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One Foot in the Grave

Index One Foot in the Grave

One Foot in the Grave is a British dark comedy sitcom written by David Renwick. [1]

143 relations: Advice column, Angus Deayton, Annette Crosbie, Arabella Weir, Arthur Mathews (writer), Aspect ratio (image), Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Barbara Windsor, BBC, BBC One, BBC Online, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC Worldwide, BFI TV 100, Bill Cosby, Black comedy, Boscombe, Bottle episode, Bournemouth, Bournemouth and Poole College, Boxing glove, Brian Murphy (actor), Britain's Best Sitcom, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, British Academy Television Awards, British Comedy Awards, British Film Institute, CBS, Christchurch Hospital, Dorset, Christchurch, Dorset, Christopher Ryan, Cirque du Soleil, Cockatiel, Comedy Connections, Comic Relief, Cosby, Cwm Rhondda, Dachshund, Daily Mail, David Renwick, Diana Coupland, Dictaphone, Dominoes, Doreen Mantle, Double act, Eamonn Walker, Ed Welch, Edward de Souza, End of the Line (Traveling Wilburys song), ..., Eric Idle, Eric Idle Sings Monty Python, Esta Charkham, Farce, Father Ted, Father Ted Crilly, Gabrielle Blunt, Gareth Gwenlan, Gösta Ekman, Geoffrey Perkins, Georgina Hale, Germany, Giant tortoise, God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, Gordon Peters, Gorilla, Graham Linehan, Hampshire, Hannah Gordon, Happy Families, Heinz Schubert (actor), House clearance, IMDb, Independent Television Commission, Irm Hermann, ITV (TV network), J. J. Cale, Janine Duvitski, Jean Sibelius, Jimmy Jewel, Joan Sims, Joanna Scanlan, John Bird (actor), Judith Keppel, Jury duty, Karelia Suite, Lena Söderblom, Les Dawson, Lucy Davis, Michael Fenton Stevens, Museum of Broadcast Communications, Netherlands, New Milton, New Zealand, News media, Ofcom, One Foot in the Grave, Owen Brenman, Peter Cook, Phil Daniels, Pokesdown, Profumo affair, Ray Winstone, Richard Pearson (actor), Richard Wilson (Scottish actor), Rowland Rivron, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Television Society, Rula Lenska, Shawford railway station, Shooting Stars (TV series), Sitcom, Springbourne, Standard-definition television, Stephen Lewis (actor), Stereophonic sound, Studio audience, Surreal humour, Susan Belbin, Susie Blake, Sweden, Sydney Lotterby, Taxidermy, Television Centre, London, The Guardian, The Independent, The Mainland (Father Ted), The Northern Echo, Theme music, Things Aren't Simple Any More, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Toen Was Geluk Heel Gewoon, Tortoise, Tragedy, Traveling Wilburys, Unseen character, VHS, Victor Meldrew, Warner Home Video, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (UK game show), 16:9, 2 Entertain, 576i. Expand index (93 more) »

Advice column

An advice column is a column traditionally presented in a magazine or newspaper, though it can also be delivered through other news media, such as the internet and broadcast news media.

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Angus Deayton

Gordon Angus Deayton (born 6 January 1956),is an English actor, writer, musician, comedian, and broadcaster.

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Annette Crosbie

Annette Crosbie, (born 12 February 1934) is a Scottish actor.

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Arabella Weir

Arabella Weir (born 6 December 1957) is a British comedian, actress and writer.

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Arthur Mathews (writer)

Arthur Mathews (born 30 April 1959 in Castletown Kilpatrick, Navan, County Meath) is an Irish comedy writer and actor who, often with writing partner Graham Linehan, has either written or contributed to a number of television comedies, such as Father Ted.

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Aspect ratio (image)

The aspect ratio of an image describes the proportional relationship between its width and its height.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Barbara Windsor

Dame Barbara Windsor, (born Barbara Ann Deeks; 6 August 1937) is an English actress, known for her appearances in the ''Carry On'' films and for playing Peggy Mitchell in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders.

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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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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.

