• May the Force Be with You (Only Fools and Horses)
  ...gins talking to [[Rodney Trotter|Rodney]], who is unaware that Slater is a police officer, and tells him that he is an old friend of Del's. ...and Horses)|Grandad]]. At the police station, Slater interrogates the trio about where, and from whom, they acquired the microwave. In an improvised story,
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• The Long Legs of the Law
  ...the episode, Del is horrified when he discovers that Rodney is dating a [[police]]woman.<ref>{{Citation|last=BBCWorldwide|title=Sandra the Policewoman – O ...hich broke into a riot. It emerges that to break up the trouble, a young [[police]]woman (Sandra) had been sent, and Del teases Rodney for trying to ask her
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• The Lavender Hill Mob
  ...xported abroad, Holland gives false statements and misleading clues to the police, led by Inspector Farrow. The group soon toast to their success, despite Wo ...s it is brought to an exhibition of police history and methods at [[Hendon Police College]]. Holland's worst fears come true when Farrow, having begun to rea
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• The Thin Blue Line (British TV series)
  * Police comedy ...the fictional English town of Gasforth. A general parody of the serious [[police procedural]], one of the main themes on the show sees the [[Undercover oper
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• Mr Praline
  ...the show.<ref name="Johnson-90">Johnson 1999, p. 90</ref> This he did as a Police [[Inspector#United Kingdom|Inspector]], following up on the case of Whizzo' ...43] }}</ref> He has been discussed in Python-related literature as well as works not specifically dealing with the comedy team. Praline has an incredulous t
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• Clockwise (film)
  ...n and arrest him for [[kidnapping]]. Stimpson's wife, Laura's parents, the police and Mr. Jolly, a music teacher at Thomas Tompion who has secretly been dati ...timpson vents his frustrations at the malfunctioning phones, and calls the police. The local sends her daughter Pat to Stimpson, but she turns out to be a ch
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• Early Doors
  ...widely heard in British football circles and was resuscitated in comments about football. The phrase originates in the practice of British theatres from a ...ooking at the results for the football cards, taking forged money from his police friends and putting a very small amount of charity money into his till. Des
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• The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea) (transcript)
  || Mnk &#45; oh dear dear. Poor Minnie. Police, English Police, Law Guardians... || Police of the law.
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• The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
  ...y of Teck|Queen Mary]] to gain the jewel. He recruits Alice Rage, a female police constable, to impersonate the Queen and fool Fu's gang. Rage is soon captur ...ry house, ''The Spirit of Wiltshire'', to transport himself and his fellow officers all the way to Fu Manchu's mountain base in the [[Himalayas]]. Meanwhile, F
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• Kenny Lynch
  ...mall Faces' [[Small Faces (1966 album)|1966 debut album]], were both Lynch works.<ref name="AMG"/> ...n-vegas-cast-14489253|title=Last Laugh in Vegas: Who's in it and what's it about?|first1=Gemma|last1=Dunn|first2=Duncan|last2=Gibbons|date=4 April 2018|work
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• Eric Pohlmann
  ...pecast him in roles as master criminals and spies, or conversely as police officers or detectives, as well as other figures of authority. He was frequently cas ...topher Lee]] and [[Klaus Kinski]], a German [[Films based on Edgar Wallace works|film adaptation]] of an [[Edgar Wallace]] novel.
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• List of Porridge characters
  ...he cover-up efforts of Fletch and the sympathetic Mr. Barrowclough. Godber works in the prison kitchen where he has ample opportunities to steal valuable co ...r or making remarks to or asking questions about a subject that was talked about many minutes ago, when the conversation has moved on. Heslop is also known
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• Genevieve (film)
  ...ntic attentions to her, and Alan goes off to the garage to sulk. Whilst he works on his car in the middle of the night, Ambrose turns up. Angry words are ex ...rose sabotages Alan's engine, and Alan causes Ambrose to be stopped by the police.
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• List of 'Allo 'Allo! characters
  ...ver there are hints of affection between the two, notably when reminiscing about their courtship. When Edith recreates their honeymoon dinner for their wedd ...stay with his wife. She is also responsible for 'entertaining' the German officers, upstairs at the café with wet celery and a flying helmet; and sometimes w
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• Ralph Thomas
  ...I had worked on operated. Also, it teaches one a great deal of discipline about brevity in story telling".<ref>Brian McFarlane, ''An Autobiography of Briti ...ember]]'' (1953), ''[[The Dog and the Diamonds]]'' (also 1953) and ''[[Mad About Men]]'' (<!-- Released November -->1954). It was a film released between th
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• Dirk Bogarde
  ...nothing. I can talk about it now at 65 because it's sort of, dispassionate about it, and I've seen worse things since, but that gave me a bit of a turn, yes ...in April 1945, an experience that had the most profound effect on him and about which he found difficulty to speak for many years afterward.<ref>{{cite boo
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• It Ain't Half Hot Mum
  ...Ain't Half Hot, Mum''''' is a [[BBC television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] about a [[Royal Artillery]] [[Concert Party (entertainment)|concert party]] based ...his career as a professional soldier. In turn, Williams reports to the two officers in charge of the concert party: Captain Ashwood and [[Lieutenant-Colonel]]
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• The Day Today
  ...|Labour]] politician [[Paul Boateng]] also appears briefly in an interview about the fictitious musician 'Herman the Tosser'. ...publican Army|IRA]]. These "bomb dogs" wreak havoc, and prompt the British police to begin executing any dog on sight. This story is accompanied by a clip of
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• David Jason
  ...crime drama ''[[A Touch of Frost|A Touch of Frost]]'', with Arthur playing police archivist Ernie Trigg; and again in 2008, in the [[Fantasy comedy|comic fan ...5–76), written by [[Terence Frisby]] and produced by [[Humphrey Barclay]]. About two brothers in south-east London, the series was in many ways a forerunner
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• Peggy Mount
  ...ccasionally performed in comedies from the classical repertoire, including works by [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]], [[Ben Jonson|Jonson]], [[Oliver Gol ...''[[The Observer]]'', [[Kenneth Tynan]] commented, "She scorches the earth about her{{space}}... The savage impatience of Miss Mount's acting must be seen t
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