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- ...th MacDonald (English actor)|Kenneth MacDonald]], and appeared in the show from 1983 to 1996. ...r]] and a faulty fax machine. On the other hand, he was quite happy to con people out of their money when he could, evidenced by one occasion where he sold [3 KB (509 words) - 16:57, 8 February 2023
- ...o Flying Circus: Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy, 1960-1980'' ([[London]]: [[Methuen Publishing|Eyre Methuen]], 1980), p. 103.</ref> ...7 |title=The Complete Beyond The Fringe|location=London |publisher=Metheun London Ltd |page=97|isbn=0-7493-1687-X}}</ref>4 KB (684 words) - 12:32, 2 September 2024
- '''Bluebottle''' is a comedy character from ''[[The Goon Show]]'', a 1950s [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedy]] [[radi ...ctions out loud, and was often greeted with a deliberate round of applause from the audience ("Enter Bluebottle wearing string and cardboard pyjamas. Waits5 KB (733 words) - 12:04, 15 September 2024
- ...Grass]]'' in which Boycie and his family flee to the countryside to escape from the Driscoll Brothers. A younger Boycie also appears in the prequel series Boycie is a local second-hand car dealer from [[Lewisham]] and for a long time was the richest and most successful regula7 KB (1,089 words) - 17:09, 8 February 2023
- '''Norman Stanley Fletcher''', commonly nicknamed '''"Fletch"''', is the main fictional character in the [[BBC]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Porridge (1974 TV series)|Porridge] ...s range from the practical (stealing pills from the prison doctor and eggs from the prison farmyard), to the symbolic (finding new and imaginative ways to7 KB (1,111 words) - 10:41, 17 March 2023
- ...pdates the story from the early 1950s of the novel to mid-1960s [[Swinging London]]. It stars [[Keith Barron]] as the young [[university lecturer]] Jim Dixon * David Pringle. ''Imaginary People: A Who's who of Fictional Characters from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day''. Scolar Press, 1996.3 KB (331 words) - 17:16, 25 January 2023
- '''Victor Meldrew''' is a [[fictional character]] in the [[BBC One]] [[sitcom]] ''[[One Foot in the Grave]]'', cr In the first episode, Meldrew, aged 60, is forced into early retirement from his job as a security guard when the office where he worked installs an aut8 KB (1,260 words) - 08:00, 27 August 2024
- accessdate=16 September 2006}}</ref>) is a [[fictional character]] from the [[BBC]] [[television]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'', in whi ...so mentioned that, owing to her career choice, she had long been estranged from her parents, not having seen or spoken to them for years.6 KB (881 words) - 17:05, 8 February 2023
- ==Fictional character biography== ...f the [[Second World War]]. He spent the rest of his life recounting tales from the war. He was awarded seven medals<ref>{{Cite web |title=Comedy - Only Fo10 KB (1,690 words) - 17:14, 8 February 2023
- | home = Flat 2, 12 Arbour Road, [[Highbury]], [[London]], England, UK '''Mr. Bean''' is a fictional character from the British [[comedy television|comedy]] television programme ''[[Mr. Bean]8 KB (1,145 words) - 14:03, 25 August 2024
- ...vin Turvey segments used as theme music the third movement ''alla marcia'' from the ''[[Karelia Suite]]'' by Sibelius; the first movement, ''Intermezzo'', ...s." [[Robbie Coltrane]] played Mick the lodger (who was [[Desertion|AWOL]] from the [[British Army|Army]]), [[Ade Edmondson]] played Kevin's friend Keith M5 KB (639 words) - 19:55, 3 September 2024
- ...he Complete A-Z of Dad's Army |year=2000|publisher= Orion Books |location= London |isbn=0-7528-4637-X| pages =288, p.75}}</ref> ...ilately|philatelist]]'s shop with a hobby of making [[coffin]]s). He hails from the "wild and lonely"<ref>This phrase is also used when he proudly displays10 KB (1,613 words) - 09:00, 15 February 2023
- ..., an Irish [[w:construction worker|construction worker]] from [[w:Kilburn, London|Kilburn]], who comes to the conclusion that he is the rightful [[w:King of ...h, the main one concerning two [[w:illegal immigrants|illegal immigrants]] from India who become Looney's [[w:leasehold estate|tenant|]]s.4 KB (540 words) - 19:55, 8 January 2023
- '''Private Joe Walker''' is a fictional [[black market|black market]] [[spiv|spiv]] (or Wholesales Supplier, as he ...upplies" for members of the rival Eastgate platoon and various influential people, military or civilian; at one point, he offers to provide "a couple of bott8 KB (1,362 words) - 23:28, 19 February 2023
- | death_place = [[w:Morden|Morden]], [[w:London|London]], England ...woman alongside Abbot's Cooperman character.<ref name=":0" /> The show ran from 1980 to 1996, and at its peak attracted 18 million viewers.<ref name=":1" /5 KB (773 words) - 18:09, 8 January 2023
- | nationality = {{nowrap|[[British people|British]]}}<br/> ...ackadder]] ([[Rowan Atkinson]]). The character garnered positive responses from critics.18 KB (2,558 words) - 20:14, 24 February 2023
- ...nds_1959/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and is probably best remembered as the fictional wife of [[Dickie Henderson]] in ''The Dickie Henderson Show''.<ref name="Da ...llowed an acting career in theatre, film and television and after retiring from acting in her 30s June moved back to [[w:Redcar|Redcar]], marrying an [[w:I11 KB (1,557 words) - 14:20, 15 January 2023
- Born in [[Peckham Rye]], [[County of London|London]], in 1909, Grandad stated that his earliest memories were of watching the ...ad chose to confess everything under [[interrogation]]. Both were deported from [[Spain]] and all her territories and dominions. Grandad returned to Peckha10 KB (1,635 words) - 16:51, 8 February 2023
- ...tober 2018 her debut novel, "Josephine: An Open Book" was published. It is fictional but partly based on her own experiences. ...et fellow actor [[Kenneth More]] on the set of ''[[Some People (film)|Some People]]'' in [[Bristol]] in 1962. After starting an affair, More divorced his wif7 KB (987 words) - 13:29, 25 August 2024
- '''Alfred Edward "Alf" Garnett''' is a [[fictional character]] from the [[Television in the United Kingdom|British]] [[Situation comedy|sitcom] ...e edge of London, probably in Essex. Alf continued to work on the docks in London despite the long commute. Alf was still proud when the couple had a son tog12 KB (1,999 words) - 23:24, 23 February 2023