• Manuel (Fawlty Towers)
  | nationality = [[Spaniards|Spanish]] '''Manuel''' is a fictional character from the [[BBC]] sitcom ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'', played by [[Andrew
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• Boycie
  '''Herman Aubrey "Boycie" Boyce''' (born 31 January 1948) is a [[fictional character]] in the [[BBC]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'', played ...after leaving school, he gets a job as a car cleaner for Alberto Balsam, a Spanish second-hand car dealer. Though Boycie is clean shaven throughout the preque
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• Terry Collier
  ...Terry adds that he does not like many local people, in fact "he hates the people next door". Bob eventually narrows it all down to the fact that Terry "can' [[Category:Fictional engineers]]
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• Grandad (Only Fools and Horses)
  ...nsuccessful and ended up becoming [[Gun running|gun runners]] during the [[Spanish Civil War]]. They were caught by the authorities. Nobby was tortured but Gr [[Category:Fictional World War II veterans]]
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• Del Boy
  ...derek.shtml |title = Comedy – Only Fools and Horses – del Boy}}</ref> is a fictional character from the BBC [[sitcom]] ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'' and one of ...always successful, his general [[optimism]] and confidence often persuade people to believe in him. Despite his general positive demeanour, the episode ''[[
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• Baldrick
  ...]] [[English people|English]], after [[Acts of Union 1707|1707]] [[British people|British]] '''Baldrick''' is the name of several fictional characters featured in the long-running [[BBC]] historic comedy television
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• Dame Edna Everage
  ...ng celebrities like ordinary people (on her television shows) and ordinary people like celebrities (in her stage shows) have become signatures.<ref>{{Harvnb| ...Edna insists she has "mild Asperger's syndrome" and "says the things other people wished they could say" but keep a lid on.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https:
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• Patrick Cargill
  ...Father, Dear Father]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1396912/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Cargill, Patrick (1918–1996 Cargill first came to TV notice when playing ''[[List of fictional police detectives#Sergeant Cuff|Sergeant Cuff]]'' in the 1959 series ''[[Th
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• Mind Your Language
  ...1986 in most ITV regions) with six of the original cast. The series shows people of different countries with different social background, religions, and lan ...onics executive who works as a representative for the London branch of the fictional Japan-based electronic company, [[Bushido|Bushido]] Electronics. He speaks
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• John Inman
  ...l=https://web.archive.org/web/20070605095826/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2341312.ece |date= 5 June 2007 }}, ''[[The Independent]]' ...exaggerating the gay character. But I don't think I do. In fact there are people far more camp than Mr. Humphries walking around this country. Anyway, I kno
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• Passport to Pimlico
  After it dawns on people that Burgundy is not subject to [[Rationing in the United Kingdom|post-war ...ndians through starvation is both difficult and unpopular with the British people, so they negotiate. The sticking point turns out to be the disposition of t
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• Fawlty Towers
  ...the peacemaker and voice of reason, and the hapless and English-challenged Spanish waiter [[Manuel (Fawlty Towers)|Manuel]] ([[Andrew Sachs]]). They show thei ...hotel as a means of achieving this, yet his job forces him to be polite to people he despises.
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• The Green Green Grass
  ...e would allow them to bury a secret item (later revealed to be 5 million [[Spanish peseta]]s in cash) on his land and he must protect it. The events of 2006 s ...ned gentleman farmer. He is a frightful snob and looks down at most of the people in Oakham. Boycie made sporadic appearances in ''Only Fools and Horses'' be
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• List of Blackadder characters
  ...ng for Lord Flashheart seems to have been at least in part inspired by the fictional character created by [[George MacDonald Fraser]], [[Harry Flashman]].<ref n ...ungeon under the watch of German guards and a [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] [[Spanish Inquisition|inquisitorial co-conspirator]]. Though his initial plans to inf
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• Barry Humphries
  ...g of release, making people laugh was a very good way of befriending them. People couldn't hit you if they were laughing.}} ...verage#Satirical advice column|an outcry following a remark about learning Spanish]], the column was discontinued.
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• The Goon Show series 4
  ...showcase Harry as the lead under the name of 'Fearless Harry Secombe'. The fictional Secombe was still attended to by his factotum Frothpump ([[Peter Sellers]] ...of Communications which had first appeared in the seventh edition of Crazy People in 1951, while the remainder was the narrative adventure piece The Siege of
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• List of Dad's Army episodes
  ...=[[w:Radio Times|Radio Times]]|access-date=12 July 2016}}</ref> Set in the fictional seaside town of [[w:Walmington-on-Sea|Walmington-on-Sea]], located near [[w ...in March. We are repeating the first series now because we think a lot of people missed it when it began in the summer.|page=11|date=1 February 1969|access-
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• The Fast Show
  * '''Archie the pub bore''' (Whitehouse). Talks to people in the pub, and when they mention their profession, no matter what it is an ...dictator. Spoken in a concocted language loosely based on Italian, Greek, Spanish and Portuguese, mashed together with nonsensical phrases (e.g., "sminky pin
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• Blackadder
  ...eries, made in 1983, was called ''[[The Black Adder]]'' and was set in the fictional reign of "[[Richard IV of England (Blackadder)|Richard IV]]". The second se ...t inquiry into the recent banking crisis. Blackadder, chief executive of a fictional British bank, appearing with Baldrick as his gardener, convinces the panel
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• Terry-Thomas
  ...g good speech automatically suggested that you were well-educated and made people look up to you".{{sfn|Terry-Thomas|Daum|1990|p=5}} He used the speech of th ...|Terry-Thomas|1959|p=1}} then changed it to Thomas Terry. He soon realised people were mistaking him as a relative of [[Ellen Terry|Dame Ellen Terry]], so he
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