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  • A Londoner, Flower had her first film role in 1932 and, with the advent of television in Britain, she found a new outlet for her talents, continuing to appear in === Television ===
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  • ...trons, as well as intense [[William Shakespeare|Shakespearean]] roles. Her television work included the sitcoms ''[[Please Sir!]]'' (1968–72), ''[[Fawlty Tower ...After Henry (radio series)|radio (1985–88)]] and [[After Henry (TV series)|television (1988–92)]], in which she played the domineering Eleanor, mother of Sarah
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  • ...formance]] for ''[[Born in the Gardens]]'', and the 1982 [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actress|BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress]] for ''[[Smiley's P Her many film and television roles as a character actor were usually well received. She reprised her [[T
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  • ...e mayor, Frederick Bumble ([[Kenneth Connor]]), is taken with the idea but feminist councillor Augusta Prodworthy ([[June Whitfield]]) is outraged and storms o ...my Logan]]) and produced by Debra ([[Sally Geeson]]). Prodworthy and butch feminist Rosemary ([[Patricia Franklin]]) call in the police ([[David Lodge (actor)|
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  • ...ky Daphne Whitethigh, the strident stereotypical Aussie tones of the ultra feminist (but conflicted) Judy Coolibar, and the cut-glass received pronunciation of Her many television appearances included a role in ''[[w:Inspector Morse (TV series)|Inspector
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  • {{Infobox television |ShortSummary=Tony employs his first woman driver, a strident feminist who almost causes a walk-out. Maggie's dour father also comes to visit and
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  • ...principal male character in [[Jane Arden (director)|Jane Arden]]'s radical feminist play ''[[Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven]]'', which played to packed houses for ...[Hair (musical)|Hair]]'', including productions staged in Europe. His many television appearances on British TV, include ''Take My Wife'' in which he played a Lo
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  • ...''' (''[[née]]'' '''Tremble''') is a fictional character from the [[Thames Television]] sitcoms ''[[Man About the House]]'' and ''[[George and Mildred]]''. She w ..., but George abuses this by going in to watch the couple's superior colour television. Mildred has asked George to decorate their lounge but George calls in prof
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  • * 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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  • The character was loosely based on the television cook Fanny Cradock.{{sfn|Ross|2011|p=106}}{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1996|p=262}} D ...arody of the broadcaster [[w:Eamonn Andrews|Eamonn Andrews]], whose weekly television chat show was broadcast live on Sunday evenings.{{sfn|Bonner|2016|p=80}} To
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  • === Television === The [[Comedy Central]] television show ''[[Strangers with Candy]]'' (1999–2000), starring comedian [[Amy Se
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  • ...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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  • {{Infobox television [[Category:1969 British television series debuts]]
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  • ''[[The IT Crowd]]'' is a [[Channel 4]] [[television in the United Kingdom|British]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] which is set in [ ...Fredo Corleone|Fredo]] from ''[[The Godfather]]''. Douglas tries to have a feminist committee take back the "Shithead of the Year" award they gave him, later l
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  • * [[w:Television show|Television]] ...w has been referred to as being "an important moment in the evolution of [[television comedy]]".<ref>{{cite news|title=Monty Python Celebrates 25th Anniversary B
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  • ...r around six years when Mike Grady originally left to pursue several other television projects, before returning as a regular from 1996 thereafter. He is one of ...nwright and Partridge during the second series. Miss Probert is a radical "feminist", who is always railing against men to the more timid Miss Jones. Miss Prob
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