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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. [1]

95 relations: Absolutely Fabulous, André Deutsch, Angelmouse, BBC Domesday Project, BBC Worldwide, Betamax, Blackadder, Blake's 7, Brum (TV series), California Jam, CBS/Fox Video, Channel 4, ChuckleVision, Clangers, Columbia Pictures, Count Duckula, Dad's Army, Danger Mouse (1981 TV series), David Attenborough, Dean Street, Deep Purple, Demon Music Group, Dino Babies, Doctor Who, Equity (British trade union), Fawlty Towers, Film4 Productions, Fireman Sam, Flower Pot Men, Fourways Farm, Funnybones, High Noon, ITV (TV network), ITV plc, ITV Studios, John Martyn, Joshua Jones (TV series), Keeping Up Appearances, LaserDisc, Life on Earth (TV series), Magic Adventures of Mumfie, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mr. Bean, Musicians' Union (United Kingdom), New Southgate, Noddy's Toyland Adventures, Noggin the Nog, Oakie Doke, One Foot in the Grave, Only Fools and Horses, ..., Ornithology, Philips, Pingu, Playbox (1980s TV series), PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Porridge (TV series), Postman Pat, Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series), Privately held company, Rainbow (TV series), Red Dwarf, Roadshow Entertainment, Romuald the Reindeer, Rosie and Jim, Scotch and Wry, Spider! (TV series), Teletext, Teletubbies, The Animals of Farthing Wood (TV series), The Blue Planet, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series), The Human Body (TV series), The Little Polar Bear, The Magic House (puppet show), The Magic Roundabout, The Planets (miniseries), The Sooty Show, The Vicar of Dibley, The Wind in the Willows (TV series), The Young Ones (TV series), Thomas & Friends, Tom Robinson, Tots TV, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tweenies, Walking with Beasts, Walking with Dinosaurs, Wallace and Gromit, Warner Home Video, Watford, Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer, William's Wish Wellingtons, Woolworths Group, Yes Minister. Expand index (45 more) »

Absolutely Fabulous

Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a BBC sitcom created by, written by and starring Jennifer Saunders.

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André Deutsch

André Deutsch CBE (15 November 1917 in Budapest – 11 April 2000 in London) was a British publisher who founded an eponymous publishing company in 1951.

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Angelmouse

Angelmouse is a children's television programme which was produced and broadcast by the BBC.

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BBC Domesday Project

The BBC Domesday Project was a partnership between Acorn Computers, Philips, Logica and the BBC (with some funding from the European Commission's ESPRIT programme) to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book, an 11th-century census of England.

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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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Betamax

Betamax (also called Beta, as in its logo) is a consumer-level analog-recording and cassette format of magnetic tape for video.

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Blackadder

Blackadder is a series of four BBC1 pseudohistorical British sitcoms, plus several one-off instalments, which originally aired in the 1980s.

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Blake's 7

Blake's 7 is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC.

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Brum (TV series)

Brum is a British children's television series about the adventures of a small, artificially intelligent, self-driven car.

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California Jam

California Jam (also known as Cal Jam) was a rock music festival co-headlined by Deep Purple and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California, on April 6, 1974.

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CBS/Fox Video

The CBS/Fox Company, or CBS/Fox Video was a home video entertainment company formed and established in June 1982, as a merger between 20th Century-Fox Video, (formerly Magnetic Video Corporation), and CBS Video Enterprises which sold film libraries from major American film studios and was the North American licensee of BBC Video releases.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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ChuckleVision

ChuckleVision is a British television series created by Martin Hughes and the Chuckle Brothers for the BBC.

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Clangers

Clangers is a British stop-motion children's television series, comprising short films about a race (or perhaps a family) of creatures who live on, and inside, a small moon-like planet.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Count Duckula

Count Duckula is a British animated comedy horror television series created by British studio Cosgrove Hall Films and produced by Thames Television as a spin-off from Danger Mouse, a series in which the Count Duckula character was a recurring villain.

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Dad's Army

Dad's Army is a BBC television sitcom about the British Home Guard during the Second World War.

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Danger Mouse (1981 TV series)

Danger Mouse is a British animated television series produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Thames Television.

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David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and naturalist.

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Dean Street

Dean Street is a street in Soho, central London, running from Oxford Street south to Shaftesbury Avenue.

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Deep Purple

Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968.

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Demon Music Group

Demon Records is a British record label, founded in 1980 by former United Artists A&R executive Andrew Lauder and Jake Riviera, who had previously started Stiff Records.

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Dino Babies

Dino Babies is a Canadian-British children's animated television series spotlighting six young dinosaurs who share stories and adventures.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.

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Equity (British trade union)

Equity, formerly officially titled the British Actors' Equity Association (although Equity was always its common name), is the trade union for actors, stage managers and models in the United Kingdom.

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Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979.

