• The Young Ones (TV series)
  {{Infobox television ...cused on the lives of four dissimilar students and their landlord's family on different plots that often included [[Anarchy|anarchic]], offbeat, surreal
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• Monty Python's Flying Circus
  {{Infobox television ...was recorded at the [[BBC]] on 7 September 1969 and premiered on 5 October on [[BBC1]], with 45 episodes airing over four series from 1969 to 1974, plus
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• Spike Milligan
  ...after hearing the band [[w:Spike Jones|Spike Jones and his City Slickers]] on [[w:Radio Luxembourg|Radio Luxembourg]]. ...[Q (TV series)|Q5]]'', a surreal sketch show credited as a major influence on the members of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''.
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• Dad's Army
  {{Infobox television ...ure film]] released in 1971, a stage show and a radio version based on the television scripts were also produced. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 mil
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• Please Sir!
  {{For|the 1971 film based on the TV series|Please Sir! (film)}} {{Infobox television
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• Whisky Galore! (1949 film)
  | based_on = {{based on|''[[Whisky Galore (novel)|Whisky Galore]]''|Compton Mackenzie}} ...Galore (novel)|Whisky Galore]]'', and [[Angus MacPhail]]. The story—based on a true event—concerns a shipwreck off a fictional Scottish island, the in
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• The Goon Show series 2
  ...with the characters that they played, and he aimed to keep the pace of the shows akin to the last three editions of the previous run. A ‘running gag’ wa ...er''. The Stargazers were also announced as appearing on the monthly [[BBC Television|BBC TV]] show ''Hit Parade''.
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• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  | distributor = [[EMI Films]] ...eived during the hiatus between the third and fourth series of their [[BBC Television]] series ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''.
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• Casino Royale (1967 film)
  | based_on = {{based on|''[[Casino Royale (novel)|Casino Royale]]''|[[Ian Fleming]]}} ...[[Columbia Pictures]] featuring an [[ensemble cast]]. It is loosely based on the 1953 novel of [[Casino Royale (novel)|the same name]] by [[Ian Fleming]
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• The Goon Show series 7
  ...[Wings Over Dagenham|7/15]] and [[The Rent Collectors|7/16]]. Seven of the shows had guests including [[Valentine Dyall]], [[George Chisholm (musician)|Geor ...n and produce the first two editions of the series while his successor was on leave.
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• Brian Rix
  | known_for = Farces (particularly at the Whitehall Theatre and on the BBC)<br />Campaigning for those with learning disabilities ...for the Pot''. His one-night TV shows made him the joint-highest paid star on the BBC. He often worked with his wife [[Elspet Gray]] and sister [[w:Sheil
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• The Goon Show
  ...Home Service|BBC Home Service]] from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the [[w:BBC Light Programme|BBC Light Programme]]. The first series, broadc ...ic Workshop|BBC Radiophonic Workshop]], many of which were reused by other shows for decades. Many elements of the show satirised contemporary life in 1950s
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• Richard Beckinsale
  ...be a relation of Charles Laughton. Going back a few generations the family on my mother's side were in service at the Laughton house. There was a bit of ...}</ref> After failing his first audition for RADA, Beckinsale was accepted on his second attempt, becoming just one of 31 successful applicants from a to
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• Red Dwarf
  {{Infobox television | based_on = {{Based on|''[[w:Dave Hollins: Space Cadet|Dave Hollins: Space Cadet]]''|Rob Grant<br
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• David Niven
  ...e in [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]'s ''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]'' (1935). This helped him gain a contract with [[Samuel Goldwy ...Zenda]]'' (1937). By 1938, he was starring as the leading man in other 'A' films. Upon the outbreak of the [[Second World War]], Niven returned to Britain a
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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  | films = ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to ...series]], a [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)|1984 text-based computer game]], and [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)|2005 fea
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• The Commitments (film)
  | based_on = {{Based on|''[[The Commitments (novel)|The Commitments]]''|Roddy Doyle}} ...tments''''' is a 1991 [[musical film|musical]] [[comedy-drama]] film based on the [[The Commitments (novel)|1987 novel of the same name]] by [[Roddy Doyl
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• Love Actually
  *[[Working Title Films]] *[[DNA Films]]}}
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• Only Fools and Horses
  {{Infobox television ...gnition from [[BAFTA]], the [[National Television Awards]] and the [[Royal Television Society]], as well as winning individual accolades for both Sullivan and Ja
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• Patrick Troughton
  ...the long-running British [[w:science fiction on television|science-fiction television]] series ''[[w:Doctor Who|Doctor Who]]'' from 1966 to 1969; he reprised the ...is appearances, including most of his personal favourites, remain [[w:Lost television broadcast|missing]] to this day.
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