• Michael Bentine's Potty Time
  '''''Michael Bentine's Potty Time''''' was a British children's show, written by and starring [[Michael Bentine]], and directed ...endre]] also referring to the toilet training of infants - a 'potty' being slang for a child's [[chamber pot]].
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• Radio Parade of 1935
  | studio = [[British International Pictures]] ...e of 1935''''' (1934), released in the US as '''''Radio Follies''''', is a British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Arthur B. Woods]] and starring [[Will Hay]],
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• Kill or Cure (1962 film)
  ...= George H. Brown Productions<br>[[MGM-British Studios|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios]] ...[[Terry-Thomas]] and [[Eric Sykes]].<ref>" I had come across the American slang term "kill-or-cure" for "Keeley cure..." Elliott C. Lasser, M.D., in [https
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• Emperor of the Universe
  *This show was a spoof of the British hero [[w:Bulldog Drummond|Bulldog Drummond]] featured in numerous books and ...h Jampton whose name was dubious [[w:Cockney rhyming slang|cockney rhyming slang]] (Huge Hampton – Hampton Wick = prick). The cast were also in high spiri
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• Any Old Iron (song)
  "'''Any Old Iron'''" is a [[w:United Kingdom|British]] [[w:music hall|music hall]] [[w:song|song]] written by [[w:Charles Collin *British comedian [[w:Bill Bailey|Bill Bailey]], along with the [[w:BBC Concert Orch
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• Balham - Gateway to the South
  ...pronunciation of Balham as "Bal-Ham" in an American accent, instead of the British pronunciation "Bal-um". ...t1=Terry |last2=Dalzell |first2=Tom |title=The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English |date=2015 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978
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• Norman Vaughan (comedian)
  {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} ...ul of Foreigners|A Bedful of Foreigners]]'' and ''[[w:No Sex Please, We're British|No Sex Please]]''. He also appeared in a number of pantomimes.
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• Sparrows Can't Sing
  ...parrows-cant-sing BBFC: ''Sparrows Can't Sing'', 21/01/63]</ref> is a 1963 British [[Kitchen sink realism|kitchen sink]] [[comedy]] film.<ref>[https://web.arc The dialogue is a mixture of Cockney [[rhyming slang]], London [[Yiddish]], and [[thieves' cant]]. ''[[The New York Times]]'' sa
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• Catchphrase
  ...d is the universal answer to every question; in short, it is the favourite slang phrase of the day, a phrase that, while its brief season of popularity last ...le.com/books?id=Nm3jbg0JalMC ''A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, American and British, from the sixteenth century to the present day''] (enlarged trade paperback
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• Ripping Yarns
  ...terature aimed at schoolboys. In the title, "ripping" is a chiefly British slang colloquialism for "exciting" or "thrilling", with "yarn" used in the sense [[Category:1976 British television series debuts]]
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• Double entendre
  ...uch Ado About Nothing]]'' is a pun on the Elizabethan use of "no-thing" as slang for [[w:vagina|vagina]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Williams |first=Gordon |year ...nd the horn" (i.e. [[w:Cape Horn|Cape Horn]]), and the fact that "horn" is slang for an [[w:erection|erection]]. [[Spike Milligan]], writer of ''[[The Goon
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• Polari
  {{Short description|Form of slang}} | family = English-based [[w:slang|slang]]
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• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
  '''''The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer''''' is a 1970 British [[satire|satirical]] film starring [[Peter Cook]], and co-written by Cook, ...blic relations|PR]], [[Spin (public relations)|spin]] and opinion polls in British politics,<ref name="Guard">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film
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• Porridge (1974 TV series)
  {{About|the 1974 British TV series|the movie version|Porridge (film)}} '''''Porridge''''' is a [[British sitcom]], starring [[Ronnie Barker]] and [[Richard Beckinsale]], written by
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• Dino Shafeek
  | birth_place = [[Dhaka]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal Province]], [[British India]] | citizenship = British
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• Private Walker
  ...n Thomas]]), who had made a previous cameo appearance in the episode "[[My British Buddy]]". ...Dad's Army)|The Recruit]]'', in which Walker had "gone up to the smoke" (a slang term for [[London|London]]) to "do a deal". After Beck's death, Walker was
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• Goodness Gracious Me (TV series)
  ...[[South Asian stereotypes]]. In the television series, most of the [[White British|white]] characters were played by [[Dave Lamb]] and [[Fiona Allen]]; in the ...rofessional. (In her 1996 novel ''[[Anita and Me]]'', Syal had referred to British parodies of south Asian speech as "a goodness-gracious-me accent".)
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• Whoops Apocalypse (film)
  '''''Whoops Apocalypse''''' is a 1986 British comedy film directed by Tom Bussmann and starring [[Loretta Swit]], [[Herbe ...o kidnap the British Princess Wendy, to hold her for [[ransom]] to get the British out. Sir Mortimer then threatens that unless she is returned in 48 hours,
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• Michael Robbins
  ...s of the 1960s and 1970s, including that of the hard-drinking [[Salty dog (slang)|old sea dog]] Harry Baxter in ''[[The Saint (TV series)|The Saint]]'' epis * ''[[No Sex Please, We're British (film)|No Sex Please, We're British]]'' (1973) – Car Driver
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• Mind Your Language
  '''''Mind Your Language''''' is a [[British sitcom|British sitcom]] that premiered on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] in 1977. It was produce ...Giovanni Capello, a stereotypical [[Italians in the United Kingdom|Italian British]] [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] chef, the class's loudspeaker and de facto c
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