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| caption = Marooned on an icy planet Lister and Rimmer only have each other for company ...[Dave Lister|Lister]] and [[Arnold Rimmer|Rimmer]] being marooned together on a bleak ice planet. The episode was re-mastered, along with the rest of the

...my of Dramatic Art]] and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s, debuting with ''[[The Entertainer (film)|The Ent ...''Tom Jones'' (1963), ''[[Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)|Murder on the Orient Express]]'' (1974), ''The Dresser'' (1983), and ''[[Under the Vo

| works = ...tic roles, she had [[List of Maggie Smith performances|an extensive career on stage and screen]] over seven decades and was one of Britain's most recogni

...n-Avon]] in 1969 and London in 1970. He then successfully assumed the role on television five years later. He often appeared in film, rising from a [[bit ...llo]]'' and ''[[Macbeth|Macbeth]]''. During the Second World War he served on [[HMS Illustrious (87)|HMS ''Illustrious'']] where he reached the rank of [

...slikes Lord Percy. His best friend (arguably) is Baldrick, his manservant. On becoming Prince, he initially wants to be called "the Black Vegetable", bef ...rong man at the wrong time, thereby facing a death warrant from the Queen. On another occasion, he was unable to pay back a £1,000 loan that he had take

...he appeared in smaller, non-comic roles in films. He died of heart failure on 3 October 2005, aged 76. Barker was born on 25 September 1929 at 70 Garfield Street, [[Bedford]], [[Bedfordshire]], the