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  • '''''Where There's a Will''''' is a 1936 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[William Beaudine]] and starring [[Will Hay]], In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about t
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  • ...e film was less commercially successful than its predecessors. A sequel, ''Christmas with the Huggetts'', was planned but never made. *[https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6acbf154 The Huggetts Abroad] at BFI
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  • | caption = British pressbook ...icket''] at [[BFI Film & TV Database]]</ref> It was also one of the final films made by [[Gainsborough Pictures]] before the studio was merged into the [[R
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  • '''''Bernard and the Genie''''' is a 1991 British [[Fantasy film|fantasy]] [[comedy-drama]] [[television film]] directed by [[Paul Weiland]] and written by [[Richard Bernard and Josephus discuss the origins and meaning of [[Christmas]] and how the holiday has become commercialized over time, then they set ou
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  • '''''The Plank''''' is a 30-minute, British [[slapstick]] [[comedy film]] for [[television]] from 1979, which was writt ...eriges Television]] in Sweden used to show the film several times around [[Christmas]] and [[New Year]] during the 1980s and 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://s
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  • | caption = Original British 1955 [[Film poster#Film poster sizes|quad film poster]] ...ctor at Sea (novel)|novel of the same name]]. This was the second of seven films in the ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' series, following the hugely pop
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  • ...ll Productions]] had collaborated on a film based on the book and aired on Christmas Day.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/30/broad ...the [[Chickenshed|Chickenshed Theatre Company]] called ''[[Badjelly's Bad Christmas]]'', with Badjelly the Witch, along with many other characters created by M
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  • ...te web |url=http://www.leonardrossiter.com/reginaldperrin/Xmas.html |title=Christmas Special, 1982 |last=Fisher |first=Paul |website=Reggie Online |access-date= ...mon |editor3-last=Down |editor3-first=Richard |chapter=''The Funny Side of Christmas'' |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IJQACAAAQBAJ&pg=PA232 |pag
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  • {{Short description|British actress}} ...actress, best known for her various comic roles in numerous TV sitcoms and films in the [[1970s]] and [[1980s]].
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  • ...[comedy]] actor. He appeared in four [[Carry On (film series)|''Carry On'' films]]: ''[[Don't Lose Your Head]]'' (1966), ''[[Follow That Camel]]'' (1967), ' ...nd appeared in several of the comedy [[Carry On (film series)|''Carry On'' films]] and the sex comedy ''[[Adventures of a Private Eye]]'' (1977).
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  • | caption = British quad poster by Tom Beauvais ...d by Peter Frazer Jones.<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bbc3ed1|title=George and Mildred (1980)|publisher=}}</ref>
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  • ...lm debut of [[Julie Christie]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a82f26e|title=Crooks Anonymous (1962)|website=BFI}}</ref><r ...ociety. He moves into a house with Babette, gets a job working as [[Father Christmas]] in a [[department store]] and refuses an offer by one of his old pals to
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  • '''''Personal Services''''' is a 1987 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Terry Jones]] and written by [[David Leland]] ...siness but soon attracts the notice of the police, who raid the house on [[Christmas Eve]].
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  • ...<ref>{{cite book |last1=Perry |first1=Chris|title=The Kaleidoscope British Christmas Television Guide 1937-2013 |date=3 February 2016|publisher=Lulu.com |isbn=9 ...hive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714211640/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8660f7af|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 July 2020|title=No
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  • ...the 21st release in the [[Carry On (film series)|series of 31 ''Carry On'' films]] (1958–1992). It tells a fictionalised story involving [[Sid James]] as ...as Specials#Carry on Christmas (or Carry On Stuffing) (1972)|1972 Carry On Christmas special]] and the 1973 stage show ''[[Carry On (film series)#Stage shows|Ca
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  • ..., the Huggett films proved popular and lucrative for the studio. All three films were directed by [[w:Ken Annakin|Ken Annakin]] and produced by [[w:Betty E. ...so appear, and return (playing different characters) in the three Huggetts films that followed.
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  • ...School]] in [[London]]. In the mid-1970s, while still a teacher, he won a British TV talent contest, [[New Faces]], with a comedy double act called "Mr Carli ...4/mike-walling-rip/|title=Actor & writer Mike Walling dies at 69|publisher=British Comedy Guide|date=4 July 2020|accessdate=4 July 2020}}</ref>
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  • | image = The Crowded Day British theatrical release poster.jpg | distributor = [[Adelphi Films]]
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  • | num_episodes = 41 (including mini Christmas special) '''''Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width''''' is a British television [[sitcom]] first broadcast in 1967 as a [[Television play|single
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  • '''''The Morecambe & Wise Show''''' is a [[British comedy|comedy]] [[sketch show]] originally produced by [[Thames Television] ...fact that Thames Television, through its film production company [[Euston Films]], was able to offer Morecambe and Wise the opportunity to make a film, per
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