• If You Go Down in the Woods Today
  '''''If You Go Down in the Woods Today''''' is a British TV film comedy released in 1981, written, directed and starring [[Eric Syke .... At the end it is revealed that the scoutmaster was in fact an undercover police officer and that his bungling was a ruse.
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• The Boys in Blue
  '''''The Boys in Blue''''' is a 1982 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Val Guest]] and starring [[Tommy Cannon]], [[ ...aside village of Little Botham (pronounced bottom), we encounter the local police force consisting of Constable Ball ([[Bobby Ball]]) and Sergeant Cannon ([[
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• Dates (Only Fools and Horses)
  ...hase. They race past two police officers at temporary traffic signals. The officers vow to apprehend the driver of the 'yellow, three-wheeled van'. ...et her, but while at the ''Nag's Head'' he is approached by the two police officers still looking for the owner of the yellow van. Believing the female officer
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• Spooner's Patch
  '''''Spooners Patch''''' is a British television [[Situation comedy|sitcom]], written by [[Ray Galton]] (best kno ...pt ventures and lives above the station. The other main characters are the officers who work under him, including a detective played by [[Peter Cleall]] who t
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• The Captain's Table
  '''''The Captain's Table''''' is a 1959 [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy film|comedy film]] directed by [[Jack Lee (film director)|Jack L To add to his woes, most of the officers and crew, led by the chief purser, are [[fraud|on the fiddle]]. The captain
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• The Radio Ham
  ...series ''[[Hancock's Half Hour|Hancock]]'', the final BBC series featuring British comedian [[Tony Hancock]]. First transmitted on 9 June 1961, the show was w ...e cannot re-establish contact with the man in distress. One of the police officers then reads in the newspaper that the man was rescued with the assistance of
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• May the Force Be with You (Only Fools and Horses)
  ...gins talking to [[Rodney Trotter|Rodney]], who is unaware that Slater is a police officer, and tells him that he is an old friend of Del's. ...rrests Del, Rodney and [[Grandad (Only Fools and Horses)|Grandad]]. At the police station, Slater interrogates the trio about where, and from whom, they acqu
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• The Long Legs of the Law
  ...the episode, Del is horrified when he discovers that Rodney is dating a [[police]]woman.<ref>{{Citation|last=BBCWorldwide|title=Sandra the Policewoman – O ...hich broke into a riot. It emerges that to break up the trouble, a young [[police]]woman (Sandra) had been sent, and Del teases Rodney for trying to ask her
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• Rotten to the Core (film)
  | distributor = [[British Lion Film Corporation|British Lion]] ...duction design.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1966/film/british-art-direction-black-and-white|title=BAFTA Awards|website=awards.bafta.org}}
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• The League of Gentlemen (film)
  | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] '''''The League of Gentlemen''''' is a 1960 British [[heist film|heist]] [[action comedy]] film directed by [[Basil Dearden]] a
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• Porridge (film)
  '''''Porridge''''' is a 1979 British [[comedy film]] based on the television series ''[[Porridge (TV series)|Por ...the coach, though the prison officers' attempt to help isn't well met with police, as no one can explain how they let three inmates drive out of the gates. F
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• Ray Galton
  ...r)|Alan Simpson]]. Together they devised and wrote 1950s and 60s [[BBC]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]]s including ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'' (1954–1961), the ...on scripts, including ''[[Spooner's Patch]]'' (1979–1982) about a corrupt police station. He also wrote scripts for sitcoms produced in Germany and Scandina
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• The Lavender Hill Mob
  ...ed ''The Lavender Hill Mob'' the [[BFI Top 100 British films|17th greatest British film of all time]]. The original film was digitally restored and re-release ...e of luxury in [[Rio de Janeiro]], and spends an evening dining out with a British visitor. During their meal, he narrates a story concerning how he changed h
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• Max Harris (composer)
  ...]] and [[piano accordion]].<ref name="Chilton">John Chilton ''Who's Who of British Jazz'', London: Continuum, 2004, p. 165</ref> ...(1970–72), the LWT drama anthology series ''Big Brother'' (1970), the LWT police drama series ''[[New Scotland Yard (TV series)|New Scotland Yard]]'' (1972)
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• Talbot Rothwell
  '''Talbot Nelson Conn “Tolly” Rothwell''', [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (12 November 1916 &ndash; 28 February 1981) was an English [[s ...of jobs during his early life: [[town clerk|town clerk]], [[police officer|police officer]], and [[Royal Air Force|Royal Air Force]] [[aviator|pilot]].
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• The Thin Blue Line (British TV series)
  | image = The Thin Blue Line (British TV series).jpg * Police comedy
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• Mr Praline
  ...the show.<ref name="Johnson-90">Johnson 1999, p. 90</ref> This he did as a Police [[Inspector#United Kingdom|Inspector]], following up on the case of Whizzo' ...plastered down hair and plastic raincoat".<ref>{{cite book |title=The Best British Stand-Up and Comedy Routines |editor-last=O'Brien |editor-first=Mike |year=
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• The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
  |distributor=[[British Lion Films]] '''''The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery''''' is a British comedy film, directed by [[Frank Launder]] and [[Sidney Gilliat]], written
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• Private's Progress
  | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] {{small|(UK)}} '''''Private's Progress''''' is a 1956 British [[comedy film]] based on the novel<ref>[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show
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• To Hull and Back
  ...ho the courier is. Also, Slater mentions that he will be retiring from the police force after solving the case (though Hoskins earlier explained that Slater ...be chased by the police just after Del has left Van Kleefe; two uniformed officers and a plain clothes man standing there start running and the Trotters flee,
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