• Johnnie Mortimer
  {{Short description|British television scriptwriter}} | nationality = [[w:British people|British]]
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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> ...sh contexts. Harris also provided the theme music for the [[London Weekend Television]] (LWT) TV series ''The Gold Robbers'' (1969), the [[BBC One|BBC 1]] scienc
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• Eric Rogers (composer)
  ...s | first = Stewart | title = Soundtracks : an international dictionary of composers for film | publisher = Routledge | location = London | year = 2018 | isbn = ...owboy]]''.<ref>{{cite book | last = Stubblebine | first = Donald | title = British cinema sheet music : a comprehensive listing of film music published in the
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• Ronnie Hazlehurst
  | known_for = British television theme songs Hazlehurst composed the [[theme music|theme tunes]] for many well-known [[British sitcom]]s and gameshows of the 1970s and the 1980s, including ''[[Yes Minis
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• Fred Tomlinson (singer)
  {{short description|British singer, songwriter and composer (1927-2016)}} ...y Python’ Troupe, Dies at 88 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/arts/television/fred-tomlinson-monty-python-singer-dies-at-88.html?_r=0 |work=[[New York Ti
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• John Sullivan (writer)
  |name = John Sullivan <br /> <small>[[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]</small> ...n English television scriptwriter responsible for several [[British sitcom|British sitcom]]s, including ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'', ''[[Citizen Smith]]'' a
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• Stanley Black
  '''Stanley Black''' [[Order of British Empire|OBE]] (14 June 1913 – 27 November 2002) was an English bandleader, ...1 February 2021}}</ref> He later presented his own programmes on radio and television, including ''Black Magic'' and ''The Marvellous World of Stanley Black''.<r
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• Leslie Henson
  {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} ...ith the [[Royal Flying Corps]], he was released from active service by the British government to help run a concert party called "The Gaieties", which provide
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• Ted Kavanagh
  '''Henry Edward Kavanagh''' (7 March 1892 – 17 September 1958) was a British radio scriptwriter and producer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk ...nest Longstaffe, with special scenes by Ted Kavanagh, and songs by various composers.<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a772400189db4d2a92d673583b6ae4b7 ''Cinder
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• Benny Hill
  * television ...actor]], [[singer|singer]] and [[writer|writer]]. He is remembered for his television programme ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'', an amalgam of slapstick, burlesque a
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• Angela Morley
  ...ews]]. Morley also received eight Emmy nominations for composing music for television series such as ''[[w:Dynasty (1981 TV series)|Dynasty]]'' and ''[[w:Dallas ...:musical composition|musical composition]] in [[w:London|London]] with the British-Hungarian [[w:composer|composer]] [[w:Mátyás Seiber|Mátyás Seiber]] and
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• Jimmy Perry
  |genre = Television ...eived an [[Ivor Novello Award]] from the [[British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors]] in 1971.<ref>[http://theivors.com/archive/1970-1979/the-ivors
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• Carry On series on screen and stage
  ...series is a long-running British sequence of comedy films, stage shows and television programmes produced between 1958 and 1992. Distributed by [[Anglo-Amalgamat ...[Carry On Christmas Specials|Christmas specials]], [[Carry On Laughing|one television series]] of thirteen episodes, and three [[West End of London|West End]] an
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• Joking Apart
  {{Infobox television | num_episodes = 12 (+ [[Television pilot|pilot]])
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• Jonathan Miller
  | honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ...sician|physician]]|[[w:Theatre director|theatre and opera director]]|actor|television presenter|author}}
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• A Fish Called Wanda
  .../fish-called-wanda-1970-3 |title=''A Fish Called Wanda'' (15) |publisher=[[British Board of Film Classification]] |date=June 15, 1988 |access-date=November 2, ...t-of-cinema/top-100-british-films/ |title=British Film Institute – Top 100 British Films |date=1999 |website=Cinemarealm.com |access-date=August 27, 2016}}</r
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• Round the Horne main characters
  ...r [[w:Julian Slade|Julian Slade]] and [[w:Sandy Wilson|Sandy Wilson]], the composers of the popular 1950s musicals ''[[w:Salad Days (musical)|Salad Days]]'' and ...r to – illegal – sexual activity in a public lavatory.{{refn|In a study of British comedy published in 2011 Andy Medhurst writes: "'cottage upright' is a vali
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• Norman Wisdom
  *[[British Army]] ...ref name="TelegraphObit" /> The same year, he was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] and was knighted five years later.<ref name="TelegraphObit" />
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• George Martin
  Martin's career spanned more than six decades in music, film, television and live performance. Before working with the Beatles and other pop musicia ...that year. Later that decade, he created what has been cited as "the first British comedy LP created in a recording studio" with [[Peter Sellers]] - ''[[The B
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• Round the Horne
  ...1958 to 1964 with largely the same cast. By the time the new series began, television had become the dominant broadcasting medium in Britain, and ''Round the Hor ...liams and Marsden), the hoarse-voiced cook Fanny Haddock – a parody of the television cook [[Fanny Cradock]] (Marsden), the earthy gardening guru Arthur Fallowfi
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