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Eric Sykes

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Eric Sykes, (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor, and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years. [1]

224 relations: Aardman Animations, Absolute Beginners (film), Ad libitum, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Andrew Sachs, Anton Rodgers, Archie Andrews (puppet), Arthur Mullard, Associated London Scripts, Associated Television, Associated-Rediffusion, BBC, BBC Television, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Bernard Cribbins, Beryl Reid, Big Bad Mouse, Bill Fraser, Bill Oddie, Bob Todd, Bone conduction, Boulting brothers, Brigitte Bardot, Bristol Silents, British Army, British Comedy Awards, Cannon and Ball, Charley Moon, Charley's Aunt, Children's Hour, Christmas Night with the Stars, City of London, Comedy Playhouse, Coronary artery bypass surgery, Cotton mill, Covent Garden, Curry and Chips, Dandy Nichols, David McCallum, Denis Norden, Dennis Price, Deryck Guyler, Dinnerladies (TV series), Donald Pleasence, Douglas Hickox, Duncan Preston, Earl's Court, East Acton, Educating Archie, ..., Edward Dmytryk, Edwin Styles, Eric Morecambe, Ernest Maxin, Esher, Flight lieutenant, Frankie Howerd, Fred Emney, Fulton Mackay, Gabrielle and the Doodleman, Galton and Simpson, Gareth Hunt, Geoffrey Hughes, George Sewell, Goon Show Preservation Society, Gormenghast (series), Gormenghast (TV serial), Graham Stark, Grand Order of Water Rats, Hallowe'en Party, Harper Perennial, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film), Harry Secombe, Hatter (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), Hattie Jacques, Hearing aid, Hearing loss, Heartbeat (UK TV series), Heavens Above!, Hugh Lloyd, Ian Smith, If You Go Down in the Woods Today, Independent Broadcasting Authority, Invasion Quartet, Irene Handl, It's Your Move (1982 film), ITV Anglia, ITV Granada, ITV Yorkshire, Jack Cardiff, Jack Smethurst, Jane Asher, Jeremy Brett, Jimmy Edwards, John Antrobus, John Bluthal, John Le Mesurier, Johnny Speight, Jon Pertwee, Julien Temple, Katy Manning, Kenneth Connor, Kenny Lynch, Kill or Cure (1962 film), Lancashire, Lancaster University, Last of the Summer Wine, Leading aircraftman, Leo McKern, Leonard Rossiter, Leslie Crowther, List of supporting Harry Potter characters, London Palladium, London Weekend Television, Lynsey de Paul, Macular degeneration, Macular Society, Margaret Rutherford, Max Bygraves, Member of parliament, Mervyn Peake, MGM-British Studios, Michael Bentine, Miniseries, Miss Marple, Monochrome, Monte Carlo or Bust!, Morecambe and Wise, Murder, She Said, My Family, New Tricks, Nicole Kidman, Norman Rossington, Oldham, Oldham Athletic A.F.C., One Way Pendulum (film), Order of the British Empire, Orders Are Orders, Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom, Patsy Kensit, Paul Merton's Palladium Story, Peter Brough, Peter Jones (actor), Peter Sellers, Playhouse Theatre, Presidencies and provinces of British India, Pye Ltd., Rhodesia, Rhubarb (1969 film), Rhubarb Rhubarb, Richard Briers, Richard Wattis, Rod Taylor, Roger Delgado, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Brody, Rose d'Or, Rotten to the Core (film), Roy Kinnear, Royal Air Force, Run for Your Wife (play), Sam Kydd, Sean Connery, Sergeant, Shalako (film), Shepherd's Bush, Sherlock Holmes, Sibling, Sid Colin, Sid James, Son of Rambow, Spike Milligan, Splitting Heirs, St Paul's, Covent Garden, Stanley Unwin (comedian), Surrey, Sykes, Sykes and a Big, Big Show, Sykes and a..., Sylvia Syms, Teletubbies, Teletubbies say "Eh-oh!", Terry-Thomas, Thames Television, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, The Bargee, The Big Freeze (film), The Boys in Blue, The Goodies, The Goon Show, The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d, The Liquidator (1965 film), The Oldie, The Others (2001 film), The Plank (1967 film), The Plank (1979 film), The Spy with a Cold Nose, The Stage, The Tony Hancock Show, Theatre of Blood, This Is Your Life (UK TV series), Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, Till Death Us Do Part, Tim Whitnall, Tommy Cooper, Tommy Steele, Tommy the Toreador, Tony Hancock, Toyah Willcox, Ultra, Uxbridge Road, Valentine Dyall, Variety Bandbox, Variety, the Children's Charity, Very Important Person (film), Village of Daughters, Visual impairment, Warren Mitchell, Watch Your Stern, Windsor Davies, Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom, Wiping, World War II, Writers' Guild of Great Britain. Expand index (174 more) »

