• Arthur? Arthur!
  ...and unsuccessful inventor who begins to develop a second identity as a man about town with a completely different life. ...Blossom]]'' also portrays an obscure suburban man, from a different social class, seeking relief from a mundane life.
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• Nothing but the Best (film)
  A young and ambitious businessman hires an unemployed [[upper class|upper-class]] man to tutor him in a number of [[life skills]]. ...en layabout who has everything James wants: effortless [[upper class|upper-class]] arrogance and impeccable tailoring. In return for a room to live in and l
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• The Punch and Judy Man
  ...r ([[Ronald Fraser (actor)|Ronald Fraser]]) and council, who consider it a social blight. ...esulting in some of the illuminated signs displaying unflattering comments about the town. Wally then puts on his show for the guests at the formal dinner a
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• Old Mother Riley in Society
  | studio = [[British National Films]] ...ut Mother Riley — fearing this will have damaging effect on her daughter’s social standing — causes a disruption, then leaves a goodbye note and vanishes.
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• Heavens Above!
  ...ts to Boulting brothers article -->Charter Film Productions<br />[[Romulus Films]] | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] {{small|(UK)}}
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• Confessions of a Window Cleaner
  ...-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110905065924/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Confessions-of-a-Window-Cleaner_1974 |archive-date=5 September 2011 |url-st Like the other films in the ''Confessions'' series; ''[[Confessions of a Pop Performer]]'', ''[
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• The Likely Lads (film)
  ...to [[Bob Ferris (Likely Lads)|Bob]] and [[Terry Collier|Terry]], both aged about thirty, playing [[Association football|football]] with some boys. ...th Thelma, and jaded with his social activities (the two things he boasted about in the television series).
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• George and Mildred
  | based_on = {{based on|''[[Man About the House]]''|Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke}} | preceded_by = ''[[Man About the House]]''
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• Graham McCann
  ...e]], [[John Le Mesurier]], [[Woody Allen]] and [[Terry-Thomas]], and books about British television comedy such as ''[[Dad's Army]]'', ''[[Yes, Minister]]'' ...ty]] and, before becoming a full-time writer, was a fellow and lecturer in social and political theory at [[King's College, Cambridge]].<ref name=Cambridge>{
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• Georgy Girl
  ...that Georgy is the sole caregiver of a baby to whom she has no blood ties, Social Services wishes to remove baby Sara from her care. ...to [[Gross rental|rentals accruing to the distributors]].<ref>"Big Rental Films of 1967", ''Variety'', 3 January 1968 p 25</ref>
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• Carry On at Your Convenience
  ...le, pedantic buffoons which, apparently, alienated the traditional working-class audience of the series. The film, known as ''Carry On Round the Bend'' outs ...s coming down between workers and management, thanks largely to that great social lubricant, alcohol. W.C. becomes intoxicated and spends the day – and it
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• Tom Jones (1963 film)
  ...stribution.pdf|last=Petrie|first= Duncan James |year=2017|title= Bryanston Films : An Experiment in Cooperative Independent Production and Distribution|jour ...999, the [[British Film Institute]] ranked it as the [[BFI Top 100 British films|51st greatest British film of the 20th century]].
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• Steptoe and Son
  ...ish sitcom]] written by [[Galton and Simpson|Ray Galton and Alan Simpson]] about a father-and-son [[Rag-and-bone man|rag-and-bone]] business in 24 Oil Drum ...in his grimy and grasping ways. By contrast, his son Harold is filled with social aspirations and pretensions. The show contained elements of drama and trage
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• Janet Davies (actress)
  ...1968 film)|Interlude]]'' (1968).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2baba0736d|title=Janet Davies|website=BFI}}</ref><ref>{{cite w {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style= "margin-right= 0;"
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• Clive Dunn
  ...Attack]]'', a short film commissioned by the [[w:Department of Health and Social Care#History|Ministry of Health]].<ref name="BFI" /> Dunn appeared in both ...1930s. While still attending school, he appeared with [[Will Hay]] in the films ''[[Boys Will Be Boys (1935 film)|Boys Will Be Boys]]'' (1935), and ''[[Goo
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• Alf Garnett
  Alf was a [[working class]] man, forever complaining that he worked and worked and yet lived somewher ...ckness and In Health]]'' Else needed to use a wheelchair, and Alf grumbled about having to care for her. When Dandy Nichols died in 1986, the character of E
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• Kind Hearts and Coronets
  ...a woman disowned by her aristocratic family for marrying out of her social class. After her death, Louis decides to take revenge on the family and take the ...Castle]] and other locations in Kent, and at Ealing Studios. The themes of class and sexual repression run through the film, particularly love between class
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• On the Buses
  ...Wolfe]], who wrote most of the episodes. It spawned three spin-off feature films and a stage version. Despite the writers' previous successes with ''[[The R ...the show as having a "bawdy, comic postcard humour and resolutely working-class outlook", and notes the series became "one of the most popular British come
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• Double entendre
  ...]"). The title of Shakespeare's play ''[[w:Much Ado About Nothing|Much Ado About Nothing]]'' is a pun on the Elizabethan use of "no-thing" as slang for [[w: ...most of the Senior BBC producers and directors, most of whom were "Officer class".<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-02-22|title=A funny thing happened on the way to
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• Marty Feldman
  Feldman went on to appear in films such as ''[[w:The Bed Sitting Room (film)|The Bed Sitting Room]]'' and ''[[ ...e social status as upper class (Cleese), middle class (Barker) and working class (Corbett).<ref name="six" />
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