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Film4 Productions

Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Fireman Sam

Fireman Sam is a British animated comedy children's series about a fireman called Sam, his fellow firefighters, and other residents in the fictional Welsh rural village of Pontypandy (a portmanteau of two real towns, Pontypridd and Tonypandy, which are situated approximately apart in the South Wales Valleys).

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Flower Pot Men

The Flower Pot Men is a British children's programme, produced by BBC television, first transmitted in 1952, and repeated regularly for more than twenty years.

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Fourways Farm

Fourways Farm was a British children's animated television series produced in 1993 by Case Television (originally produced in 1991) and aired on Channel 4 during 4Learning Primary Science between 1994 and 1996.

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Funnybones

Funnybones was a British children's television comedy series, which originally aired on S4C in Wales, and BBC One in England, from 29 September to 15 December 1992.

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High Noon

High Noon is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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ITV plc

ITV plc is a British media company based in London, England.

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ITV Studios

ITV Studios is a television production company owned by the British television broadcaster ITV plc.

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John Martyn

Iain David McGeachy, OBE (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009), known professionally as John Martyn, was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Joshua Jones (TV series)

Joshua Jones is a British stop-motion children's television series produced by Bumper Films in 1992.

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Keeping Up Appearances

Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke.

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LaserDisc

LaserDisc (abbreviated as LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in the United States in 1978.

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Life on Earth (TV series)

Life on Earth: A Natural History by David Attenborough is a British television natural history series made by the BBC in association with Warner Bros. and Reiner Moritz Productions Productions.

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Magic Adventures of Mumfie

Britt Allcroft's Magic Adventures of Mumfie is an animated children's television series and movie, inspired by the works of Katharine Tozer, with an original music score containing more than 22 songs.

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Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python’s Flying Circus (known during the final series as just Monty Python) is a British sketch comedy series created by the comedy group Monty Python and broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974.

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Mr. Bean

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Musicians' Union (United Kingdom)

The Musicians' Union (MU) is an organisation which represents over 30,000 musicians working in all sectors of the British music business.

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New Southgate

New Southgate is a residential suburb straddling three Outer London Boroughs: a small part of the east of Barnet, a south-west corner of Enfield and in loosest definitions, based on nearest railway stations, a small northern corner of Haringey in North London, England where estates merge into Bounds Green.

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Noddy's Toyland Adventures

Noddy's Toyland Adventures is a children's television programme that was broadcast from September 1992 until January 1993 and December 1994, and again in 1999 on the BBC.

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Noggin the Nog

Noggin the Nog is a popular British children's character appearing in his own TV series (of the same name) and series of illustrated books, created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin.

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Oakie Doke

Oakie Doke was a British children's television programme that was broadcast from September 1995 until September 1997 on the BBC.

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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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Only Fools and Horses

Only Fools and Horses is a British sitcom created and written by John Sullivan.

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Ornithology

Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds.

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Philips

Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Philips, stylized as PHILIPS) is a Dutch multinational technology company headquartered in Amsterdam currently focused in the area of healthcare.

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Pingu

Pingu is a Swiss-British stop-motion clay animated children's comedy television series created by Otmar Gutmann and produced from 1990 to 2000 for Swiss television, and from 2003 to 2006 for British television by The Pygos Group (formerly Trickfilmstudio and Pingu Filmstudio).

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Playbox (1980s TV series)

Playbox is a TV programme for pre-school children aged 2–5, which ran during the late 1980s and early 1990s in the United Kingdom on ITV and was produced by Central Independent Television.

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PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (formerly known as PolyGram Films and PolyGram Pictures or simply PFE) was a British-American film studio founded in 1980 which became a European competitor to Hollywood, but was eventually sold to Seagram Company Ltd. in 1998 and was folded in 2000.

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Porridge (TV series)

Porridge is a British sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and broadcast on BBC One from 1974 to 1977.

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Postman Pat

Postman Pat is a British stop-motion animated children's television series first produced by Woodland Animations.

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Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series)

Pride and Prejudice is a six-episode 1995 British television drama, adapted by Andrew Davies from Jane Austen's 1813 novel of the same name.

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Privately held company

A privately held company, private company, or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock (shares) to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned and traded or exchanged privately.

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Rainbow (TV series)

Rainbow is a British children's television series, created by Pamela Lonsdale, which ran between five times weekly, twice weekly on Mondays and Wednesdays then Tuesdays and Fridays, and finally once weekly at 12:10 on Fridays on the ITV network, from 1 September 1972 to 24 March 1997.

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Red Dwarf

Red Dwarf is a British science fiction comedy franchise which primarily consists of a television sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999, and on Dave since 2009, gaining a cult following.

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Roadshow Entertainment

Roadshow Entertainment (formerly Roadshow Home Video) is a division of the Australian media company Village Roadshow (formerly Roadshow Home Video and Roadshow Entertainment).