Aardman Animations

Aardman Animations, Ltd., also known as Aardman Studios, or simply as Aardman, is a British animation studio based in Bristol.

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Absolute Beginners (film)

Absolute Beginners is a 1986 British rock musical film adapted from Colin MacInnes' book of the same name about life in late 1950s London.

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Ad libitum

Ad libitum is Latin for "at one's pleasure" or "as you desire"; it is often shortened to "ad lib" (as an adjective or adverb) or "ad-lib" (as a verb or noun).

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British mystery drama television series that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.

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Andrew Sachs

Andreas Siegfried "Andrew" Sachs (7 April 1930 – 23 November 2016) was a British actor.

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Anton Rodgers

Anthony "Anton" Rodgers (10 January 1933 – 1 December 2007) was an English actor and occasional director.

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Archie Andrews (puppet)

Archie Andrews was a ventriloquist's dummy used by ventriloquist Peter Brough in radio and television shows in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Arthur Mullard

Arthur Ernest Mullard (né Mullord; 19 September 1910His obituary in The Times gives his date of birth as 10 November 1910 but conflicts with the birthdate given in his death registration. His year of birth appears as 1908, 1910, 1912 and 1913 in various sources. However online records at show that the birth of an Arthur E Mullord was registered in Islington in October–December 1910, which is probably him. – 11 December 1995) was an English actor and singer.

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Associated London Scripts

Associated London Scripts was a writers' agency organised as a co-operative which involved many leading comedy and television writers of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Associated Television

Associated Television (ATV), a former British television company, was awarded the franchise by the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide the Independent Television service at weekends for the London region.

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Associated-Rediffusion

Associated-Rediffusion, later Rediffusion, London, was the British ITV contractor for London and parts of the surrounding counties, on weekdays between 1954 and 29 July 1968.

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BBC

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

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle.

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Bernard Cribbins

Bernard Joseph Cribbins, OBE (born 29 December 1928) is an English character actor, voice-over artist and musical comedian with a career spanning over seventy years.

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Beryl Reid

Beryl Elizabeth Reid, OBE (17 June 1919 – 13 October 1996) was a British actress of stage and screen.

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Big Bad Mouse

Big Bad Mouse is a frequently revived 1960s British stage play and theatrical comedic farce that, although not specifically written for them, became famous as a loose vehicle for the many talents of the British comedy actors Jimmy Edwards and Eric Sykes and has constantly seen various revivals with other stars right up to 2008.

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Bill Fraser

William Simpson "Bill" Fraser (5 June 1908 – 9 September 1987) was a Scottish actor who appeared on stage, screen and television for many years.

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Bill Oddie

William Edgar Oddie, (born 7 July 1941) is an English writer, composer, musician, comedian, artist, birder, conservationist, television presenter and actor.

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Bob Todd

Brian Todd (15 December 1921 – 21 October 1992), known professionally as Bob Todd, was an English comedy actor, mostly known for appearing as a straight man in the sketch shows of Benny Hill and Spike Milligan.

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Bone conduction

Bone conduction is the conduction of sound to the inner ear through the bones of the skull.

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Boulting brothers

John Edward Boulting (21 December 1913 – 17 June 1985) and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting (21 December 1913 – 5 November 2001), known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for their popular series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (born 28 September 1934) is a French actress, singer, dancer, and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist.

