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Morecambe and Wise

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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. [1]

120 relations: A Touch of Class (film), André Previn, Angela Rippon, Antony and Cleopatra, Apartment, Arthur Tolcher, Arthur Worsley, Associated Television, Aunt Bessie's, Barry Cryer, BBC, BBC News, Benny Hill, BFI TV 100, Blue plaque, Boxing Day, Bramley, Leeds, Bring Me Sunshine, British Film Institute, Buckinghamshire, Cheltenham General Hospital, Culture of the United Kingdom, Daily Mail, David Rose (songwriter), Des O'Connor, Dick Hills and Sid Green, Double act, Double entendre, Eddie Braben, Edvard Grieg, Elton John, Eric and Ernie, Eric Morecambe, Eric Porter, Ernest Maxin, Ernie Wise, España cañí, Everyday life, Felix Mendelssohn, Fenella Fielding, Flanagan and Allen, Flora Robson, Frank Finlay, Gene Kelly, George Formby, Glasgow Empire Theatre, Glenda Jackson, Gloucestershire, Gold (UK TV channel), Groucho Marx, ..., Guinness World Records, Harold Wilson, Harry Secombe, Health food store, Hoagy Carmichael, Horse Feathers, Humphrey Bogart, Ian Carmichael, Improvisation, ITV (TV network), Jack Hylton, Janet Webb, Jimmy Durante, John Ammonds, John Junkin, John Mills, Johnny Speight, Kenneth Tynan, Lancashire, Laurel and Hardy, Laurence Olivier, List of The Morecambe & Wise Show (1978 TV series) episodes, Marriage, Michael Grade, Morecambe, Musical theatre, News, Night Train to Murder, Observational comedy, Order of the British Empire, Paper cup, Penelope Keith, Peter Cushing, PG Tips, Piano Concerto (Grieg), Popular culture, Propellerheads, Ringo Starr, Running Wild (1954 TV series), Satire, Singin' in the Rain, Singin' in the Rain (song), Sketch comedy, Stalag 17, Swansea, Taxicab, Teddington Studios, Thames Television, That Riviera Touch, The Beatles, The Benny Hill Show, The Daily Telegraph, The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show, The Goon Show, The Guardian, The Intelligence Men, The Magnificent Two, The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968 TV series), The Morecambe & Wise Show (1978 TV series), The Stripper, TV's 50 Greatest Stars, Two of a Kind (UK TV series), Vanessa Redgrave, Ventriloquism, Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn), West Riding of Yorkshire, Wexham, Windmill Theatre, Winifred Atwell, Yehudi Menuhin. Expand index (70 more) »

A Touch of Class (film)

A Touch of Class is a 1973 British romantic comedy film which tells the story of a couple having an affair, who find themselves falling in love.

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André Previn

André George Previn, KBE (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929) is a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer.

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Angela Rippon

Angela May Rippon CBE (born 12 October 1944)"Angela Rippon," Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Gale, (2008) Gale Biography In Context is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter.

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Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.

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Apartment

An apartment (American English), flat (British English) or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, generally on a single storey.

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Arthur Tolcher

Arthur Tolcher (9 April 1922 – March 1987), born Arthur John Stone-Tolcher in Bloxwich, Staffordshire, England, was a virtuoso British harmonica player and child star who started his career in the British Music halls in the 1930s.

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Arthur Worsley

Arthur Wilkinson Worsley (16 October 1920 – 14 July 2001) was a ventriloquist who appeared regularly on British television from the 1950s to the 1970s.

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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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Aunt Bessie's

Aunt Bessie’s Limited (until 2008 known as Tryton Foods Ltd) is a UK producer of frozen food products under the brand name Aunt Bessie’s.

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Barry Cryer

Barry Charles Cryer OBE (born 23 March 1935) is an English writer, comedian and actor.

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BBC

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

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Benny Hill

Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992) was an English comedian and actor, best remembered for his television programme The Benny Hill Show, an amalgam of slapstick, burlesque, and double entendre in a format that included live comedy and filmed segments, with him at the focus of almost every segment.

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BFI TV 100

The BFI TV 100 is a list compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute (BFI), chosen by a poll of industry professionals, to determine what were the greatest British television programmes of any genre to have been screened.

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Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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Boxing Day

Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated on the day after Christmas Day.

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Bramley, Leeds

Bramley is a district in west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Bring Me Sunshine

"Bring Me Sunshine" is a song written in 1966 by the composer Arthur Kent, with lyrics by Sylvia Dee,Derek B. Scott, Sounds of the metropolis: the nineteenth-century popular music revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna, Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008,,, 304 pages and first performed by American artists in the late 1960s.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire, abbreviated Bucks, is a county in South East England which borders Greater London to the south east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north east and Hertfordshire to the east.