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BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom with over 15 million weekly listeners. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is adult contemporary or AOR, although the station also broadcasts other specialist musical genres. Radio 2 broadcasts throughout the UK on FM between 88.1 and 90.2MHz from studios in Wogan House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. Programmes are relayed on digital radio via DAB, Sky, Cable TV, IPTV, Freeview, Freesat and the Internet.

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BBC Radio 4 Extra

BBC Radio 4 Extra is a British digital radio station broadcasting archive repeats of comedy, drama and documentary programmes nationally, 24 hours a day.

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BBC Worldwide

BBC Worldwide Ltd. was the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995.

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BFI TV 100

The BFI TV 100 is a list compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute (BFI), chosen by a poll of industry professionals, to determine what were the greatest British television programmes of any genre to have been screened.

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Bill Cosby

William Henry Cosby Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, author, and convicted sex offender.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy or gallows humor, is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Boscombe

Boscombe is a suburb of Bournemouth, England.

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Bottle episode

In episodic television, a bottle episode is produced cheaply and restricted in scope to use as few non-regular cast members, effects and sets as possible.

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Bournemouth

Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town on the south coast of England to the east of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site, long.

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Bournemouth and Poole College

The Bournemouth and Poole College (BPC) is a well established educational provider which delivers further education, higher education and community based courses in Bournemouth and in Poole on the south coast of England.

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Boxing glove

Boxing gloves are cushioned gloves that fighters wear on their hands during boxing matches and practices.

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Brian Murphy (actor)

Brian Trevor John Murphy (born 25 September 1932) is an English actor, best known as the henpecked husband George Roper in the popular sitcom Man About the House and its spin-off series George and Mildred, and as Alvin Smedley in Last of the Summer Wine.

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Britain's Best Sitcom

Britain's Best Sitcom was a BBC media campaign in which television viewers were asked to decide the best British situation comedy.

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British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom.

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British Academy Television Awards

The British Academy Television Awards, also known as the BAFTA TV Awards, are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

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British Comedy Awards

The British Comedy Awards were an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Christchurch Hospital, Dorset

Christchurch Hospital is part of the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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Christchurch, Dorset

Christchurch is a town and borough on the south coast of England.

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Christopher Ryan

Christopher Ryan (born Christopher Papazoglou; 25 January 1950) is an English actor best known for his roles as Mike in the BBC comedy series The Young Ones and Tony Driscoll in the BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses.

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Cirque du Soleil

Cirque du Soleil ("Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company.

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Cockatiel

The cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus), is a bird that is a member of the cockatoo family endemic to Australia.

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Comedy Connections

Comedy Connections was a BBC One documentary series produced by BBC Scotland that aired from 2003 to 2008.

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Comic Relief

Comic Relief is an operating British charity, and an independent sister organization of the United States-based Comic Relief Inc. It was founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia.

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Cosby

Cosby is an American sitcom television series broadcast on CBS from September 16, 1996, until April 28, 2000.

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Cwm Rhondda

Cwm Rhondda, taken from the Welsh name for the Rhondda Valley, is a popular hymn tune written by John Hughes.

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Dachshund

The dachshund (UK: /ˈdakshʊnd/ or or) (badger dog; also known as the sausage dog or wiener dog) is a short-legged, long-bodied, hound-type dog breed.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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David Renwick

David Peter Renwick (born 4 September 1951) is an English television writer, best known for creation of the sitcom One Foot in the Grave and the mystery series Jonathan Creek.

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Diana Coupland

Betty Diana Coupland (5 March 1928– 10 November 2006), billed as Diana Coupland was an English actress and singer best remembered for her role as Jean Abbott on sitcom Bless This House, which she played from 1971 to 1976.

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Dictaphone

Dictaphone was an American company founded by Alexander Graham Bell that produced dictation machines.

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Dominoes

Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with rectangular "domino" tiles.

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Doreen Mantle

Doreen Mantle (born 1926) is a South African-born English actress who is probably best known for her role as Jean Warboys in One Foot in the Grave (1990–2000).

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Double act

A double act, also known as a comedy duo, is a comic pairing in which humor is derived from the uneven relationship between two partners, usually of the same gender, age, ethnic origin and profession but drastically different in terms of personality or behavior.

