• Rambling Syd Rumpo
  ...mpo''' was a [[folk music|folk singer]] character, played by the [[English people|English]] [[comedian|comedian]] and [[actor|actor]] [[Kenneth Williams]], o *"''Song of the Australian Outlaw''"<br />{{Small|(to the tune of "''[[Waltzing Matilda|Waltzing Matil
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• Nicholas Smith (actor)
  ...bert) Rumbold (Nicholas Smith)|Mr (Cuthbert) Rumbold]], the manager of the fictional Grace Brothers department store. ...Rumbold, the manager of the menswear and ladieswear departments in a large fictional London store called Grace Brothers.
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• The Ballad of Eskimo Nell
  ...Mexico Pete, go forth in search of the famed prostitute Eskimo Nell in the Australian [[Outback]]. [[Category:Songs about fictional female characters]]
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• John Inman
  ...at series to feature in the [[Are You Being Served? (Australian TV series)|Australian Version]]. ...l=https://web.archive.org/web/20070605095826/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2341312.ece |date= 5 June 2007 }}, ''[[The Independent]]'
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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 ...ades her to go as, even if she does not like him, she will meet other rich people.
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• Dame Edna Everage
  ...n known simply as '''Dame Edna''', is a character created and performed by Australian comedian [[Barry Humphries]], known for her lilac-coloured ("[[wisteria]] h ...originally a drab [[Melbourne, Australia|Melbourne]] housewife satirising Australian suburbia. Then he caused the Edna character to adopt an increasingly outlan
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• Wilfrid Brambell
  ...les]] in ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]'', playing the fictional grandfather of [[Paul McCartney]]. ...fused to get on the same plane." They continued to work together after the Australian tour on radio and adverts, with it being generally accepted that the relati
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• Gorden Kaye
  In 1990, Kaye played the fictional local television presenter Maynard Lavery in an edition of ''[[Last of the ...y Siner]] as [[Lieutenant Gruber]]. The other characters were portrayed by Australian actors, including [[Katy Manning]], [[Steven Tandy]], [[Chloe Dallimore]],
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• George and Mildred
  ...and [[Vicki Michelle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bbc3ed1|title=George and Mildred (1980)}}</ref> The film was neither ...her over-awed by her at first, full of admiration for her. "At her death, "People said, 'You've lost a working partner' and I said, 'No, I've lost a chum'...
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• Waiting for God (TV series)
  Set at the fictional Bayview Retirement Home near [[Bournemouth]], the show was based on Diana T ...hough Diana is emotionally distant from her niece, going so far as to tell people that her niece runs a prostitution ring and constantly attempts to kill her
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• The Brittas Empire
  ...Gordon Brittas, the well-intentioned but hugely incompetent manager of the fictional Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. The show ran for seven series and 52 epis ...mpetent manager of Whitbury New Town [[Leisure Centre]]. He trained at the fictional [[Aldershot]] Leisure Centre. Completely tactless, totally annoying, and fo
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• Are You Being Served?
  | distributor = [[BBC Worldwide]] <br /> [[2entertain]] <br />[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]] (Australia, home video)<br />[[Warner Home V | followed_by = ''[[Are You Being Served? (Australian TV series)]]''<br />''[[Grace & Favour]]''
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• Barry Humphries
  ...ries''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|AO|CBE}} (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian [[comedian]], [[actor]], [[author]] and [[satirist]]. He is best known for ...a dowdy [[Moonee Ponds, Victoria|Moonee Ponds]] housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, Dame Edna Everage has evolved over fou
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• Goodness Gracious Me (TV series)
  ...name]], originally performed by [[Peter Sellers]] (portraying an [[Indian people|Indian]] doctor, Ahmed el Kabir) and [[Sophia Loren]], reprising their char * ''Hindi People'' – parodies [[Pulp (band)|Pulp]]'s "[[Common People]]".
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• Grace & Favour
  | distributor = [[BBC Worldwide]]<br />[[2entertain]]<br />[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]] (Australia, home video)<br />[[Warner Home V ...this series. Grace is also the surname of the owner of Grace Brothers, the fictional department store where the characters previously worked and was also the pr
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• Father Ted
  ...episodes]]. It aired on [[Nine Network]] (series 1) and [[ABC Television (Australian TV network)|ABC Television]] (series 2 and 3) in Australia, and on [[TV2 (N Set on the fictional [[Craggy Island]], a remote location off Ireland's west coast, ''Father Ted
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• George Sanders
  ...967 film)|The Jungle Book]]'' (1967), the suave crimefighter [[The Falcon (fictional character)|The Falcon]] during the 1940s (a role eventually bequeathed to h ...dead |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=46 |issue=13,109 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=27 April 1972 |access-date=1 September 2
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• Kenny Everett
  ...>{{cite news|author=Anthony Hayward|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-kenny-everett-1614235.html|title=Obituary: Kenny Everett|work=[[Th ...y developed for his Capital Radio shows, who travelled the galaxy battling fictional alien menaces, along with his assistant Dr Gitfinger and his voluptuous sid
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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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• The Commitments (film)
  ...working-class kids of Dublin to power his movie 'The Commitments,' about a fictional Irish band |work= [[Los Angeles Times]]|date=11 August 1991|url= http://art ...performers, Jimmy decides to put together a band consisting of friends and people he encounters—lead singer Deco Cuffe, guitarist Outspan Foster, keyboardi
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