• The Frost Report
  ...], and [[Ronnie Corbett]] to television, and launched the careers of other writers and performers. It premiered on BBC1 on 10 March 1966 and ended on 12 Decem ==Cast and writers==
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• Fanny Cradock
  | occupation = Television chef, novelist and food critic ...andard food into the British home and gave every recipe a French name. Her food looked extravagant, but was generally cost-effective, and Fanny seemed to c
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• Cat (Red Dwarf)
  ...link=Red Dwarf |first=Rob |last=Grant |author-link=Rob Grant |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=Doug Naylor |first3=Juliet (director) |last3=M ...link=Red Dwarf |first=Rob |last=Grant |author-link=Rob Grant |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=Doug Naylor |first3=Ed (director) |last3=Bye |
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• Lynda Bellingham
  ...and as a panellist on the ITV lunchtime chat show ''[[w:Loose Women|Loose Women]]'' between 2007 and 2011. ...other who binds her family together by cooking them meals featuring [[Oxo (food)|Oxo]] products. The advertisements typically featured the family sitting d
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• Anna Karen
  ...|url=https://www.womentalking.co.uk/anna-karen-still-on-the-buses/|website=Women Talking|date=12 December 2011|access-date=1 March 2021}}</ref> ...Cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/wild_wild_women/|title=Wild, Wild Women - BBC1 Sitcom|website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref>
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• Goodness Gracious Me (TV series)
  * The competitive mothers – Two women who constantly argue about the respective accomplishments of their sons, be ...or his father, and managed to feed 5,000 people with very small amounts of food. He also claimed that everyone in the Bible was Indian, except God, as he "
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• Ronnie Corbett
  ...first worked with [[Ronnie Barker]] in ''The Frost Report'' (1966–67). The writers and cast were mostly [[w:Oxbridge|Oxbridge]] graduates from the [[w:Footlig ...in ''[[No – That's Me Over Here!]]'', a sitcom written by ''Frost Report'' writers [[Barry Cryer]], [[Graham Chapman]] and [[w:Eric Idle|Eric Idle]] ([[ITV (T
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• Mildred Roper
  ...s not think it's morally appropriate to have a man sharing a flat with two women. Chrissy allays his fears by falsely telling George that Robin is [[gay]]. ...oves into the flat but his slovenly ways and habit of pinching the others' food are not exactly endearing him as a house-mate. Then Mildred comes up with a
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• Dave Lister
  ...link=Red Dwarf |first=Rob |last=Grant |author-link=Rob Grant |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=Doug Naylor |first3=Ed (director) |last3=Bye | ...link=Red Dwarf |first=Rob |last=Grant |author-link=Rob Grant |first2=Doug (writers) |last2=Naylor |author-link2=Doug Naylor |first3=Andy (director) |last3=de
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• List of Red Dwarf episodes
  ...Series VII and VIII were written by Naylor with collaborations from other writers, and Series IX to XII and the 2020 special ''[[Red Dwarf: The Promised Land ...ef> The mechanoid, Kryten, appeared in the first episode as a one off. The writers had resisted using robot characters as they had considered the practice a s
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• Benny Hill
  ...erformer and impressionist. He may have bought scripts from various comedy writers, but if so, they never received an onscreen credit (some evidence indicates ...along with other stock comedy characters such as policemen, vicars and old women. This was commonly filmed using "under-cranking" camera techniques and incl
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• Terry Jones
  ...n's Flying Circus]]'', his depictions of middle-aged women (or "ratbag old women" as termed by the BBC, also known as "pepper-pots" or "grannies from hell") ...eb |title=Terry Jones |url=http://welshwriters.co.uk/terry-jones/ |website=Writers of Wales |access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="Fantastic Fiction">
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• The Fast Show
  ...d Higson, as co-producers and main writers, assembled the original team of writers and performers, which included [[David Cummings (musician)|David Cummings]] ...l=http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/cheesy-peas |title=Food &#124; Recipes (UK) |publisher=Jamie Oliver |access-date=31 Dec 2015}}</ref
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• Drop the Dead Donkey
  ...venance as a well-known industry expression. The truth, sadly, is that the writers made it up. It's just something stupid that they imagined might be shouted |sign=Andy Hamilton & Guy Jenkin|source=''Drop the Dead Donkey—The Writers’ Choice''}}
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• High & Dry (1987 TV series)
  ...C Television broadcast in 1985 under the title ''Walking the Planks'', the writers took the concept to the ITV company. Only one series was made. ...t Half a Mile]]'' for television, but the BBC did not commission a series. Writers Snoad and Knowles took their idea to [[ITV Yorkshire|Yorkshire Television]]
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• Dame Edna Everage
  ...s her "entrepreneur" or manager. Humphries and his staff of assistants and writers only refer to Edna as "she" and "her", never mixing the character with Hump ...land. When asked why Australians are so good at sport she commented: "Good food and diet; open air life; juicy steaks; sunshine&nbsp;— and the total abse
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• List of Goodnight Sweetheart episodes
  ...the show, after which they only wrote some episodes, along with a team of writers. The creators also wrote the final episode of the show, where Gary Sparrow ...otal points in both his relationships, Gary agrees to have meals with both women at the same time ... but 53 years apart! With Ron's help, Gary manages to a
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• Hi-de-Hi!
  ...for the series were the experiences of Jimmy Perry, one of the programme's writers. After being demobilised from the [[British Army|Army]], he was a [[Butlins ...ed his power would win him favour with the opposite sex, but in truth most women despised him. He visited the camp on several occasions representing Joe Map
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• Dirk Bogarde
  ...it immediately and they die, within ten minutes', but she didn't want the food, she wanted the piece of ''Daily Mirror''—she hadn't seen [[newsprint]] f ...|Simba]]'' (1955); ''[[Cast a Dark Shadow]]'' (1955), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them; ''[[The Spanish Gardener (film)|The Spanis
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• Hattie Jacques
  ...p=18}}{{efn|The programme was also the first collaboration between the two writers [[Eric Sykes]] and [[Spike Milligan]].{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=131}}}} As ...problem since her teens,{{sfn|Merriman|2007|p=145}} began eating [[comfort food]] and her weight increased to nearly {{convert|20|stone|kg|0}}.<ref name="D
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