• They Met in the Dark
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• Are You Being Served? (film)
  | native_name = <!--(for non-English films: film's name in its native language)--> ...he successful stage version of the show, which played at [[Winter Gardens, Blackpool]]. The film was directed by [[Bob Kellett]] and the screenplay was by serie
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• Hylda Baker
  ...ork)|ITV]] sitcom ''[[Nearest and Dearest]]'' (1968–1973) and for her role in the 1960 film ''[[w:Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (film)|Saturday Night ...ilent, sullen companion named "Big Cynthia", almost always played by a man in [[w:Drag (clothing)|drag]] (such as Victor Graham, and lastly by [[w:Matthe
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• Marriott Edgar
  [[File:Marriot Edgar (2).jpg|thumb|right|Marriott Edgar in pantomime dame costume]] ...ue]]s performed by [[Stanley Holloway]], particularly the 'Albert' series. In total he wrote sixteen monologues for Stanley Holloway, whilst Holloway him
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• Amanda Barrie
  ...she played the role of [[List of Bad Girls characters#Bev Tull|Bev Tull]] in the ITV prison drama, ''[[Bad Girls (TV series)|Bad Girls]]''. She has sinc ...lege, [[Lytham St Annes]], then trained at the [[Arts Educational School]] in London and later at [[Bristol Old Vic Theatre School]].
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• Ruth Madoc
  | caption = Madoc as Gladys Pugh in ''[[Hi-de-Hi!]]'' ...een spanning over 60 years. She was best known for her role as Gladys Pugh in the [[BBC]] television comedy ''[[Hi-de-Hi!]]'' (1980–1988), for which sh
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• The Family Way
  | based_on = [[All in Good Time (play)|"All in Good Time"]] by [[Bill Naughton]] | distributor = [[British Lion Films]]
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• Arthur Brough
  | caption = As Mr. Grainger in ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'' ...d? characters#Mr Grainger (Arthur Brough) (series 1–5)|Mr Grainger]]<br /> in '''''[[Are You Being Served?]]'''''
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• The Last Goon Show of All
  ...Ltd. B00918-9. Running time 40 minutes</ref> although with some omissions. In early October 2007, 35 years after the original broadcast, a full unedited ...lers]] and [[Harry Secombe]] each trying and failing to lead the other two in saying "It's great to be back." This was the start of the show from the ra
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• Steptoe and Son
  ...'Snetherswaite and Son''. Two film adaptations of the series were released in cinemas, ''[[Steptoe and Son (film)|Steptoe and Son]]'' (1972) and ''[[Step ...on. Albert Steptoe, a "dirty old man", is an elderly rag-and-bone man, set in his grimy and grasping ways. By contrast, his son Harold is filled with soc
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• James Finlayson (actor)
  | caption = Finlayson in 1923 ...ayson''' (27 August 1887 – 9 October 1953) was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a [[fake moustache]],<ref name=m
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• Roy Castle
  ...ritish dancer, singer, comedian, actor, television presenter and musician. In addition to being an accomplished [[jazz]] trumpet player, he could play ma ...t the [[Royal Variety Show]]. As a singer, he released one charting single in 1960, the Christmas song "Little White Berry".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://w
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• Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
  ...hat she was pregnant. He almost crashed the car. Bewes repeated this story in a newspaper interview, thinking that it was already public knowledge, then ...erry Collier]] ([[James Bolam]]). The word "likely" in the title referred, in the 1960s series, to those showing promise, but also to those likely to get
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• Are You Being Served?
  ...ps of the staff of the retail ladies' and gentlemen's clothing departments in the flagship [[department store]] of a fictional chain called Grace Brother ...ith the same main cast in 1991–1992, and a one-off episode with a new cast in 2016. Since its original release, all 69 episodes, the pilot, the Christmas
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• Wendy Richard
  .... She also reprised the role in the sequel series ''[[Grace and Favour]]'' in 1992 and 1993. ...Award' at the [[The British Soap Awards|British Soap Awards]] for her role in ''EastEnders''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/news/a5
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• Barbara Windsor
  | height = 4 ft 10 in ...r voice.ogg |title =Windsor's voice |type = speech |description = recorded in 2012, as part of an [[:File:Barbara Windsor, audio description of Theatre R
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• List of George and Mildred episodes
  ...had been sold in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the Ropers from moving in. [[Anthony Sharp]] appears in this episode, and Truffles, for the first time.
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• Tony Hancock
  ...ins, 2008, p. 289</ref> disappointed many at the time, his last BBC series in 1961 contains some of his best-remembered work (including "[[The Blood Dono ...re|Hampshire]]), where his father, John Hancock, who ran the Railway Hotel in Holdenhurst Road, worked as a comedian and entertainer.
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• George Formby
  ...ngwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, [[Novelt ...form of villainy, gaining the affection of an attractive middle-class girl in the process.
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• Dennis Potter
  ...ed as one of the most influential and innovative dramatists to have worked in British television. ...he United States|Hollywood]] studios. Potter died of [[pancreatic cancer]] in 1994.
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