• Alan Hackney
  He is best known for two of his novels, ''Private's Progress'' and ''Private Life'', both of which were adapted in ...er Sisters]] and [[Johnny Dorelli]]), and Hollywood as well as working for British television and continuing to contribute to ''Punch''.
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• Peter Ling
  {{short description|British television, radio, and comic strip author}} ...creenwriter)|Hazel Adair]], he co-created the soap opera ''[[w:Crossroads (British TV series)|Crossroads]]''.
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• Kathleen Harrison
  | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1995|12|07|1892|02|23}} ...ite [[Jack Warner (actor)|Jack Warner]] and [[Petula Clark]]) in a trio of British post-war comedies about a working-class family's misadventures, The Huggett
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• Last Human
  | release_date = 1995 ...ision show created by Naylor and his partner [[Rob Grant]]. Like the other novels, it does not take place within the television series continuity, but instea
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• No Kidding (film)
  | caption = Original British quad poster '''''No Kidding''''' is a 1960 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Gerald Thomas]] featuring [[Leslie Phillips]]
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• Bill Wallis
  '''William Wallis''' (20 November 1936 – 6 September 2013) was a British character actor and comedian who appeared in numerous radio<ref>[https://bo ...orks of [[M. R. James]], broadcast by [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] in December 1995.
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• Bryan Forbes
  | honorific_suffix = [[Commander of Order of the British Empire|CBE]] .... Retrieved 9 May 2013</ref> and "one of the most important figures in the British film industry".<ref name=guardian_batty>Batty D. [https://www.theguardian.c
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• GELF
  ...race and class in ''Red Dwarf''" in John R. Cook, Peter Wright, (2006), ''British science fiction television: a hitchhiker's guide'', page 243. I.B.Tauris</r ...race and class in ''Red Dwarf''" in John R. Cook, Peter Wright, (2006), ''British science fiction television: a hitchhiker's guide'', page 248. I.B.Tauris</r
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• Kristine Kochanski
  ...l)|Dave]] |date=10 April 2009 }}</ref>}} is a fictional character from the British [[science fiction]] [[situation comedy]] ''[[Red Dwarf]]''. Kochanski was t ...es-link=Red Dwarf |first=Paul |last=Alexander |author-link=Paul Alexander (British writer) |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=Doug Naylor |fir
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• Dirk Maggs
  {{Short description|British writer and director}} | nationality = British
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• Blackadder the Third
  ...on|beginning with the same letters]], in the manner of the [[Jane Austen]] novels, ''[[Sense and Sensibility]]'' and ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]''. On the firs ...hey were re-released on 7 September 1992 as a double VHS, and on 2 October 1995 as a single video.
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• Michael Bentine
  | honorific_suffix={{postnominal|country=GBR|size=100%|list=[[w:Order of the British Empire|CBE]]}} ...ichael James Bentine" with a date of birth of 26 January 1922.</ref> was a British comedian, [[w:Comedy film|comic actor]] and founding member of [[The Goon S
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• Nicholas Parsons
  {{Short description|British actor and presenter}} | honorific_suffix = [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]]
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• Keeping Up Appearances
  | last_aired = {{End date|1995|12|25|df=y}}<br>1997, 2008 (TV specials) ...and 44 episodes, four of which are Christmas specials. Production ended in 1995 after Routledge decided to move on to other projects. All episodes and the
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• Dennis Potter
  ...as one of the most influential and innovative dramatists to have worked in British television. ...in the [[Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)|Intelligence Corps]] of the [[British Army]]<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/8
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• Willie Rushton
  ...years of [[Conscription in the United Kingdom|national service]] in the [[British Army|army]], where he failed officer selection.<ref name=Sherrin/> He later ...''Private Eye''{{'}}s Lunchtime O'Booze), from bizarre skulduggery in the British colonies (where the soldiers holding back the politicised rabble bear a str
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• Press Gang
  {{short description|British children's television series (1989–1993)}} '''''Press Gang''''' is a British children's television comedy drama consisting of 43 episodes across five se
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• Peter Ustinov
  |nationality = British ...|(|j|)|uː|s|t|ɪ|n|ɒ|f}}; 16 April 1921{{spaced ndash}}28 March 2004) was a British actor, filmmaker and writer. As an internationally known raconteur, he was
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• June Whitfield
  ...ation]] of all twelve of [[Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie]]'s Miss Marple novels on [[BBC Radio 4|BBC Radio 4]].<ref name="EpiList">{{cite web |title=Miss M .../archives/etv/W/htmlW/whitfieldju/whitfieldju.htm |title=Whitfield, June – British Comedy Actor |publisher=The Museum of Broadcast Communications |access-date
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• Eric Morecambe
  | honorific_suffix = [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]] ...tp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2208671.stm "100 great British heroes"]. BBC News. Retrieved 15 February 2014</ref>
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