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  • | birth_place = [[w:Aldershot|Aldershot]], [[w:Hampshire|Hampshire]], England ...d World War, though eventually settled in Inverkeithing in Fife, and later in Milesmark outside Dunfermline.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |title=Denise Coff
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  • {{Infobox television ...ship between two former lovers who meet unexpectedly after not having been in contact for 38 years.
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  • | caption = As Mr. Grainger in ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'' | birth_place = [[Petersfield]], [[Hampshire]], England
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  • {{Infobox television ...uccessful run throughout the 1990s, and gained large mainstream audiences. In 2004, the show came 47th on the BBC's ''[[Britain's Best Sitcom]]'' poll,<r
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  • {{Infobox television episode | series = [[One Foot in the Grave]]
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  • | birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Southampton]], [[Hampshire]], England}} * television
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  • ...ess, he learned to manage a stammer and subsequently developed an interest in amateur theatricals, along with the Tomlinson family, including the young [ In [[w:World War II|World War II]], he volunteered for all services when the w
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  • {{short description|Restaurant critic, television celebrity cook and writer from England}} | caption = Cradock in 1976
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  • {{Infobox television ...book|author1=Laura Mulvey|author2=Jamie Sexton|title=Experimental British Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ook8CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA180|year=2015|publi
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  • ...an English comedian, writer and actor. He was the host of television game shows including ''[[The Golden Shot]]'', ''[[Celebrity Squares]]'', ''[[Family Fo ...onkhouse-755955.html |date=13 July 2004 |access-date=26 April 2010}}</ref> In a 2015 documentary, it was revealed that Monkhouse and his older brother su
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  • ...television, with programmes for [[London Weekend Television]] and [[Thames Television]]. ...age of 63 after suffering a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] live on television.<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=[[The Times]] | title=Obituary: Tommy Cooper |
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  • ...ins, 2008, p. 289</ref> disappointed many at the time, his last BBC series in 1961 contains some of his best-remembered work (including "[[The Blood Dono ...re|Hampshire]]), where his father, John Hancock, who ran the Railway Hotel in Holdenhurst Road, worked as a comedian and entertainer.
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  • {{Infobox television | image = One Foot in the Grave title card.jpg
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  • ...dered the "norm" during the pair's [[BBC]] years. Until 1973, unlike other shows episodes were broadcast every fortnight rather than weekly. ...olour at the time. BBC 1 would join ITV in launching a full colour service in November 1969, but it took until 19 September 1971 for ''The Morecambe and
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  • | image = Bernard Cribbins in 2015.jpg ...g a reading of [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s poem "[[Tommy (Kipling poem)|Tommy]]" in 2015
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  • *television personality | criminal_status = [[Released on licence]] in 2017
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  • | alt = The faces of Basil Radford and Joan Greenwood appear in a cartoon whisky bottle; the top of the bottle wears a Tam o' shanter and t ...nd, the inhabitants of which have run out of whisky because of [[Rationing in the United Kingdom|wartime rationing]]. The islanders find out the ship is
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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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