• Old Mother Riley in Society
  ...hire a detective to trace Mother Riley, but without success. Mother Riley works her way through a variety of dead end jobs after separating from Kitty, and
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• Graham McCann
  ...e]], [[John Le Mesurier]], [[Woody Allen]] and [[Terry-Thomas]], and books about British television comedy such as ''[[Dad's Army]]'', ''[[Yes, Minister]]'' ...ty]] and, before becoming a full-time writer, was a fellow and lecturer in social and political theory at [[King's College, Cambridge]].<ref name=Cambridge>{
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• The Punch and Judy Man
  ...] man working on the beach in the (fictional) seaside town of Piltdown. He works with his assistant ([[Hugh Lloyd]]) who also makes and repairs the puppets. ...r ([[Ronald Fraser (actor)|Ronald Fraser]]) and council, who consider it a social blight.
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• Confessions of a Window Cleaner
  ...ton Chekhov]], [[Iris Murdoch]]) and [[Middlebrow]] material (for example, works by [[William Shakespeare]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[Rudyard Kipling]], [[D. The series of source novels about Timmy Lea had benefited from a [[literary forgery]], the notion that Lea wa
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• A Bit of a Do
  ...]], [[Gwen Taylor]], [[David Thewlis]] and Wayne Foskett) and the [[middle-class]] Rodenhursts ([[Nicola Pagett]], [[Paul Chapman (actor)|Paul Chapman]], Sa ...owever, he clearly aspires to climb the social ladder, constantly boasting about the success of his business, the Jupiter Foundry, at functions (with a runn
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• On the Buses (series 3)
  <onlyinclude>{|class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="width:100%; margin:auto;" ...ake attend an Indian social event at the depot, which includes Fatima, who works in the canteen, performing a dance with a snake. After the dance, Jack mana
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• George and Mildred
  | based_on = {{based on|''[[Man About the House]]''|Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke}} | preceded_by = ''[[Man About the House]]''
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• The Likely Lads (film)
  ...to [[Bob Ferris (Likely Lads)|Bob]] and [[Terry Collier|Terry]], both aged about thirty, playing [[Association football|football]] with some boys. ...th Thelma, and jaded with his social activities (the two things he boasted about in the television series).
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• On the Up
  ...[[sitcom|situation comedy]] written by [[Esmonde and Larbey|Bob Larbey]], about the failure of a millionaire's marriage, and his relationship with his asso * His [[Working class|working-class]] background and sensibilities make him uncomfortable with the idea of havi
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• Mind Your Language
  ...iginal cast. The series shows people of different countries with different social background, religions, and languages existing in the same classroom, learni ...n [[adult education|adult education]] college in London and focuses on the class in [[English as a second or foreign language|English as a Foreign Language]
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• Keeping Up Appearances
  ...n PBS. The central character is an eccentric and snobbish [[middle class]] social climber, [[Hyacinth Bucket]] ([[Patricia Routledge|Patricia Routledge]]), w ...h episode, she lands in a farcical situation as she battles to protect her social credibility.
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• Carry On at Your Convenience
  ...le, pedantic buffoons which, apparently, alienated the traditional working-class audience of the series. The film, known as ''Carry On Round the Bend'' outs ...ative]] Vic Spanner ([[Kenneth Cope]]) continually stirs up trouble in the works, to the irritation of his co-workers and management. He calls a strike for
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• Baldrick
  ...it is seen that he makes several attempts throughout history to raise his social standing, similar to Blackadder although the latter had much more success. *In the second series, Baldrick's attempts to raise his social status bring much lower results due to his much smaller intelligence. His m
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• The Good Life (1975 TV series)
  ...bp=12,291.07,,0,15.63], the Leadbetters' house to the left.</ref><ref>"All About The Good Life (broadcast on BBC2 9.00&nbsp;pm 28 December 2010)</ref> The g .... Tom is determined to succeed at self-sufficiency, and is mostly cheerful about his new lifestyle. He is obstinate and pigheaded, often to Barbara's detrim
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• Steptoe and Son
  ...ish sitcom]] written by [[Galton and Simpson|Ray Galton and Alan Simpson]] about a father-and-son [[Rag-and-bone man|rag-and-bone]] business in 24 Oil Drum ...in his grimy and grasping ways. By contrast, his son Harold is filled with social aspirations and pretensions. The show contained elements of drama and trage
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• On the Buses
  ...the show as having a "bawdy, comic postcard humour and resolutely working-class outlook", and notes the series became "one of the most popular British come {| class="wikitable planrowheaders" style="width: 75%; margin-right: 0;"
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• Tom Jones (1963 film)
  ...matized as a "[[Illegitimacy|bastard]]" and cannot wed a young lady of her class. Sophie, too, must hide her feelings while her aunt and her father, Squire ...thy's widowed sister Bridget. Although of legitimate birth and appropriate class, he is an ill-natured prig with plenty of hypocritical 'virtue.' When Bridg
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• Camp (style)
  Camp can also be a social practice and function as a style and performance identity for several types ...(1964) emphasized its key elements as: "artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness, and shocking excess".<ref name="Eiss2016">{{cite book|auth
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• Double entendre
  ...]"). The title of Shakespeare's play ''[[w:Much Ado About Nothing|Much Ado About Nothing]]'' is a pun on the Elizabethan use of "no-thing" as slang for [[w: ...most of the Senior BBC producers and directors, most of whom were "Officer class".<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-02-22|title=A funny thing happened on the way to
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• Dennis Potter
  ...television dramas mixed [[fantasy]] and [[reality]], the personal and the social, and often used themes and images from [[popular culture]]. Potter is widel ...on the "Between Two Rivers" documentary. This book is a study of class and social mobility that demonstrates an early fascination with the effects of the mas
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