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Bristol Silents

Bristol Silents was established by Chris Daniels and Norman Taylor in 2000 to promote and celebrate silent cinema in the Bristol area and in the United Kingdom.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.

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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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Cannon and Ball

Tommy Cannon (born Thomas Derbyshire, 27 June 1938) and Bobby Ball (born Robert Harper, 28 January 1944), known collectively as Cannon and Ball, are an English comedy double act best known for their comedy variety show The Cannon and Ball Show, which lasted for nine years on ITV.

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Charley Moon

Charley Moon is a 1956 British film directed by Guy Hamilton.

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Charley's Aunt

Charley's Aunt is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas.

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Children's Hour

Children's Hour, initially The Children's Hour, was the BBC's principal recreational service for children (as distinct from "Broadcasts to Schools") which began during the period when radio was the only medium of broadcasting.

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Christmas Night with the Stars

Christmas Night with the Stars was a television show broadcast each Christmas night by the BBC from 1958 to 1972 (with the exception of 1961, 1965 and 1966).

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City of London

The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.

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Comedy Playhouse

Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 120 episodes from 1961 to 1975.

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Coronary artery bypass surgery

Coronary artery bypass surgery, also known as coronary artery bypass graft (CABG, pronounced "cabbage") surgery, and colloquially heart bypass or bypass surgery, is a surgical procedure to restore normal blood flow to an obstructed coronary artery.

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Cotton mill

A cotton mill is a factory housing powered spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the Industrial Revolution when the early mills were important in the development of the factory system.

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Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in Greater London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between Charing Cross Road and Drury Lane.

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Curry and Chips

Curry and Chips is a short lived British sitcom broadcast in 1969 which was produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network.

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Dandy Nichols

Dandy Nichols (born Daisy Sander; 21 May 1907 – 6 February 1986) was an English actress best known for her role as Else Garnett, the long-suffering wife of the racially bigoted and misogynistic character Alf Garnett in the BBC sitcom Till Death Us Do Part.

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David McCallum

David Keith McCallum, Jr. (born 19 September 1933) is a Scottish-American actor and musician.

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Denis Norden

Denis Mostyn Norden, (born 6 February 1922) is a retired English comedy writer and television presenter.

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Dennis Price

Dennis Price (born Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose-Price) (23 June 1915 – 6 October 1973) was an English actor, best remembered for his role as Louis Mazzini in the film Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and for his portrayal of the omniscient valet Jeeves in 1960s television adaptations of P. G. Wodehouse's stories.

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Deryck Guyler

Deryck Guyler (29 April 1914 – 7 October 1999) was an English actor, best known for his portrayal of officious, short-tempered middle-aged men in sitcoms such as Please Sir! and Sykes.

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Dinnerladies (TV series)

dinnerladies is a British sitcom created, written and co-produced by Victoria Wood.

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Donald Pleasence

Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE (5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor.

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Douglas Hickox

Douglas Hickox (10 January 1929 – 25 July 1988) was an English film and television director.

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Duncan Preston

Duncan Preston (born 11 August 1946) is an English actor.

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Earl's Court

Earl's Court is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in central London, bordering the sub-districts of South Kensington to the east, West Kensington to the west, Chelsea to the south and Kensington to the north.

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East Acton

East Acton is an area in west London, England.

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Educating Archie

Educating Archie was a BBC Light Programme comedy show broadcast from June 1950 to February 1958 on Sunday lunchtimes featuring ventriloquist Peter Brough and his doll Archie Andrews.

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Edward Dmytryk

Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was a Canadian-born American film director.

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Edwin Styles

Edwin Styles (13 January 1899 – 20 December 1960) was a British film actor.

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Eric Morecambe

John Eric Bartholomew, (14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984), known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise formed the award-winning double act Morecambe and Wise.

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Ernest Maxin

Ernest Maxin (born 22 August 1923) is a British television producer and director.

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Esher

Esher is a town in Surrey, England, to the east of the River Mole.

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Flight lieutenant

Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt in the RAF and IAF; FLTLT in the RAAF and RNZAF—formerly sometimes F/L in all services) is a junior commissioned air force rank that originated in the Royal Naval Air Service and is still used in the Royal Air Force and many other countries, especially in the Commonwealth.

