• Bullshot (film)
  | studio = [[Handmade Films]] ...rs, ''Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: The Inside Story of HandMade Films'', Metro 2003, p 131-138</ref>
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• Whoops Apocalypse
  ...lar Republican U.S. President Johnny Cyclops (an obvious [[Ronald Reagan]] parody, played by [[Barry Morse]]) is advised by an insane right-wing [[Fundamenta ...disguised international arms [[Smuggling|smuggler]] nicknamed The Devil (a parody of [[Carlos the Jackal]]), to steal a Quark Bomb and take it to [[Iran]], t
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• Whoops Apocalypse (film)
  ...only sworn in office when the previous president, a former circus clown (a parody of [[Ronald Reagan]]'s entertainment career), died after asking a journalis Princess Wendy is a parody of [[Princess Diana]], who was at the height of her popularity at the time.
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• The Tall Guy
  | studio = [[London Weekend Television]]<br />[[Working Title Films]] | distributor = [[Virgin Films|Virgin Vision]]
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• Hype Pressure
  ...Be The Day'' and the TV series ''Happy Days''. This would go on until the 1980s with ''Grease'', ''Animal House'' and the TV programme ''Hi-De-Hi'' among o ...-running ''[[St Trinian's School|St Trinian's]]'' series of British comedy films.
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• The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
  ...ibutor = [[Warner Bros.]] (through [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]]-[[EMI Films|EMI]]-Warner Distributors<ref>{{cite web|title=Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Mach ...ellers' co-star in ''[[The Pink Panther (film series)|The Pink Panther]]'' films with the character of ''Cato'', makes a brief [[cameo appearance]] as a Fu
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• Mike Walling
  In the early 1980s Walling teamed up with session bass player [[Mo Foster]] for various comedy ...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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• The Comic Strip
  ...ic Strip''' are a group of British comedians who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their [[television]] series '''''The Comic Strip Presen ...-and-entertainment commissioning editor to propose a series of Comic Strip films for the channel. Bolland agreed to his proposal, his first commission for t
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• Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
  * [[HandMade Films]] | distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]] (United States)<br />HandMade Films (United Kingdom)<ref name=bbfc />
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• Dilys Laye
  ...True|Trottie True]]''.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f3eedd1|title=Dilys Laye|website=BFI}}</ref> ...ames Garner]].<ref name="thestage.co.uk"/> In 1957, she began appearing in films more regularly, including one of the schoolgirls in ''[[Blue Murder at St T
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• Bernard Bresslaw
  ...rry On Cowboy]]'' in 1965. Although officially starring in 14 ''Carry On'' films, Bresslaw did appear in one other: ''[[Carry On Nurse]]''. The legs of [[Te ===Films===
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• Sid James
  ...co.uk/films/2016/04/26/beyond-carry-on-sid-jamess-20-best---and-weirdest---films/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |a ...ive country, found his greatest success in England, starting with roles in films from 1947, he was cast in numerous small and supporting roles into the 1950
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• Charlie Drake
  Television fame led to four films, none of them successful — ''[[Sands of the Desert]]'' (1960), ''[[Pettic Drake turned to straight acting in the 1980s, winning acclaim for his role as [[Touchstone (As You Like It)|Touchstone]]
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• Benny Hill
  ...[[Emmy Awards]] for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Series#1980s|Outstanding Variety]]. In 2006, Hill was voted by the British public number Outside television, Hill starred in films including the [[Ealing comedy]] ''[[Who Done It? (1956 film)|Who Done It?]]
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• Neil Innes
  | genre = {{hlist|[[Parody music|Parody]]|satire|[[comedy rock]]}} ...performer [[Carol Cleveland]]. He co-created [[the Rutles]], a [[Beatles]] parody/pastiche project, with Python [[Eric Idle]], and wrote the band's songs.
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• Alf Garnett
  In the late 1980s, the [[Museum of the Moving Image (London)|Museum of the Moving Image]] in ...red Tetzlaff as Garnett's analog, although Tetzlaff was also designed as a parody of [[Adolf Hitler]].
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• Carry On (franchise)
  *[[List of Carry On films cast members|''et al...'']]}} ...shows that later toured the regions. The series drew on [[List of Carry On films cast members|regular ensemble]] that included [[Sid James]], [[Kenneth Will
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• Hermione Gingold
  ...ermione Baddeley]]. Later she played formidable elderly characters in such films and stage musicals as ''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]'' (1958), ''[[Bell, Book ...ces in "Mrs Doom's Diary" in the weekly show ''Home at Eight''; this was a parody of the radio soap opera ''[[Mrs Dale's Diary]]'' in the manner of [[the Add
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• Morecambe and Wise
  The pair starred in three feature films during the 1960s — ''[[The Intelligence Men]]'' (1965), ''[[That Riviera ...est star. Guests who participated included many big names of the 1970s and 1980s, such as Dame [[Flora Robson]], [[Penelope Keith]], [[Laurence Olivier]], S
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• List of The Morecambe & Wise Show (1978 TV series) episodes
  ...f ''Dr Jekyll & Mrs Hyde'': however, there is a more cinematic feel to the parody and it moves beyond the confines of being a single set stage piece. There i ...by a sketch featuring a remote control on the television and a Mastermind parody. A Songs Of The Highlands skit follows, then an MI6 sketch on a park bench.
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