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73 relations: As You Like It, Associated Television, Bleak House (1985 TV serial), Bob Monkhouse, Bobby Darin, Bookcase, Brinsworth House, British Newspaper Archive, Bruce Forsyth's Big Night, Catchphrase, Cinderella, Cover version, Double act, Drake's Progress, Eamonn Andrews, Elephant and Castle, Elstree Calling, Employment agency, Funny Money, Genesis (band), George Martin, Harold Pinter, Henry McGee, Hit record, ITV (TV network), Jim Davidson, Lily Morris, London, London Palladium, London Weekend Television, Ludlow, Metropolitan Borough of Southwark, Michael Angelis, Michael Aspel, Middlesex, Mister Ten Per Cent, Mr. Custer, Music hall, My Boomerang Won't Come Back, Parlophone, Parody, Percy Herbert (actor), Peter Gabriel, Petticoat Pirates, Playhouse Theatre, Professor Popper's Problem, Record chart, Rock and roll, Rose d'Or, Royal Air Force, ..., Royal Exchange, Manchester, Royal Variety Charity, Sands of the Desert, Slapstick, Songwriter, South London, Splish Splash (song), The Caretaker, The Charlie Drake Show, The Cracksman, The Daily Telegraph, The Golden Link, The Guardian, The Worker (TV series), This Is Your Life (UK TV series), Top 40, Touchstone (As You Like It), Twickenham, UK Singles Chart, Wampanoag, William Shakespeare, Working men's club, World War II. Expand index (23 more) »
As You Like It
As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623.
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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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Bleak House (1985 TV serial)
Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985.
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Bob Monkhouse
Robert Alan "Bob" Monkhouse, OBE (1 June 1928 – 29 December 2003) was an English entertainer and comedian.
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Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor in film and television.
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Bookcase
A bookcase, or bookshelf, is a piece of furniture with horizontal shelves, often in a cabinet, used to store books or other printed materials.
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Brinsworth House
Brinsworth House is a residential and nursing retirement home for theatre and entertainment professionals in Staines Road, Twickenham, west London, England.
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British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitised archives of British newspapers.
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Bruce Forsyth's Big Night
Bruce Forsyth's Big Night was a TV show screened on ITV on Saturday nights throughout the autumn and winter of 1978.
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Catchphrase
A catchphrase (alternatively spelled catch phrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance.
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Cinderella
Cinderella (Cenerentola, Cendrillon, Aschenputtel), or The Little Glass Slipper, is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward.
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Cover version
In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.
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Double act
A double act, also known as a comedy duo, is a comic pairing in which humor is derived from the uneven relationship between two partners, usually of the same gender, age, ethnic origin and profession but drastically different in terms of personality or behavior.
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Drake's Progress
Drake's Progress was a British sketch show that aired on the BBC Television Service from 1957 to 1958.
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Eamonn Andrews
Eamonn Andrews, CBE (19 December 1922 – 5 November 1987) was an Irish radio and television presenter, employed primarily in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to the 1980s.
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Elephant and Castle
The Elephant and Castle is an area around a major road junction in South London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark.
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Elstree Calling
Elstree Calling is a 1930 British film directed by André Charlot, Jack Hulbert, Paul Murray, and Alfred Hitchcock at Elstree Studios.
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Employment agency
An employment agency is an organization which matches employers to employees.
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Funny Money
Funny Money is a farce written by Ray Cooney.
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Genesis (band)
Genesis were an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey in 1967.
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George Martin
Sir George Henry Martin (3 January 19268 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician.
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Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor.
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Henry McGee
For the American businessman and academic, see Henry W. McGee. Henry McGee (14 May 1929 – 28 January 2006) was a British actor, best known as straight man to Benny Hill for many years.
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Hit record
A hit record is an audio recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" (appeared on) one of the popular chart listings.
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ITV (TV network)
ITV is a British commercial TV network.
