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  • {{short description|British television, radio, and comic strip author}} ...creenwriter)|Hazel Adair]], he co-created the soap opera ''[[w:Crossroads (British TV series)|Crossroads]]''.
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  • | nationality = British ...series ''[[The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin]]'', adapted from his own novels.
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  • | release_date = 5 February 1996 {{portal|Novels}}
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  • '''''I Didn't Know You Cared''''' is a British television comedy set in a working-class household in South Yorkshire in th The novels narrate the story of which Carter's thoughts are an integral part. A recurr
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  • |name = John Sullivan <br /> <small>[[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]</small> * {{Smaller|1996–2003}} ''[[Roger Roger|Roger Roger]]''
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[Commander of Order of the British Empire|CBE]] .... Retrieved 9 May 2013</ref> and "one of the most important figures in the British film industry".<ref name=guardian_batty>Batty D. [https://www.theguardian.c
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  • ...tarring [[Leonard Rossiter]] in the title role. It is based on a series of novels written by [[David Nobbs]] and produced from 1976 to 1979. Nobbs adapted th ...not want to take the series forward unless it continued to be grounded in novels.<ref>David Nobbs, ''I Didn't Get Where I Am Today'', Heinemann, 2003, pp. 2
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  • {{Short description|British writer and director}} | nationality = British
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  • {{Use British English|date=February 2014}} ...wife, who, under the pseudonym of Miss Magnolia Badminton, wrote romantic novels. She also played, on radio, the Dowager Duchess ([[w:Lord Peter Wimsey|Lord
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  • | name = Ian Carmichael<br/><small>[[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]]</small> ...J Middleditch, a role he originally played in parent show ''[[w:Heartbeat (British TV series)|Heartbeat]]''.
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  • ...and television actor, best known for his role as Charlie Hungerford in the British TV drama ''[[w:Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]'', which ran for nine series ...ms-tv-people/4ce2b7cf03543|title=The Honour of the School (1970)|publisher=British Film Institute}}</ref>
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  • | honorific_suffix={{postnominal|country=GBR|size=100%|list=[[w:Order of the British Empire|CBE]]}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1996|11|26|1922|01|26|df=y}}
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  • | death_date = {{death date and age|1996|12|11|1937|08|18|df=yes}} | yearsactive = 1961–1996
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  • ....com/soaps/news/a58280/the-british-soap-awards-2007-the-winners/|title=The British Soap Awards 2007: The Winners|first=Kris|last=Green|website=Digital Spy |ac ...Tabloid journalism|tabloids]]. She was diagnosed with [[breast cancer]] in 1996; the disease returned in 2002 and again in 2008; this time it had spread th
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  • ...ation]] of all twelve of [[Agatha Christie|Agatha Christie]]'s Miss Marple novels on [[BBC Radio 4|BBC Radio 4]].<ref name="EpiList">{{cite web |title=Miss M .../archives/etv/W/htmlW/whitfieldju/whitfieldju.htm |title=Whitfield, June – British Comedy Actor |publisher=The Museum of Broadcast Communications |access-date
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  • | branch = [[w:British Army|British Army]] ...s. In a second career, he wrote seven best-selling volumes of memoirs, six novels, and a volume of collected journalism, mainly from articles in ''[[The Dail
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  • ...as one of the most influential and innovative dramatists to have worked in British television. ...in the [[Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)|Intelligence Corps]] of the [[British Army]]<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/8
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  • '''''Are You Being Served?''''' is a [[British sitcom]] created and written by executive producer [[David Croft (TV produc ...tations began airing [[rerun]]s of it in the mid-1980s, along with other [[British sitcom]]s. In 2004, it was ranked 20th in a television countdown of ''[[Bri
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  • ...'''Lister''', is a [[w:fictional character|fictional character]] from the British [[w:science fiction|science fiction]] [[w:situation comedy|situation comedy ...es-link=Red Dwarf |first=Paul |last=Alexander |author-link=Paul Alexander (British writer) |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=Doug Naylor |fir
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  • ...to the Galaxy (TV series)|television]]. This was followed by three further novels, a [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game)|computer game]], ...adaptation as well as adaptations of the remaining ''Hitchhiker's Guide'' novels ''[[So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish]]'' and ''[[Mostly Harmless]]''.<r
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