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Eamonn Walker

Eamonn Roderique Walker (born June 12, 1962) is an English film, television and theatre actor.

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Ed Welch

Edward William Welch (born 22 October 1947) is an English television composer.

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Edward de Souza

Edward James de Souza (born 4 September 1932) is a British character actor and graduate of RADA, who is of Portuguese Indian and English descent.

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End of the Line (Traveling Wilburys song)

"End of the Line" is the last track from the Traveling Wilburys' first album, Volume 1, released in 1988.

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Eric Idle

Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English comedian, actor, voice actor, author, singer-songwriter, musician, writer and comedic composer.

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Eric Idle Sings Monty Python

Eric Idle Sings Monty Python is a live recording by original Monty Python member Eric Idle performed at the J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles in 1999.

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Esta Charkham

Esta Malka Charkham (born 29 March 1949) is a British television and film producer and casting director known for the films Chariots of Fire (1981) and Supergirl (1984) and the television series Robin of Sherwood (1984), among others.

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Farce

In theatre, a farce is a comedy that aims at entertaining the audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, and thus improbable.

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Father Ted

Father Ted is a British sitcom that was produced by British independent production company Hat Trick Productions for Channel 4.

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Father Ted Crilly

Father Ted Crilly is the title character of the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted.

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Gabrielle Blunt

Gabrielle Hilda Blunt (8 January 1919 – 10 June 2014) was a British actress.

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Gareth Gwenlan

Gareth Gwenlan OBE (26 April 1937 – 8 May 2016) was a Welsh television producer and director, best known for his work on shows such as The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, To the Manor Born, Only Fools and Horses, and High Hopes.

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Gösta Ekman

Hans Gösta Gustaf Ekman (28 July 1939 – 1 April 2017) was a Swedish actor, comedian, and director.

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Geoffrey Perkins

Geoffrey Howard Perkins (22 February 1953 – 29 August 2008) was a British comedy producer, writer and performer.

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Georgina Hale

Georgina A. Hole (born 4 August 1943), known professionally as Georgina Hale, is an English actress notable for many stage, film and television appearances; often in the works of director Ken Russell and writer Simon Gray.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Giant tortoise

Giant tortoises are characteristic reptiles that are currently found on two groups of tropical islands: the Aldabra Atoll and Fregate Island in Seychelles and the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador (a population at the Mascarene Islands was exterminated by the 1900s).

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God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen is an English traditional Christmas carol.

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Gordon Peters

Gordon Peter Wilkinson, known professionally as Gordon Peters (born 29 November 1926 in Durham), is a British television actor.

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Gorilla

Gorillas are ground-dwelling, predominantly herbivorous apes that inhabit the forests of central Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Graham Linehan

Graham Linehan (born 22 May 1968) is an Irish television comedy writer and director who, often in partnership with Arthur Mathews, has written or co-written a string of successful television comedies.

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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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Hannah Gordon

Hannah Campbell Grant Gordon, Film reference website (born 9 April 1941) is a British actress who is well known in the United Kingdom for her television work, including My Wife Next Door (1972), Upstairs, Downstairs (1974–75), Telford's Change (1979), Joint Account (1989–90) and an appearance in the final episode of One Foot in the Grave.

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Happy Families

Happy Families is a traditional card game, usually with a specially made set of picture cards, featuring illustrations of fictional families of four, most often based on occupation types.

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Heinz Schubert (actor)

Heinz Schubert (12 November 1925 – 12 February 1999) was a German actor, drama teacher and photographer, best known for playing the role of Alfred Tetzlaff in the German television sitcom Ein Herz und eine Seele.

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House clearance

House clearances are a form of service which can be a part or an entire house.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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Independent Television Commission

The Independent Television Commission (ITC) licensed and regulated commercial television services in the United Kingdom (except S4C in Wales) between 1 January 1991 and 28 December 2003.

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Irm Hermann

Irm Hermann (born Irmgard Hermann on 4 October 1942) is a German actress.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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J. J. Cale

John Weldon "J.

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Janine Duvitski

Janine Duvitski (born Christine Janine Drzewicki; 28 June 1952) is an English actress, known for her roles as Jane Edwards in Waiting for God, Pippa Trench in One Foot in the Grave and Jacqueline Stewart in Benidorm.

