• Dick Hills and Sid Green
  ...n''' and '''Dick Hills''', were a British partnership of television comedy writers, at their highest profile during the 1960s. ...er of radio scripts whilst Hills was still employed there, and then became writers for Dave King's radio show and then of [[Dave King (actor)|Dave King]]'s TV
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• Johnnie Mortimer
  ...ting partner [[w:Brian Cooke|Brian Cooke]], also served as inspiration for American television projects. ...The second was ''Situation Comedy'', and featured two TV situation comedy writers struggling to come up with an idea for a new series (in the end they write
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• Alan Simpson (scriptwriter)
  | notableworks = ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'', ''Hancock'' (1954–1961)<br>''[[Comedy Playhouse]]'' (1961–63, 1974)<br>''[[Steptoe and Son]]'' (1962–74) ...om]] ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'' (1954–1961), the first two series of ''[[Comedy Playhouse]]'' (1961–1963), and ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'' (1962–1974).
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• Dick Vosburgh
  {{Short description|American-British comedy writer and lyricist}} | nationality = American<!-- use only when necessary per [[WP:INFONAT]] -->
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• Old Mother Riley Joins Up
  | writers = [[w:Kathleen Butler|Kathleen Butler]]<br> Maisie Sharman<br>Con We | distributor = Anglo-American Film Corporation
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• Balham - Gateway to the South
  ...rable part of the sketch is the pronunciation of Balham as "Bal-Ham" in an American accent, instead of the British pronunciation "Bal-um". ...e sketch was later performed solo by [[Peter Sellers]], in a parody of the American newsreel-travelogue host [[w:James A. Fitzpatrick|James A. Fitzpatrick]], o
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• Neil Shand
  | occupation = Comedy writer ...{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-43775357|title=Comedy writer Neil Shand dies aged 84|work=BBC News|date=15 April 2018|accessdate=
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• The Dick Emery Show
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• Eddie Braben
  {{Short description|English comedy writer and performer}} | occupation = Comedy writer
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• Bob Oliver Rogers
  In a prolific career, as one of three staff producers in the radio comedy department of the BBC at [[w:New Broadcasting House, Manchester|New Broadca ...resented by [[Alan Freeman|Alan 'Fluff' Freeman]], and Series 3 & 4 of the comedy sketch show ''[[Hello Cheeky]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co
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• Galton and Simpson
  ...levision between 1954 and 1961 and their long-running television situation comedy, ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'', eight series of which were aired between 1962 and The partnership's break in comedy writing came with the [[Derek Roy (comedian)|Derek Roy]] vehicle ''Happy Go
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• Take a Letter, Mr. Jones
  ...ing for six episodes), but in recent years it has been resurrected by many American [[w:PBS|PBS]] stations, where ''Are You Being Served?'' is also a hit. A UK !style="background:#cccccc;"|Writers
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• Old Mother Riley Detective
  | writers = [[Barbara K. Emary]]<br>[[Arthur Lucan]]<br> [[Austin Melford]]<br | distributor = Anglo-American Film Corporation
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• Two of a Kind (British TV series)
  ...]] (Series 6){{Efn|Series 6 was recorded using cameras from both ATV and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]; although both recorded the show in colour, at t '''''Two of a Kind''''' is an early TV series for comedy duo [[Morecambe and Wise]]. It ran from 1961 to 1968 produced by [[Associat
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• Dave Freeman (British writer)
  ...8 March 2005) was a British film and television writer, working chiefly in comedy. ...blished television, taking over from radio, as the most popular medium for comedy. A prolific practitioner, he was a master of the [[pun|pun]] and [[double e
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• Doctor in the House (franchise)
  ...can]] collective name for seven separate British and Australian television comedy series inspired by a [[Doctor (film series)|series of cinema films]], which ...tor in Charge''. His need to continually impress her is the source of much comedy.
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• Life with the Lyons
  ''Life with the Lyons'' featured a real American family. [[Ben Lyon]] and his wife [[Bebe Daniels]] had settled in [[w:Londo ...mber 1950}} and ended in 1961 was the first [[w:situation comedy|situation comedy]] in the United Kingdom.
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• Johnny Speight
  ...in the latter's long-running and top-rating [[Associated TeleVision|ATV]] comedy series.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/838493/ ....com/anglophenia/2015/01/5-classic-american-sitcoms-british-first |title=6 American Sitcoms Based on British Originals |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=5 Januar
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• Dick Sharples
  ...ey|Gerald Kelsey]] (one of the ''Joan and Leslie'' co-writers) on the 1961 comedy film ''[[The Golden Rabbit]]'' which starred [[Willoughby Goddard]]. ...ies. This was, however, soon to change. In 1969 Sharples wrote a one-off comedy episode called ''[[In Loving Memory (TV series)|In Loving Memory]]''. Broa
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• Yanks Go Home
  | genre = [[Comedy]] ...d the U.S. military during WWII]], best summed up by the wartime slogan of American servicemen "over paid, over sexed, and over here", was intentionally played
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