• If You Go Down in the Woods Today
  ...t of dozens. The film, produced by Thames TV, was described by Sykes as 'a comedy thriller, an Agatha Christie gone mad!'. .... At the end it is revealed that the scoutmaster was in fact an undercover police officer and that his bungling was a ruse.
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• Rhubarb Rhubarb
  ...ecember 2005 |access-date=11 November 2023 |website=The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy}}</ref> It is a re-make of Sykes' 1970 film ''[[Rhubarb (1969 film)|Rhubarb A police inspector is so intent on winning a round of golf against a vicar, despite
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• The Boys in Blue
  '''''The Boys in Blue''''' is a 1982 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Val Guest]] and starring [[Tommy Cannon]], [[Bobby Bal ...aside village of Little Botham (pronounced bottom), we encounter the local police force consisting of Constable Ball ([[Bobby Ball]]) and Sergeant Cannon ([[
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• No Surrender (film)
  | distributor = Circle Films (US)<br />[[Palace Pictures|Palace Pictures/Video]] (UK) ...=Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s – An Information Briefing|publisher=British Film Institute|date=2005}}</r
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• Personal Services
  '''''Personal Services''''' is a 1987 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Terry Jones]] and written by [[David Leland]], about t ...ter. The brothel enjoys brisk business but soon attracts the notice of the police, who raid the house on [[Christmas Eve]].
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• Hear My Song
  | distributor = [[Miramax Films]] ...=Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s – An Information Briefing|publisher=British Film Institute|date=2005}}</r
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• Clockwise (film)
  | studio = Moment Films ...=Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing|website=British Film Institute|date=2005}}</ref>
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• Carry On Constable
  ...film, the fourth in the [[Carry On (film series)|series of 31 ''Carry On'' films]] (1958–1992). It was released in February 1960. Of the regular team, it A suburban police station is understaffed due to a flu epidemic, and Sergeant Wilkins, under
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• Party Party (film)
  ...uth house party genre typified by [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|John Hughes]]' films. The movie was directed by [[Terry Winsor]] and written by [[Daniel Peacock Meanwhile, at the police station's gymnasium, Rebecca ([[Phoebe Nicholls]]) is sparring with Sam, ph
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• Curse of the Pink Panther
  ...3 [[comedy film]] and a continuation of ''[[The Pink Panther]]'' series of films created by [[Blake Edwards]] in the early 1960s. The film was one of two pr ...nt Clifton Sleigh ([[Ted Wass]]), an incompetent officer of the [[New York Police Department]].
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• Malcolm McFee
  ...011}}</ref> Peter Craven. He continued the role into the 1971 feature film comedy version, also called ''[[Please Sir! (film)|Please Sir!]]''. McFee had made The ''Please Sir!'' TV series spawned a comedy sequel called ''[[The Fenn Street Gang]]'', which ran from 1971 to 1973. Mc
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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 '''''The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu''''' is a 1980 [[comedy film]]. It was the final film featuring star [[Peter Sellers]] and [[David
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• Trail of the Pink Panther
  ...roduction began; his performance consists entirely of scenes from previous films (many of them deleted scenes). The newly shot material in the film stars [[ ...ese interview scenes provides flashbacks to scenes of earlier Pink Panther films (''[[The Pink Panther (1963 film)|The Pink Panther]]'', ''[[A Shot in the D
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• Richard Coleman
  ...ers in the London West End stage version of ''[[There's A Girl In My Soup (comedy)|There's a Girl in My Soup]]''. Later in his career Coleman became a theat He played David Redway in the situation comedy ''[[...And Mother Makes Three]]'' (1972-3), and its sequel ''[[...And Mothe
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• The Return of the Pink Panther
  ...[ITC Entertainment|ITC Entertainment]]<br />Jewel Productions<br />Pimlico Films<br>[[The Mirisch Company|Mirisch-Geoffrey]]<br> '''''The Return of the Pink Panther''''' is a 1975 [[comedy film]] and the fourth film<!-- Including ''[[Inspector Clouseau (film)|Insp
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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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• Stratford Johns
  ...ective Inspector Charlie Barlow in the innovative and long-running [[BBC]] police series ''[[Z-Cars]]''. ...the mid-1950s, including a bit part in the classic [[Ealing Studios|Ealing comedy]] ''[[The Ladykillers (1955 film)|The Ladykillers]]'' (1955). He ran a smal
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• Bill Maynard
  | genre = Comedy, television ...se)|''Carry On'' series]]. After a hiatus from television work in the late 1980s, Maynard starred as Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in the long-running televisi
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• The Comic Strip
  | genre = [[Alternative comedy]] ...s...''''', which was labelled as a pioneering example of the [[alternative comedy]] scene. The core members are [[Ade Edmondson|Adrian Edmondson]], [[Dawn Fr
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• Bill Fraser
  ...bn=0330367757}}</ref> In 1986 he won the [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance]] for his stage role in the play ''[[When We Are Married]]''.<r ...n street led to Fraser's giving Sykes his first work as a writer for radio comedy<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/ericsykes.htm |title=
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