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Romuald the Reindeer

Romuald the Reindeer was a British children's animated series, created by Robin Lyons and Andrew Offiler, and produced by Siriol Productions and La Fabrique in association with EVA Entertainment.

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Rosie and Jim

Rosie and Jim (sometimes written as Rosie & Jim) is a British children's television programme produced by Ragdoll Productions and aired on ITV from 3 September 1990 to 31 March 2000, and on PBS from 5 September 1992 to 31 March 2001.

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Scotch and Wry

Scotch and Wry was a Scottish television comedy sketch show produced by BBC Scotland and starring Rikki Fulton and a revolving ensemble cast which over the years included Gregor Fisher, Tony Roper, Claire Nielson, Juliet Cadzow and John Bett.

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Spider! (TV series)

Spider! is a musical children's television mini series made by Hibbert Ralph Entertainment for the BBC, that was originally aired on BBC One from 26 September to 30 December 1991.

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Teletext

Teletext (or broadcast teletext) is a television information retrieval service created in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s by the Philips Lead Designer for VDUs, John Adams.

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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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The Animals of Farthing Wood (TV series)

The Animals of Farthing Wood is a children's animated series commissioned by the European Broadcasting Union between 1992 and 1995, and is based on the series of books written by English author Colin Dann.

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The Blue Planet

The Blue Planet is a British nature documentary series created and produced by the BBC.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (sometimes referred to as HG2G, HHGTTG or H2G2) is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams.

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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 Human Body (TV series)

The Human Body is a seven-part documentary series, first shown on 20 May 1998 on BBC One and presented by medical scientist Robert Winston.

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The Little Polar Bear

The Little Polar Bear (in Lars de kleine ijsbeer) is a franchise about a polar bear cub named Lars who first starred in a number of books written by Dutch author, Hans de Beer.

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The Magic House (puppet show)

The Magic House was a children's animation puppet show created by Joe Austen and made for Scottish Television.

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The Magic Roundabout

The Magic Roundabout is an English-language children's television programme that ran from 1965 to 1977.

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The Planets (miniseries)

The Planets is an educational miniseries produced by the BBC and A&E and released in 1999.

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The Sooty Show

The Sooty Show is a British children's television series that aired on BBC Television from 1955 until 1967 when the BBC eventually cancelled The Sooty Show after Paul Fox, the then-controller of BBC One at the time, cleared out some of the long running shows.

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The Vicar of Dibley

The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom which originally ran on BBC One from 10 November 1994 to 22 January 1998 (with three sets of specials in the Winters of 1999/2000, 2004/2005 and 2006/2007).

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The Wind in the Willows (TV series)

The Wind in the Willows is a TV series that was originally broadcast between 1984 and 1987, based on characters from Kenneth Grahame's classic story The Wind in the Willows and following the 1983 film The Wind in the Willows.

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The Young Ones (TV series)

The Young Ones is a British sitcom, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1982 to 1984 in two six-part series.

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Thomas & Friends

Thomas & Friends (originally known as Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends or Thomas the Tank Engine; also known as Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! in the twenty-second season) is a British children's television series.

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Tom Robinson

Thomas Giles "Tom" Robinson (born 1 June 1950) is a British singer-songwriter, bassist, radio presenter and long-time LGBT rights activist, best known for the hits "Glad to Be Gay", "2-4-6-8 Motorway", and "Don't Take No for an Answer", with his Tom Robinson Band.

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Tots TV

Tots TV is a British children's television programme, produced by Ragdoll Productions and Central.

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Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States.

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Tweenies

Tweenies is a British live action children's sitcom created by Will Brenton and Iain Lauchlan.

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Walking with Beasts

Walking with Beasts (Walking with Prehistoric Beasts in North American releases) is a 2001 six-part television documentary miniseries, produced by the BBC Natural History Unit.

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Walking with Dinosaurs

Walking with Dinosaurs is a six-part documentary television miniseries created by Tim Haines and produced by BBC Natural History Unit.

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Wallace and Gromit

Wallace and Gromit is a British clay animation comedy series created by Nick Park of Aardman Animations.

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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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Watford

Watford is a town and borough in North West London, England, situated northwest of central London and inside the circumference of the M25 motorway.

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Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer

The wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer took place on Wednesday 29 July 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral in London, United Kingdom.

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William's Wish Wellingtons

William's Wish Wellingtons is an animated BBC children's television series produced by Hibbert Ralph Entertainment (who had previously created Spider!), which was originally aired on BBC One from 25 October to 30 December 1994, then moved to BBC Two from 24 December 1995 to 31 May 1996, and moved back to BBC One from 25 September to 13 December 1996; it was narrated by Andrew Sachs (of Fawlty Towers fame).

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Woolworths Group

Woolworths Group was a listed British company that owned the high-street retail chain, Woolworths.

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Yes Minister

Yes Minister is a political satire British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted on BBC Two from 1980 to 1984, split over three seven-episode series.

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