• Derek and Clive
  {{short description|Double act of comedic characters created by Dudley Moore (Derek) and Peter Cook (Clive)}} ...release, more than 100,000 copies of [[Derek and Clive (Live)]] were sold in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-08-02|title=Derek and Clive ar
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• The Likely Lads (film)
  | image = The Likely Lads (1976).jpg | released = 8 April 1976<ref name="Art & Hue">{{cite web|url=https://artandhue.com/shop/the-likely-l
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• 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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• There's a Girl in My Soup
  | name = There's a Girl in My Soup ..._on = {{based_on|''[[There's a Girl in My Soup (play)|There's a Girl in My Soup]]''|Terence Frisby}}
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• David Rappaport
  ...e Planeteers|Captain Planet and the Planeteers]]''. He was 3' 11" (1.19 m) in height.<ref>{{cite news|title= David Rappaport, Character Actor, 38, Seen o ...a common form of [[w:dwarfism|dwarfism]]. As a child, he developed talents in playing the [[w:accordion|accordion]] and drums, the latter of which he pla
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• Harold Snoad
  | caption = Snoad at an event in Norfolk, May 2011 ...he would continue to direct and produce the show until its end in 1981. In 1976, Snoad directed with [[Ray Cooney]] his first feature film ''[[Not Now, Com
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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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• Les Dawson
  ...le, curmudgeonly persona and [[w:Mother-in-law joke|jokes about his mother-in-law]] and wife. ...|id=51827|title=Dawson, Leslie [Les] (1931–1993)}}</ref> His first job was in the parcels department of the Manchester [[w:The Co-operative Group|Co-op]]
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• Burt Kwouk
  | image = Burt Kwouk in The Last of the Summer Wine.png | caption = Kwouk in ''Last of the Summer Wine''
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• The Benny Hill Show
  ...ime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Series#1980s|Outstanding Variety]]. In 1984 Hill received a [[Rose d'Or]]. ...UK|450,000|1989|r=-2|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}{{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}}) per show. In a 2015 UK poll the show's theme song was voted number 1 on the [[ITV (TV ch
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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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• The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
  | first_aired = {{Start date|1976|9|8|df=y}} ...s based on a series of novels written by [[David Nobbs]] and produced from 1976 to 1979. Nobbs adapted the screenplay for the first series from the novel.
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• Rutland Weekend Television
  | last_aired = {{End date|1976|12|24|df=y}} ...isting of six episodes in 1975, and the second series of seven episodes in 1976. A Christmas special was broadcast on [[Boxing Day]] 1975.
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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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• Round the Horne main characters
  ==Main regular characters== ...Feldman|2016|p=137}} [[w:Jonathan Rigby|Jonathan Rigby]], who played Horne in a stage show, ''Round the Horne&nbsp;... Revisited'', thought him "a stand-
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• Basil Brush
  ...ldren's television from the 1960s to the present day. He has also appeared in pantomimes across the UK. ...Boom! Boom!]]", used after something he finds funny, and also for speaking in a "posh" accent and manner, referring to himself as a "fella". The characte
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• Fanny Cradock
  | caption = Cradock in 1976 .../ref> She frequently appeared on television, at cookery demonstrations and in print with her fourth husband Major [[w:Johnnie Cradock|Johnnie Cradock]] w
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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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• Last of the Summer Wine
  * [[Sydney Lotterby]] (1976–1979, 1982–1983) * [[Ray Butt]] (1976)
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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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