• Vampira (1974 film)
  ...a "depressing exercise" due to not being to the standard of British horror films of the time and feeling dated to the previous decade.<ref>{{cite web|url=ht [[Category:1974 films]]
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• All You Need Is Cash
  ...le]] as Dirk McQuickly, a parody of [[Paul McCartney]]; as The Narrator, a parody of [[Alan Whicker]]; and as Stanley J. Krammerhead III, Jr., occasional vis * [[Neil Innes]] as Ron Nasty, a parody of [[John Lennon]]
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• The Best of Benny Hill
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• Let's Get Laid
  ...he preceding decade). The film remains fatally undecided whether to go for parody or pastiche, and duly fails as either, with only the on-stage finale (seemi ...C documentary on pornography."<ref>{{Cite book |title=Radio Times Guide to Films |publisher=[[Immediate Media Company]] |year=2017 |isbn=9780992936440 |edit
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• One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
  ...Studios Motion Pictures|Buena Vista Distribution Company]]. The title is a parody of the film title ''[[One of Our Aircraft Is Missing]]'', in which both [[P [[Category:1970s comedy mystery films]]
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• The Last Remake of Beau Geste
  ...[Universal Pictures]] for a five picture deal to direct, write, and act in films, beginning with ''The Last Remake of Beau Geste''.<ref>MOVIE CALL SHEET: Ru Feldman called it a "broad comic parody".<ref>Behind Marty Feldman's zany brand of comedy: 'I learn as I go' explai
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• Carry On Dick
  ...the 26th release in the [[Carry On (film series)|series of 31 ''Carry On'' films]] (1958–1992). The story is based on the [[Dick Turpin|Dick Turpin]] lege {{Carry On Films}}
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• Carry On Laughing
  ...[Carry On (franchise)|Carry On]]'' films, it was an attempt to address the films' declining cinema attendance by transferring the franchise to television. M The TV series is not as widely known as the original films, which - by contrast - are broadcast regularly on British television.
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• Ripping Yarns
  ...haracters, each looking at a different aspect of [[British culture]] and [[parody]]ing pre-[[World War II]] literature aimed at schoolboys. In the title, "ri ...outlook of the original boys' magazines of which ''Ripping Yarns'' were a parody. Both Palin and Jones contributed to the programme.
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• Carry On Henry
  ...the 21st release in the [[Carry On (film series)|series of 31 ''Carry On'' films]] (1958–1992). It tells a fictionalised story involving [[Sid James]] as {{Carry On Films}}
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• Carry On Up the Jungle
  ...es in the series. This movie is a send-up of the classic [[Tarzan|Tarzan]] films. It features an unusually dark tone for the series, as the protagonists are ...ce Burroughs|Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' [[Tarzan|Tarzan]] series of books and films.
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• Hype Pressure
  1950s nostalgia was an important trend in 1970s-era UK, featured in films like ''American Graffiti'' and ''That'll Be The Day'' and the TV series ''H ...-running ''[[St Trinian's School|St Trinian's]]'' series of British comedy films.
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• Carry On Emmannuelle
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• Mike Walling
  ...as an English teacher at [[Holland Park School]] in [[London]]. In the mid-1970s, while still a teacher, he won a British TV talent contest, [[New Faces]], ...htm Make Tea, Not War, Angel Air]</ref> as part of a collection of comedy/parody songs called ''Make Tea, Not War'' by the imaginary, but ill-fated and trag
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• Take It from Here
  ...es, it was one of the first shows with a significant segment consisting of parody of film and book styles, later used extensively in programmes such as ''[[R ...episode of the next series, the ''TIFH'' Talking Point segment featured a parody of the sagas of 'nice' families such as those anonymously named in ''[[The
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• O Lucky Man!
  ...-02-09 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ycba.yale.edu/programs/programs-films.asp |title= Yale Center for British Art |access-date=9 February 2007 }}</re ''[[Britannia Hospital]]'' (1982) completes the trilogy of films featuring Mick Travis,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.d
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• Rutland Weekend Television
  .... Halsey played Ringo Starr facsimile Barry Wom in Idle and Innes' Beatles parody, [[The Rutles]], which originated as a sketch on ''RWT'' (Innes and Idle po ...eporter – interviewing [[Michael Palin]] – in Idle and Innes' 1978 Beatles parody, ''[[The Rutles|The Rutles: All You Need is Cash]]''.
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• Sid James
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• A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)
  *[[Mirisch Films]]}} ...y (1968 film)|The Party]]'', and on three more "Pink Panther" films in the 1970s.
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• The Pink Panther Strikes Again
  ...es Clouseau]]'s ([[Peter Sellers]]) unrelenting ineptitude in the previous films. A typically disastrous visit from Clouseau on the day of his release promp ...famous "Pink Panther diamond" of previous films, but comes off more like a parody of James Bond movies.
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