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Cheltenham General Hospital

Cheltenham General Hospital is an NHS district general hospital in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, run by Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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Culture of the United Kingdom

The culture of the United Kingdom is influenced by the UK's history as a developed state, a liberal democracy and a great power; its predominantly Christian religious life; and its composition of four countries—England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland—each of which has distinct customs, cultures and symbolism.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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David Rose (songwriter)

David Rose (June 15, 1910 – August 23, 1990) was an American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader.

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Des O'Connor

Desmond Bernard O'Connor, CBE (born 12 January 1932) is an English comedian, singer and television presenter.

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Dick Hills and Sid Green

Richard Michael Hills, (17 January 1926 – 6 June 1996), and Sidney Green, (24 January 1928 – 15 March 1999),Denis Gifford, The Independent, 17 March 1999 informally known as Sid Green and Dick Hills, were a British partnership of television comedy writers, at their highest profile during the 1960s.

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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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Double entendre

A double entendre is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to be understood in two ways, having a double meaning.

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Eddie Braben

Edwin Charles Braben (31 October 1930 – 21 May 2013) was an English comedy writer and performer best known for providing material for Morecambe and Wise.

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Edvard Grieg

Edvard Hagerup Grieg (15 June 18434 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist, and composer.

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Eric and Ernie

Eric and Ernie is a 2011 television film produced by BBC Wales, based on the early career of the British comic double-act Morecambe and Wise.

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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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Eric Porter

Eric Richard Porter (8 April 192815 May 1995) was an English actor of stage, film and television.

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Ernest Maxin

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

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Ernie Wise

Ernest Wiseman, (27 November 1925 – 21 March 1999), known by his stage name Ernie Wise, was an English comedian, best known as one half of the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise, who became a national institution on British television, especially for their Christmas specials.

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España cañí

España cañí (meaning "Gypsy Spain" in Spanish) is a famous instrumental Spanish piece of pasodoble music by Pascual Marquina Narro (1873-1948).

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Everyday life

Everyday life, daily life or routine life comprises the ways in which people typically act, think, and feel on a daily basis.

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Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early romantic period.

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Fenella Fielding

Fenella Fielding, OBE (born 17 November 1927) is an English stage, film and television actress, popular in the 1950s and 1960s and known as "England's first lady of the double entendre".

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Flanagan and Allen

Flanagan and Allen were a British singing and comedy double act popular during World War II.

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Flora Robson

Dame Flora McKenzie Robson, (28 March 19027 July 1984) was an English actress and star of the theatrical stage and cinema, particularly renowned for her performances in plays demanding dramatic and emotional intensity.

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Frank Finlay

Francis "Frank" Finlay, CBE (6 August 1926 – 30 January 2016) was an English stage, film and television actor.

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Gene Kelly

Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor of film, stage, and television, singer, film director, producer, and choreographer.

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George Formby

George Formby, OBE (born George Hoy Booth; 26 May 1904 – 6 March 1961), was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Glasgow Empire Theatre

Glasgow Empire Theatre, known as the Glasgow Palace Empire until the early 1900s, was a major theatre in Glasgow, Scotland, which opened in 1897 on the site of the Gaiety Theatre at 31-35 Sauchiehall Street.

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Glenda Jackson

Glenda May Jackson, CBE (born 9 May 1936) is a British actress and former Labour Party politician.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (formerly abbreviated as Gloucs. in print but now often as Glos.) is a county in South West England.

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Gold (UK TV channel)

Gold (stylised as GOLD) is a British classic comedy channel from the UKTV network, broadcasting to the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Groucho Marx

Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, writer, stage, film, radio, and television star.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Harold Wilson

James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976.

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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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Health food store

A health food store or health food shop is a type of grocery store that primarily sells health foods, organic foods, local produce, and often nutritional supplements.

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Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader.

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Horse Feathers

Horse Feathers is a 1932 Pre-Code comedy film starring the Marx Brothers.

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Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899January 14, 1957) was an American screen and stage actor.

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Ian Carmichael

Ian Gillett Carmichael, OBE (18 June 1920 – 5 February 2010) was an English actor best known for his roles in the films of the Boulting brothers such as Private's Progress (1956) and I'm All Right Jack (1959).

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Improvisation

Improvisation is creating or performing something spontaneously or making something from whatever is available.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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Jack Hylton

Jack Hylton (born John Greenhalgh Hilton, 2 July 1892 – 29 January 1965) was an English pianist, composer, band leader and impresario.

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Janet Webb

Janet Webb (1 July 1930 – 29 December 1983) was an English actress.

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Jimmy Durante

James Francis Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor.

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John Ammonds

John Ammonds MBE (21 May 1924 – 13 February 2013)Graham McCann The Guardian, 15 February 2013.Retrieved 16 February 2013.

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John Junkin

John Francis Junkin (29 January 1930 – 7 March 2006) was an English radio, television and film actor and scriptwriter.

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John Mills

Sir John Mills, (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, 22 February 190823 April 2005) was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.

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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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Kenneth Tynan

Kenneth Peacock Tynan (2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was an English theatre critic and writer.

