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  • ...controversial-british-comedian-bernard-manning-r157083.htm |archive-date=7 October 2007 |df=dmy }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/world-n ...ernard Manning dies|work=BBC News|date=18 June 2007|access-date=16 October 2019}}</ref>
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  • .../books.google.com/books?id=G4owDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA291 |access-date=December 11, 2019 |archive-date=March 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/202003 ...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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  • ...= ''[[Rock Profile]]''<br />''[[Come Fly with Me (2010 TV series)|Come Fly with Me]]'' ...d by the [[BBC]], the radio series was first broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4]], with the initial two television series premiering on [[BBC Three]] and the third
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...]] 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ....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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  • ...ather Ted top list of Britain's favourite sitcoms"]. ITV. Retrieved 24 May 2019</ref> ...Hotel, Torquay|Gleneagles Hotel]] in [[Torquay]], [[Devon]] in 1970 (along with the rest of the [[Monty Python]] troupe), where he encountered the eccentri
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  • | 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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  • ...https://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/26485860 |title = Jo Kent saves cult hg2g game from scrapheap |access-date = 2014-06-24 |newspaper = Ariel |date = 2014-03-12 } ...s Adams. In 2017, [[BBC Radio 4]] announced a 40th-anniversary celebration with [[Dirk Maggs]], one of the original producers, in charge.<ref>[https://www.
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  • ...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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  • '''Diana Dors''' (born '''Diana Mary Fluck'''; 23 October 1931{{spaced ndash}}4 May 1984) was an English actress and singer. ...ished image, and she made [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]] headlines with the parties reportedly held at her house. Later, she showed talent as a per
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  • ...tps://web.archive.org/web/20070614133254/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/h/hidehi_7773230.shtml |archive-date=14 June 2007 }}</ref> a [[BBC television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] shown on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from 1 January 1980 to 30 January 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk
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  • ...industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and e ...imelight]]'' (1952), ''[[A King in New York]]'' (1957), and ''[[A Countess from Hong Kong]]'' (1967).
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