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Jean Sibelius

Jean Sibelius, born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius (8 December 186520 September 1957), was a Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early-modern periods.

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Jimmy Jewel

James Arthur Thomas Jewel Marsh (4 December 1909 – 3 December 1995Gifford, Dennis The Independent, 5 December 1995. Note: This obituary wrongly gives the year of birth as 1912, which is contradicted by the Ben Warriss obituary. Retrieved 23 May 2013), known professionally as Jimmy Jewel, was an English comedian and actor who enjoyed a long career in stage, radio, television and film productions, including a 32-year partnership with his cousin Ben Warriss.

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Joan Sims

Irene Joan Marion Sims (9 May 1930 – 27 June 2001) was an English actress remembered for her roles in the ''Carry On'' films, including Carry On Nurse (1959), Carry On Cleo (1964) and Carry On Camping (1969).

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Joanna Scanlan

Joanna Scanlan (born 27 October 1961) is an English actress and screenwriter.

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John Bird (actor)

John Bird (born 22 November 1936) is an English satirist, actor and comedian, best known for his work with John Fortune.

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Judith Keppel

Judith Cynthia Aline Keppel (born 18 August 1942) was the first one-million-pound winner on the television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in the United Kingdom.

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Jury duty

Jury duty or Jury service is service as a juror in a legal proceeding.

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Karelia Suite

Jean Sibelius's Karelia Suite, Op. 11, was written in 1893 for the Viipuri Students' Association.

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Lena Söderblom

Lena Söderblom (born 24 October 1935) is a Swedish actress.

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Les Dawson

Leslie Dawson Jr. (2 February 1931 – 10 June 1993) was an English comedian, actor, writer, and presenter, who is best remembered for his deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife.

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Lucy Davis

Lucy Clare Davis (born 17 February 1973) is an English actress.

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Michael Fenton Stevens

Michael Fenton Stevens (born 12 February 1958 in London), added the 'Fenton' (his wife's name) when he became an actor and is sometimes mistakenly credited as Michael Fenton-Stevens.

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Museum of Broadcast Communications

The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) is an American museum, the stated mission of which is "to collect, preserve, and present historic and contemporary radio and television content as well as educate, inform and entertain through our archives, public programs, screenings, exhibits, publications and online access to our resources." It is located in Chicago, Illinois.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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New Milton

New Milton is a market town in south west Hampshire, England.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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News media

The news media or news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.

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Ofcom

The Office of Communications (Y Swyddfa Gyfathrebiadau), commonly known as Ofcom, is the UK government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom.

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One Foot in the Grave

One Foot in the Grave is a British dark comedy sitcom written by David Renwick.

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Owen Brenman

Owen Brenman (born 17 December 1956 in London) is an English actor best known for his role as next-door neighbour Nick Swainey in the multi-award-winning BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave, which ran for ten years (1990–2000) and was written by David Renwick.

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Peter Cook

Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English actor, satirist, writer and comedian.

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Phil Daniels

Philip William Daniels (born 25 October 1958 in Islington) is an English actor, most noted for film and television roles as Londoners such as the lead role of Jimmy Cooper in Quadrophenia, Richards in Scum, Stewart in The Class of Miss MacMichael, Danny in Breaking Glass, Mark in Meantime, Billy the Kid in Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire, Kevin Wicks in EastEnders, DCS Frank Patterson in New Tricks and Grandad Trotter in the Only Fools and Horses prequel Rock & Chips.

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Pokesdown

Pokesdown is a suburb of Bournemouth, a unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Dorset.

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Profumo affair

The Profumo affair was a British political scandal that originated with a brief sexual relationship in 1961 between John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, and Christine Keeler, a 19-year-old would-be model.

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Ray Winstone

Raymond Andrew "Ray" Winstone (born 19 February 1957) is an English film and television actor.

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Richard Pearson (actor)

Richard de Pearsall Pearson (1 August 1918 – 2 August 2011), was an English character actor, who appeared in numerous film, television and stage productions over a period of 65 years.

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Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)

Richard Wilson (born Iain Carmichael Wilson; 9 July 1936) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster.

