• Derek and Clive Get the Horn
  | released = {{Film date|df=yes|1979|10||UK}} ...s the recording of [[Peter Cook]] and [[Dudley Moore|Dudley Moore's]] 1978 comedy album ''[[Derek and Clive Ad Nauseam]]'', their third and final outing feat
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• Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair
  | released = June 1979 ...ad|archive-date=2009-01-14|title=Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair (1979)|newspaper=BFI|access-date=2017-01-09}}</ref>
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• The Plank (1979 film)
  |image = The Plank (1979 film).jpg |released = {{Film date|1979}}
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• Unidentified Flying Oddball
  ...American Film Institute]] |access-date=July 31, 2019 }}</ref><br>August 3, 1979 (Los Angeles)<ref name="afi" /> ...itle=Unidentified Flying Oddball - History |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=July 31, 2019 }}</ref>
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• No Sex Please, We're British (film)
  | released = 25 July 1973 {{small|(UK)}}<br />10 August 1979 {{small|(USA)}} '''''No Sex Please, We're British''''' is a 1973 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Cliff Owen]], and starring [[Ronnie Corbett]], [[Ian O
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• Dead on Time (1983 film)
  The film is a comedy which tells the story of Bernard Fripp ([[Rowan Atkinson]]) a man who, on a ...eworking of an earlier Atkinson character, Robert Box, who appeared on the 1979 special ''[[Canned Laughter (sitcom)|Canned Laughter]]'', which shares a ga
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• The Wildcats of St Trinian's
  '''''The Wildcats of St Trinian's''''' is the fifth British [[comedy film]] set in the fictional [[St Trinian's School]]. Directed by [[Frank La The Guardian 1 Oct 1979: 15.</ref> Sidney Gilliat was a production consultant.
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• Futtocks End
  '''''Futtocks End''''' is a British comedy [[w:film|film]] released in 1970, directed by [[w:Bob Kellett|Bob Kellett]] ...nation, by the [[w:BBC|BBC]] in the middle of that year's ''[[w:Miss World 1979|Miss World]]'' broadcast. The programme had in fact been affected by indust
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• Julian Orchard
  {{Short description|English comedy actor (1930–1979)}} | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1979|06|21|1930|03|03}}
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• The Plank (1967 film)
  ...[Jon Penington]]. The story was based on an episode of Eric Sykes' [[BBC]] comedy series ''[[Sykes and a...]]'' from 1964, called "Sykes and a Plank". ...the "man with a plank" slapstick routine seen in [[vaudeville]] and silent films, and adding new ones. For instance, at one point the plank is tied to the t
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• Porridge (film)
  ...{{cite web|url=http://www.film4.com/reviews/1979/porridge |title=Porridge (1979) - Film Review from |publisher=Film4 |access-date=20 March 2010}}</ref> | studio = Black Lion Films<br>Witzend Productions
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• Carol Hawkins
  ...actress, best known for her various comic roles in numerous TV sitcoms and films in the [[1970s]] and [[1980s]]. ...'[[Porridge (1974 TV series)|Porridge]]'', and starred in two ''Carry On'' films (''[[Carry On Abroad]]'' as Marge and ''[[Carry On Behind]]'' as Sandra).
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• Doug Fisher (actor)
  ...Stud (film)|The Stud]]'' (1978) and ''[[w:The Bitch (film)|The Bitch]]'' (1979) and Jim Medhurst in ''[[w:London's Burning (TV series)|London's Burning]]' ...ies)|Oliver Twist]]''.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0bb6249|title=Doug Fisher|website=BFI}}</ref>
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• Queenie Watts
  ...q=stars+and+garters+1965+queenie+watts&pg=PA847|title=Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company|first=Howard|last=Maxford|date=November 8, 2019 ...omedy.co.uk/people/queenie_watts/ |access-date=2022-07-27 |website=British Comedy Guide |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nostalgiacentral.com/
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• Balham - Gateway to the South
  ...y sketch|comedy sketch]] that [[w:parody|parodies]] cinema [[w:travelogue (films)|travelogues]] by presenting the [[w:South London|South London]] suburb of ...web |title=Balham: Gateway to the South (1979) |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6f14cb15 |website=BFI Film Forever |access-date=2018-09-04}}
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• Ripping Yarns
  | last_aired = {{end date|1979|10|24}} ...five episodes in September and October 1977 and three episodes in October 1979. Each episode had a different setting and characters, each looking at a dif
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• Janet Brown
  |spouse = {{marriage|[[Peter Butterworth|Peter Butterworth]]|1946|1979|reason=died}} ...earances in the [[Carry On films|''Carry On'' films]]. Butterworth died in 1979 and Brown never remarried.
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• Ian La Frenais
  ...Lads]]'', and by the end of the decade they had also written three feature films: ''[[The Jokers]]'', ''[[Otley (film)|Otley]]'' (directed by Clement) and ' ...'[[Elton John's 1979 tour of the Soviet Union|To Russia With Elton]]'', in 1979.
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• Norman Chappell
  | known_for = Light comedy ...s roles in television and film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba09ad1c6|title=Norman Chappell|website=BFI}}</ref>
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• Jane Hylton
  | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1979|02|28|1926|07|16}} | yearsactive = 1946–1979
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