• OCLC
  ...ve.org/web/20220311061001/https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/membership/articles-of-incorporation.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> is an American nonprofit [[c ...latest information storage and retrieval system of the time, the computer, with the oldest, the library. The plan was to merge the catalogs of Ohio librari
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• Michael Balcon
  ...m producer]] known for his leadership of [[Ealing Studios]] in West London from 1938 to 1955. Under his direction, the studio became one of the most import ...th [[Gaumont British]], which absorbed their studio. Later still he worked with [[MGM-British]]. In 1956 he founded a production company known as Ealing Fi
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• Little Britain (sketch show)
  {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}} ...= ''[[Rock Profile]]''<br />''[[Come Fly with Me (2010 TV series)|Come Fly with Me]]''
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• The Two Ronnies
  | caption = The spectacles logo from the show's opening. Both performers wore glasses; Barker's are on top, Corb ...Corbett]]. It was created by [[Bill Cotton]] and aired on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from April 1971 to December 1987. The usual format included sketches, solo secti
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• Terry Jones
  ...ttps://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/terry-jones/ |work=BBC Wales |date=7 October 2009 |title=Terry Jones}}</ref><ref name="Guardian"/><ref>{{cite news |url= ...m ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|Holy Grail]]'', which he co-directed with Gilliam, and also directed the subsequent Python films ''[[Monty Python's L
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• Rising Damp
  {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}} ...ttic.org/sitcom/top11to100.shtml |archive-date=13 October 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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• Joan Bakewell
  ...f> Both her grandfathers were factory workers: the Rowlands branch stemmed from the lead mining villages of the [[Ystwyth valley]], in Wales. Her great-gra ...hing. She then became an advertising copywriter with McCann Erickson, then with Hobson Bates, and later David Williams Ltd. In the early 60s Bakewell was
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• The New Statesman (1987 TV series)
  ...w]] of part of the ''[[Promenade (Pictures at an Exhibition)|Promenade]]'' from ''[[Pictures at an Exhibition]]'' by Russian composer [[Modest Mussorgsky]] ...ish, B'Stard's gullible upper-class sidekick. B'Stard shares a middle name with [[Norman Tebbit]].
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• The Goodies
  ...Tim Brooke-Taylor]], [[Graeme Garden|Graeme Garden]] <br />in a screenshot from the title sequence <br />of the BBC television series ...rmed in their [[The Goodies (TV series)|eponymous television comedy show]] from 1970 until 1982, combining [[sketch comedy|sketches]] and situation comedy.
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• Douglas Adams
  ....radioacademy.org/hall-of-fame/ |archive-date= 5 December 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ...Web. Retrieved 13 March 2012. (Click on link at bottom for facsimile page from ''Daily News'' article, 7 March 1998.)</ref> His ability to write stories m
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• Rik Mayall
  ...English actor, stand-up comedian and writer. He formed a close partnership with [[w:Ade Edmondson|Ade Edmondson]] while they were students at [[w:Victoria ...z/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11270882|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-06-09|access-date=10 June 2014|work=[[w:The New Zealand H
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• The Royle Family
  ...]] for the BBC, which ran for three series from 1998 to 2000, and specials from 2006 to 2012.<ref>{{cite web | title = The Royle Family – Queen of Sheba ...conversations held therein. Aherne and Cash co-wrote every episode, along with [[Henry Normal]] (series one), Carmel Morgan (series two), and [[Phil Meale
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• Birds of a Feather (TV series)
  ...4 December 2020. The series stars [[Pauline Quirke]] and [[Linda Robson]], with [[Lesley Joseph]], created by [[Laurence Marks (British writer)|Laurence Ma ...en, is a middle-aged married Jewish woman who is constantly having affairs with younger men. In the last two BBC series, the location is changed to nearby
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• Dad's Army
  ...oft (TV producer)|David Croft]], and originally broadcast on [[BBC1|BBC1]] from 31 July 1968 to 13 November 1977. It ran for nine series and 80 episodes in ...of age (hence the title ''Dad's Army'') or by being in professions exempt from conscription. Most of the platoon characters depicted in ''Dad's Army'' are
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• The Goon Show
  {{Short description|BBC Radio show broadcast from 1951 to 1960}} | othertheme = {{ubl|"Lucky Strike", "[[Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead]]", "Goons' Gallop", "[[I Want to Be Happy]]" or|"[[Alte Kameraden]]"}}
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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} ...es]]'' (2004–05)|''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Hexagonal Phase'' (2018)}}
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• Spitting Image
  | caption = Opening titles from 1988 to 1991 ...caricature [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother]] (as an elderly gin-drinker with a [[Beryl Reid]] voice).<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts
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• Hi-de-Hi!
  ...tps://web.archive.org/web/20070614133254/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/h/hidehi_7773230.shtml |archive-date=14 June 2007 }}</ref> ...x-41281850|title=Hi-de-Hi! star 'comforted' by hotel plan|date=10 February 2018|publisher=BBC}}</ref>
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• Fawlty Towers
  ...Hotel, Torquay|Gleneagles Hotel]] in [[Torquay]], [[Devon]] in 1970 (along with the rest of the [[Monty Python]] troupe), where he encountered the eccentri ...es Hotel, Torquay|Gleneagles Hotel]], Torquay in 2009. After staying there with the Monty Python team in 1970, the eccentric behaviour of owner [[Donald Si
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• Monty Python
  ...work=Der Tagesspiegel|language=de|access-date=15 September 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070828222440/http://www.tagesspie ...nty-python-comedy|work=Orlando Sentinel|date=2 October 1996|access-date=31 October 2016}}</ref>
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