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Frankie Howerd

Francis Alick "Frankie" Howerd, (6 March 1917 – 19 April 1992) was an English comedian and comic actor whose career, described by fellow comedian Barry Cryer as "a series of comebacks", spanned six decades.

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Fred Emney

Frederick Arthur Round Emney (12 February 1900 – 25 December 1980) was an English character actor and comedian.

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Fulton Mackay

William Fulton Beith Mackay (12 August 1922 – 6 June 1987) was a Scottish actor and playwright, best known for his role as prison officer Mr. Mackay in the 1970s television sitcom Porridge.

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Gabrielle and the Doodleman

Gabrielle and the Doodleman is a children's film, that was released in 1984 and directed and written by Francis Essex.

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Galton and Simpson

Ray Galton OBE (born 17 July 1930), and Alan Simpson OBE (27 November 1929 – 8 February 2017), were an English comedy scriptwriting partnership.

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Gareth Hunt

Alan Leonard Hunt (7 February 1942 – 14 March 2007) was a British actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New Avengers.

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Geoffrey Hughes

Geoffrey Hughes DL (2 February 1944 – 27 July 2012) was an English actor.

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George Sewell

George Sewell (31 August 19242 April 2007) was an English actor.

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Goon Show Preservation Society

The Goon Show Preservation Society is a non-profit organisation formed to help preserve and research the history of the Goon Show.

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Gormenghast (series)

Gormenghast is a fantasy series by British author Mervyn Peake, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, gothic-like structure.

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Gormenghast (TV serial)

Gormenghast is a four-episode television serial based on the first two novels of the Gothic fantasy Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake.

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Graham Stark

Graham William Stark (20 January 1922 – 29 October 2013) was an English comedian, actor, writer and director.

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Grand Order of Water Rats

The Grand Order of Water Rats is a British entertainment industry fraternity and charitable organisation, based in London.

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Hallowe'en Party

Hallowe'en Party is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1969Chris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon.

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Harper Perennial

Harper Perennial is a paperback imprint of the publishing house HarperCollins Publishers.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a 2005 fantasy film directed by Mike Newell and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Harry Secombe

Sir Harry Donald Secombe, CBE (8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001) was a Welsh comedian, actor and singer.

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Hatter (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

The Hatter is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

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Hattie Jacques

Hattie Jacques (born Josephine Edwina Jaques; 7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980) was an English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen.

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Hearing aid

A hearing aid is a device designed to improve hearing by making sound audible to a person with hearing loss.

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Hearing loss

Hearing loss, also known as hearing impairment, is a partial or total inability to hear.

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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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Heavens Above!

Heavens Above! is a 1963 British satirical comedy film starring Peter Sellers, directed by John and Roy Boulting, who also co-wrote along with Frank Harvey, from an idea by Malcolm Muggeridge.

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Hugh Lloyd

Hugh Lewis Lloyd, MBE (22 April 1923 – 14 July 2008) was an English actor who made his name in television and film comedy from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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Ian Smith

Ian Douglas Smith (8 April 1919 – 20 November 2007) was a politician, farmer and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia (or Southern Rhodesia; today Zimbabwe) from 1964 to 1979.

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If You Go Down in the Woods Today

If You Go Down in the Woods Today is a British TV film comedy released in 1981, written, directed and starring Eric Sykes, also featuring Fulton Mackay and Roy Kinnear amongst a cast of dozens.

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Independent Broadcasting Authority

The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was the regulatory body in the United Kingdom for commercial television (ITV and Channel 4 and limited satellite television regulation – cable television was the responsibility of the Cable Authority) – and commercial and independent radio broadcasts.

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Invasion Quartet

Invasion Quartet is a 1961 British World War II comedy/drama that was publicised as a parody of The Guns of Navarone.

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Irene Handl

Irene Handl (27 December 1901 – 29 November 1987) was an English character actress who appeared in over a hundred British films.

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It's Your Move (1982 film)

It's Your Move is the title of two short films written and directed by Eric Sykes (in 1969 and 1982 respectively).

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ITV Anglia

ITV Anglia, previously known as Anglia Television or Anglia, is the ITV franchise holder for the East of England.

