• Charles Chilton
  ....blogspot.com/2008/07/eagle-writers-charles-chilton-1917.html |title=Eagle Writers – Charles Chilton (1917 – ) |date=30 July 2008 |work=eagle-times.blogsp Major international recognition came with his science-fiction trilogy ''Journey into Space'', which he wrote and produced between
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• Not with a Bang
  | language = English ...blisher=Comedy.org.uk |accessdate=2009-07-19}}</ref> The show was a dark [[science fiction]] [[comedy]], focusing on the end of the [[human]] race on [[Earth]
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• Stoke Me a Clipper
  ...Bye]]. It was the first episode to involve a writer other than co-creator/writers [[Rob Grant|Grant]] or Naylor. ...Doug Naylor. To help him with the writing duties he hired a small group of writers. Paul Alexander, a [[Jasper Carrott]] writing regular, was the first one to
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• Val Guest
  {{short description|English actor and director}} ...w:Hammer Film Productions|Hammer]], for whom he directed 14 films, and [[w:science fiction film]|]s. He enjoyed a long career in the film industry from the ea
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• Goodnight Sweetheart (TV series)
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• The Burkiss Way
  | language = English ...ty]] programmes. The first, broadcast on 25 August 1975, spoofed [[science|science]], the second, on 1 January 1976 and repeated on 1 December that year, [[hi
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• Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
  | language = English | genre = [[Comic science fiction]]
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• Kryten
  ...nk=Red Dwarf |first=Rob |last=Grant |author-link=w:Rob Grant |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=w:Doug Naylor |first3=Ed (director) |last3=Bye ...988 |series-no=II |number=1 }}</ref> This episode also marks a 'first' in science-fiction history in which an android deliberately gives a human being the '[
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• The Brittas Empire
  | language = English ...ura' left the show after series five, at the same time as the creators and writers. She is replaced in series six by the character 'Penny' (Anouschka Menzies
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• George Sanders
  | alma_mater = [[w:University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology|Manchester Technical College]] ...ctor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth, bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but
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• Blackadder: Back & Forth
  | language = English '''''Blackadder: Back & Forth''''' is a 1999 [[science fiction comedy]] [[short film]] based on the [[BBC]] [[historical drama|per
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• Will Hay
  ...nals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRAS}} (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian who wrote and acted in a [[schoolmaster]] sketch that later transf ...due to his film ''[[Hey! Hey! USA]]'' being somewhat unsuccessful that the writers and producers successfully talked him into bringing Moffatt and Marriott ba
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• Sean Lock
  '''Sean Lock''' (22 April 1963 – 16 August 2021){{efn |name="date"}} was an English comedian and actor. He began his comedy career as a [[Stand-up comedy|stand ...ph obit" /> In 1981, he left education with a grade E in [[English studies|English]] [[A-Level]].<ref name="Telegraph obit" /><ref name="Times obit" /> Afterw
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• Michael Bentine
  {{short description|English comedian}} | nationality = English
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• Jonathan Miller
  ...Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019) was an English [[w:Theatre director|theatre and opera director]], actor, author, televisio ...her=Eyre Methuen|page=2}}</ref> Miller studied [[w:natural science|natural science]]s and medicine at [[w:St John's College, Cambridge|St John's College]] ([[
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• Graham Chapman
  ...eicester]] and was raised in [[Melton Mowbray|Melton Mowbray]]. He enjoyed science, acting and comedy and, after graduating from [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge ...Mowbray)|Melton Mowbray Grammar School]]. He showed a strong affinity for science, sports and amateur dramatics and was singled out for attention when a loca
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• The Best of Sellers
  '''''The Best of Sellers''''' is the first studio album by the English actor, comedian and singer [[Peter Sellers]]. Released as a 10-inch LP on [ ...oice to Parlophone's ''Jakka and the Flying Saucers'', a [[science fiction|science fiction]] play for children written by lyricist Ken Hare and composer [[Ron
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• Douglas Adams
  | genre = [[Science fiction]], [[comedy]], [[satire]] '''Douglas Noel Adams''' (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, screenwriter, essayist, humourist, satirist and dramatist. Adams wa
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• Sid James
  ...A King in New York]]'', a non-comic supporting role as a journalist in the science-fiction film ''[[w:Quatermass 2|Quatermass 2]]'', and he performed in ''[[w ...Having seen him in ''The Lavender Hill Mob'', it was the idea of Hancock's writers, [[Galton and Simpson]], to cast James. He played a character with his own
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• The Goodies
  ..., Garden was studying medicine and Oddie was studying [[English literature|English]]. Their contemporaries included [[Graham Chapman]], [[John Cleese]] and [[ ...odes. The famous "[[Four Yorkshiremen]]" sketch was co-written by the four writers/performers of the series – Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
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