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...upporting character roles: coachmen, peasants, tavern keepers, pirates and sidekicks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/michael-ripper-p60357|t ...terflies]]'' (1978–83) and as Burke, one of the two criminals in the youth television series ''[[Freewheelers]]'' (1968–71).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.all

{{Infobox television ...with Ben Elton replacing Rowan Atkinson as the second writer, filming in [[Television studio|studio sets]], rather than on location, the introduction of a [[Mach

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{{Infobox television ...ces of Prince Edmund, who styles himself as "The Black Adder", and his two sidekicks: the imbecilic [[Lord Percy Percy]], the [[Duke of Northumberland]] ([[Tim

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