• Puckoon
  ==Adaptations== An abridged [[audiobook]] version, read by the author, was released on LP and cassette.
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• Man About the House (film)
  | based_on = {{based on|''[[Man About the House]]''|Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke}} | studio = [[Hammer Films]]
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• Stormy Weather (1935 film)
  ...her people. Sir Duncan is appointed to the board of clothing retail chain. On his tour of inspection, he encounters a successful store run by the efficie ...s stage farces, it features a number of actors who had appeared in Aldwych films. The film was made by [[Gainsborough Pictures]] at [[Islington Studios]].<r
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• Murder She Said
  | based_on = {{based on|''[[4.50 from Paddington]]''<br>1957 novel|[[Agatha Christie]]}} ...ery film]] directed by [[George Pollock (director)|George Pollock]], based on the 1957 novel ''[[4.50 from Paddington]]'' by [[Agatha Christie]]. The pro
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• Boys Will Be Boys (1935 film)
  The setting is loosely based on the works of [[Beachcomber (Pen name)|Beachcomber]], where Narkover is a sc ...ntally" gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart. On the basis of the letter, Lady Dorking, who runs the [[Board of Governors]]
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• The Mouse That Roared (film)
  ...The Mouse That Roared]]'' (1955).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b0dc0d2|title=The Mouse That Roared (1959)|publisher=}}</re ...nt Mountjoy (Peter Sellers) devises a plan: Grand Fenwick will declare war on the United States, then surrender, taking advantage of American largesse to
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• Erik the Viking
  | based_on = {{Based on|''[[The Saga of Erik the Viking]]''|Terry Jones}} ...rri's murder and was able to recover the mouthpiece, sounds the first note on the Horn. The ship is propelled over the edge of the flat Earth and into sp
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• The Ladykillers (1955 film)
  ...he pulls the case free, banknotes spill forth while Mrs. Wilberforce looks on. Finally, smelling a rat, she informs Marcus that she is going to the polic ...nearly hits him. Finally, with no one else left, Marcus himself is struck on the head by a changing [[railway semaphore signal|railway signal]], and his
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• Doctor in the House (TV series)
  ...r in Charge]]''|''[[Doctor at Sea (TV series)|Doctor at Sea]]''|''[[Doctor on the Go]]''|''[[Doctor Down Under]]''|''[[Doctor at the Top]]''}} '''''Doctor in the House''''' is a British television comedy series based on [[Doctor (novel series)|a set of books]] and a [[Doctor in the House|film o
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• Frank Launder
  ...eenonline.org.uk}}</ref><ref name=bfi>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba17b8221|title=Frank Launder}}</ref> He began working as a screenwriter on British films in the 1930s, contributing the original story for the classic [[Will Hay]]
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• St Trinian's School
  ...ries was Searle's most famous work and inspired a popular series of comedy films. ...that the [[gymslip]] style of dress worn by the girls was closely modelled on the school uniform of [[James Allen's Girls' School]] (JAGS) in [[Dulwich]]
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• The Deadly Attachment
  | prev = [[Time on My Hands (Dad's Army)|Time on My Hands]] ...[television]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Dad's Army]]''. It was originally transmitted on Wednesday 31 October 1973. It has become one of the best known episodes of
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• The Ghost Train (play)
  | based_on = <!-- {{based on|title of the original work|creator of the original work}} --> ...a railway scenario in constrained circumstances" thrillers, leading to the films such as ''[[The Lady Vanishes (1938 film)|The Lady Vanishes]]'' (1938), ''[
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• The Likely Lads (film)
  ...s wife in [[West Germany]], and is looking forward to a bright future; Bob on the other hand is growing tired of his married life with Thelma, and jaded ...esents. In her pursuit of this, Thelma insists the four of them going away on a caravanning holiday in [[Northumberland]]; but while Thelma and Chris enj
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• Man About the House
  ...tudios|Teddington]] studio in [[Greater London]]. It is regularly repeated on [[ITV3]]. ...that Robin has been staying at the [[YMCA]], they convince him to move in, on the understanding that it will be a [[Platonic love|platonic]] relationship
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• Hercules Grytpype-Thynne
  ...= [[The Goon Show]] <!-- or |franchise=; use without the italic on the outside --> ..._major = <!-- per [[MOS:MAJORWORK]] - major works include TV series, films, books, albums and games -->
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• George and Mildred
  | based_on = {{based on|''[[Man About the House]]''|Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke}} ...n Cooke|Brian Cooke]] and [[Johnnie Mortimer]]. Like [[List of films based on British sitcoms|many British sitcoms]], ''George and Mildred'' was made int
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• Confessions of a Window Cleaner
  ...-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110905065924/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Confessions-of-a-Window-Cleaner_1974 |archive-date=5 September 2011 |url-st ...Holiday Camp]]'', it concerns the erotic adventures of Timothy Lea, based on the novels written under that name by [[Christopher Wood (writer)|Christoph
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• Arnold Ridley
  ...-news/dads-armys-private-godfrey-played-1671093|title=Bath actor to appear on special edition Dad's Army stamps|first=Nancy Connolly, Senior news and fea ...arter battle. His left hand was left virtually useless by wounds sustained on the [[Battle of the Somme|Somme]];<ref name=heroics/><ref>"Godfrey's secret
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• Dick Clement
  | birth_place = [[Westcliff-on-Sea]], [[Essex]], England ...ege|Bishop's Stortford College]], and then spent a year in the [[USA|USA]] on an exchange visit. Upon his return, he completed his [[Conscription in the
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