• Les Dawson
  ...l Obituary, St James Press, 1993, p. 464</ref><br />{{marriage|Tracy Roper|1989}} ...]], Manchester, on 2 February 1931,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Les Dawson {{!}} British comedian |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Les-Dawson |url-status=d
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• Dave Lister
  ...'''Lister''', is a [[w:fictional character|fictional character]] from the British [[w:science fiction|science fiction]] [[w:situation comedy|situation comedy ...|author-link3=Ed Bye |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC2]] |date=14 November 1989 |series-no=III |number=1 }}</ref>
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• Nicholas Parsons
  {{Short description|British actor and presenter}} | honorific_suffix = [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]]
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• Tom Jones (1963 film)
  '''''Tom Jones''''' is a 1963 British [[comedy film]], an adaptation of [[Henry Fielding]]'s classic 1749 novel ' ...Best Film|Best Film]] and [[BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film|Best British Film]].
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• Press Gang
  {{short description|British children's television series (1989–1993)}} | first_aired = {{Start date|1989|1|16|df=y}}
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• Benny Hill
  ...Variety Series#1980s|Outstanding Variety]]. In 2006, Hill was voted by the British public number 17 in [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]'s poll of [[TV's 50 Greatest S ...[[UK Singles Chart]] and earned Hill an [[Ivor Novello Award]] from the [[British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors]] in 1972.
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• The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
  ...dead|archive-date=13 January 2009|work=bfi: Film & TV Database|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|accessdate=7 November 2012}}</ref> It is based on the 1722 ...itle=Moll Flanders|last=Defoe|first=Daniel|publisher=Penguin Classics|year=1989|isbn=978-0140860849|location=England|pages=61, 427}}</ref> Moll's ability t
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• Willie Rushton
  ...years of [[Conscription in the United Kingdom|national service]] in the [[British Army|army]], where he failed officer selection.<ref name=Sherrin/> He later ...''Private Eye''{{'}}s Lunchtime O'Booze), from bizarre skulduggery in the British colonies (where the soldiers holding back the politicised rabble bear a str
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• Blackadder
  | last_aired = {{End date|1989|11|02|df=y}} ...al one-off instalments, which originally aired on [[BBC One]] from 1983 to 1989. All television episodes starred [[Rowan Atkinson]] as the [[antihero]] [[E
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• Dirk Bogarde
  | branch = [[w:British Army|British Army]] ...s. In a second career, he wrote seven best-selling volumes of memoirs, six novels, and a volume of collected journalism, mainly from articles in ''[[The Dail
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• Arnold Rimmer
  ...|author-link3=Ed Bye |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC2]] |date=28 November 1989 |series-no=III |number=3 }}</ref> In "[[The Beginning (Red Dwarf)|The Begin ...|author-link3=Ed Bye |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC2]] |date=14 November 1989 |series-no=III |number=1 }}</ref>
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• Wendy Richard
  ....com/soaps/news/a58280/the-british-soap-awards-2007-the-winners/|title=The British Soap Awards 2007: The Winners|first=Kris|last=Green|website=Digital Spy |ac ...n the subject of television documentaries, behind-the-scenes books, tie-in novels, and comedy sketch shows.
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• Dennis Potter
  ...as one of the most influential and innovative dramatists to have worked in British television. ...in the [[Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)|Intelligence Corps]] of the [[British Army]]<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/8
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• Peter Ustinov
  |nationality = British ...|(|j|)|uː|s|t|ɪ|n|ɒ|f}}; 16 April 1921{{spaced ndash}}28 March 2004) was a British actor, filmmaker and writer. As an internationally known raconteur, he was
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• Journey into Space
  {{Short description|British radio sci-fi programme (1953–1958)}} {{Use British English|date=February 2020}}
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• Red Dwarf
  {{short description|British comedy programme}} | audio_format = [[w:Dolby Stereo|Dolby Stereo]] (1988–1989)
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• Last of the Summer Wine
  ...(UK TV channel)|Gold]], [[Yesterday (TV channel)|Yesterday]], and [[Drama (British TV channel)|Drama]]. It is also seen in more than 25 countries,<ref name="S ...e=2 April 2017 |format=DOC |url-status=dead }}</ref> Many members of the [[British Royal Family|Royal Family]] enjoyed the show.<ref name="Huddersfield Daily
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• Keeping Up Appearances
  ...ffected pronunciation of Bucket as Bouquet was used previously in the 1944 British comedy film ''[[Don't Take It to Heart|]]''.</ref> The show comprised five ...The show has been syndicated on [[Gold (UK TV channel)|Gold]] and [[Drama (British TV channel)|Drama]] in the UK, on [[PBS]] member stations in the United Sta
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• Douglas Adams
  ...on in 1979. Altogether, he wrote three [[List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989)|''Doctor Who'' serials]] starring [[Tom Baker|Tom Baker]] as the [[Fourth ...tria, where Adams first had the idea of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide''. In the novels, a towel is the most useful thing a space traveller can have. The annual To
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• Eric Sykes
  ...heir father was a labourer in a [[cotton mill|cotton mill]] and a former [[British Army|army]] [[sergeant|sergeant]]. When Sykes was two, his father remarried ...ure (1962 film)|Kill or Cure]]'', starring [[Terry-Thomas]] with a cast of British comedy stalwarts including one of the first film appearances by [[Ronnie Ba
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