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ITV Granada

ITV Granada (formerly Granada Television; informally Granada) is the Channel 3 regional service for North West England and the Isle of Man.

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ITV Yorkshire

ITV Yorkshire is the British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network.

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Jack Cardiff

Jack Cardiff, OBE, BSC (18 September 1914 – 22 April 2009) was a British cinematographer, director and photographer.

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Jack Smethurst

Jack Smethurst (born 9 April 1932 in Collyhurst, Manchester, Lancashire, England), is an English television and film comic actor whose career dates back to the 1950s.

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Jane Asher

Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946) is an English actress, author, and entrepreneur, who achieved early fame as a child actress, and has worked extensively in film and TV throughout her career.

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Jeremy Brett

Peter Jeremy William Huggins (3 November 1933 – 12 September 1995), known professionally as Jeremy Brett, was an English actor.

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Jimmy Edwards

James Keith O'Neill Edwards, DFC (23 March 19207 July 1988) was an English comedy writer and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in Take It From Here and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in Whack-O!.

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John Antrobus

John Antrobus (born 2 July 1933) is an English playwright and script writer.

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John Bluthal

John Bluthal (born 28 March 1929) is a British radio, stage, television and film actor and voice artist, whose work has mostly been in comedy.

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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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Johnny Speight

Johnny Speight (2 June 1920 – 5 July 1998) was an English television scriptwriter of many classic British sitcoms.

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Jon Pertwee

John Devon Roland Pertwee (7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996), known professionally as Jon Pertwee, was an English actor, comedian, entertainer and cabaret performer.

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Julien Temple

Julien Andrew Temple (born 26 November 1952) is an English film, documentary and music video director.

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Katy Manning

Catherine Ann "Katy" Manning (born 14 October 1946) is an English actress best known for her part as the companion Jo Grant in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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Kenneth Connor

Kenneth Connor, MBE (6 June 191828 November 1993) was an English stage, film and broadcasting actor, best known to the public for his comedy appearances in the ''Carry On'' films.

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Kenny Lynch

Kenny Lynch, OBE (born 18 March 1938) is an English singer, songwriter, entertainer and actor from London.

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Kill or Cure (1962 film)

Kill or Cure is a 1962 British comedy film, in which an inept private investigator is called to look into the strange goings-on at a health club.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Lancaster University

Lancaster University, also officially known as the University of Lancaster, is a public research university in the City of Lancaster, Lancashire, England.

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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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Leading aircraftman

Leading aircraftman (LAC) or leading aircraftwoman (LACW) is a junior rank in some air forces, between aircraftman and senior aircraftman and having a NATO rank code of OR-2.

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Leo McKern

Reginald "Leo" McKern, AO (16 March 1920 – 23 July 2002) was an Australian actor who appeared in numerous British, Australian and American television programmes and films, and in more than 200 stage roles.

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Leonard Rossiter

Leonard Rossiter (21 October 1926 – 5 October 1984) was an English actor.

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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 supporting Harry Potter characters

The following are supporting characters in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling.

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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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London Weekend Television

London Weekend Television (LWT) was the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties at weekends, broadcasting from Fridays at 5.15 pm (7:00 pm until 1982) to Monday mornings at 6:00 am.

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Lynsey de Paul

Lynsey de Paul (born Lynsey Monckton Rubin; 11 June 1948 – 1 October 2014) was an English singer-songwriter.

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Macular degeneration

Macular degeneration, also known as age-related macular degeneration (AMD or ARMD), is a medical condition which may result in blurred or no vision in the center of the visual field.

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Macular Society

The Macular Society, formerly known as the Macular Disease Society, is a UK charity for anyone affected by central vision loss.

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Margaret Rutherford

Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, (11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972) was a British character actress of stage, television and film, probably best known for her later career as Agatha Christie's character Miss Marple.

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Max Bygraves

Walter William Bygraves (16 October 1922 – 31 August 2012), known by the stage name Max Bygraves, was an English comedian, singer, actor and variety performer.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator.

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MGM-British Studios

MGM-British was a subsidiary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) initially established at Denham Film Studios in 1936.

