• Ruth Madoc
  After RADA, Madoc worked on ''[[The Black and White Minstrel Show]]'' for three years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/si ...mother in the second series of BBC sketch show ''[[Little Britain (sketch show)|Little Britain]]''.<ref name="Turner">Turner, Robin (2009) "[http://www.wa
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• Caroline Aherne
  ...rks ={{Flat list |''[[The Fast Show]]'' (1994–2014)<br/>''[[The Mrs Merton Show]]'' (1995–1998)<br/>''[[The Royle Family]]'' (1998–2000, 2006–2012)<b ...ch she co-wrote. She won [[BAFTA]] awards for her work on ''The Mrs Merton Show'' and ''The Royle Family''.
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• Bob Monkhouse
  ...lebrity Squares]]'', ''[[Family Fortunes]]'' and ''[[Wipeout (British game show)|''Wipeout'']]''. ...on stage in London, first as [[Aladdin]] in [[Aladdin (1958 film)|a stage show of the same name]] written by [[S. J. Perelman]] and [[Cole Porter]] and th
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• List of Dinnerladies episodes
  ...d Bren's mother respectively.<ref name=bbc /><ref name=bfi /> Although the show features many other secondary characters, scenes never take place outside t ...te web|title=Past Winners 2000|url=http://www.britishcomedyawards.com/past-winners/2000.aspx|publisher=British Comedy Awards|accessdate=28 August 2012}}</ref>
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• Freddie Starr
  ...[[An Audience with...]]'' in 1996 and 1997. In 1999, he presented the game show ''[[Beat the Crusher]]''. ...unknown to television audiences, Starr was "discovered" through the talent show, ''[[Opportunity Knocks (UK TV series)|Opportunity Knocks]]'' in 1967 where
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• Blake Edwards
  ...to create [[Mickey Rooney]]'s first television series, ''The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan''. Edwards's hard-boiled private detective scripts for ''[[R ...disappearance of gallantry and honor, the tension between appearances and reality, and the emotional, spiritual, moral, and psychological disorder" in such a
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• Dinnerladies (TV series)
  ...ard from the first episode, showing the [[Cafeteria|canteen]] in which the show is set ...ger Tony Martin ([[Andrew Dunn (actor)|Andrew Dunn]]) develops through the show.<ref name=bcg0>{{cite web|title=DINNERLADIES|url=http://www.sitcom.co.uk/di
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• The New Statesman (1987 TV series)
  The show's theme song is an arrangement by [[Alan Hawkshaw]] of part of the ''[[Prom ...bencher]] who occasionally resorted to murder to fulfil his ambitions. The show was mostly set in B'Stard's antechambers in the [[Palace of Westminster]] a
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• Father Ted
  ...y [[Hat Trick Productions]] for [[Channel 4]]. <!---Do not categorise this show by nationality.---> It aired over three series from 21 April 1995 until 1 M ...purgatory]] experienced by its title character; this deeper meaning of the show has been much acclaimed.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=McGonigle|first=Lisa|date=
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• Just a Minute
  {{Infobox radio show | caption = [[Nicholas Parsons]] hosted the show for almost 52 years
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• Patricia Routledge
  ...November 2013 |newspaper=[[Toledo Blade]] |date=9 January 1981}}</ref> The show was a hit and transferred to Broadway the following January, with [[Estelle ...=4 November 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> One critic noted "She stopped the show with 'I am so easily assimilated', and her long narration worked on at leas
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• I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
  {{Infobox radio show | caption = The show's panel (including guest panellist [[Jeremy Hardy]], top middle) with host
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• Last of the Summer Wine
  ...2017|access-date=6 January 2018|newspaper=Amazon UK}}</ref> Repeats of the show are broadcast in the UK on [[BBC One]] (until 18 July 2010 when the 31st an ...ing characters contributed their own [[running jokes]] and subplots to the show, often becoming reluctantly involved in the schemes of the trio, or on occa
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• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
  ...or – Miniseries or Television Film]].<ref>[https://www.goldenglobes.com/tv-show/life-and-death-peter-sellers Golden Globes]</ref> It also won nine [[Primet ...London]], Peter Sellers is a household name as a performer on ''[[The Goon Show]]'' but is failing to branch out into film. He returns home to his family a
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• Dennis Potter
  ...(Updated 6 March 2014)</ref> His television dramas mixed [[fantasy]] and [[reality]], the personal and the social, and often used themes and images from [[pop ...s a means to merge the lead character's imagination with his perception of reality.
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• Red Dwarf
  ...996. Two [[Television pilot|pilot episodes]] of an American version of the show were produced but never aired. The magazine ''The Red Dwarf Smegazine'' was ...y.co.uk/news/2411/comedy_co_uk_awards_2016 |title=Comedy.co.uk Awards 2016 winners announced |date=23 January 2017 |website=[[British Comedy Guide]] |access-d
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• The Commitments (film)
  ...other offstage, and become doubtful when it appears that Pickett will not show. They go back on stage, where Deco denounces Jimmy for misleading the audie ...ularly voices both sides of his imaginary interview on the [[Terry Wogan]] show, Wogan does not appear.
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• The Fast Show
  | image = Fast show fosters funny.png | image_alt = Title card for the web series of ''The Fast Show''
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• Ronnie Barker
  After rejoining the BBC, Barker achieved significant success with the sketch show ''The Two Ronnies'' (1971–87), with Ronnie Corbett. The duo maintained th ...in film and television. His first acting job on television was in Melvyn's show ''I'm Not Bothered''.<ref name=M32>{{harvnb|McCabe|2005|p=32}}</ref> He app
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• Yes Minister
  ...lot." Iannucci suggests that Woolley is essential to the structure of the show because both Hacker and Appleby confide in him, "which means we get to find ...abulary since the series,"<ref name="lynnweb"/> Iannucci suggests that the show "taught us how to unpick the verbal tricks that politicians think they can
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