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- ...last1=Berman |first1=Garry |title=Best of the Britcoms: From Fawlty Towers to The Office |url=https://archive.org/details/bestbritcomsfrom00berm |url-acc ...inding him to do so. At one point, he leaves the head on the hotel counter to get a hammer, during which Manuel practises his English from behind the cou15 KB (2,268 words) - 16:09, 25 August 2024
- ...ing new cartoons about the girls, but the content was much darker compared to the earlier years.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ronald Searle|url=https://www.teleg ...ed dead bodies of girls who had been murdered with pitchforks or succumbed to violent team sports, sometimes with vultures circling; girls drank, gambled14 KB (2,179 words) - 15:36, 24 August 2024
- | spouse = <!-- Reported marriage to Derek Fowlds is false. -->{{marriage|[[Daniel Massey (actor)|Daniel Massey] ...te=13 March 2013}}</ref> Corri earned Kubrick's respect by her willingness to undergo the gruelling process of shooting endless takes. She recalled: "For19 KB (2,742 words) - 10:23, 25 August 2024
- ...o became his stepfather. After the marriage ended in divorce, she reverted to her original married name. ...for the Eton Ramblers and [[I Zingari]], but he never managed to progress to the [[Varsity team|Varsity]] side.20 KB (3,078 words) - 23:38, 3 February 2023
- ...Parkin ([[Christopher Mitchell (actor)|Christopher Mitchell]]) writes home to his mother in England. In 1975, a recording of "[[Whispering Grass]]" perfo ...s [[blackface]].<ref name="Jeffries" /><ref name="Tgraph2019" /> According to the head of broadcasting regulator [[Ofcom]] in 2014, such series "are unim43 KB (6,697 words) - 23:48, 2 February 2023
- ...ginal run, it uses very little intelligible dialogue, making it accessible to people who know little or no English. ...'s act at the festival was a test platform for his character and he wanted to see how his character's physical comedy would fare on an international stag64 KB (9,330 words) - 13:24, 25 August 2024
- '''''Fawlty Towers''''' is<!--TV MOS says to use "is" even for historic series--> a British television [[British sitcom| ...nuel (Fawlty Towers)|Manuel]] ([[Andrew Sachs]]). They show their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and [[Ec75 KB (11,271 words) - 13:04, 18 February 2023
- ...uxembourg|Radio Luxembourg]] in the mid-1960s, he was one of the first DJs to join [[w:BBC radio|BBC radio]]'s newly-created [[w:BBC Radio 1|BBC Radio 1] ...987 BBC gameshow ''Brainstorm''. He was a highly versatile performer, able to write his own scripts, compose jingles and operate advanced recording and m41 KB (6,029 words) - 08:58, 6 February 2023
- ...ell]]. It is the first of several films by screenwriter [[Richard Curtis]] to feature [[Hugh Grant]], and follows the adventures of Charles (Grant) and h ...upporting Role]] for Scott Thomas. The film's success propelled Hugh Grant to international stardom, particularly in the United States.<ref name="20 Year50 KB (7,069 words) - 15:31, 17 March 2023
- | starring = {{Plain list |<!-- According to end credits order in the film --> ...-and-rise-of-the-british-film-industry-in-the-1980s.pdf|page=20|title=Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s –76 KB (10,631 words) - 10:17, 12 April 2023
- ...an enduring icon of 1970s pop culture, their sketch show has been referred to as being "an important moment in the evolution of [[television comedy]]".<r ...performers from the early editions of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' through to more recent [[Surreal humour|absurdist]] trends in television comedy. "[[wi151 KB (22,229 words) - 11:42, 4 January 2023