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Michael Bentine

Michael Bentine, CBE (born Michael James Bentin; 26 January 1922General Register Office for England and Wales - Birth Register for the March Quarter of 1922, Watford Registration District, Reference 3a 1478, listed as "Michael J. Bentin", mother's maiden name as "Dawkins". – 26 November 1996)General Register Office for England and Wales - Death Register for November 1996, Sutton Registration District, Reference C6B 296, listed as "Michael James Bentine" with a date of birth of 26 January 1922.

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Miniseries

A miniseries (or mini-series, also known as a serial in the UK) is a television program that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes.

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Miss Marple

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in 12 of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in 20 short stories.

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Monochrome

Monochrome describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs in one color or values of one color.

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Monte Carlo or Bust!

Monte Carlo or Bust! is a 1969 British/French/Italian co-production comedy film, also known by its American title, Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies.

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Morecambe and Wise

Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholomew, 14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984) and Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman, 27 November 1925 – 21 March 1999), known as Morecambe and Wise (also Eric and Ernie), were an iconic English comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television.

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Murder, She Said

Murder, She Said is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the novel 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie.

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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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New Tricks

New Tricks is a British television procedural drama, first broadcast in 2003.

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Nicole Kidman

Nicole Mary Kidman, (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian actress and producer.

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Norman Rossington

Norman Rossington (24 December 1928 – 21 May 1999) was an English actor best remembered for his roles in The Army Game, the ''Carry On'' films and the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night.

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Oldham

Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester.

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Oldham Athletic A.F.C.

Oldham Athletic Association Football Club (nicknamed Latics) is a professional association football club based in the town of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England.

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One Way Pendulum (film)

One Way Pendulum is a 1965 British comedy film directed by Peter Yates and starring Eric Sykes and George Cole.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Orders Are Orders

Orders Are Orders is a 1955 British comedy film directed by David Paltenghi, and featuring Peter Sellers, Sid James, Tony Hancock, Raymond Huntley, Brian Reece and Bill Fraser.

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Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom

The British honours system is a means of rewarding individuals' personal bravery, achievement, or service to the United Kingdom and the British Overseas Territories.

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Patsy Kensit

Patricia Jude Francis Kensit (born 4 March 1968) is an English actress, singer, model, and former child star.

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Paul Merton's Palladium Story

Paul Merton's Palladium Story is a two-part British television series first broadcast on BBC1 on 18 and 25 September 1994.

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Peter Brough

Peter Brough (26 February 1916 – 3 June 1999) was an English radio ventriloquist who became a well-known name to audiences in the 1950s.

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Peter Jones (actor)

Peter Geoffrey Francis Jones (12 June 1920 – 10 April 2000) was an English actor, screenwriter and broadcaster.

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Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers, CBE (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English film actor, comedian and singer.

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Playhouse Theatre

The Playhouse Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster, located in Northumberland Avenue, near Trafalgar Square.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The Provinces of India, earlier Presidencies of British India and still earlier, Presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in the subcontinent.

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Pye Ltd.

Pye Ltd. was an electronics company founded in Cambridge, England, now wholly owned by Philips.

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Rhodesia

Rhodesia was an unrecognised state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to modern Zimbabwe.

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Rhubarb (1969 film)

Rhubarb was a 1969 British short film written and directed by Eric Sykes, starring Sykes and Harry Secombe.

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Rhubarb Rhubarb

Rhubarb Rhubarb is a 30-minute television comedy special made by Thames TV and transmitted in 1980.

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Richard Briers

Richard David Briers (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor.

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Richard Wattis

Richard Cameron Wattis (25 February 1912 – 1 February 1975) was an English actor.

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Rod Taylor

Rodney Sturt Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor on radio, film and television.

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Roger Delgado

Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto (1 March 1918 – 18 June 1973) was a British actor, best known as the first actor to play the Master in Doctor Who.

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Ronnie Barker

Ronald William George Barker, (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor, comedian and writer.

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Ronnie Brody

Ronnie Brody (6 November 1918 – 8 May 1991) was a British actor who appeared in many comedy television series and films.