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Rowland Rivron

Rowland J. Rivron (born 1958) is a British musician, writer, and television presenter.

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.

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Royal Television Society

The Royal Television Society, or RTS, is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future.

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Rula Lenska

Rula Lenska (born Róża Maria Leopoldyna Łubieńska, 30 September 1947) is an English actress.

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Shawford railway station

Shawford railway station serves the villages of Twyford, Compton and Shawford in Hampshire, England.

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Shooting Stars (TV series)

Shooting Stars was a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two as a pilot in 1993, then as three full series from 1995 to 1997, then on BBC Choice from January to December 2002 with two series before returning to BBC Two for another three series from 2008 until its cancellation in 2011.

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Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

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Springbourne

Springbourne is a suburb of Bournemouth.

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Standard-definition television

Standard-definition television (SDTV or SD) is a television system which uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high- or enhanced-definition.

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Stephen Lewis (actor)

Stephen Lewis (17 December 1926 – 12 August 2015), credited early in his career as Stephen Cato, was an English actor, comedian, director, screenwriter, and playwright.

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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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Studio audience

A studio audience is an audience present for the filming of all or part of a television program, or to a smaller extent, radio programs.

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Surreal humour

Surreal humour (also known as absurdist humour), or surreal comedy, is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, producing events and behaviours that are obviously illogical.

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Susan Belbin

Susan Jane Belbin (born 20 October 1948) is a Scottish television director and producer whose work includes One Foot in the Grave, Only Fools and Horses and Jonathan Creek. She often works with David Renwick.

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Susie Blake

Susie Blake (born 19 April 1950) is an English television, radio and stage actress.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Sydney Lotterby

Sydney Warren Lotterby OBE (born 30 November 1926) is a British television producer and director.

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Taxidermy

Taxidermy is the preserving of an animal's body via stuffing and mounting for the purpose of display or study.

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Television Centre, London

Television Centre is a building complex in White City, West London that was the headquarters of BBC Television between 1960 and 2013.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Mainland (Father Ted)

"The Mainland" is the fourth episode of the third series of the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted and the 21st episode overall.

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The Northern Echo

The Northern Echo is a regional daily morning newspaper, based in the town of Darlington in North East England; serving County Durham and Teesside.

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Theme music

Theme music is a piece that is often written specifically for a radio program, television program, video game or movie, and usually played during the intro, opening credits and/or ending credits.

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Things Aren't Simple Any More

"Things Aren't Simple Any More" is the final episode of the British television sitcom One Foot in the Grave.

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Tim Brooke-Taylor

Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor OBE (born 17 July 1940) is an English comic actor.

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Toen Was Geluk Heel Gewoon

Toen Was Geluk Heel Gewoon was a popular Dutch sitcom that was broadcast on KRO.

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Tortoise

Tortoises are a family, Testudinidae. Testudinidae is a Family under the order Testudines and suborder Cryptodira.

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Tragedy

Tragedy (from the τραγῳδία, tragōidia) is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences.

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Traveling Wilburys

The Traveling Wilburys (sometimes shortened to the Wilburys) were a British-American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty.

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Unseen character

An unseen character or (in radio) silent character is a fictional character referred to but not directly observed by the audience, but who advances the action of the plot in a significant way, and whose absence enhances their effect on the plot.

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VHS

The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.

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Victor Meldrew

Victor Meldrew is a fictional character in the BBC One sitcom One Foot in the Grave, created by David Renwick and portrayed by Richard Wilson.

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Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video is the home video distribution arm of Warner Bros. Founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (standing for Warner Communications, Inc.), the company primarily releases titles from the film and television library of Warner Bros.

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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (UK game show)

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a British quiz show, created and produced by David Briggs, and made for the ITV network.

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16:9

16:9 (1.7:1) (16:9.

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2 Entertain

2 Entertain (stylised as 2 | entertain) is a British video and music publisher formed by the merger of BBC Video and Video Collection International in 2005.

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576i

576i is a standard-definition video mode originally used for broadcast television in most countries of the world where the utility frequency for electric power distribution is 50 Hz.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Foot_in_the_Grave

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