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Russ Abbot

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Russ Abbot (born Russell A. Roberts; 18 September 1947) is an English musician, comedian and actor. [1]

61 relations: Adaptations of The Wizard of Oz, Agatha Christie's Marple, Amy Nuttall, BBC, BBC Radio 4, Boomers (TV series), Brian Murphy (actor), British Hit Singles & Albums, British nationality law, Burt Kwouk, Cameron Mackintosh, Casualty (TV series), Cherie Lunghi, Chester, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (musical), Comic strip, Doctor Dolittle, Dream Street (UK TV series), Elvis Presley, Fagin, Freddie Starr, Griff Rhys Jones, Guinness World Records, Harry Hill, Harry Hill's TV Burp, Heartbeat (UK TV series), Hotel Babylon, James Bond, Last of the Summer Wine, Leslie Crowther, List of The Producers characters, London Palladium, Married for Life, Matthew Kelly, Mayflower Theatre, Miss Moneypenny, My Fair Lady, My Family, Oliver!, Phillip Schofield, Recording contract, Rowan Atkinson, Roy Hudd, Run for Your Wife (2012 film), September Song (TV series), Stars in Their Eyes, Television show, The Bill, The Comedians (1971 TV series), The Herald (Glasgow), ..., The Krankies, The Last Detective, The Producers (musical), The Rocky Horror Show, The Russ Abbot Show, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Tin Woodman, TV to Go, UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart. Expand index (11 more) »

Adaptations of The Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's novel written by American author L. Frank Baum.

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Agatha Christie's Marple

Agatha Christie's Marple (or simply Marple) is a British ITV television series loosely based on the books and short stories by British crime novelist Agatha Christie.

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Amy Nuttall

Amy Abigail Nuttall (born 7 June 1982) is an English actress and singer known for playing Chloe Atkinson in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 2000 until 2005, and housemaid Ethel Parks in ITV period drama Downton Abbey.

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BBC

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

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Boomers (TV series)

Boomers is a British television sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC One on 15 August 2014.

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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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British Hit Singles & Albums

British Hit Singles & Albums (originally known as The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums) was a music reference book originally published in the United Kingdom by the publishing arm of the Guinness breweries, Guinness Superlatives.

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British nationality law

British nationality law is the law of the United Kingdom which concerns citizenship and other categories of British nationality.

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Burt Kwouk

Herbert Tsangtse Kwouk, OBE (18 July 1930 – 24 May 2016) was a British actor, known for his role as Cato in the Pink Panther films.

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Cameron Mackintosh

Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh (born 17 October 1946) is a British theatrical producer and theatre owner notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals.

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Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as CASUAL+Y, is a British medical drama series that airs weekly on BBC One (sometimes with a short break in the summer between series, but not always).

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Cherie Lunghi

Cherie Mary Lunghi (born 4 April 1952) is an English film, television, and theatre actress, known for her roles in many British TV dramas.

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Chester

Chester (Caer) is a walled city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales.

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (musical)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a stage musical based on the 1968 film produced by Albert R. Broccoli.

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Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

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Doctor Dolittle

Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting starting with the 1920 The Story of Doctor Dolittle.

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Dream Street (UK TV series)

Dream Street is a British children's television series that ran from 6 May 1999 to 2002 on CITV.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Fagin

Fagin is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist.

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Freddie Starr

Freddie Starr (born Frederick Leslie Fowell, 9 January 1943) is an English comedian, impressionist, singer and actor.

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Griff Rhys Jones

Griffith Rhys Jones (born 16 November 1953) is a Welsh comedian, writer, actor and television presenter.

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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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Harry Hill

Harry Hill (born Matthew Keith Hall; 1 October 1964) is an English comedian, author and television presenter.

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Harry Hill's TV Burp

Harry Hill's TV Burp (also known as just TV Burp) is a British television comedy programme which was broadcast between 2001 and 2012 on ITV.

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Heartbeat (UK TV series)

Heartbeat is a British police drama series set in 1960s North Riding of Yorkshire based on the "Constable" series of novels written by ex-policeman Peter N Walker, under the pseudonym Nicholas Rhea, and broadcast on ITV in 18 series between 1992 and 2010.

