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  • ...ture/tvandradioblog/2007/apr/25/alloalloiwishitwouldsay|title='Allo 'Allo? I wish it would say goodbye for good|first=Simon|last=Swift|date=25 April 200 ...ses on events in the 1950s, in which René is writing his memoirs after the war, and is revisited by several old faces. [[Gorden Kaye]], [[Vicki Michelle]]
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  • | battles = [[w:Second World War|Second World War]]}} ...re films.<ref name="telegraph.co.uk"/> His flying days continued after the war. On one occasion he crashed a [[w:De Havilland Tiger Moth|Tiger Moth]] plan
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  • ==Second World War== ...Flying Cross (United Kingdom)|Distinguished Flying Cross]], and ended the war as a [[flight lieutenant|flight lieutenant]]. He served with [[No. 271 Squa
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  • {{Use British English|date=October 2016}}{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}{{more citati The following is a '''list of episodes''' for the [[British sitcom]] ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]'' that aired from 1982 to 1992. Following the P
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  • | nationality = British ...ng canned fish to the Allied forces in the [[w:First World War|First World War]], and an English mother, Violet Elenore ({{nee}} Price),<ref>{{cite ODNB|u
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  • '''''Not Only... But Also''''' is a [[BBC]] British sketch comedy show starring [[Peter Cook]] and [[Dudley Moore]] that aired ...die & The Gingerbreads]] (Can't You Hear My Heartbeat), Dudley Moore Trio (I Won't Dance), Dudley and Orchestra (Got a Lot of Livin' to Do)
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  • ...glish people|English]], after [[Acts of Union 1707|1707]] [[British people|British]] ...character. Each series of ''Blackadder'' is set in a different period in [[British history]], and each Baldrick character (as with the character of Edmund) is
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  • ...a local French Resistance leader, a stolen painting, and a pair of trapped British airmen, while concealing from his wife the secret affairs he is having with ''{{'}}Allo {{'}}Allo!'' is set during the [[Second World War]], between the occupation of [[France]] by German [[Axis powers]] in 1940 a
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  • '''''Blackadder''''' is a series of four [[Period piece|period]] [[British sitcom]]s, plus several one-off instalments, which originally aired on [[BB ...o find [[Britain's Best Sitcom]], ''Blackadder'' was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]''. It was also ra
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  • ...= Those Magnificent Men<br/>in their Flying Machines;<br/>Or, How I Flew from London to Paris<br/>in 25 Hours 11 Minutes .../4ce2b6b83cf5f|title=Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965)|work=BFI Film Forev
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  • | nationality = Russian (1906–1912)<br />British (1912–1998) ...dia of Television''</ref> 25 December 1906&nbsp;– 13 December 1998) was a British [[media proprietor]] and [[impresario]]. Originally a dancer, and later a [
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  • ...character actor who became a star of British films during the Second World War. ...ger]]'' in 1934 and went on to become an indelible part of British [[World War II|wartime]] cinema, with starring roles in such films as ''[[Saloon Bar]]'
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  • ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' is a British [[w:comedy|comedy]] franchise which primarily comprises twelve series and a ...e Promised Land|The Promised Land]]'' were written by Naylor alone. Series I and II were produced by [[w:Paul Jackson (producer)|Paul Jackson Production
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  • ...lty-towers-greatest-ever-british-sitcom "Fawlty Towers named greatest ever British TV sitcom"]. ''The Guardian'', Retrieved 24 May 2019</ref><ref>[https://www ...multiple viewings, is eminently quotable ('[[The Germans|don't mention the war]]') and stands up to this day as a jewel in the BBC's comedy crown."<ref>{{
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  • {{Short description|British radio sci-fi programme (1953–1958)}} {{Use British English|date=February 2020}}
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  • ...] in the [[British Army]] in the [[Royal Signals]] regiment during [[World War II|"The Great Fight for Freedom"]]<ref name="The New Mobile Trio ep">{{cite ...d to boast of his military exploits in [[Burma]] during the [[Second World War]]. In fact, he was a [[signwriter]]; and unlike Blamire, many of his old mi
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  • '''''Only Fools and Horses....''''' is a [[British television]] sitcom created and written by [[John Sullivan (writer)|John Su ...ember 2015 | access-date=20 September 2020}}</ref> The series influenced [[British culture]], contributing several words and phrases to the English language.
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