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  • ...[[West Ham]], [[Essex]]<!-- Do not change to London, West Ham was in Essex in 1914 -->, UK ...27 August 2007) was an English character actress best known for her roles in various sitcoms and comedy movies.
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  • | name = On the Buses | image = On the Buses (film).jpg
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  • ...for the bands of Stan Atkins and Teddy Foster in the late 1930s, although in his late teens he was a trumpeter with Lew Foster.<ref name="Times2004">{{c ...[Ella Fitzgerald]] and [[Frank Sinatra]], he wrote jingles for commercials in the later 1950s.
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  • | image = On the Buses card.png ...= Title card used from series 3 to 6; the animated titles were introduced in series 2.
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  • ...Anna]]''. Her authorised biography, written by Andrew Ross, was published in 2021. ...London|South London]], Coombs was one of three children; her father worked in insurance for the Employers' Liability, the forerunner of [[w:Commercial Un
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  • ...group=notes>James Beck played the black market [[spiv]] [[Private Walker]] in the ''[[Dad's Army]]''</ref> and also featured [[Arthur Mullard]] and [[Qu Following Beck's death in August 1973, Bert and Betty Jones were written out of the series. [[Jonatha
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  • | caption = in character as 'Leslie' in [[Catweazle]] ...1 June 1926 – 15 July 2015) was a British actor known for his appearances in the films ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' and ''[[The
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  • ...Records|Guinness Book Of World Records]] as the longest-running screening in Britain. A [[w:blue plaque|blue plaque]] on the former cinema's site commem ...'[[The Nine Ages of Nakedness]]'', but it was to remain on the shelf while in the ensuing years he was declared bankrupt, was the subject of an [[obsceni
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  • ...a paid up member with a rolled up umbrella on your arm and the Radio Times in your pocket and you babble incoherently... ...nothing better to offer than the BBC Home Service, you keep a civil tongue in your head...
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  • ...g broadcast on 28 September 1997. The series is notable for being the last in a series of three comedies by co-writer David Croft to use many of the same ...the [[Severn Valley Railway]]. [[Arley railway station|Arley]] SVR station in [[Upper Arley]] was used as Hatley station.
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  • ...ham (2003) |publisher=BBC |date=2003-12-25 |access-date=2016-09-19}}</ref> In total, 64 regular episodes of ''Only Fools and Horses'' were produced, all ...=2010-07-07 |access-date=2016-09-19}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Back at their flat in Nelson Mandela House, the Trotters discover that the briefcases cannot be o
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