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  • {{Infobox television | company = [[BBC Scotland]]
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Broxburn|Broxburn]], [[w:Scotland|Scotland]], UK | occupation = BBC Radio producer, [[w:Screenwriter|scriptwriter]], newspaper editor
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  • | title = Harry Stars in His First Television Commercial *[[Stanley Black]] and The BBC Dance Orchestra
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  • {{Short description|British television director}} | birth_place = [[w:Glasgow|Glasgow]], [[w:Scotland|Scotland]], [[w:United Kingdom|UK]]<ref name="Independent"/>
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  • ..., then moved to the Palladium Theatre there. She appeared in as many as 12 shows a week, many with quick changes.<ref name=":0" /> ...e remained for three years.<ref name=":0" /> In the early 1960's, she left Scotland behind her, and began working as a character actress in [[West End of Londo
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Glasgow|Glasgow]], Scotland ...nd|BBC Scotland]] and later became known for his British television comedy shows ''[[The Stanley Baxter Show]]'', ''[[The Stanley Baxter Picture Show]]'', '
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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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  • {{Infobox television | distributor = [[BBC Worldwide]]<br />[[2entertain]]
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  • ...me Garden]] <br />in a screenshot from the title sequence <br />of the BBC television series |data4 = [[Sketch comedy|Sketch comedy]], [[surreal humour|surreal humour]]
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  • | genre = [[Sketch comedy]] ...e also appeared as an actor in various [[sitcom]]s, and was a panellist on BBC Radio's ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'' for almost 50 years.
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Rutherglen|Rutherglen]], Scotland | death_place = [[w:Larbert|Larbert]], Scotland
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  • ...= {{hlist|[[Actor]]|[[straight man]]|[[Radio personality|radio]] and [[television presenter]]}} .../b00b7bd1 |series-no=15 |number=7 |first=Nicholas |last=Parsons |station=[[BBC Radio 4]] |date=13 May 2008 |access-date=18 January 2014}}</ref> }}
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  • | type = Online [[w:British comedy|British comedy]] [[w:Television|TV]], [[w:radio|radio]] and [[w:film|film]] guide. Host of British comedy [ ...rily TV and radio [[w:situation comedy|situation comedy]], [[w:sketch show|sketch show]]s, [[w:comedy drama|comedy drama]]s, [[w:satire|satire]], [[w:variety
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  • | home_station = [[BBC|BBC]] | television = Hancock's Half Hour (1956–1960)<br />Hancock (1961)
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  • ...y Ellington Quartet]] would engage in more ‘personality comedy’. The first sketch would close with Harry performing a popular song, as per the final show of ...targazers were also announced as appearing on the monthly [[BBC Television|BBC TV]] show ''Hit Parade''.
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  • ...name given to a collection of [[fictional characters]] who appear in the [[BBC]] mock-historical comedy series ''[[Blackadder]]'', each played by [[Rowan ...idea of changing history in his favour. In the present day, a news report shows the popular King Edmund III and his queen, Marion of Sherwood ([[Kate Moss]
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  • ...y and transmitted on the following Tuesday evenings, with the exception of shows [[The Pevensey Bay Disaster|10]], [[The Mighty Wurlitzer|15]] and the [[The ‘This is the BBC Home Service. Please accept our apologies… We present the extraordinary t
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  • ...Life''''', is a 1983 British [[w:Musical film|musical]] [[w:sketch comedy|sketch comedy]] film written and performed by the [[Monty Python]] troupe, directe ...the sketch format of the troupe's [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|original television series]] and their first film from twelve years earlier, ''[[And Now for So
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  • ...Men at Work!|Danger – Men at Work!]]'' and who had then started to produce shows such as ''[[Taxi! (British TV series)|Taxi!]]'', ''[[Hi Gang! (radio series ...ished BBC pianist Jack Jordan, a veteran of Have a Go! and various musical shows, the melodies were conducted by Stanley Black, and Dennis Castle acted as t
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  • ...eived during the hiatus between the third and fourth series of their [[BBC Television]] series ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. ...nt]]'', was a compilation of [[sketch comedy|sketches]] from the first two television series, ''Holy Grail'' is an original story that parodies the legend of [[K
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