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Love on a Branch Line (TV series)

Index Love on a Branch Line (TV series)

Love on a Branch Line is a British television adaptation of the 1959 novel Love on a Branch Line by John Hadfield. [1]

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Abigail Cruttenden

Abigail Lucy Cruttenden (born 23 March 1968) is an English actress.

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Acorn DVD

Acorn DVD is a trading name of RLJE International Ltd, a British company that publishes and distributes DVDs, as well as selling home-video products and streaming videos with a particular focus on British television.

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Ain't She Sweet

"Ain't She Sweet" is a song composed by Milton Ager, with lyrics by Jack Yellen.

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Amanda Root

Amanda Root (born 1963) is an English stage and screen actress and a former voice actress for children's programmes.

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Bank holiday

A bank holiday is a public holiday in the United Kingdom, some Commonwealth countries, Hong Kong and the Republic of Ireland.

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Battle of Britain

The Battle of Britain (Luftschlacht um England, literally "The Air Battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Branch line

A branch line is a secondary railway line which branches off a more important through route, usually a main line.

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Cathryn Harrison

Cathryn Mary Lee Harrison (born 25 May 1959) is an English actress.

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Charleston (dance)

The Charleston is a dance named for the harbor city of Charleston, South Carolina.

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Chawton House

Chawton House is a grade ll* listed Elizabethan manor house in the village of Chawton in Hampshire.

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Civil service

The civil service is independent of government and composed mainly of career bureaucrats hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.

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Comedy

In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.

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David Haig

David Haig Collum Ward, MBE (born 20 September 1955) is an Olivier Award-winning English actor and FIPA Award-winning writer.

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David Nobbs

David Gordon Nobbs (13 March 1935 – 8 August 2015, The Guardian, 11 September 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2015.) was an English comedy writer, best known for writing the 1970s series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, adapted from his own novels.

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DVD

DVD (an abbreviation of "digital video disc" or "digital versatile disc") is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips and Sony in 1995.

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General strike

A general strike (or mass strike) is a strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labour force in a city, region, or country participates.

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Gillian Raine

Gillian Raine (b. Gillian Mary Lorraine, Ceylon now Sri Lanka, 28 December 1927)Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - entry for Rossiter - accessed 4 July 2011 is an actress, singer and was the wife of the actor Leonard Rossiter from 1964-1984 (his death), though they had been living together since 1962.

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Graham Crowden

Clement Graham Crowden (30 November 1922 – 19 October 2010) was a Scottish actor.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom.

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Historical period drama

The term historical period drama (also historical drama, period drama, costume drama, and period piece) refers to a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television.

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I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby

"I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby" is an American popular song and jazz standard by Jimmy McHugh (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyrics).

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Idyll

An idyll (British English) or idyl (American English) (or; from Greek εἰδύλλιον, eidullion, "short poem") is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls.

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Ilona Sekacz

Ilona Sekacz (Born 6 April 1948 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England) is a British composer of concert, film, television and theatre music.

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Joe Melia

Joe Melia (23 January 1935, Islington, London – 20 October 2012, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire) was a British actor.

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John Hadfield

John Charles Heywood Hadfield, (June 16, 1907 – October 10, 1999) was a British author and publisher, best known for his 1959 comic novel Love on a Branch Line.

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Leslie Phillips

Leslie Samuel Phillips, (born 20 April 1924) is an English actor who came to prominence in films in the 1950s, acting as a suave charmer with an exaggerated upper class accent, in the style of Terry-Thomas.

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Love on a Branch Line (novel)

Love on a Branch Line is a 1959 comic novel by John Hadfield.

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Maria Aitken

Maria Penelope Katharine Aitken (born 12 September 1945) is an Irish-born English theatre director, teacher, actress, and writer.

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Michael Maloney

Michael Maloney (born 19 June 1957) is an English actor.

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National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the largest membership organisation in the United Kingdom.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.

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North Norfolk Railway

The North Norfolk Railway (NNR) – also known as the "Poppy Line" – is a heritage steam railway in Norfolk, England, running between the coastal towns of Sheringham and Holt.

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Oxburgh Hall

Oxburgh Hall ("OX bru") is a moated country house in Oxborough, Norfolk, England, today in the hands of the National Trust.

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St James' Park

St James' Park is a football stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.

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Stephen Moore (actor)

Stephen Moore (born 11 December 1937) is a retired English actor, known for his work on British television since the mid-1970s.

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Stereophonic sound

Stereophonic sound or, more commonly, stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that creates an illusion of multi-directional audible perspective.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.

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Traction engine

A traction engine is a self-propelled steam engine used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location.

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Trad jazz

Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is the Dixieland and ragtime jazz styles of the early 20th century, which typically used a front line of trumpet, clarinet and trombone in contrast to more modern styles which usually include saxophones, and the revival of these styles in mid 20th-century Britain before the emergence of beat music.

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Weybourne railway station

Weybourne railway station is a station in Weybourne, Norfolk on the preserved North Norfolk Railway.

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Yes Sir, That's My Baby (song)

"Yes Sir, That's My Baby" is a popular U.S. song from 1925.

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14:9

14:9 is a compromise aspect ratio of 1.56:1.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_on_a_Branch_Line_(TV_series)

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