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  • {{short description|Television series}} {{Infobox television
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  • {{Infobox television ...ormat that was one of the first series to be shown on the then-new British television channel, [[Channel 4]], between 1983 and 1984. (It started on 8 January 198
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  • {{short description|British actress (1938–2017)}} | television = {{ubl|''[[EastEnders]]'' (1991)|''[[Grange Hill]]'' (1991–1996)}}
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  • ...ion actress, with an extensive career which ran from the late 1930s to the 1980s. She was best known for playing [[w:Convenience store|Corner Shop]] owner [ ...iles of the cast through the history of the 'Coronation Street' television series. http://www.corrie.net/profiles/actors/alberge_betty.html</ref>
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  • ...es ''[[Catweazle]]'' and Mrs. Palmer in the television series ''[[Solo (TV series)|Solo]]'', alongside [[Felicity Kendal]]. .../tv/solo/|title=Solo - BBC1 Sitcom|first=British Comedy|last=Guide|website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref>
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  • ...television and stage. Among his roles was that of Norman Warrender in the 1980s sitcom ''[[Just Good Friends]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonlin ...(now called [[Pate's Grammar School]]). As a teenager he was a member of a drama group run by a retired professional actor. He was then called up for [[Cons
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  • ...chieved mainstream fame in the 1980s with her starring role in the British television programme, ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]'' as [[Edith Artois]]. ...'[[Lillie (TV series)|Lillie]]'' in 1978, [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]'s drama series about the future [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|Edward VII]]'s [[Mistre
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  • ...series ''[[Please Sir!]]'', the film of the same name, and the spin-off TV series ''[[The Fenn Street Gang]]''. ...e-boy<ref>{{cite web | title = Please Sir! / The Fenn Street Gang | work = Television Heaven |url=http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/pleasesir.htm | accessdate=8
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  • ...s television work, in particular playing Ted Bovis in ''[[Hi-de-Hi!]]'', a 1980s [[BBC]] [[Situation comedy|sitcom]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thegu ...he part of Ted Bovis in his new holiday-camp sitcom ''[[Hi-de-Hi!]]''. The series ran from 1980 until 1988, when Perry and his co-writer [[David Croft (TV pr
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  • ..., perhaps best known for roles in British TV drama series of the 1970s and 1980s, and for his role as [[Socrates]] in ''[[Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure]] ...the character of [[Justin Hammer]] in the first season of ''[[Iron Man (TV series)|Iron Man]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://comicvine.gamespot.com/justin-ham
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  • ...(1996) ''Some Joe You Don't Kno American Biographical Guide to 100 British Television Personalities'', Greenwood Press; {{ISBN|978-0-313-29550-8}}, p. 11</ref> b ...ian Chalk Circle]]'' at the [[Aldwych Theatre]] in the early 1960s. In the 1980s she also worked at [[Chichester Festival Theatre]].
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  • ...r]] who is best remembered for supporting roles in many [[w:British sitcom|British sitcom]]s from the 1970s onwards. ...e Best Pair of Legs in the Business]]'' (1973), and on television, in such series as ''[[w:Dixon of Dock Green|Dixon of Dock Green]]'', ''[[w:Z-Cars|Z-Cars]]
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  • | birth_place = [[Dhaka]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal Province]], [[British India]] | citizenship = British
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  • ...Inspector Charlie Barlow in the innovative and long-running [[BBC]] police series ''[[Z-Cars]]''. ...Dennis|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/jan/31/guardianobituaries.television|title=Obituary: Stratford Johns|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|date
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  • ...l''', was an English comedian and actor whose long career in stage, radio, television and film productions, included a 32-year partnership with his cousin [[Ben A major success of their partnership was the [[BBC radio]] series ''Up the Pole'' which began in October 1947.<ref name=warrissob/> The premi
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  • {{Short description|British television director}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}}
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  • | education = [[Royal Central School of Speech and Drama]]<br/>[[Theatre Workshop]] ...www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9efa5d96|title=Glynn Edwards|publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=8 June 2018}}</ref>
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  • |genre=Television ...Lads]]'', ''[[Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?]]'', ''[[Porridge (TV series)|Porridge]]'' and its sequel ''[[Going Straight]]'', ''[[Lovejoy]]'' and ''
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  • ...6 November 2007) was an English actress who had a long career on [[British television]]. She became well known in her later years for playing [[Nana Moon|Victori ...ed in ''[[Crossroads (UK TV series)|Crossroads]]'', ''[[Softly, Softly (TV series)|Softly, Softly]]'', ''[[Catweazle]]'', ''[[Z-Cars]]'', ''[[Alma Mater (pla
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  • {{Infobox television * [[Laurence Marks (British writer)|Laurence Marks]]
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