• Life with the Lyons
  ...io]] and [[w:television|television]] domestic [[w:sitcom|sitcom]] from the 1950s (1950–1961 on radio, 1955–1960 on television). [[Category:1950s British sitcoms]]
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• Joan and Leslie
  '''''Joan and Leslie''''' was a British television [[situation comedy]] series which aired from 1955 to 1958, starr [[Category:1955 British television series debuts]]
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• The Glums
  ...[[w:ITV (TV channel)|ITV]] in 1979. It had its origins in a segment of the 1950s radio show ''[[Take It from Here]]''.<ref>Morgan-Russell p.3</ref> The char [[Category:1979 British television series debuts]]
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• The Larkins (1958 TV series)
  ...ITV Sitcom - British Comedy Guide|first=British Comedy|last=Guide|website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref> It aired for four series between 1958 and 1960. An add Unlike many other British sitcoms of the era, all episodes still exist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lostshows.c
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• Further Adventures of Lucky Jim
  ...'[[Lucky Jim]]'' by [[Kingsley Amis]], it updates the story from the early 1950s of the novel to mid-1960s [[Swinging London]]. It stars [[Keith Barron]] as [[Category:BBC television sitcoms]]
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• Hype Pressure
  "'''Hype Pressure'''" is an episode of the award-winning [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy]] television series ''[[The Goodies (TV series)|The Goodies]]''. ...ion with everything 1950s, to the point that even the TV has turned into a 1950s version of it. Worse yet, Tim has turned into a sock-selling conman and a T
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• Young Hyacinth
  '''''Young Hyacinth''''' is a [[prequel]] to the [[British sitcom]] ''[[Keeping Up Appearances]]'', written by original writer [[Roy C In the early 1950s, a young Hyacinth Walton is working as a domestic servant for the Cooper-Sm
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• Ray Galton
  ...r)|Alan Simpson]]. Together they devised and wrote 1950s and 60s [[BBC]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]]s including ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'' (1954–1961), the ...]]'' (1979–1982) about a corrupt police station. He also wrote scripts for sitcoms produced in Germany and Scandinavia. He co-wrote the ITV series ''[[Room at
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• Educating Archie
  {{Short description|British comedy show}} * {{British Comedy Guide|radio|educating_archie}}.
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• British comedy
  Throughout film, television, and radio, '''British comedy''' has become known for its consistently peculiar characters, plots, ...cal cartoons." |source=—[[Punch and Judy]] showman Glyn Edwards.<ref name="British seaside">{{cite news|title=Punch and Judy around the world|url=https://www.
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• Whack-O!
  '''''Whack-O!''''' is a British sitcom TV series starring [[Jimmy Edwards]], written by [[Frank Muir]] and ...ify a ritualised form of punishment that had been an accepted practice in British schools, but by modern standards the popular humourizing of corporal punish
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• Peter Brough
  ...riloquist|ventriloquist]] who became a well-known name to audiences in the 1950s. He is associated with his puppet [[w:Archie Andrews (puppet)|Archie Andrew ...of Archie; [[Eric Sykes]] was one of the series' main writers in the early 1950s. The show often averaged 15 million listeners, and a fan club had 250,000 m
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• Dave Freeman (British writer)
  | image = Dave Freeman (British writer).jpg '''David Freeman''' (22 August 1922 – 28 March 2005) was a British film and television writer, working chiefly in comedy.
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• The Charlie Drake Show
  '''''The Charlie Drake Show''''' is the name of four British comedy programmes that aired from 1958 to 1968. Starring comedian Charlie D [[Category:1950s British comedy television series]]
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• June Laverick
  | years_active = 1950s-1970 In the 1950s June worked in the theatre in musicals, comedies and revues, and had a vari
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• Johnny Speight
  ...8) was an English television scriptwriter of many classic British [[sitcom|sitcoms]]. He emerged in the mid-1950s. He wrote for radio comics [[Frankie Howerd]], [[Vic Oliver]], [[Arthur Ask
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• Tony Britton
  ...], [[Gloucestershire]]. During the [[Second World War]] he served in the [[British Army|Army]] and he also worked for an [[estate agent]] and in an aircraft f He appeared in numerous British films from the 1950s onwards, including ''[[Operation Amsterdam]]'' (1959), ''[[Sunday Bloody Su
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• Christopher Blake
  ...and [[screenwriter]]. He is perhaps best remembered for starring in the [[British sitcom]]s ''[[Mixed Blessings (UK TV series)|Mixed Blessings]]'' (1978–80 ...n to have two more sons. The family emigrated to [[Australia]] in the late 1950s but returned in 1966 and he attended the Fitzherbert Secondary Modern Schoo
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• Arthur Askey
  ...Empire|OBE]] in 1969 and a [[Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in 1981; he continued to appear frequently on television, radi ...'[[The Arthur Askey Show]]''. He was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' on two occasions, in December 1959 when he
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• Bill Maynard
  | nationality = British ...Jeremiah Greengrass in the long-running television series ''[[w:Heartbeat (British TV series)|Heartbeat]]'' from 1992 to 2000, reprising the character in the
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