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Alan J. W. Bell
Alan J. W. Bell (born 14 November 1937) is a British television producer and director.
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Alexander Armstrong
Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong (born 2 March 1970) is an English comedian, actor, television presenter and bass baritone singer, best known as one half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller and as host of the BBC TV game show Pointless.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BBC Two
BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.
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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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Bert Fegg's Nasty Book for Boys and Girls
Bert Fegg's Nasty Book for Boys And Girls is a humorous book first published by Methuen in 1974 which purports to have been written by a psychopathic character, Dr.
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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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Cameo appearance
A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance or voice part of a known person in a work of the performing arts, typically unnamed or appearing as themselves.
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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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Culture of the United Kingdom
The culture of the United Kingdom is influenced by the UK's history as a developed state, a liberal democracy and a great power; its predominantly Christian religious life; and its composition of four countries—England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland—each of which has distinct customs, cultures and symbolism.
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David Griffin (actor)
David Griffin (born 19 July 1943) is an English actor best known for both his roles as Squadron Leader Clive Dempster DFC in Hi-de-Hi! between 1984 and 1988 and Emmet Hawksworth in Keeping Up Appearances between 1991 and 1995.
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Denholm Elliott
Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE (31 May 1922 – 6 October 1992) was an English actor, with more than 120 film and television credits.
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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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Fawlty Towers
Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979.
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Film stock
Film stock is an analog medium that is used for recording motion pictures or animation.
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Frank Middlemass
Francis George “Frank” Middlemass (28 May 1919 8 September 2006) was an English actor, who even in his early career played older roles.
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Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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Harold Innocent
Harold Sidney Innocent (18 April 1933 – 12 September 1993) was an English actor who appeared in many film and television roles.
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Iain Cuthbertson
Iain Cuthbertson (4 January 1930 – 4 September 2009) was a Scottish character actor.
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Ian Ogilvy
Ian Raymond Ogilvy (born 30 September 1943) is a British actor, playwright, and novelist.
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Il Postino: The Postman
Il Postino: The Postman ('The Postman'; the title used for the original US release) is a 1994 Italian film directed by Michael Radford and Massimo Troisi.
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Jan Francis
Janet Stephanie Francis (born 5 August 1947) is an English actress, best known for playing Penny Warrender in the 1980s romantic comedy Just Good Friends.
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Jim Franklin (director)
Jim Franklin is a British television director and producer.
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Joan Sanderson
Joan Sanderson (24 November 1912 – 24 May 1992) was an English television and stage actress.
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John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.
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John Le Mesurier
John Le Mesurier (born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley; 5 April 191215 November 1983) was an English actor.
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Kenneth Colley
Kenneth Colley (born 7 December 1937) is an English actor.
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Last of the Summer Wine
Last of the Summer Wine is the longest running British sitcom, created and written by Roy Clarke and originally broadcast by the BBC from 1973 to 2010.
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Liz Smith (actress)
Elizabeth Gleadle (11 December 1921 – 24 December 2016), known by the stage name Liz Smith, was an English character actress, known for her roles in BBC sitcoms, including as Annie Brandon in I Didn't Know You Cared (1975–79), Bette and Aunt Belle in 2point4 Children (1991–99), Letitia Cropley in The Vicar of Dibley (1994–96), and Norma Speakman ("Nana") in The Royle Family (1998–2006).
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Louis Frémaux
Louis Joseph Félix Frémaux (13 August 1921 – 20 March 2017) was a French conductor.
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Methuen Publishing
Methuen Publishing Ltd is an English publishing house.
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Michael Palin
Michael Edward Palin (pronounced; born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter.
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Michael Radford
Michael Radford (born 24 February 1946) is an English film director and screenwriter.
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Monty Python
Monty Python (also collectively known as The Pythons) were a British surreal comedy group who created their sketch comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus, which first aired on the BBC in 1969.
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Network Distributing
Network Distributing (formerly Network/Network DVD) is a video publishing company that specialises in classic British television programmes.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984 film)
Nineteen Eighty-Four, also known as 1984, is a 1984 British dystopian science fiction film written and directed by Michael Radford, based upon George Orwell's novel of the same name.
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Parody
A parody (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, play on something, caricature, or joke) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.
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Richard Vernon
Richard Vernon (7 March 1925 – 4 December 1997) was a British actor.
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Roger Sloman
Roger Sloman (born 19 May 1946) is an English actor.
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Roy Kinnear
Roy Mitchell Kinnear (8 January 1934 – 20 September 1988) was an English actor.
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Secrets (1973 play)
Secrets is a 1973 BBC Television play by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of one-hour duration, starring Warren Mitchell as the owner of a chocolate factory.
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Television in the United Kingdom
Television in the United Kingdom started in 1936 as a public service which was free of advertising.
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Terry Hughes (director)
Terry Hughes is a British television director.
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Terry Jones
Terence Graham Parry Jones (born 1 February 1942) is a Welsh actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter and film director.
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The Golden Girls
The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning seven seasons.
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The Goodies
The Goodies are a trio of British comedians: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a BBC television adaptation of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which was broadcast in January and February 1981 on UK television station BBC Two.
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The Two Ronnies
The Two Ronnies is a BBC television comedy sketch show created by Bill Cotton for the BBC, which aired on BBC One from April 1971 to December 1987.
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Tom Brown's School Days
Tom Brown's School Days (sometimes written Tom Brown's Schooldays, also published under the titles Tom Brown at Rugby, School Days at Rugby, and Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby) is an 1857 novel by Thomas Hughes.
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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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Videotape
Videotape is magnetic tape used for storing video and usually sound in addition.
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White Mischief (film)
White Mischief is a 1987 British film dramatizing the events of the Happy Valley murder case in Kenya in 1941, when Sir Henry "Jock" Delves Broughton was tried for the murder of Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll.
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William Walton
Sir William Turner Walton, OM (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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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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3rd Rock from the Sun
3rd Rock from the Sun (sometimes referred to as 3rd Rock) is an American sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001 on NBC.
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