• Dick Sharples
  | birth_place = [[w:Manchester|Manchester]], England ...October 2009</ref> He began his career as a cartoonist and a writer for a Manchester Advertising Agency.<ref>''Early Career'' https://www.scribd.com/doc/5302191
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• Harry Driver
  | birth_place = [[Blackley]], Manchester, England, United Kingdom [[Category:British television writers]]
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• Daphne Oxenford
  ...ing comfortably ...?"'') of [[BBC]] [[radio]]'s ''[[Listen with Mother]]'' from its inception in 1950 to 1971. As spinster [[List of Coronation Street char ...22 |title=Daphne Oxenford, voice of Listen With Mother, dies |author=Staff writers |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2013-01-06 |access-date=2019-08-04}}</ref>
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• Bob Oliver Rogers
  ...oration]], between 1973 and 1979, at the BBC's [[w:New Broadcasting House, Manchester|New Broadcasting House]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/sea ...s in the radio comedy department of the BBC at [[w:New Broadcasting House, Manchester|New Broadcasting House]] (alongside [[w:James Casey (variety artist)|James
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• Bodysnatcher (Red Dwarf)
  ...k=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> for Lister and Rimmer, performed their audition from this script. One of Cat's lines: The original series finale involved Lister resurrecting Kochanski's hologram from the projection disc he found with Confidence. However, when the unnamed scr
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• Vince Powell
  | birth_place = [[w:Miles Platting|Miles Platting]], [[w:Manchester|Manchester]], England ...ph Smith to Roman Catholic parents in [[w:Miles Platting|Miles Platting]], Manchester. When he was five, his mother died; two years later, his father remarried.
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• Me²
  ...eries following an electricians' strike at the BBC. The episode follows on from the cliffhanger set by "[[Confidence and Paranoia]]"—there are now two Ri ...episode "Bodysnatcher", about [[Arnold Rimmer|Rimmer]] stealing body parts from [[Dave Lister|Lister]] to build a new body for himself, and wrote "Me²".<r
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• Les Dawson
  |birth_place = [[w:Collyhurst|Collyhurst]], [[w:Manchester|Manchester]], England |death_place = [[w:Whalley Range, Manchester|Whalley Range]], Manchester, England
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• David Croft (TV producer)
  ...]]<br>2003 Lifetime Achievement Award<br>[[Writers' Guild of Great Britain|Writers' Guild of Great Britain]]<br> 1969 Best Comedy Script ''[[Dad's Army]]''<br ...(with Lloyd). His last full series ''[[Oh, Doctor Beeching!]]'', broadcast from 1995 to 1997, was co-written with [[Richard Spendlove]]. He created a telev
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• Wilfred Pickles
  ...s as host of the [[BBC Radio|BBC Radio]] show ''[[Have A Go]]'', which ran from 1946 to 1967 and launched such catchphrases as "How do, how are yer?", "Are ...shire dialect]] verses, "A Bird Song Away" and "Th' Art Lookin' Sackless", from the award-winning weaver-poet [[Nicholas Freeston]].<ref>Pickles, Wilfred.
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• Dad's Army (stage show)
  ...embers. It was produced by Roger Redfarn, who shared the same agent as the writers. The show ran in the West End from 4 October to 21 February 1976, where it was disrupted twice by bomb scares,
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• Frank Randle
  ...y throwing his false teeth into the audience and once bombarding Blackpool from an aeroplane with toilet rolls (according to an episode of ''Rude Britannia ...uffering the privations of war. He took equity in [[John E. Blakeley]]'s [[Manchester]]-based [[Mancunian Films|Mancunian Film Studios]], appearing in eight of i
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• Caroline Aherne
  |death_place = [[w:Timperley|Timperley]], [[w:Greater Manchester|Greater Manchester]], England Aherne narrated the [[Channel 4]] reality television series ''[[Gogglebox]]'' from its inception in 2013 until 8 April 2016. Aherne died of cancer at the age
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• Jeremy Lloyd
  ...med had seen him as a failure.<ref name=guardian/> His father withdrew him from a private [[w:Preparatory school (United Kingdom)|preparatory school]] in 1 ...nd many of the characters depicted in ''Are You Being Served?'' were drawn from his recollections of his time there. He was also a travelling paint salesma
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• Better Than Life (Red Dwarf episode)
  "'''Better Than Life'''" is the second episode from ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' series two,<ref name="British Sitcom Guide&nbsp;— Red D ...ing that he and rest of humanity are long dead, seeing the news in writing from his mother upsets him. Although Rimmer admits he loathed him due to his str
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• The Huggetts (film series)
  ...eir roles in all three films. The characters of Jane and Jimmy are missing from the second film but return for the final film, in which Jane is played by [ ...all four scripts. [[Muriel Box]], [[Sydney Box]] and [[Peter Rogers]] were writers on ''Holiday Camp'' and ''Here Come the Huggetts'', and [[Ted Willis]] work
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• Terry Nation
  ...e 1950s, Nation worked with [[John Junkin]] and [[Johnny Speight]] for the writers' agency [[Associated London Scripts]],<ref name="screenonline.org.uk"/> whe Prior to his association with Hancock, Nation had declined an offer from scriptwriter [[David Whitaker (screenwriter)|David Whitaker]] to write for
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• Dave King (actor)
  ...anuary 24, 1955<ref>{{cite journal |title=Manchester Evening News |journal=Manchester Evening News |date=January 24, 1955 |page=2}}</ref> and being given a month ...(TV series)|Hazell]]'' (1978), ''[[Pennies from Heaven (TV series)|Pennies From Heaven]]'' (1978), ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]'' (episode: "Gunfight at
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• Raymond Glendenning
  ....co.uk/225ad65a32d74e4e95e5c5dc9fa8720f|title=F.A. Cup Final: Blackpool v. Manchester United|date=24 April 1948|issue=1279|pages=21|via=BBC Genome}}</ref> He als He died aged 66 on 23 February 1974, from a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]].
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• Holiday Camp (film)
  ...age&q=sydney%20box%20film%20producer&f=false Andrew Spicer, ''Sydney Box'' Manchester Uni Press 2006 p 210]</ref> ...ttle ideas. Sydney [Box] was always on the side of writers and always gave writers credit, even if they just had two lines in the script."<ref name="McFarlane
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