• Myra Taylor (scriptwriter)
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• Eddie Braben
  | birth_place = [[w:Dingle, Liverpool|Dingle]], Lancashire, England ...ef name="theguardian.com"/> and he was born in Monkswell Street, [[Dingle, Liverpool|Dingle]]. He was evacuated to [[Anglesey]] as a child during [[World War II
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• Vince Powell
  ...[[Love Thy Neighbour (1972 TV series)|Love Thy Neighbour]]'', though other writers contributed scripts to both series. The latter programme, according to ''[[ ...Powell and Driver left after the first series, though the show (written by writers such as Roy Bottomley and Tom Brennand) continued in their absence.
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• Arthur Askey
  | birth_place = [[Dingle, Liverpool|Dingle]], [[Lancashire]], England ...Master's Voice]] include "The Bee Song" (1938), a lasting part of his act. From the 1950s, Askey was a prominent television presence and made regular appea
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• Ernie Wise
  ...on 15 March 1939.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Liverpool Daily Post |journal=Liverpool Daily Post |date=15 March 1939 |page=5}}</ref> ...ew and Wise" on Thursday 28 August 1941, at the [[Liverpool Empire Theatre|Liverpool Empire]]. A change of name followed in the autumn: after agreeing that the
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• Lee Cornes
  ...at the [[Wyndham's Theatre]]. He toured Britain with ''[[Nigel Planer|Neal from the Young Ones]]''. Cornes was one of the lead writers for ''[[Mr Bean, The Animated Series]]'', and a writer on ''Cavegirl'' and
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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 [[Category:English television writers]]
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• John Antrobus
  ...al Military Academy Sandhurst]], serving with the [[East Surrey Regiment]] from 1952 to 1955,<ref name="auto">Contemporary Dramatists, ed. James Vinson, St ...uture writing comedy, and went to [[Associated London Scripts]] (ALS), the writers' co-operative set up by [[Spike Milligan]] and [[Eric Sykes]].<ref name="Mc
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• Caroline Aherne
  |alma_mater = [[w:Liverpool John Moores University|Liverpool Polytechnic]] Aherne narrated the [[Channel 4]] reality television series ''[[Gogglebox]]'' from its inception in 2013 until 8 April 2016. Aherne died of cancer at the age
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• George Melly
  | birth_place = [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]], England ...was an English [[jazz]] and [[blues]] singer, critic, writer and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973 he was a film and television critic for ''[[The Observer]]'';
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• Geoffrey Perkins
  ...and Trading Company]], where he was put to work studying waste timber in [[Liverpool]].<ref name="Telegraphobit"/> He did not last long in the field of commerci ...chhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' in 1977 for [[BBC Radio 4]], taking over from [[Simon Brett]], the producer of the pilot. Perkins assisted the notoriousl
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• ISIRTA episodes and songs
  '''ISIRTA episodes and songs''': a list of episodes and sketches from the comedy radio series ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'', and the so ...ately incomplete). Also included, where known, are the names of the script writers of the episodes, as well as the names of the singers and songwriters.
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• Ford Prefect (character)
  ...researcher for the titular ''Guide'' itself, and not an out-of-work actor from [[Guildford]] as he had hitherto claimed. ...nconspicuous." The [[Ford Prefect]] was a popular British car manufactured from 1938 to 1961, and Adams later clarified in an interview that Ford "had simp
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• Les Dawson
  ...the quiz show ''[[w:Blankety Blank|Blankety Blank]]'', which he presented from 1984 until its cancellation in 1990. Dawson starred in ''[[Listen to Les]]' ...ack]], in which he sang a comic rendition of "I Got You Babe" with a woman from the audience who wanted to sing with him. The episode was aired shortly aft
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• Dave Lister
  ...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 | ...link=Red Dwarf |first=Rob |last=Grant |author-link=Rob Grant |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=Doug Naylor |first3=Andy (director) |last3=de
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• Ken Annakin
  Injured in the [[Liverpool Blitz|Liverpool Blitz]], Annakin joined the [[RAF Film Unit|RAF Film Unit]], where he worke Annakin then received an offer from Walt Disney to make ''[[The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men]]'' (195
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• The Ladykillers (1955 film)
  ...truments and play recordings of [[Boccherini]]'s [[Minuet]] (3rd movement) from [[String Quintet in E (Boccherini)|String Quintet in E, Op. 11 No. 5]] and After the heist, "Mrs. W" is deceived into retrieving the disguised money from the railway station herself. This she successfully manages to do, but not w
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• Round the Horne
  ...ing [[Kenneth Horne]], first transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The show was created by [[Barry Took]] and [[Marty Feldman ...who all became nationally familiar. The show encountered periodic scrutiny from the BBC management for its [[double entendre]]s, but consistently received
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• The Liver Birds
  ...twriter)|Myra Taylor]]. The two Liverpudlian housewives had met at a local writers club and decided to pool their talents. Having been invited to London by [[ The series charted the ups and downs of two "dolly birds" sharing a flat on Liverpool's Huskisson Street, concentrating on the two young single women's dealings
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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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