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Hotel Babylon

Hotel Babylon was a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones, that aired from 19 January 2006 to 14 August 2009, produced by independent production company Carnival Films for BBC One.

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James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

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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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Leslie Crowther

Leslie Douglas Sargent Crowther CBE (6 February 1933 – 29 September 1996) was an English comedian, actor, TV presenter, and game show host.

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List of The Producers characters

The following are fictional characters from the 1967 film The Producers, the Broadway musical based on it, and the 2005 film adaptation of the musical.

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London Palladium

The London Palladium is a 2,286-seat Grade II* West End theatre located on Argyll Street in the City of Westminster.

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Married for Life

In 1996, the UK production company Central Television and Columbia Pictures Television (Columbia TriStar Central Productions) produced Married for Life, a seven-episode sitcom that lasted one series.

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Matthew Kelly

Matthew Kelly (born David Allan Kelly, 9 May 1950) is an English actor and presenter.

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Mayflower Theatre

Mayflower Theatre (formerly the Gaumont Theatre and originally The Empire Theatre) is a Grade II listed theatre in the city centre of Southampton, England, with a capacity of 2,300.

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Miss Moneypenny

Miss Moneypenny, later assigned the first names of Eve or Jane, is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films.

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My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

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My Family

My Family is a British sitcom created and initially co-written by Fred Barron, which was produced by DLT Entertainment and Rude Boy Productions, and broadcast by BBC One for eleven series between 2000 and 2011, with Christmas specials broadcast from 2002 onwards.

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Oliver!

Oliver! is an English musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart.

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Phillip Schofield

Phillip Bryan Schofield (born 1 April 1962) is an English television presenter currently employed by ITV.

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Recording contract

A recording contract (commonly called a record contract or record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist (or group), where the artist makes a record (or series of records) for the label to sell and promote.

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Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson, CBE (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, comedian, and screenwriter best known for his work on the sitcoms Blackadder and Mr. Bean.

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Roy Hudd

Roy Hudd, OBE (born 16 May 1936) is an English comedian, actor, radio host, author and authority on the history of music hall entertainment.

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Run for Your Wife (2012 film)

Run for Your Wife is a UK-made 2012 film, based on the theatre farce Run for Your Wife, written by Ray Cooney, who along with John Luton also directed the film.

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September Song (TV series)

September Song was a British bittersweet comedy-drama series, originally broadcast on the ITV channel in the United Kingdom.

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Stars in Their Eyes

Stars in Their Eyes is a British television talent show, based on Joop van den Ende’s Dutch format Soundmixshow.

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Television show

A television show (often simply TV show) is any content produced for broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, cable, or internet and typically viewed on a television set, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed between shows.

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The Bill

The Bill is a British police procedural television series, first broadcast on ITV from 16 October 1984 until 31 August 2010.

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The Comedians (1971 TV series)

The Comedians was a British television show of the 1970s (later reprised in the mid-1980s and early 1990s) produced by Johnnie Hamp of Granada Television.

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The Herald (Glasgow)

The Herald is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783.

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The Krankies

The Krankies are a Scottish comedy duo who enjoyed success as a cabaret act in the 1970s and on television in the 1980s, featuring in their own television shows and releasing their own music single.

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The Last Detective

The Last Detective is a British TV drama series, broadcast on ITV between 7 February 2003 and 31 May 2007, starring Peter Davison as the title character, Detective Constable "Dangerous Davies".

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The Producers (musical)

The Producers is a musical adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks's 1967 film of the same name, with lyrics written by Brooks and music composed by Brooks and arranged by Glen Kelly and Doug Besterman.

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The Rocky Horror Show

The Rocky Horror Show is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O'Brien.

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The Russ Abbot Show

The Russ Abbot Show is a British television sketch comedy series which stars Russ Abbot and ran for 16 years on television before moving over to Radio 2 for a further five years.

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The Sarah Jane Adventures

The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British science fiction television programme, that was produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC, created by Russell T Davies starring Elisabeth Sladen.

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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England.

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Tin Woodman

The Tin Woodman, better known as either the Tin Man or (incorrectly) the Tin Woodsman (the third name appears only in adaptations, the first—and in rare instances, the second—was used by Baum), is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum.

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TV to Go

TV to Go is a British television sketch show that aired on BBC One during 2001 and 2002.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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References

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

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