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  • ...th MacDonald (English actor)|Kenneth MacDonald]], and appeared in the show from 1983 to 1996. ...r]] and a faulty fax machine. On the other hand, he was quite happy to con people out of their money when he could, evidenced by one occasion where he sold [
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  • '''Bluebottle''' is a comedy character from ''[[The Goon Show]]'', a 1950s [[w:United Kingdom|British]] [[w:comedy|come ...ctions out loud, and was often greeted with a deliberate round of applause from the audience ("Enter Bluebottle wearing string and cardboard pyjamas. Waits
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  • ...Grass]]'' in which Boycie and his family flee to the countryside to escape from the Driscoll Brothers. A younger Boycie also appears in the prequel series Boycie is a local second-hand car dealer from [[Lewisham]] and for a long time was the richest and most successful regula
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  • '''Victor Meldrew''' is a [[w:fictional character|fictional character]] in the [[w:BBC One|BBC One]] [[w:Situation comedy|sitcom]] ''[[ In the first episode, Meldrew, aged 60, is forced into early retirement from his job as a security guard when the office where he worked installs an aut
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  • '''Norman Stanley Fletcher''', commonly nicknamed '''"Fletch"''', is the main fictional character in the [[BBC]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Porridge (1974 TV series)|Porridge] ...s range from the practical (stealing pills from the prison doctor and eggs from the prison farmyard), to the symbolic (finding new and imaginative ways to
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  • ...pdates the story from the early 1950s of the novel to mid-1960s [[Swinging London]]. It stars [[Keith Barron]] as the young [[university lecturer]] Jim Dixon * David Pringle. ''Imaginary People: A Who's who of Fictional Characters from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day''. Scolar Press, 1996.
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  • accessdate=16 September 2006}}</ref>) is a [[fictional character]] from the [[BBC]] [[television]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'', in whi ...so mentioned that, owing to her career choice, she had long been estranged from her parents, not having seen or spoken to them for years.
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  • ...vin Turvey segments used as theme music the third movement ''alla marcia'' from the ''[[Karelia Suite]]'' by Sibelius; the first movement, ''Intermezzo'', ...s." [[Robbie Coltrane]] played Mick the lodger (who was [[Desertion|AWOL]] from the [[British Army|Army]]), [[Ade Edmondson]] played Kevin's friend Keith M
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  • ==Fictional character biography== ...f the [[Second World War]]. He spent the rest of his life recounting tales from the war. He was awarded seven medals<ref>{{Cite web |title=Comedy - Only Fo
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  • ...he Complete A-Z of Dad's Army |year=2000|publisher= Orion Books |location= London |isbn=0-7528-4637-X| pages =288, p.75}}</ref> ...ilately|philatelist]]'s shop with a hobby of making [[coffin]]s). He hails from the "wild and lonely"<ref>This phrase is also used when he proudly displays
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  • ..., an Irish [[w:construction worker|construction worker]] from [[w:Kilburn, London|Kilburn]], who comes to the conclusion that he is the rightful [[w:King of ...h, the main one concerning two [[w:illegal immigrants|illegal immigrants]] from India who become Looney's [[w:leasehold estate|tenant|]]s.
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  • '''Private Joe Walker''' is a fictional [[black market|black market]] [[spiv|spiv]] (or Wholesales Supplier, as he ...upplies" for members of the rival Eastgate platoon and various influential people, military or civilian; at one point, he offers to provide "a couple of bott
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  • | death_place = [[w:Morden|Morden]], [[w:London|London]], England ...woman alongside Abbot's Cooperman character.<ref name=":0" /> The show ran from 1980 to 1996, and at its peak attracted 18 million viewers.<ref name=":1" /
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  • | nationality = {{nowrap|[[British people|British]]}}<br/> ...ackadder]] ([[Rowan Atkinson]]). The character garnered positive responses from critics.
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  • ...nds_1959/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and is probably best remembered as the fictional wife of [[Dickie Henderson]] in ''The Dickie Henderson Show''.<ref name="Da ...llowed an acting career in theatre, film and television and after retiring from acting in her 30s June moved back to [[w:Redcar|Redcar]], marrying an [[w:I
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  • Born in [[Peckham Rye]], [[County of London|London]], in 1909, Grandad stated that his earliest memories were of watching the ...ad chose to confess everything under [[interrogation]]. Both were deported from [[Spain]] and all her territories and dominions. Grandad returned to Peckha
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  • '''Alfred Edward "Alf" Garnett''' is a [[fictional character]] from the [[Television in the United Kingdom|British]] [[Situation comedy|sitcom] ...e edge of London, probably in Essex. Alf continued to work on the docks in London despite the long commute. Alf was still proud when the couple had a son tog
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  • | death_place = [[Sutton, London|Sutton]], England ...bert) Rumbold (Nicholas Smith)|Mr (Cuthbert) Rumbold]], the manager of the fictional Grace Brothers department store.
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  • ...tober 2018 her debut novel, "Josephine: An Open Book" was published. It is fictional but partly based on her own experiences.{{cn|date=June 2021}} ...et fellow actor [[Kenneth More]] on the set of ''[[Some People (film)|Some People]]'' in [[Bristol]] in 1962. After starting an affair, More divorced his wif
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  • | death_place = [[London]], England ...e to the Galaxy]]'' and is [[Mornington Crescent (game)#Origins|one of the people credited]] with creating the bizarre panel game [[Mornington Crescent (game
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