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Rose d'Or

The Rose d'Or (Golden Rose) is an international awards festival in entertainment broadcasting and programming.

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Rotten to the Core (film)

Rotten to the Core is a 1965 British comedy film directed by John Boulting.

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Roy Kinnear

Roy Mitchell Kinnear (8 January 1934 – 20 September 1988) was an English actor.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

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Run for Your Wife (play)

Run for Your Wife (1983) is an adult comedy play by Ray Cooney.

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Sam Kydd

Samuel John Kydd (15 February 1915 – 26 March 1982) was an English actor.

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Sean Connery

Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award).

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Sergeant

Sergeant (abbreviated to Sgt and capitalized when used as a named person's title) is a rank in many uniformed organizations, principally military and policing forces.

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Shalako (film)

Shalako is a British 1968 Western film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot.

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Shepherd's Bush

Shepherd's Bush is a district of west London, England, within the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Sibling

A sibling is one of two or more individuals having one or both parents in common.

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Sid Colin

Sid Colin (1920 – 1989) was an English screenwriter, working for both television and the cinema.

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Sid James

Sid James (born Solomon Joel Cohen; 8 May 1913 – 26 April 1976) (sometimes credited as Sidney James) was a South African-born British character and comic actor.

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Son of Rambow

Son of Rambow is a 2007 comedy film written and directed by Garth Jennings.

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Spike Milligan

Terence Alan Milligan, (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was a British-Irish comedian, writer, poet, playwright and actor.

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Splitting Heirs

Splitting Heirs is a 1993 British film directed by Robert Young and starring Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese and Sadie Frost.

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St Paul's, Covent Garden

St Paul's Church is a church located in Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9ED.

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Stanley Unwin (comedian)

Stanley Unwin (7 June 1911 – 12 January 2002), sometimes billed as Professor Stanley Unwin, was an English comedian, actor and comic writer.

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Surrey

Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.

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Sykes

Sykes is a British sitcom that aired on BBC 1 from 1972 to 1979.

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Sykes and a Big, Big Show

Sykes and a Big, Big Show is a British sitcom-sketch show first aired on BBC 1 in 1971.

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Sykes and a...

Sykes and a... is a black-and-white British sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques that aired on BBC 1 from 1960 to 1965.

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Sylvia Syms

Sylvia May Laura Syms, OBE (born 6 January 1934) is an English actress, best known for her roles in the films Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), Ice Cold in Alex (1958), No Trees in the Street (1959), Victim (1961), The Tamarind Seed (1974) and The Queen (2006).

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Teletubbies

Teletubbies is a British pre-school children's television series created by Ragdoll Productions' Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport.

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Teletubbies say "Eh-oh!"

Teletubbies say "Eh-oh!" is a hit single that was number one in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in December 1997.

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Terry-Thomas

Terry-Thomas (born Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens; 10 July 19118 January 1990) was an English comedian and character actor who became known to a worldwide audience through his films during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Thames Television

Thames Television was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding area on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992.

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The Adventure of the Six Napoleons

"The Adventure of the Six Napoleons", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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The Bargee

The Bargee is a 1964 British comedy film directed by Duncan Wood, and starring Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith, Eric Sykes and Ronnie Barker.

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The Big Freeze (film)

The Big Freeze is a 1993 featurette-length film written and directed by Eric Sykes.

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The Boys in Blue

The Boys in Blue is a 1982 British comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Tommy Cannon, Bobby Ball, Suzanne Danielle and Roy Kinnear.

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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 Goon Show

The Goon Show was a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme.

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The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d

The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d was the first serious attempt to translate the humour of The Goon Show to television.

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The Liquidator (1965 film)

The Liquidator is a 1965 British thriller film starring Rod Taylor as Brian "Boysie" Oakes, Trevor Howard, and Jill St. John.

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The Oldie

The Oldie is a British monthly magazine written for older people "as a light-hearted alternative to a press obsessed with youth and celebrity", according to their website.

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The Others (2001 film)

The Others (Los Otros) is a 2001 supernatural gothic horror film with psychological horror elements.

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The Plank (1967 film)

The Plank is a 1967 British slapstick comedy short film made by Associated London Films.

