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  • ...elsh screenwriter and novelist. Especially known for his work in [[British television science fiction]], he created the [[Dalek]]s and [[Davros]] for ''[[Doctor ...e 1950s, Nation worked with [[John Junkin]] and [[Johnny Speight]] for the writers' agency [[Associated London Scripts]],<ref name="screenonline.org.uk"/> whe
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  • {{Infobox television episode ...pointment is further added to when he learns he must share his cell with a Welsh prisoner whom he describes as a lunatic who eats "light bulbs... Only when
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  • {{about||the 1969-70 television series|Doctor in the House (TV series)}} {{Infobox television
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  • {{Infobox television | company = [[London Weekend Television]]
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  • {{Infobox television | company = [[ITV Granada|Granada Television]]
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  • {{short description|Welsh actor and theatre director}} .... WalesOnline (15 September 2010). Retrieved 3 September 2013.</ref> was a Welsh<ref name=obit/> actor, author, poet, and raconteur. He appeared in dozens o
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  • | occupation = Television producer, media executive, agent ...edia executive, and agent. She was founder and chairman of the independent television production company [[Hartswood Films]].
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  • ...966) and played the titular "thinking man's layabout" James Shelley in the television sitcom ''[[Shelley (TV series)|Shelley]]'' (1979–1992).<ref name="i"/> ...earnt to speak [[English language|English]] in an accent he called "London-Welsh" after the family moved to south London when he was four.<ref name="aberdee
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  • ...of the British Empire|CBE]] in 1981; he continued to appear frequently on television, radio and the stage until his death in 1982. Askey served in the [[Royal Welsh Fusiliers|Royal Welsh Fusiliers]] in the [[First World War|First World War]] and performed in arm
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  • ...fe of Brian director dies, aged 77|newspaper=The Independent}}</ref> was a Welsh comedian, director, historian, actor, writer and member of the [[Monty Pyth ...nt award at the [[BAFTA Cymru]] Awards for his outstanding contribution to television and film. After living for several years with a degenerative [[aphasia]], h
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  • {{Infobox television | location = [[BBC Television Centre]]
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  • {{Infobox television episode ...n]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', which was first broadcast on the British television channel [[BBC Two|BBC2]] on 15 February 1988. The episode introduces the ma
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  • ...an and writer. He had a long association with [[Ronnie Barker]] in the BBC television comedy sketch show ''[[The Two Ronnies]]''. He achieved prominence in [[Dav ...first worked with [[Ronnie Barker]] in ''The Frost Report'' (1966–67). The writers and cast were mostly [[w:Oxbridge|Oxbridge]] graduates from the [[w:Footlig
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  • {{Infobox television | writer = John Sullivan<br />([[#Writers|Full list]])
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  • {{Short description|1961–1975 British television series}} {{Infobox television
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  • ...] singer, critic, writer and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973 he was a film and television critic for ''[[The Observer]]''; he also lectured on [[art history]], with ...Britain had taken place at [[Alexandra Palace]]. The event included [[Alex Welsh]], [[Diz Disley]], [[Acker Bilk]], [[Chris Barber]], [[Kenny Ball]], [[Ken
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  • ...and lodged with – a fellow soldier whom he had encountered during the war, Welsh singer and comic Harry Secombe. ...w:Windmill Theatre|Windmill Theatre]] from October 1946. He made his first television broadcast on ''[[Little Show]]'' in November 1946, soon followed by BBC rad
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  • ...ur Christmas television specials]] (1969–1973), a [[Carry On Laughing|1975 television series]] of thirteen episodes, and three [[West End theatre|West End]] stag ...]], and [[Anthony Waye]]. Between 1958 and 1992, the series employed seven writers, most often [[Norman Hudis]] (1958–1962) and [[Talbot Rothwell]] (1963–
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  • ...[w:BBC TV|BBC TV]] that in the wake of the attempt to bring Goon humour to television in the form of [[Goonreel]] at the start of July, three of the show’s sta ...two editions of the show to help Peter out when problems arose with other writers.
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  • ...sion comedy series ''[[Marty (TV series)|Marty]]''. He acted in many other television sitcoms, and appeared in the 1970s BBC radio sketch show ''[[Hello Cheeky|H ...pisodes of the ''[[Doctor in the House (TV series)|Doctor in the House]]'' television comedy series. In later series, Cleese was often absent, due to his appeara
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