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  • '''Howard Irving Young''' (1893–1952) was an American [[screenwriter]] and [[playwright]].<ref>Marshall p.297</ref> During the 19 * ''[[Television (1931 film)|Television]]'' (1931)
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  • {{Short description|British television scriptwriter}} | genre = [[w:Television|Television]]
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  • ...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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  • | genre = Television ...|access-date=10 February 2017}}</ref> The latter became the basis for the American series ''[[Sanford and Son]]''<ref>{{cite news |last=Gibson |first=Owen |t
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  • {{Infobox television ...e nature of the show with its rapid sketches was initially inspired by the American sketch show ''[[w:Your Show of Shows|Your Show of Shows]]'' starring [[w:Si
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  • {{Short description|American-British comedy writer and lyricist}} | nationality = American<!-- use only when necessary per [[WP:INFONAT]] -->
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  • {{Infobox television | channel = [[w:BBC Television|BBC TV]] (series 1)<br>[[w:ITV (TV channel)|ITV]] (from series 2)
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  • {{Infobox television | company = [[w:Southern Television|Southern Television]]
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  • {{Infobox television | company = [[Associated TeleVision|ATV]]
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  • | occupation = Screenwriter, television writer | genre = Radio, television, film
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  • ...7 July 1922 – 8 February 2016) was an English writer for film, theatre and television, and is most closely associated with the first six of the ''[[Carry On (fra ...n the Middle East writing for ''Air Force News''. Like many other post-war writers his first foray into entertainment was writing for camp concerts. After the
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  • {{Infobox television | company = [[ITV Granada|Granada Television]]
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  • | occupation = Film and television screenwriter '''David Freeman''' (22 August 1922 – 28 March 2005) was a British film and television writer, working chiefly in comedy.
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  • | genre = Television ...ms|sitcoms]]. He has also written novels, plays and drama series (for both television and radio).
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  • {{about||the 1969-70 television series|Doctor in the House (TV series)}} {{Infobox television
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  • ...8|publisher=BBC}}</ref> He left school in 1945 and worked in the [[British American Tobacco]] factory before [[Conscription in the United Kingdom|national serv ...hat, including many of the Christmas specials. In 1980, he joined [[Thames Television]] to continue writing for the duo following their move back to ITV two year
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  • '''Neil Hodgson Shand''' (3 March 1934 – 14 April 2018) was a British television comedy writer.<ref name="BBC15042018">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk ...-own-material-but-no-one-writer-can-feed-the-massive-appetite-of-a-regular-television-series-own-slot-meets-some-of-the-other-men-behind-the-mouth-1462809.html |
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  • |genre=Television ...r his creative partnership with [[Dick Clement]]. They are most famous for television series including ''[[The Likely Lads]]'', ''[[Whatever Happened to the Like
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  • | genre = Television '''Johnny Speight''' (2 June 1920 – 5 July 1998) was an English television scriptwriter of many classic British [[sitcom|sitcoms]].
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  • | genre = Television ...own for his writing partnership with [[Ian La Frenais|Ian La Frenais]] for television series including ''[[The Likely Lads]]'', ''[[Whatever Happened to the Like
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