bill Oddie]], [[Tim Brooke-Taylor]], [[Graeme Garden|Graeme Garden]] <br />in a screenshot from the title sequence <br />of the BBC television series ...ll Oddie|Bill Oddie]] (b. 1941). The trio created, wrote for and performed in their [[The Goodies (TV series)|eponymous television comedy show]] from 197
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• List of Blackadder characters
  ...on]] as his [[sidekick]] [[Baldrick]], together with numerous other actors in one-off parts. ...lly dethroned as Duke of Edinburgh and gathers the other six most evil men in all England to form the Black Seal. They plan to kill the rest of the royal
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