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  • | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> ...- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely publish
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  • ...ml Come Back Mrs. Noah] at the former [[BBC Guide to Comedy]], retrieved 7 July 2010</ref> ...xploration Vehicle. The craft is accidentally sent blasting off into space with a crew consisting only of Mrs Noah, [[proton]] [[physicist]] Carstairs, [[n
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  • ...e=18 June 2007 |access-date=19 June 2007 |author=PR-inside.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007225403/http://www.pr-insid ...unters Social Club]]''. His act became controversial as attitudes changed, with the result that Manning was rarely seen on television in the last few decad
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  • ...l/2016-oclc-audit-report.pdf |title=OCLC Consolidated Financial Statements 2015–16 |date=September 12, 2016 |publisher=OCLC |access-date=May 28, 2017 |ar | assets_year = 2015–16
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  • ...= ''[[Rock Profile]]''<br />''[[Come Fly with Me (2010 TV series)|Come Fly with Me]]'' ...d by the [[BBC]], the radio series was first broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4]], with the initial two television series premiering on [[BBC Three]] and the third
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  • | caption = The spectacles logo from the show's opening. Both performers wore glasses; Barker's are on top, Corb ...Corbett]]. It was created by [[Bill Cotton]] and aired on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from April 1971 to December 1987. The usual format included sketches, solo secti
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  • | screenshot = British Comedy Guide 2015.jpg ...]], interviews with comedians and actors, a series of comment and opinion articles, a searchable merchandise database, and a section offering advice to aspiri
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  • ...itcom written by [[John Sullivan (writer)|John Sullivan]], first broadcast from 1977 to 1980.<ref>{{Cite web|title=BFI Screenonline: Citizen Smith (1977-80 ...t of the time at his girlfriend's house, which means he constantly clashes with her parents.
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  • ...1972 to 1985, and [[Pauline Fowler]] on the soap opera ''[[EastEnders]]'' from 1985 to 2006. ...iss Brahms]] in ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'' appearing in all 69 episodes from 1972 to 1985. She also reprised the role in the sequel series ''[[Grace and
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  • '''Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor''' [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (17 July 1940{{snd}}12 April 2020)<ref name=BBCDeath/> was an English actor and come ...ogether with old Cambridge friends [[John Cleese]] and [[Graham Chapman]]. With [[Graeme Garden]] and [[Bill Oddie]], he starred in ''[[The Goodies (TV ser
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  • ...m ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|Holy Grail]]'', which he co-directed with Gilliam, and also directed the subsequent Python films ''[[Monty Python's L ...ative [[aphasia]], he gradually lost the ability to speak and died in 2020 from [[frontotemporal dementia]] at the age of 77.<ref name="Guardian"/>
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  • ...4 December 2020. The series stars [[Pauline Quirke]] and [[Linda Robson]], with [[Lesley Joseph]], created by [[Laurence Marks (British writer)|Laurence Ma ...en, is a middle-aged married Jewish woman who is constantly having affairs with younger men. In the last two BBC series, the location is changed to nearby
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  • | list_episodes = List of Drop the Dead Donkey episodes '''''Drop the Dead Donkey''''' is a [[British television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] that was
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  • | caption = The title card from the first episode, showing the [[Cafeteria|canteen]] in which the show is s ...ctoria Wood]]. Two series were broadcast on [[BBC One]] from 1998 to 2000, with sixteen episodes in total. The programme is repeated on [[Gold (British TV
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  • ...l|title='Royle Family' won't return in 2013|website=[[Digital Spy]]|date=9 July 2013}}</ref> It centres on the lives of a television-fixated Manchester fam ...ormat. A sixth special episode was set to be written, but Aherne died on 2 July 2016, effectively ending the programme.
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  • ....radioacademy.org/hall-of-fame/ |archive-date= 5 December 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ...Web. Retrieved 13 March 2012. (Click on link at bottom for facsimile page from ''Daily News'' article, 7 March 1998.)</ref> His ability to write stories m
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  • | caption = Opening titles from 1988 to 1991 ...)</small><ref name="studios">{{cite web |last=Bentley |first=David |date=3 July 2013 |url=https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/tv/tv-programmes-made-b
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  • ...of memoirs, six novels, and a volume of collected journalism, mainly from articles in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''. ...tor of ''[[The Times]]''. Margaret Niven was [[Scottish people|Scottish]], from [[Glasgow]], and was a former actress.
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  • ...English actor, stand-up comedian and writer. He formed a close partnership with [[w:Ade Edmondson|Ade Edmondson]] while they were students at [[w:Victoria ...z/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11270882|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-06-09|access-date=10 June 2014|work=[[w:The New Zealand H
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  • ...producer)|David Croft]], and originally broadcast on [[BBC1|BBC1]] from 31 July 1968 to 13 November 1977. It ran for nine series and 80 episodes in total; ...of age (hence the title ''Dad's Army'') or by being in professions exempt from conscription. Most of the platoon characters depicted in ''Dad's Army'' are
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