• List of Man About the House characters
  ...itcom|sitcom]] ''[[Man About the House]]'', which was originally broadcast from 1973 to 1976. ...ringing his girlfriends over and is usually unsuccessful. He is a fan of [[Southampton F.C.]] and [[Fulham F.C.]] and attends their matches. Robin is best friends
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• Derek Roy (comedian)
  | death_place = [[Southampton]], [[Hampshire]], England '''Derek Roy''' (25 August 1922 – 15 March 1981) was an [[English people|English]] comedian, whose public profile was at its greatest in the late 19
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• Jeremy Hardy
  | education = [[University of Southampton]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) ...an. Born and raised in [[Hampshire]], Hardy studied at the [[University of Southampton]] and began his stand-up career in the 1980s, going on to win the [[Edinbur
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• Virginia McKenna
  From 1954 to 1955 she was a member of the [[Old Vic]] theatre company, appearing ...name=gale>{{cite news |last=Gale |first=Jez |title=The beasts that brought Southampton to life |url=http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/heritage/news/13418233.The_beasts_t
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• Violet Carson
  ...]]'' on the [[BBC Home Service]] and was the star of ''Nursery Sing Song'' from Manchester, in which she frequently sang with producer Trevor Hill, many ye ...aced and gruff moral voice of ''[[Coronation Street]]'', a role she played from 1960 to 1980. In 1962, she was named ITV Personality of the Year for her po
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• Richard Dimbleby
  ...(World War II)|British Expeditionary Force]] to France and made broadcasts from the [[First Battle of El Alamein|battle of El Alamein]]<ref>{{cite web |url ...a special programme in July 1962 showing the first live television signal from the [[United States|United States]] via the [[Telstar|Telstar]] satellite.
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• Bud Flanagan
  ...ogrom]]. Wolf and Yetta Weintrop intended to escape to the "[[New World]]" from Eastern Europe – they paid for a ticket to [[New York City|New York]], bu ...ld. In 1910, aged 14, he decided to leave home and walked all the way to [[Southampton]] where he claimed to be an electrician aged 17 to get a job aboard ship. H
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• Benny Hill
  | birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Southampton]], [[Hampshire]], England}} ...es for 1st quarter (Jan, Feb, Mar) 1924 reveal "Alfred H. Hill" registered Southampton&nbsp;— mother's maiden name "Cave". This is CORRECT&nbsp;— Please do no
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• Arthur Brough
  ...avilion, a repertory theatre in [[Folkestone]], Kent.<ref>{{Cite web|title=From Theatre to Club|url=https://www.leaspavilionarchive.org.uk/new-contribution ...Keighley]], [[Leeds]], [[Lincoln, Lincolnshire|Lincoln]], [[Oxford]] and [[Southampton]], to name a few. With the outbreak of [[World War II]], Brough enlisted in
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• Madeline Smith
  ...970), ''[[Theatre of Blood]]'' (1973) and ''[[Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell]]'' (1974) and comedy films including ''[[Up Pompeii (film)|Up Pompeii ...cite web|url=http://www.jeoliver.co.uk/recurringpeople.htm|title=recurring people|website=www.jeoliver.co.uk}}</ref>
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• Irene Handl
  ...34218 UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 for Irene Handl, Southampton, England, 1924: Ancestry.com {{subscription}}]</ref> ...s most avid champions of [[Chihuahua (dog)|Chihuahuas]], being inseparable from the pair that she owned.<ref name=":0" />
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• Chuckle Brothers
  ...the Chuckle Brothers''. The comedy of the Chuckle Brothers usually derived from [[slapstick]], other [[visual gag]]s, and [[wordplay]], and their [[catchph | people = [[Eamonn Holmes]] and [[Ruth Langsford]] (Presenters), Paul Elliot (Guest
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• Bottom (TV series)
  ...Edmondson|Adrian Edmondson]] that ran for three series on [[BBC Two|BBC2]] from 1991 to 1995. It focuses on Richard "Richie" Richard (Mayall) and Edward El ...ndson described Eddie as "a very strange kind of mellow" version of Vyvyan from ''The Young Ones''.<ref name=TDT91>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.c
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• Oh, Mr Porter!
  ...] play ''[[The Ghost Train (play)|The Ghost Train]]''. The title was taken from ''[[Oh! Mr Porter]]'', a [[music hall]] song. ...station is. It is situated out in the countryside, two miles cross-country from the nearest bus stop. To make matters worse, local legend has it that the g
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• Tommy Cooper
  '''Thomas Frederick Cooper''' (19 March 1921 – 15 April 1984) was a [[Welsh people|Welsh]]-born<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-09-22|title=Tommy Cooper, a great Wel ...herine Gertrude (''née'' Wright), Thomas's [[English people|English]] wife from [[Crediton]], [[Devon]].<ref name="exmem" /><ref>GRO Register of Marriages:
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• David Frost
  ...me ''The Frost Interview'' from 2012. He received the [[BAFTA Fellowship]] from the [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] in 2005 and the [[Lifet Frost studied at [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]], from 1958, graduating with a Third in English.<ref>J. Hughes-Onslow, "Sir David
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• The Goon Show series 3
  ...ming. The recipient was Michael Bentine, then appearing at [[w:Southampton|Southampton]]’s [[w:Mayflower Theatre|Gaumont Theatre]]. ‘''I am very distressed to ...-natal fever and had to leave the baby in Spike’s hands. A full-time nurse from [[w:New Zealand|New Zealand]] was assigned to assist the family, with Spike
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• List of Keeping Up Appearances episodes
  ...idnight]]"! Apparently, he’s gone to save the woman at the [[Post Office]] from a "fate worse than death" at the hands of aliens. Hyacinth and Richard then ...mary =Hyacinth is shocked to see a strange man wearing only a towel emerge from Elizabeth’s house to get the newly-delivered milk, sending her into a tiz
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• The Two Ronnies
  | caption = The spectacles logo from the show's opening. Both performers wore glasses; Barker's are on top, Corb ...Corbett]]. It was created by [[Bill Cotton]] and aired on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from April 1971 to December 1987. The usual format included sketches, solo secti
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• Stanley Holloway
  ...an actor and reciter of comic monologues were soon recognised. Characters from his monologues such as Sam Small, invented by Holloway, and Albert Ramsbott ...9 July 2012</ref> George left Florence in 1905 and was never seen or heard from again by his family.<ref name="Holloway and Richards, p. 68">Holloway and R
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