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Lancashire

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

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Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy were a comedy double act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema.

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Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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List of The Morecambe & Wise Show (1978 TV series) episodes

This is an episode summary of British TV comedy show The Morecambe and Wise Show, starring Morecambe and Wise.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Michael Grade

Michael Ian Grade, Baron Grade of Yarmouth, (born 8 March 1943) is an English television executive and businessman.

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Morecambe

Morecambe is a town on Morecambe Bay in Lancashire, England, which had a population of 34,768 at the 2011 Census.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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News

News is information about current events.

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Night Train to Murder

Night Train to Murder is a 1985 British comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Morecambe and Wise.

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Observational comedy

Observational comedy is a form of humor based on the commonplace aspects of everyday life.

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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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Paper cup

A paper cup is a disposable cup made out of paper and often lined or coated with plastic or wax to prevent liquid from leaking out or soaking through the paper.

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Penelope Keith

Dame Penelope Anne Constance Keith, (née Hatfield; born 2 April 1940) is an English actress, active in all genres, including radio, stage, television and film and primarily known for her roles in the British sitcoms The Good Life and To the Manor Born.

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Peter Cushing

Peter Wilton Cushing (26 May 191311 August 1994) was an English actor best known for his roles in the Hammer Productions horror films of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, as well as his performance as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (1977).

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PG Tips

PG Tips is a brand of tea in the United Kingdom, manufactured by Unilever UK.

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Piano Concerto (Grieg)

The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

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Propellerheads

Propellerheads were an English electronic duo, formed in 1995 and consisting of Will White and Alex Gifford.

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Ringo Starr

Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, songwriter, singer, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles.

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Running Wild (1954 TV series)

Running Wild was a comedy sketch show originally broadcast by BBC television, the first TV series by English comedy double-act Morecambe and Wise.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical-romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds.

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Singin' in the Rain (song)

"Singin' in the Rain" is a song with lyrics by Arthur Freed and music by Nacio Herb Brown, published in 1929.

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Sketch comedy

Sketch comedy comprises a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long.

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Stalag 17

Stalag 17 is a 1953 comedy-drama war film which tells the story of a group of American airmen held in a German World War II prisoner of war camp, who come to suspect that one of their number is an informant.

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Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.

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Taxicab

A taxicab, also known as a taxi or a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride.

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Teddington Studios

Teddington Studios was a large British television studio in Teddington, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, providing studio facilities for programmes airing on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky1 and others.

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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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That Riviera Touch

That Riviera Touch (1966) is the second feature-length film made by the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Benny Hill Show

The Benny Hill Show is a British comedy television show starring Benny Hill that aired in various forms between 15 January 1955 and 16 May 1991 in over 140 countries.

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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 Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show

The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show was a comedy variety show, transmitted on BBC Radio 2 in four series from 1975 until 1978.

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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 Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Intelligence Men

The Intelligence Men is a 1965 comedy film starring the British comic duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.

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The Magnificent Two

The Magnificent Two also known as What Happened at Campo Grande? is a 1967 British comedy film directed by Cliff Owen and starring Morecambe and Wise in the third and final of their 1960s trio of films.

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The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968 TV series)

The Morecambe & Wise Show was a comedy sketch show originally broadcast by BBC television and the third TV series by English comedy double-act Morecambe and Wise.

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The Morecambe & Wise Show (1978 TV series)

The Morecambe & Wise Show was a comedy sketch show originally produced by Thames Television and broadcast on the ITV network.

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The Stripper

"The Stripper" is an instrumental composed by David Rose, recorded in 1958 and released four years later.

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TV's 50 Greatest Stars

TV's 50 Greatest Stars was a one-off British television awards show which invited the viewing public to vote for their favourite on-screen stars from a list compiled by the broadcaster ITV.

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Two of a Kind (UK TV series)

Two of a Kind is an early TV series for comedy duo Morecambe and Wise.

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Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress of stage, screen and television, and a political activist.

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Ventriloquism

Ventriloquism, or ventriloquy, is an act of stagecraft in which a person (a ventriloquist) changes his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere, usually a puppeteered "dummy".

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Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)

Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, is his last large orchestral work.

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West Riding of Yorkshire

The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England.

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Wexham

Wexham is a civil parish in the county of Buckinghamshire in southern England.

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Windmill Theatre

The Windmill Theatre — now The Windmill International — in Great Windmill Street, London was for many years both a variety and revue theatre.

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Winifred Atwell

Una Winifred Atwell (27 February or 27 April 1910 or 1914There is some uncertainty over her date and year of birth. Many sources suggest 27 February 1914, but there is a strong suggestion that her birthday was 27 April. Most sources give her year of birth as 1914, but her gravestone states that she died at the age of 73, suggesting that she was born in 1910. – 28 February 1983) was a Trinidadian pianist who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and Australia from the 1950s with a series of boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records.

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Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, (22 April 191612 March 1999) was an American-born violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain.

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