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  • ...drum|perforated eardrum]]. He then enlisted with the [[w:Black Watch|Black Watch]] and he served for five years during the [[w:Second World War|Second World [[Category:Black Watch soldiers]]
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  • ...arry On'' films, other films he starred in during this period included ''[[Watch Your Stern]]'' (1960), ''[[Nearly a Nasty Accident]]'' (1961) and the ''[[D ...'. On television, he appeared in ''[[The Black and White Minstrel Show|The Black and White Minstrel Show]]'', as Whatsisname Smith in the children's show ''
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  • ...ctor Syn (film)|Doctor Syn]]'' (1937), ''[[The Black Tulip (1937 film)|The Black Tulip]]'' (1937), ''[[Beauty and the Barge (1937 film)|Beauty and the Barge ...'' (1940) with [[Will Fyffe]], ''[[The Middle Watch (1940 film)|The Middle Watch]]'' (1940) with Buchanan, ''[[Let George Do It!]]'' (1940) with Formby,<ref
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  • * ''[[Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers]]'' (1977) - Man in wheelchair *'''''[[Watch the Birdies (TV series)|Watch the Birdies]]''''' (1966) - Lenny
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  • ...l of St Trinian's – review - cast and crew, movie star rating and where to watch film on TV and online|website=Radio Times}}</ref> ...n they leave, the girls use the liquor from the plane to get the remaining soldiers so drunk that they pass out, and take over the base. In Makrab, the Captain
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  • ...], in 1909, Grandad stated that his earliest memories were of watching the soldiers marching off to [[World War I]] and witnessing their return after the Armis ...and Horses)|The Second Time Around]] it is revealed that he would normally watch three sets, but one was being mended. Grandad's favourite television shows
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  • |style="color: black;"| '''Ray Ellington''' |style="color: black;"| '''Max Geldray'''
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  • ...d (except in the [[The Black Adder|first series]]<ref>{{cite web|title=The Black Adder|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theblackadder/|work=Comedy|publisher In the episode, Field Marshal Haig is shown casually sweeping away toy soldiers with a dustpan and brush; ''BBC News Magazine''{{'}}s Finlo Rohrer called t
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  • |style="color: black;"| '''Ray Ellington''' ...cal-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"|That's it men. Show them we're still soldiers. Left, left, left left left...Um, what's next?
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  • ...t, all they would receive was their "BFH: Bus Fare Home". "Keep out of the black and in the red; nothing in this game for two in a bed" referred to how cont ...z/tv-radio/691048/TV-presenter-Jim-Bowen-Bullseye-game-show|title='I don't watch much TV' Jim Bowen says he doesn't tune into re-runs of Bullseye|first=Jan|
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  • ...)|"Friends"]] by [[Adam and the Ants|Adam and the Ants]].<ref> youtube.com/watch?v=6k6-EeFiN2g&t=113s </ref> * Murphy, Robert. (2005). ''British Cinema and the Second World War.'' A&C Black
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  • ...h Porter, KCB). He performed a comedy-duet with [[Cilla Black]] on ''Cilla Black's Christmas'' (1983). ...le relationship with his sexuality{{spaced ndash}} he once said to [[Cilla Black]], "I wish to God I wasn't gay"{{spaced ndash}} as well as his [[Depression
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  • ...|anarcho-syndicalist]] peasants, defeats the [[Black Knight (Monty Python)|Black Knight]] and observes an impromptu [[Witch-hunt|witch trial]]. He recruits Arthur and his knights arrive at a castle occupied by French soldiers, who claim to have the Grail and taunt the Britons, driving them back with
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  • ...ref name="Sketches"/> </onlyinclude>The first two series were broadcast in black and white, from 31 July 1968 to 5 April 1969 and the next seven series (Ser ...sode of series 3, "Room at the Bottom", was broadcast in colour but only a black and white copy survives in the archives. The episode was restored in 2008 u
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  • ...which mutilates his ears, hands and private parts. All his family and the Black Seal mistakenly drink poison and die, making Edmund king, but for-all-of th ...casion, he was unable to pay back a £1,000 loan that he had taken from the Black Monks, and was threatened with being impaled by the baby-eating Bishop of B
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  • ...[[Marie Lloyd]], the influential music hall singer and actress, would only watch two acts: his and that of [[Dan Leno]].{{sfn|Bret|1999|p=5}} ...|p=49}} Formby Sr sent his son away to work as he was worried Formby would watch him on stage; he was against Formby following in his footsteps, saying "one
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  • ...not like him, because Milligan constantly kept up the morale of his fellow soldiers, whereas Jenkins's approach was to take an attitude towards the troops simi Even late in life, Milligan's [[black humour]] had not deserted him. After the death of [[Harry Secombe]] from ca
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  • ...]]. It was slightly [[wikt:outré|outré]] because it was made of lacquered, black [[whangee]]&nbsp;... with a gold band twisting neatly round it".{{sfn|Terry ...ed [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]].{{sfn|McCann|2009|p=32}}}} Black established the entertainment troupe [[Stars in Battledress]], composed of
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  • ...threat from an invading army, he was tasked with creating an army of super-soldiers to fight them. Instead, he created (among other things) a remarkable new br In the television series, Deep Thought was shaped like a massive black metal trapezoid with a yellow rectangular display that blinked on and off i
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