| birth_place = [[w:Middlesbrough|Middlesbrough]], [[w:Yorkshire|Yorkshire]], England ...muel, a tailor, lived at 110 Wilson Street, [[Middlesbrough]].<ref>Kehilat Middlesbrough Newsletter No 10 April 2001</ref>

...s consider that he was born in [[South Bank, Middlesbrough|South Bank]], [[Middlesbrough]], and moved to Stockton-on-Tees at the age of seven in 1899.<ref name="Nor ...walked out.<ref name="SunSun"/> His next big break came when he took over from a young [[Max Miller (comedian)|Max Miller]] who had walked out of a show.<

| birth_place = [[Middlesbrough]], England ...w.sclews.me.uk/desmonde.htm |title=Jerry Desmonde (1908-1967) |work=Famous People: The North-East |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2

| birth_place = [[w:Middlesbrough|Middlesbrough]], [[w:North Riding of Yorkshire|North Riding of Yorkshire]], England ...1972 to 1985, and [[Pauline Fowler]] on the soap opera ''[[EastEnders]]'' from 1985 to 2006.

...his father's variety act, known as ''Jimmy James and Co''. After retiring from the BBC in the 1980s, he resurrected the act and toured the surviving varie ...sixteen years on the [[BBC Light Programme]] and [[BBC Radio 2]], running from 1957 to 1972 inclusive, based on a chance meeting with Jimmy Clitheroe on a

...created by [[Franc Roddam]] after an idea from Mick Connell, a bricklayer from [[Stockton-on-Tees]], and mostly written by [[Dick Clement]] and [[Ian La F ...ork in West Germany, although its initial emphasis is on three bricklayers from [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] making the journey to Germany, with the others bein

...[[Dick Clement]] and [[Ian La Frenais]], and broadcast on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from 1974 to 1977. The programme ran for three series, and included two Christma Several characters from ''Porridge'' reappear in the sequel series ''[[Going Straight]]'' (1978) an

...''''Brilliant''''' in the US, is a [[BBC]] comedy [[sketch show]] that ran from 1994 to 1997, with specials in 2000 and 2014. The show's central performers ...chphrase]]s, its fast-paced "[[blackout gag|blackout]]" style set it apart from traditional sketch series because of the number and relative brevity of its

...as a home for his new wife June who was then pregnant and on her way back from [[w:Australia|Australia]]. Eventually Max Geldray and vocalist [[Ray Elling ...-natal fever and had to leave the baby in Spike’s hands. A full-time nurse from [[w:New Zealand|New Zealand]] was assigned to assist the family, with Spike