• Eddie Leslie
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• Dick Hills and Sid Green
  ...n''' and '''Dick Hills''', were a British partnership of television comedy writers, at their highest profile during the 1960s. ...er of radio scripts whilst Hills was still employed there, and then became writers for Dave King's radio show and then of [[Dave King (actor)|Dave King]]'s TV
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• John Paddy Carstairs
  ...dedicated the 1963 book, ''[[The Saint in the Sun]]'' to Carstairs). Aside from directing the 1939 ''Saint'' film, ''[[The Saint in London]]'', he also dir * ''[[Lassie from Lancashire]]'' (1938)
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• Neil Shand
  He was born in [[Luton|Luton]] to parents from [[Glasgow|Glasgow]], the son of a [[Vauxhall Motors|Vauxhall]] employee and a dressmaker.<ref ...22 August 1993|accessdate=18 April 2018}}</ref> Shortly after being sacked from the ''Mail'' for being drunk once too often, he ran into the documentary ma
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• Phyllida Law
  | birth_place = [[Glasgow]], Scotland | honours = Honorary degree, [[Glasgow Caledonian University]]
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• Stanley Baxter
  | birth_place = [[w:Glasgow|Glasgow]], Scotland Baxter has also written a number of books based on [[w:Glasgow|Glasgow]].
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• End of Part One
  ...Weekend Television]]. It ran for two series on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]], from 1979 to 1980 and was an attempt at a TV version of ''[[The Burkiss Way]]''. ...eries and in some cases, in the later timeslot originally envisaged by the writers.
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• Myles Rudge
  ...the [[Royal Navy]] during and immediately after the [[Second World War]], from 1944 to 1947. He joined [[RADA]] after the Navy, and worked in [[repertory ...Anna Quayle]]. He also wrote [[pantomime]] scripts, particularly for the [[Glasgow Citizens Theatre]]. Rudge was a volunteer for [[the Samaritans]].
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• Lance Percival
  ...d in his own [[BBC TV]] comedy series ''Lance at Large'' (also 1964), with writers [[Peter Tinniswood]] and [[David Nobbs]]. in 1960 he starred on the [[Comed ...><ref>{{cite news |title=Percival to pay £5,200 |quote=The court increased from £18,331 to £25,531 damages awarded to Mrs. Jillian Young, aged 31, for th
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• Kristine Kochanski
  ...TV channel)|Dave]] |date=10 April 2009 }}</ref>}} is a fictional character from the British [[science fiction]] [[situation comedy]] ''[[Red Dwarf]]''. Koc ...link=Red Dwarf |first=Rob |last=Grant |author-link=Rob Grant |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=Doug Naylor |first3=Ed (director) |last3=Bye |
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• Ted Kavanagh
  | birth_name = Henry Edward Kavanagh <!-- only use if different from name --> ...'s That Man Again]]'' (ITMA), a radio comedy series which ran for a decade from 1939 and was immensely successful. ''ITMA'' was devised by Kavanagh, produc
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• Joseph O'Conor
  ...on he played two seasons at the [[w:Citizens Theatre|Citizens Theatre]] in Glasgow where his roles included Benedick in ''[[w:Much Ado About Nothing|Much Ado [[Category:Male actors from Dublin (city)]]
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• Chesney and Wolfe
  ...</ref> Touring the [[ABC Cinema]] chain, he played on BBC Radio broadcasts from 1937, the first being ''Palace of Varieties''. Declared unfit to serve in t ...National Hohner Song Band League (later the [[National Harmonica League]]) from 1951.<ref name="NHL"/>
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• The Goon Show series 5
  'My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen. Back from the dead. We present half an hour of continuous radio fighting. In both cor ...ves]] and written by [[Eric Sykes]]. Towards the end of the fourth series, writers [[Larry Stephens]] and Spike Milligan had gone their separate ways. Stephen
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• Morecambe and Wise
  ...radio, film and most successfully in television. Their partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. They have been described as "the most ...parently carried a copy of this review around with him ever afterward, and from then on the duo kept a tight control over their material. In 1956 they were
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• Michael Bentine
  ...of those unbelievable places. I’ve tried, without success, to describe it from my own point of view, but the words won’t come. To me Belsen was the ulti ...tick" and "The Chairback", with a broken chairback having a number of uses from comb to machine gun and taking on a demoniacal life of its own. [[Peter Sel
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• George (Blackadder)
  ...ackadder]] ([[Rowan Atkinson]]). The character garnered positive responses from critics. ...ieces, this princely incarnation of George is struck by a point-blank shot from the vengeful Wellington's pistol and killed. George briefly awakes, believi
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• Jim Hacker
  Hacker was awarded an [[Honorary degree|honorary doctorate]] of Law from Baillie College, Oxford (a possible reference to [[Balliol College]]), in r ...er still in office as Prime Minister; however, both before and after this, writers [[Antony Jay]] and [[Jonathan Lynn]] made references to Hacker's career in
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• The Goon Show series 2
  ...n was to rename him as ‘Spike’ to identify him closely with his performer. Writers [[Larry Stephens]] and Spike Milligan planned that each edition would close ...e show would be pre-empted on Tuesday 26 February to make way for speeches from the ''Pilgrims’ Dinner''. The Stargazers were also announced as appearing
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• The Les Dawson Show
  ...son Show''''' was a [[variety show]] that aired on [[BBC1]] intermittently from 1978 through 1989. The show starred comedian [[Les Dawson]] (1931–1993), ...reet'' |date=1 June 2017 |last=Pollock |first=David |website=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]] |access-date=2018-02-08}}</ref> It also replaced the Dougie S
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