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  • ...e stayed at his hotel ([[Gleneagles Hotel, Torquay|Gleneagles Hotel]] in [[Torquay]], England) along with the rest of [[Monty Python]] in May 1970.<ref>{{cite ...Communication Problems]]," [[Manuel (Fawlty Towers)|Manuel]] said Basil is from [[Swanage]], although Manuel is prone to making mistakes.
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  • | death_place = [[Torquay]], Devon, England ...Art]] (RADA) in London.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/hi-de-hi-actress-ruth-madoc-dies-aged-79-after-a-fall-3949421|title=Tribute
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  • ...24 January 2005 | access-date=21 November 2013 }}</ref> was an [[w:English people|English]] [[w:actress|actress]] who is best remembered for her roles in the ...usical)|Annie Get Your Gun]]'', followed by a summer season in [[w:Torquay|Torquay]]. She then spent several years with the [[w:Players' Theatre|Players' Thea
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  • ...lodgings. In desperation, he joins the 1-2-1 Singles Club and meets other people (whom one could describe as misfits), who have fared equally unfortunately ...s problems come from an inability, or unwillingness, to confront people or from being "too nice" – giving rise to situations that can rebound in unexpect
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  • ...iew |url=http://www.steptoe-and-son.com/societymedia/maureencorbett2.html |people=Dave Cosgrove (presenter); Maureen Corbett (interviewee); [[Galton and Simp From 1958, Corbett began to appear regularly in films, coming to public attentio
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  • | birth_place = [[w:Torquay|Torquay]], [[w:Devon|Devon]], England ...978 until his death in 1995, Cook no longer collaborated with Moore, apart from a few cameo appearances but continued to be a regular performer in British
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  • ...mwell Road, as George Frederick Joffre Hartree, he took his [[stage name]] from the theatrical knight, [[Sir Charles Hawtrey]], whose surname was a differe ...That Fire?]]'' (1939). In all he appeared in more than 70 films, including from this period [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Sabotage (1936 film)|Sabotage]]'' (1
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  • ...stage.{{sfn|Gray|2004}}{{sfn|Merriman|2007|p=3}} Jacques's career spanned from 1939 until her death in 1980. She is best remembered for her appearances in ...rmance that she repeated on television in 1946.{{sfn|Merriman|2007|p=224}} From there she became a regular stage performer, appearing in variety shows and
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  • ...es is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional [[hotel]] in the seaside town of [[Torquay]] on the [[Torbay|English Riviera]]. The plots centre on the tense, rude an ...after he stayed at the [[Gleneagles Hotel, Torquay|Gleneagles Hotel]] in [[Torquay]], [[Devon]] in 1970 (along with the rest of the [[Monty Python]] troupe),
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  • ...actory at Bill Gates. Among the artists are those three sons of fun, fresh from their triumphant Palladium failure, Sellers, Secombe and Milligan in… ''[ ...on Show'' continued as before with tapings in Studio I of the Aeolian Hall from 9pm to 9.45pm on Sundays. Earlier the same day, [[Harry Secombe]] was makin
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  • ...n't You Kill My Mother-in-law?: The Story of Alternative Comedy in Britain from the Comedy Store to Saturday Live|last=Wilmut|first=Roger|publisher=Methuen ...ne 2014|work=[[w:Digital Spy|Digital Spy]]|date=10 June 2014}}</ref> Apart from performing in their [[w:double act|double act]], [[w:20th Century Coyote|20
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  • a [[BBC television]] [[British sitcom|sitcom]] shown on [[BBC One|BBC1]] from 1 January 1980 to 30 January 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk ...es of Jimmy Perry, one of the programme's writers. After being demobilised from the [[British Army|Army]], he was a [[Butlins Redcoats|Redcoat]] at [[Butli
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  • | birth_name = Josephine Edwina Jaques <!-- only use if different from name --> ...m)|Green for Danger]]'' (1946), in which she had a brief, uncredited role. From 1958 to 1974 she appeared in 14 ''Carry On'' films, playing various roles i
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  • ...pt was most recently written by [[Iain Pattinson]], who worked on the show from 1992 until his death in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amandahowardas ''I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue'' developed from the long-running radio [[sketch show]] ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]
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