• Rodney Trotter
  ...known as '''Dave''' by [[Trigger (Only Fools and Horses)|Trigger]]), is a fictional character in the long running BBC sitcom ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'', pla ...uestions, saying 'You're the one with GCEs!'. He was subsequently expelled from art college in [[Basingstoke]] after three weeks for smoking [[cannabis (dr
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• Peter Jones (actor)
  | death_place = [[w:London|London]], England ...aracters were Morris and Dudley Grosvenor, two rather stupid [[East End of London|East End]] [[spiv]]s whose sketches always ended with the phrase "Run for i
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• Water (1985 film)
  The story is set in the fictional Caribbean island and [[British colony]] of Cascara. Widely ignored by the B ...to shoot in 1984, the others being ''[[A Private Function]]'' and a comedy from John MacKenzie, ''The Travelling Man'' (which ultimately would not be made)
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• Doctor in the House
  ...09,000<ref name="Collected Interviews p110">''Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-century Cinema'' by Wheeler W. Dixon, SIU Press, 2001 p110</ref> ...tarting as a new medical student at the fictional St Swithin's Hospital in London. His five years of student life, involving drinking, dating women, and fall
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• Sergeant Wilson
  ...he Complete A-Z of Dad's Army |year=2000|publisher= Orion Books |location= London |isbn=0-7528-4637-X| pages =227, 288}}</ref> ...ncle was a [[peer of the realm]], his father had a career in the [[City of London]], and Wilson often recalls fond memories of his nanny. He was educated at
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• Basil Fawlty
  ...Communication Problems]]," [[Manuel (Fawlty Towers)|Manuel]] said Basil is from [[Swanage]], although Manuel is prone to making mistakes. ...in panic puts his hands on the guest's breasts as a means of stopping her from seeing it.
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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fictional)
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (fictional)}} ...dom" for many members of the series' galaxy-spanning civilization. Entries from the guidebook are used as comic narration to bridge events and provide back
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• Del Boy
  | home = [[Peckham]], [[South London]], England ...Comedy – Only Fools and Horses – del Boy}}</ref> is a fictional character from the BBC [[sitcom]] ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'' and one of the main charac
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• Russ Abbot
  ...ctor. Born in [[Chester]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.surreylife.co.uk/people/celebrity-interviews/comedian-russ-abbot-on-switching-to-the-madhouse-the-w ...)|The Comedians]]'' under his birth name (Russ Roberts).<ref name="imdb"/> From 1980 onward, he released some albums as a solo artist and appeared in sever
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• Punky Business
  ...ou mean it honestly wouldn't bother you to be nice in front of millions of people?" to which Tim replied: "No." People attending the ball try to outdo each other in punkiness, including Bill (wh
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• Edmund Blackadder
  '''Edmund Blackadder''' is the single name given to a collection of [[fictional characters]] who appear in the [[BBC]] mock-historical comedy series ''[[Bl ...with the character mostly falling in social rank through history. He moves from a prince (''[[The Black Adder]]'') to a lord (''[[Blackadder II]]''), a kni
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• Wendy Richard
  | death_place = [[w:Harley Street, London|Harley Street]], England ...East Finchley Cemetery and Crematorium, [[w:East Finchley|East Finchley]], London
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• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
  | studio = [[David Paradine Productions]]<br>[[London Weekend Television]] ...Paradine". Cleese and Chapman began writing the script following patronage from Frost. Cook and Billington were later called upon to complete the writing a
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• Humphrey Appleby
  ...he [[Permanent Secretary]] for the Department of Administrative Affairs (a fictional department of the [[British government]]). In the last episode of ''Yes Min ...Officer, an assistant principal in the [[Scottish Office]], on secondment from the [[War Office]] (where, as revealed in "[[The Skeleton in the Cupboard (
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• The Last Day (Red Dwarf)
  ...Robert Llewellyn]]) discovers that a message pod has reached ''Red Dwarf'' from Diva-Droid International, his manufacturers, announcing that he has reached ...hen he arrives. However, they soon find that Hudzen had been driven insane from travelling alone across space for millions of years and decides to kill eve
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• Value for Money
  ...|UK-GDP}}], which includes the clothing factory his father founded in the (fictional) town of Barfield. However, his behaviour does not change as he continues t ...talks mostly about himself, explaining that "Chayley" was a mistake in the London registrar mishearing his father's Yorkshire pronunciation of 'Charlie'. He
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• Anthony Sharp
  | birth_place = [[Highgate]], [[County of London]], England, UK | death_place = London, England, UK
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• Captain Mainwaring
  {{short description|Fictional character from the sitcom Dad's Army}} '''Captain George Mainwaring''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|æ|n|ər|ɪ|ŋ}}) is a fictional [[Home Guard (United Kingdom)|Home Guard]] captain, first portrayed by [[Ar
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• Derek and Clive
  ...Horn]]'' (1979).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/the-view-from-here/peter-cook-and-dudley-moores-derek-and-clive-albums-reassessed-70954|t ...iming that the worst job he ever had was retrieving [[w:lobster|lobster]]s from [[w:Jayne Mansfield|Jayne Mansfield]]'s arsehole, Derek claiming his worst
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• Gorden Kaye
  [[File:Gordon Kaye.jpg|thumb|140px|left|Kaye in London, 1974]] ...a radio play directed by [[Alan Ayckbourn]] and also in a television play from Manchester. Ayckbourn suggested that he audition for the [[Octagon Theatre,
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