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  • ...cide whether to keep or disband the force. The characters fabricate crimes in order to look useful. They manufacture some fake [[smuggling]], however, th ...ve the unconscious Chief Constable back to the police station and lock him in the cell. Dudfoot then drives the Chief Constable's car into Harbottle's sh
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  • |name = A Stitch in Time |image = A Stitch in Time (film).jpg
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  • ...anda Ventham]]; and [[Roy Castle]] makes his only ''Carry On'' appearance, in the romantic male lead part usually played by [[Jim Dale]].<ref name="scree ...mporary and from earlier, Hollywood, periods. The title is a play on words in the risqué Carry On tradition, with "Khyber" (short for "Khyber Pass") bei
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  • ...h, in which she sang the same songs from Portrait of Queenie, was released in 1966 on the UK Columbia label with catalogue number SX 6047.<ref>{{Cite web ...ady in ''[[All Coppers Are...]]'' (1972), and as the ill-fated housekeeper in the horror film ''[[Schizo (1976 film)|Schizo]]'' (1976).<ref name="BFI"/>
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  • ...place = [[Dhaka]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal Province]], [[British India]] ...llah Muhammed in ''[[It Ain't Half Hot Mum]]'' (1974–1981),<br />Ali Nadim in ''[[Mind Your Language]]'' (1977–1979)
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  • ...le as [[w:Corrections officer|prison officer]] [[w:Mr. Mackay|Mr. Mackay]] in the 1970s television [[w:situation comedy|sitcom]] ''[[w:Porridge (1974 TV ...], [[w:Renfrewshire (historic)|Renfrewshire]], Scotland. He was brought up in [[w:Clydebank|Clydebank]] by a widowed aunt after the death of his mother f
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  • ...f>according to his website</ref> with his uncredited appearance as Perkins in the film ''[[Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)|Goodbye, Mr. Chips]]'' (1939). ...ices at St. Aldhelm's Church, and Croft later gave that name to the church in Dad's Army.
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  • ...screen actress, author and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films ''[[A Town Like Alice (film)|A Town Like Alice]]'' (1956), ''[[Carve Her Na ...ool near the [[market town]] of [[Horsham]] in Sussex. She spent six years in [[Union of South Africa|South Africa]] before returning to the school at th
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  • ...ny = [[London Weekend Television]] (series 1–3) <br />TRI Films (series 4) ...ntries with different social background, religions, and languages existing in the same classroom, learning English as a foreign language.
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  • ...ast]] comedies, [[Adventure films|Adventure films]], [[Action films|Action films]] ...ge-scale adventure epic and comedies films, like ''[[Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines]]'', ''[[Battle of the Bulge (1965 film)|Battle of th
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  • ...ed through the city of [[Turin]], [[Italy]] in an armoured security truck. In addition to Caine, the film's cast also included [[Benny Hill]], [[Raf Vall ...ish for 'Italian Job |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/i-had-a-better-idea-writers-original-finish-for-italian-job-435666.htm
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  • * Walter Shenson Films ...rchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915050205/http://beatles.com/#/films/Help|url-status=live}}</ref> The soundtrack was released as the band's [[He
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  • ...ire|Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in 1961 and a Dame Commander (DBE) in 1967. ....jpg|thumb|right|Margaret Rutherford's early home, her aunt Bessie's house in [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]], 1895–1920]]
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  • | opentheme = "[[Gone Up in Flames]]" (instrumental) by [[Morning Runner]] * Young Films
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  • * [[Film4 Productions|Channel Four Films]] * [[Working Title Films]]
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  • | alt = The faces of Basil Radford and Joan Greenwood appear in a cartoon whisky bottle; the top of the bottle wears a Tam o' shanter and t ...nd, the inhabitants of which have run out of whisky because of [[Rationing in the United Kingdom|wartime rationing]]. The islanders find out the ship is
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  • |caption = Perry in May 2011 |relatives = [[Diane Holland]] (sister-in-law)
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  • ...d [[animal rights]] activist. Prior to his show business career, he served in the British army with [[Gurkha]] and special forces units. Travers was born in the suburb of Jesmond in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, England,<ref name=NYT/> the son of Florenc
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  • ...the ITV series ''[[Rising Damp]]'' from 1974 to 1978, and Reginald Perrin in the BBC's ''[[The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin]]'' from 1976 to 1979.<r ...Second World War|demobbed]] he worked for six years as an insurance clerk in the claims and accident departments of the [[w:Commercial Union|Commercial
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  • | caption = Wisdom in 1965 ...Roles]] following the release of ''[[Trouble in Store]]'', his first film in a lead role.
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