• Spooner's Patch
  '''''Spooners Patch''''' is a British television [[Situation comedy|sitcom]], written by [[Ray Galton]] (best kno ...pt ventures and lives above the station. The other main characters are the officers who work under him, including a detective played by [[Peter Cleall]] who t
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• Mr Praline
  '''Mr Eric Praline''' is a fictional character from the television show ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', pl ...the show.<ref name="Johnson-90">Johnson 1999, p. 90</ref> This he did as a Police [[Inspector#United Kingdom|Inspector]], following up on the case of Whizzo'
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• Don Henderson
  ...een 1976 and 1987 in the popular [[Granada Television|Granada Television]] police drama series ''[[The XYY Man|The XYY Man]]'', ''[[Strangers (1978 TV series ...wn. Prior to becoming an actor, Henderson was a dental technician in the [[British Army|Army]], a detective sergeant with the [[Essex Constabulary|Essex Const
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• The Thin Blue Line (British TV series)
  | image = The Thin Blue Line (British TV series).jpg * Police comedy
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• The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
  |distributor=[[British Lion Films]] '''''The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery''''' is a British comedy film, directed by [[Frank Launder]] and [[Sidney Gilliat]], written
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• Inspector Clouseau
  {{short description|Fictional character created by Blake Edwards}} ...ak klu.zo|lang}}), later granted the rank of '''Chief Inspector''', is a [[fictional character]] in [[Blake Edwards]]' [[farce|farcical]] ''[[The Pink Panther (
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• Clockwise (film)
  ...f the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing|website=British Film Institute|date=2005}}</ref> '''''Clockwise''''' is an absurdist 1986 British [[comedy]] [[Road movie|road film]] starring [[John Cleese]], directed by [
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• Early Doors
  ...ated in comments about football. The phrase originates in the practice of British theatres from around 1870 of allowing customers who paid a little extra to ...ooking at the results for the football cards, taking forged money from his police friends and putting a very small amount of charity money into his till. Des
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• The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
  |distributor=[[British Lion Films]] {{small|(UK)}} ...ure Hell of St Trinian's''''' is a 1960 British [[comedy film]] set in the fictional [[St Trinian's School]]. Directed by [[Frank Launder]] and written by him
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• Backwards (novel)
  ...tinuity from ''[[Last Human]]'' written by [[Doug Naylor]]. It is set in a fictional universe version of Earth where time moves backwards. ...tly unarrest him. Lister then takes off in backwards pursuit of one of the officers, explaining to the others that due to the nature of reverse time he is forc
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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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• Genevieve (film)
  '''''Genevieve''''' is a 1953 British comedy film produced and directed by [[Henry Cornelius]] and written by [[W ...rose sabotages Alan's engine, and Alan causes Ambrose to be stopped by the police.
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• The Lumberjack Song
  ...by a small choir of male singers, all dressed as [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] (several were regular Python performers, while the rest were generally me ...Civil]], the Spanish [[gendarmerie]]. A chorus of uniformed Guardia Civil officers replaced the Mounties from the original television performance.
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• List of Porridge characters
  '''''[[Porridge (1974 TV series)|Porridge]]''''' is a British sitcom, starring [[Ronnie Barker]] and [[Richard Beckinsale]], written by [ ...ker) and Lennie Godber (played by Beckinsale), who are serving time at the fictional [[HM Prison|HMP]] Slade in [[Cumberland]].
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• Patrick Cargill
  ...tor remembered for his lead role in the [[Television in the United Kingdom|British television]] sitcom ''[[Father, Dear Father]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http:// ...dhurst. Cargill became a commissioned officer in the [[British Indian Army|British Indian Army]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt
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• List of 'Allo 'Allo! characters
  | rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |British ...valuables; the Resistance is using his café as a safe-house for shot-down British airmen; and on top of that, he is trying to keep his passionate love affair
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• It Ain't Half Hot Mum
  ...cert party]] based in [[Deolali]] in [[British Raj|British India]] and the fictional village of Tin Min in Burma, during the last months of the [[Second World W ...tationed at the Royal Artillery Depot in [[Deolali transit camp|Deolali]], British India, where soldiers were kept before being sent to fight at the front lin
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• The Day Today
  ...">{{cite book|author1=Laura Mulvey|author2=Jamie Sexton|title=Experimental British Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ook8CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA180|year ...r episodes. The series won many awards including Morris winning the 1994 [[British Comedy Award]] for Best Newcomer. All six episodes are available on [[BBC S
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• Last of the Summer Wine
  ...(UK TV channel)|Gold]], [[Yesterday (TV channel)|Yesterday]], and [[Drama (British TV channel)|Drama]]. It is also seen in more than 25 countries,<ref name="S ...ntric [[inventor]] Seymour Utterthwaite ([[Michael Aldridge]]), and former police officer Herbert "Truly of The Yard" Truelove ([[Frank Thornton]]). The men
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• The Fast Show
  ..., with the cast of the BBC surrealist comedy quiz show ''[[Shooting Stars (British TV series)|Shooting Stars]]'', and the second, their Farewell Tour, in 2002 ...hes were preceded by a parody of the opening of [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] [[police procedural]] ''[[The Bill]]''. Two sets of legs would be shown walking down
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