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The Plank (1979 film)

The Plank is a 30-minute, British slapstick comedy film for television from 1979, which was written and directed by Eric Sykes.

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The Spy with a Cold Nose

The Spy with a Cold Nose is a 1966 British comedy film directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Laurence Harvey, Daliah Lavi, Lionel Jeffries, Denholm Elliott, and Colin Blakely.

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The Stage

The Stage is a British weekly newspaper and website covering the entertainment industry, and particularly theatre.

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The Tony Hancock Show

The Tony Hancock Show is a black-and-white British sketch show starring Tony Hancock and was broadcast on ITV by the franchise contractor Associated-Rediffusion for two series in 1956 and 1957, either side of the first television series of Hancock's Half Hour.

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Theatre of Blood

Theatre of Blood (also known in the United States as Theater of Blood) is a 1973 comedic horror film starring Vincent Price as vengeful actor Edward Lionheart and Diana Rigg as his daughter Edwina.

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This Is Your Life (UK TV series)

This is Your Life is a British biographical television documentary, based on the 1952 American show of the same title.

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Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines; Or, How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes is a 1965 British period comedy film featuring an international ensemble cast including Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, Robert Morley, Terry-Thomas, James Fox, Red Skelton, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Gert Fröbe and Alberto Sordi.

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Till Death Us Do Part

Till Death Us Do Part is a British television sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1975.

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Tim Whitnall

Timothy Charles "Tim" Whitnall (born 27 June 1961) is an English playwright, screenwriter, and actor known for playing Angelo in the long-running CITV series Mike and Angelo and narrating the BBC children's TV programme Teletubbies.

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Tommy Cooper

Thomas Frederick Cooper (19 March 1921 – 15 April 1984) was a Welsh prop comedian and magician.

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Tommy Steele

Tommy Steele, (born Thomas Hicks, 17 December 1936) is an English entertainer, regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock and roll star.

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Tommy the Toreador

Tommy the Toreador is a 1959 British musical comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Tommy Steele, Janet Munro, Sid James, Bernard Cribbins, Noell Purcell and Kenneth Williams.

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Tony Hancock

Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor.

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Toyah Willcox

Toyah Ann Willcox (born 18 May 1958) is an English singer and actress.

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Ultra

Ultra was the designation adopted by British military intelligence in June 1941 for wartime signals intelligence obtained by breaking high-level encrypted enemy radio and teleprinter communications at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park.

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Uxbridge Road

Uxbridge Road is the name of the A4020 road in West London.

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Valentine Dyall

Valentine Dyall (7 May 1908 – 24 June 1985) was an English character actor.

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Variety Bandbox

Variety Bandbox was a British radio variety show transmitted by BBC Radio on the Light Programme.

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Variety, the Children's Charity

Variety, the Children's Charity is an organization founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 10, 1927, when a group of eleven men involved in show business set up a social club which they named the "Variety Club".

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Very Important Person (film)

Very Important Person (retitled A Coming Out Party in the United States) is a 1961 British comedy film, directed by Ken Annakin and written by Jack Davies and Henry Blyth.

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Village of Daughters

Village of Daughters is a 1962 British comedy film directed by George Pollock.

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Visual impairment

Visual impairment, also known as vision impairment or vision loss, is a decreased ability to see to a degree that causes problems not fixable by usual means, such as glasses.

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Warren Mitchell

Warren Mitchell (born Warren Misell; 14 January 1926 – 14 November 2015) was an English actor.

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Watch Your Stern

Watch Your Stern is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker and Leslie Phillips.

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Windsor Davies

Windsor Davies (born 28 August 1930) is a retired British actor who acted in many films and TV shows between 1964 and 2004.

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Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom

The winter of 1946–1947 was a harsh European winter noted for its effects in the United Kingdom.

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Wiping

Wiping, also known as junking, is a colloquial term of art for action taken by radio and television production and broadcasting companies, in which old audiotapes, videotapes, and telerecordings (kinescopes), are erased, reused, or destroyed.

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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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Writers' Guild of Great Britain

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain (WGGB), established in 1959, is a trade union for professional writers.

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References

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

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