• Romany Jones
  | first_aired = {{Start date|1972|2|15|df=y}} ...group=notes>James Beck played the black market [[spiv]] [[Private Walker]] in the ''[[Dad's Army]]''</ref> and also featured [[Arthur Mullard]] and [[Qu
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• Horror Hospital
  ...''' (also known as '''''Computer Killers''''') is a 1973 British [[science-fiction]] [[comedy-horror]] film directed by [[Antony Balch]] and starring [[Robin ...ation at a [[health farm]]. His hosts actually want to [[lobotomize]] him, in order to turn him into an obedient [[zombie]] [[slave]].
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• Otley (film)
  ...60|title=British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film|first=Denis|last=Gifford|date=1 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=97 ...y-free life suddenly takes a serious turn, when he finds himself caught up in a round of murder, espionage and quadruple crossing. He is mistaken for a s
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• Salt and Pepper (film)
  ...d [[location shooting|on location]] in [[London]] and at [[Elvetham Hall]] in [[Hampshire]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]] [[Don Chris Pepper (Lawford) and Charlie Salt (Davis) own a nightclub in [[Swinging London]], operating under the suspicious eye of the intrepid Ins
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• Pat Coombs
  ...Anna]]''. Her authorised biography, written by Andrew Ross, was published in 2021. ...London|South London]], Coombs was one of three children; her father worked in insurance for the Employers' Liability, the forerunner of [[w:Commercial Un
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• Bob Danvers-Walker
  ...iously imitating Danvers-Walker's "perky tone" in a cod "newsreel" segment in his 2000 film ''[[w:Love's Labour's Lost (film)|Love's Labour's Lost]]''.<r ...e]], in 1925, moving on briefly to [[w:ABC Radio National|2FC]] in Sydney, in 1932, before returning to the United Kingdom the same year.<ref name="ODNB"
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• On the Buses (film)
  ...,000<ref name="walker">Alexander Walker, ''National Heroes: British Cinema in the Seventies and Eighties'', Harrap, 1985 p 114</ref><ref name="nat">Can f ...Buses]]'' (1973). The films are set within a slightly different [[Canon (fiction)|canon]] from the TV series: Stan and Jack work for a different bus company
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• Peter Bull
  ...ish [[w:character actor|character actor]] who appeared in supporting roles in such films as ''[[w:The African Queen (film)|The African Queen]]'', ''[[Tom ...el)|If I Were You]]'' at the [[w:Shaftesbury Theatre|Shaftesbury Theatre]] in 1933.
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• The Ballad of Eskimo Nell
  ...s the pair for their poor performance and expresses nostalgia for her home in the frozen North, where the men apparently have better staying power. Dick The opening lines (in one version) are:
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• On the Buses
  ...= Title card used from series 3 to 6; the animated titles were introduced in series 2. ...he corporation rejected ''On the Buses'', not seeing much comedy potential in a bus depot as a setting. The comedy partnership turned to [[Frank Muir]],
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• Michael Bentine
  ...ess, he learned to manage a stammer and subsequently developed an interest in amateur theatricals, along with the Tomlinson family, including the young [ In [[w:World War II|World War II]], he volunteered for all services when the w
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• Roy Dotrice
  ...:Roy Dotrice during the shooting of Mister Lincoln.jpg|thumb|right|Dotrice in 1981]] ...itish actor famed for his portrayal of the [[antiquarian]] [[John Aubrey]] in the record-breaking solo play ''[[Brief Lives (play)|Brief Lives]]''.
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• Virginia McKenna
  ...ool near the [[market town]] of [[Horsham]] in Sussex. She spent six years in [[Union of South Africa|South Africa]] before returning to the school at th ...her debut in ''Penny for a Song''. She attracted attention on TV appearing in ''Winter's Tale'' with [[John Gielgud]] and ''Shout Aloud Salvation''.<ref>
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• The Lumberjack Song
  ...rview in 2007, Palin stated that the scene and the whole song were created in about 15 minutes, concluding a day's work, when the Python crew was stuck a ...(New York, NY, 2002), p. 194.</ref> was recorded at the Work House studio in London on 3 October 1975 and mixed at Harrison's Friar Park home the follow
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• St Trinian's School
  ...nd spent the rest of the war as a prisoner of the Japanese. After the war, in 1946 Searle started making new cartoons about the girls, but the content wa ...y modelled on the school uniform of [[James Allen's Girls' School]] (JAGS) in [[Dulwich]], which Searle's daughter Kate attended.
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• The Abominable Dr. Phibes
  ...2 |url-access=registration}} Note: Figures are for [[distributor rentals]] in the United States and Canada.</ref> ...plagues were dropped, new ones added and they are ordered differently from in the Bible.
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• Terry Jones
  ...was largely responsible for the programme's innovative, surreal structure, in which sketches flowed from one to the next without the use of punch lines. ...degenerative [[aphasia]], he gradually lost the ability to speak and died in 2020 from [[frontotemporal dementia]] at the age of 77.<ref name="Guardian"
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• Sid James
  | caption = James in the early 1970s ...ompassed radio, stage and screen, he was best known for his numerous roles in the [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'']] film series.<ref>{{Cite web |last
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• Please Sir!
  | last_aired = {{End date|1972|2|12|df=y}} ...[[ITV (TV network)|ITV]], the series ran for 55 episodes between 1968 and 1972.<ref name=comedy>{{cite web|url=http://www.sitcom.co.uk/please_sir/index.sh
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• June Whitfield
  ...vember 1925 – 29th December 2018", so it is understood that Whitfield died in the early hours of Saturday 29 December 2018.}} was an English radio, telev ...arry On'']] films: ''[[Carry On Nurse]]'' (1959), ''[[Carry On Abroad]]'' (1972), ''[[Carry On Girls]]'' (1973), and ''[[Carry On Columbus]]'' (1992).
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