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Jim Davidson
James Cameron Davidson, OBE (born 13 December 1953) is an English comedian and presenter.
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Lily Morris
Lily Morris (September 30, 1882 – October 3, 1952), born Lilles Mary Crosby, was an English music hall performer, who specialized in singing comedic songs, notably 'Why Am I Always The Bridesmaid' and 'Don't Have Any More, Missus Moore".
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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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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Ludlow
Ludlow is a market town in Shropshire, England, south of Shrewsbury and north of Hereford via the main A49 road, which bypasses the town.
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Metropolitan Borough of Southwark
The Metropolitan Borough of Southwark (Br) was a metropolitan borough in the County of London from 1900 to 1965.
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Michael Angelis
Michael Angelis (born 18 January 1952) is an English actor and voice actor.
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Michael Aspel
Michael Terence Aspel, OBE (born 12 January 1933) is an English television presenter on programmes such as Crackerjack, Aspel & Company, This is Your Life, Strange but True? and Antiques Roadshow.
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Middlesex
Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is an historic county in south-east England.
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Mister Ten Per Cent
Mister Ten Per Cent is a 1967 British comedy film, directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Charlie Drake.
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Mr. Custer
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Music hall
Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was popular from the early Victorian era circa 1850 and lasting until 1960.
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My Boomerang Won't Come Back
"My Boomerang Won't Come Back" was a novelty record by British comedian Charlie Drake which became a hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1961.
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Parlophone
Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German-British major record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon.
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Parody
A parody (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, play on something, caricature, or joke) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.
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Percy Herbert (actor)
Percy Herbert (31 July 1920 – 6 December 1992) was an English actor.
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Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis.
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Petticoat Pirates
Petticoat Pirates is a 1961 British comedy film directed by David MacDonald and starring Charlie Drake, Anne Heywood, Cecil Parker, John Turner and Thorley Walters.
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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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Professor Popper's Problem
Professor Popper's Problem was a film made in 1974 turned into a 6-part serial by Mersey Film Productions for the Children's Film Foundation.
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Record chart
A record chart, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period of time.
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Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.
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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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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.
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Royal Exchange, Manchester
The Royal Exchange is a grade II listed building in Manchester, England.
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Royal Variety Charity
The Royal Variety Charity is a British charity based in Twickenham, Middlesex, England.
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Sands of the Desert
Sands of the Desert is a 1960 British comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Charlie Drake in his first lead role in a feature film, Peter Arne, Sarah Branch and Raymond Huntley.
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Slapstick
Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity which exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy.
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Songwriter
A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.
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South London
South London is the southern part of London, England, south of the River Thames, and includes the historic districts of Southwark, Lambeth, Bankside and Greenwich.
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Splish Splash (song)
"Splish Splash" is a 1958 song performed and co-written by Bobby Darin.
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The Caretaker
The Caretaker is a play in three acts by Harold Pinter.
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The Charlie Drake Show
The Charlie Drake Show is the name of four British comedy programmes that aired from 1958 to 1968.
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The Cracksman
The Cracksman is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Peter Graham Scott.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Golden Link
The Golden Link is a 1954 British crime film directed by Charles Saunders and starring André Morell, Thea Gregory and Patrick Holt.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Worker (TV series)
The Worker is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1965 to 1978.
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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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Top 40
In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre.
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Touchstone (As You Like It)
Touchstone is a fictional character in Shakespeare's play As You Like It.
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Twickenham
Twickenham is a suburban area and town in Greater London, lying on the River Thames 10.2 miles west-southwest of the centre of London.
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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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Wampanoag
The Wampanoag, also rendered Wôpanâak, are an American Indian people in North America.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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Working men's club
Working men's clubs are a type of private social club first created in the 19th century in industrialised areas of the United Kingdom, particularly the North of England, the Midlands, Scotland and many parts of the South Wales Valleys, to provide recreation and education for working class men and their families.
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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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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Drake
