• David Hatch
  ...ller of [[BBC Radio 2]] and [[BBC Radio 4]] and later managing director of BBC Radio.<ref name="Stevens"/> ==BBC work==
  7 KB (1,048 words) - 09:00, 6 February 2023
• Gareth Gwenlan
  ...uk-wales-mid-wales-36247170|accessdate=9 May 2016|work=bbc.co.uk|publisher=BBC News|date=9 May 2016}}</ref> ...6/05/11/gareth-gwenlan-bbc-head-of-comedy--obituary/|title=Gareth Gwenlan, BBC head of comedy – obituary|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=9 May 2016|access
  5 KB (752 words) - 17:55, 6 February 2023
• Tom Sloan (television executive)
  | order = [[BBC]] Head of Light Entertainment ...4 October 1919 – 13 May 1970) was a British broadcaster and journalist and BBC Head of Light Entertainment in the 1960s.
  8 KB (1,148 words) - 12:32, 18 February 2023
• Michael Mills (British producer)
  | notable_works = Head of comedy at the [[w:British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] (1967–1972), producer at Thames Television ...was an English television producer and director who served as the [[w:BBC|BBC]]'s Head of Comedy from 1967 until 1972.
  7 KB (1,041 words) - 13:10, 16 January 2023
• Bottle Boys
  ...tus=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050417222328/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/b/bottleboys_1299000392.shtml |archivedate=17 A ...com with ''[[Up the Elephant and Round the Castle]]'', also on ITV. Future BBC controller [[John Birt]], during his tenure at [[London Weekend Television]
  4 KB (592 words) - 12:12, 14 February 2023
• John Howard Davies
  ...''[[w:Oliver Twist (1948 film)|Oliver Twist]]'' (1948). After joining the BBC as a production assistant in 1966, Davies became a hugely influential telev .... Bean]]''. Davies was the producer of all four seasons of the hit [[w:BBC|BBC]] sitcom ''[[The Good Life (1975 TV series)|The Good Life]]'', and was also
  10 KB (1,464 words) - 14:22, 23 December 2022
• Ray Galton
  ...ottom (1986 TV series)|Room at the Bottom]]'' (1986–1988) about television executives. His last sitcom was ''[[Get Well Soon (TV series)|Get Well Soon]]'' in 199
  5 KB (669 words) - 15:50, 22 December 2022
• Filthy Rich & Catflap
  .... the show did not stop being a show just because it no longer airs--> a [[BBC]] [[sitcom]] produced in 1986 and broadcast in 1987. The series featured fo ...Sounds a Bit Rude!'', which bore more than a passing resemblance to the [[BBC]] quiz show ''[[Blankety Blank]]''. Richie finally becomes famous by slande
  7 KB (1,072 words) - 15:26, 20 December 2022
• Geoffrey Perkins
  ...08) was a British comedy producer, writer and performer. Best known as the BBC head of comedy (1995–2001), he produced the first two radio series of ''[ ...t" /> In 1977 drawing upon his work for the Oxford Revue, Perkins joined [[BBC Radio]]'s [[light entertainment]] department alongside [[University of Camb
  17 KB (2,442 words) - 08:58, 1 February 2023
• Dad's Army missing episodes
  ...istmas [[sketch comedy|sketches]] (1968 and 1970) are missing as the [[BBC|BBC]] routinely reused videotape as a cost saving measure for many years. ...t material that was considered commercially exploitable. In the mid-1970s, BBC Enterprises disposed of much older material for which the rights to sell th
  21 KB (2,941 words) - 22:45, 15 March 2023
• Tom, Dick and Harriet
  ...voc for his son and his daughter-in-law, both of them being well-manicured executives; him in advertising, her in magazine publishing. However, in the second ser * [[Mark Lewisohn]], ''BBC Online Comedy Guide''/''Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy''
  6 KB (950 words) - 09:51, 23 August 2022
• Arthur Dent
  .../>first episode of [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)|the BBC TV series]] | occupation = [[BBC Radio]] employee
  9 KB (1,442 words) - 15:13, 16 March 2023
• On the Buses (series 1)
  ...ng actor]] because of his previous work on ''[[The Rag Trade]]'' for the [[BBC]] with them.{{sfn|Fisher|2011|p=8}} Chesney and Wolfe wanted a combination ..., rejected the project.{{sfn|Fisher|2011|p=10}} Less than a week after the BBC's decision, they took it to [[London Weekend Television]] (LWT).{{sfn|Fishe
  14 KB (2,099 words) - 14:13, 11 March 2023
• Bottom (TV series)
  | location = Studio TC1, [[BBC Television Centre]], London<ref name="rikmayallscrapbook">{{cite web| url=h | network = [[BBC Two|BBC2]]
  28 KB (4,106 words) - 08:43, 6 February 2023
• Chalk (TV series)
  | network = [[BBC One]] ...t High. Two series, both written by [[Steven Moffat]], were broadcast on [[BBC One|BBC1]] in 1997. Like Moffat's earlier sitcom ''[[Joking Apart]]'', ''Ch
  34 KB (5,287 words) - 00:09, 19 February 2023
• The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
  | network = [[BBC One|BBC1]] *CJ (Charles Jefferson<ref>The Legacy of Reginald Perrin, BBC, 1996</ref>), his boss: [[John Barron (actor)|John Barron]] (who also playe
  19 KB (2,842 words) - 18:01, 23 February 2023
• Harry Fowler
  ...vacuee children from London. This role was given to him after film company executives heard him speaking on the radio about his experiences in wartime London. Af ...by [[Spike Milligan]] and [[Neil Shand]]. The series was cancelled by the BBC after the first episode had been broadcast.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Milligan
  13 KB (1,803 words) - 23:02, 21 October 2022
• Ben Lyon
  ...and spawned a couple of theatrical films as well as a television series on BBC and independent television from 1954 until 1960. Bebe Daniels had top billi ...Life]]'' in March 1963, when he was surprised by [[Eamonn Andrews]] at the BBC Television Theatre.
  15 KB (2,288 words) - 15:08, 13 November 2022
• David Frost
  ...he Sunday morning interview programme ''[[Breakfast with Frost]]'' for the BBC from 1993 to 2005, and spent two decades as host of ''[[Through the Keyhole ...inster's Poets' Corner |work=BBC News |date=13 March 2014 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26560669 |access-date=30 January 2015}}</ref>
  42 KB (5,950 words) - 00:03, 13 February 2023
• The Bed Sitting Room (film)
  *[[Frank Thornton]] as The BBC ...tween May and July 1968, mainly in and around [[Chobham Common]]. When the executives at [[United Artists]] saw the film, they hated it, and it was shelved for a
  12 KB (1,791 words) - 23:42, 6 January 2023

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)