• Benny Lee
  ...[Scottish people|Scottish]] comedy actor and singer. He started his career in stage roles, and developed a television and film career. ...cess-date=6 December 2020}}</ref> He began his singing career as [[tenor]] in the school choir. Leaving school at 14, he became a [[tailor]]'s [[apprent
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• The Junk Affair
  ...nk Affair''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the second show in the eighth series. ...ace Sunday {{Date|1957-10-06}}, 4.30pm. at [[KOKO (music venue)|The Camden Theatre]], Camden Town, London (DLO 39090A). The recording for transmission was cre
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• Humphrey Appleby
  ...Secretary (United Kingdom)|Cabinet Secretary]], the most powerful position in the service and one he retains during ''Yes, Prime Minister''. Hawthorne's ...nder of the Order of the British Empire|KBE]] award early on in the series in "The Official Visit". The Dean of Baillie describes him as "too clever by h
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• Les Dawson
  |years_active = 1956–1993 ...le, curmudgeonly persona and [[w:Mother-in-law joke|jokes about his mother-in-law]] and wife.
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• Chesney and Wolfe
  ...(1969–73) and ''[[Romany Jones]]'' (1972–75). When their partnership began in the mid-1950s, Chesney was already known to the public as a [[harmonica]] p ...k trader, and Jeanne (''[[née]]'' Basset). He left the French Lycée school in London at the age of 16, and began using his English name.<ref name="Haywar
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• Dame Edna Everage
  ...n several books including an autobiography, ''My Gorgeous Life'', appeared in several films and hosted several television shows (on which Humphries has a ...performances in London in the 1960s through which his Edna character grew in stature and popularity.
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• Peter Butterworth
  ...on and radio, and was known for playing [[The Monk (Doctor Who)|The Monk]] in ''[[Doctor Who|Doctor Who]]''. Butterworth was married to the actress and i ...line-up, something which offered inspiration to him when starting a career in acting.<ref name="what">{{cite web|url=http://www.carryon.org.uk/regulars_f
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• Joyce Grenfell
  ...)|The Happiest Days of Your Life]]'' (1950) and Police Sergeant Ruby Gates in the [[St Trinian's]] series (from 1954). She was a well-known broadcaster o ...uccess led to a career as an entertainer, giving her creations in theatres in five continents between 1940 and 1969.
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• Richard Briers
  | caption = Briers in 2009 ...rth_place = [[w:Raynes Park|Raynes Park]], [[w:Surrey|Surrey]],<!-- it was in Surrey when he was born --> England
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• Ken Dodd
  | caption = Dodd in 2007 with his "tickling sticks" | medium = Stand-up comedy, theatre, radio, television and music
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• The Goon Show
  ...r Sellers]] (top), [[Spike Milligan]] (left) and [[Harry Secombe]] (right) in a 1950s [[BBC]] publicity shot | record_location = [[KOKO (venue)|Camden Theatre]], London
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• The Goon Show series 6
  ...21 (he co-produced ''The Missing Christmas Parcel'' with John Lane) shows in the series, with [[Pat Dixon]] producing the remaining five, with the excep ...original broadcast on the less popular [[BBC Home Service|Home Service]]. In the meantime, the show's three stars - [[Harry Secombe]], [[Peter Sellers]]
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• Stanley Holloway
  ...e and screen|on stage and screen]], especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in ''[[My Fair Lady|My Fair Lady]]''. He was also renowned for his [[Songs and ...recordings of his many monologues. By the 1930s, he was in demand to star in [[variety show|variety]], [[pantomime|pantomime]] and musical comedy, inclu
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• The Goon Show series 7
  ...chael O'Bolligan: fined five pounds. And now, at eight stone seven pounds, in transparent shorts, The Goon Show.''’ ...n a Thursday evening excepting [[What's My Line?|7/10]] and [[Six Charlies in Search of an Author|7/13]] which were broadcast on a Wednesday. Most of the
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• Ronnie Barker
  | medium = Books, film, stand-up comedy, television, theatre ...er 2005) was an English actor, comedian and writer. He was known for roles in British comedy television series such as ''[[Porridge (TV series)|Porridge]
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• Journey into Space
  ...= The four main cast members of ''Journey Into Space: The World in Peril'' ...''Journey to the Moon'' – 18<br />''The Red Planet'' – 20<br />''The World in Peril'' – 20<br />''Operation Luna'' – 13<br />''The Return from Mars''
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• Morecambe and Wise
  | caption=Morecambe (left) & Wise in their classic "skip dance" pose, performed to the song "[[Bring Me Sunshine ...in television. Their partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. They have been described as "the most illustrious, and the best-loved
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• The Goon Show series 2
  In late 1951, producer [[Dennis Main Wilson]] was planning the new run of Goon ...how'' rather than ''Crazy People''. This is purely because everybody, both in and outside the business, refers to it as ''the Goon Show'' (or that ''Goon
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• Michael Hordern
  ...had appeared in nearly 140 cinema roles. His later work was predominantly in television and radio. ...sion debut, becoming a reliable bit-part actor in many films, particularly in the [[war film|war film]] genre.
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• Barry Humphries
  | caption = Humphries in 2001 ...urd-moments-in-the-frocks-of-the-dame-20100914-15ar3.html "Absurd moments: in the frocks of the dame"] by Steve Meacham, ''[[Brisbane Times]]'' (15 Septe
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