• Neil Innes
  Innes was born in [[Danbury, Essex|Danbury]] in Essex. His Scottish father was a [[warrant officer]] in the [[British Army]], and Innes spent h ...ortrayed Dirk McQuickly (a character based on [[Paul McCartney]]), and the fictional group briefly performed 'I Must Be In Love', a suitably Beatlesque pastiche
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• Whisky Galore! (1949 film)
  ...il]]. The story—based on a true event—concerns a shipwreck off a fictional Scottish island, the inhabitants of which have run out of whisky because of [[Ration The inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday in the [[Outer Hebrides]] are largely unaffected by wartim
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• Dinnerladies (TV series)
  The series is set entirely in the [[Cafeteria|canteen]] of HWD Components, a fictional factory in [[Manchester]], featuring the caterers and regular customers as ...she previously worked at the upmarket Café Bonbon. She frequently snaps at people for using bad language and frowns on the sexual shenanigans of Twinkle, who
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• The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
  ...become "better, happier people". The project is a success until a group of people who have fallen afoul of the "Perrins Peace Keeping Force" trash the place. ...gan, "a poor tongue-tied labourer from the land of the bogs and the little people" with an unrecognised genius for management: [[Derry Power]] (series two an
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• Porridge (1974 TV series)
  ...ker) and Lennie Godber (played by Beckinsale), who are serving time at the fictional [[HM Prison|HMP]] Slade in [[Cumberland]]. The show's title is a reference ...arker, are repeated in the show's opening titles), is sent to HMP Slade, a fictional [[Prisoner security categories in the United Kingdom|Category C]] prison in
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• One Foot in the Grave
  *[[Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)|Richard Wilson]] ...s features the exploits of [[Victor Meldrew]], played by [[Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)|Richard Wilson]], and his long-suffering wife, Margaret, played by [
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• Jon Pertwee
  ...dio|BBC Radio]].<ref>{{cite news | url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-jon-pertwee-5615100.html | title= Obituary: Jon Pertwee | work=The ...f name="screenonline.org.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/545943/|title=Pertwee, Jon (1919–1996)|publisher=BFI Screenonline Biog
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• List of Dad's Army episodes
  ...=[[w:Radio Times|Radio Times]]|access-date=12 July 2016}}</ref> Set in the fictional seaside town of [[w:Walmington-on-Sea|Walmington-on-Sea]], located near [[w ...platoon participates in an invasion exercise with Captain Ogilvie and a [[Scottish regiment|Highland regiment]].
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• Hi-de-Hi!
  Set in 1959 and 1960 in Maplins, a fictional [[holiday camp]], the show was written by [[Jimmy Perry]] and [[David Croft ''Hi-de-Hi!'' is set at a [[holiday camp]] in the fictional seaside town of Crimpton-on-Sea, [[Essex]].
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• Yes Minister
  ...ice of a [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom|British cabinet]] minister in the fictional Department of Administrative Affairs in [[Whitehall]], ''Yes Minister'' fol ...sm" and "the beginning of the end".<ref>{{cite episode |title=Power to the People |series=Yes, Prime Minister |credits=Writers [[Antony Jay]] and [[Jonathan
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• List of Blackadder characters
  ...ng for Lord Flashheart seems to have been at least in part inspired by the fictional character created by [[George MacDonald Fraser]], [[Harry Flashman]].<ref n ...de, Gertrude is mostly distant and absent-minded. She had an affair with a Scottish [[laird]], which may have resulted in Edmund's birth. She often gives Edmun
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• Maggie Smith
  ...chive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130710172828/http://www.tribute.ca/people/maggie-smith/3122/|archive-date=10 July 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> ...e.org/web/20190406005041/https://archives.stratfordfestival.ca/AIS/Details/people/9636|archive-date=6 April 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''[[The New York Tim
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• Rik Mayall
  In 1987, Mayall played fictional [[w:Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative MP]] Alan Beresford B'Stard in the ...ich was included on the DVD release, that "the real reason why millions of people want to come and see this is because I'm in it! Me and Jesus!" In 2001, May
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• Dad's Army
  ...ker and Jim Jones became Jack Jones. He also suggested adding a [[Scottish people|Scot]]. Jimmy Perry had produced the original idea but needed a more experi The show is set in the fictional seaside town of [[Walmington-on-Sea]], on the south coast of England. The e
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• Tom Baker
  ...away at sea.<ref name="BFI">{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/462127/|title=British Film Institute biography, Tom Baker|publisher=Brit ...f name="screenonline.org.uk">{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/462127/index.html|title = BFI Screenonline: Baker, Tom (1936-) Biography
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• It's That Man Again
  ...ITMA'' was "the closest radio had come to the everyday jokes that ordinary people have always made".{{sfn|Curran|Seaton|2002|p=133}} ...e, the premise of the programme changed to have Handley as the head of the fictional Ministry of Aggravation and Mysteries, where he worked in the Office of [[w
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• Stanley Holloway
  ...rough the dining room, drowned out the string quartet and sent a few dozen people off to the osteopath to have their necks untwisted."<ref>Lerner, pp. 62–6 ...itish pop group [[Herman's Hermits]],<ref>[https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b0a1a5b ''Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter'' (1969)], British
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• List of games on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
  The panelists suggest famous first words of famous people. An example is that Tim Brooke-Taylor commented that [[Magnus Magnusson]]' ...rovise an exchange of letters between two famous persons, past or present, fictional or real, with each team composing one of the letters and with the two membe
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• List of The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968 TV series) episodes
  ...musical guest, sketches, another musical guest followed by a scene in the fictional flat, either in bed or in the lounge greeting star guests, usually a play " ...f the sketches and routines the duo had been making over on BBC 2, as some people at this time could not receive BBC 2. It would be followed by a repeat seas
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• The Goon Show series 4
  ...showcase Harry as the lead under the name of 'Fearless Harry Secombe'. The fictional Secombe was still attended to by his factotum Frothpump ([[Peter Sellers]] ...of Communications which had first appeared in the seventh edition of Crazy People in 1951, while the remainder was the narrative adventure piece The Siege of
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