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The Generation Game

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The Generation Game is a British game show produced by the BBC in which four teams of two people from the same family, but different generations, compete to win prizes. [1]

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Alex Drake (Ashes to Ashes)

DI Alexandra "Alex" Drake is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama, Ashes to Ashes.

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Anthea Redfern

Anthea Bernice Redfern (born 15 April 1948) is a former British television hostess, best known as the assistant to Bruce Forsyth, her husband for six years, on the BBC's The Generation Game during its first run in the 1970s.

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Ashes to Ashes (TV series)

Ashes to Ashes is a British crime drama and police procedural drama television series, serving as the sequel to Life on Mars.

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Aspect ratio (image)

The aspect ratio of an image describes the proportional relationship between its width and its height.

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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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Barry Hilton

David Barry Hilton (born 29 January 1956 in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia) is a South African stand up comedian.

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Basil Brush

Basil Brush is a fictional anthropomorphic fox, best known for his appearances on daytime British children's television.

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BBC

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

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BBC Genome Project

The BBC Genome Project is a digitised, searchable database of programme listings initially based upon the contents of the Radio Times from the first issue in 1923, to 2009.

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BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Beat the Clock

Beat the Clock is a television game show that involves people trying to complete challenges to win prizes while faced with a time limit.

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Bill Cotton

Sir William Frederick "Bill" Cotton, CBE (23 April 1928 – 11 August 2008) was a British television producer and executive, and the son of big-band leader Billy Cotton.

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Bruce Forsyth

Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson (22 February 1928 – 18 August 2017) was a British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer, and screenwriter whose career spanned more than 75 years.

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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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Celebrity

Celebrity refers to the fame and public attention accorded by the mass media to individuals or groups or, occasionally, animals, but is usually applied to the persons or groups of people (celebrity couples, families, etc.) themselves who receive such a status of fame and attention.

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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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Charlotte Moore (TV executive)

Charlotte Alexandra Moore (born 19 June 1968), Companies in the UK is the BBC's Director of Content.

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Cilla Black

Priscilla Maria Veronica White OBE (27 May 1943 – 1 August 2015), known by her stage name Cilla Black, was an English singer, television presenter, actress and author.

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Comic Relief

Comic Relief is an operating British charity, and an independent sister organization of the United States-based Comic Relief Inc. It was founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia.

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Conveyor system

A conveyor system is a common piece of mechanical handling equipment that moves materials from one location to another.

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Das Erste

Das Erste (The First) is the principal publicly owned television channel in Germany.

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David Gilmour

David Jon Gilmour, (born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter best known as a longtime member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

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David Walliams

David Edward Williams (born 20 August 1971), known professionally as David Walliams, is an English comedian, actor, author, and presenter known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the BBC One sketch show Little Britain. Since 2012, Walliams has been a judge on the ITV talent show: Britain's Got Talent.

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Davina McCall

Davina Lucy Pascale McCall (born 16 October 1967) is an English television presenter and model.

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Family

Every person has his/her own family.mother reproduces with husband for children.In the context of human society, a family (from familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage or other relationship), or co-residence (as implied by the etymology of the English word "family" from Latin familia 'family servants, domestics collectively, the servants in a household,' thus also 'members of a household, the estate, property; the household, including relatives and servants,' abstract noun formed from famulus 'servant, slave ') or some combination of these.

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Game for a Laugh

Game for a Laugh is a British light entertainment programme which ran for 56 editions and four specials between 26 September 1981 and 23 November 1985, made by LWT for the ITV network.

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Game show

A game show is a type of radio, television, or stage show in which contestants, individually or as teams, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles, usually for money or prizes.

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Generation

A generation is "all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively." It can also be described as, "the average period, generally considered to be about thirty years, during which children are born and grow up, become adults, and begin to have children of their own." In kinship terminology, it is a structural term designating the parent-child relationship.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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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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Graham Norton

Graham William Walker (born 4 April 1963), known professionally as Graham Norton, is an Irish television and radio presenter, comedian, actor, and writer based in the United Kingdom.

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Guy Pratt

Guy Pratt (born 3 January 1962) is an English singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, comedian and actor.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a 2004 fantasy film directed by Alfonso Cuarón and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Horrible Histories (2009 TV series)

Horrible Histories is a British sketch comedy television series, part of the children's history books of the same name.

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Inga Gill

Inga Gill (2 May 1925 – 18 October 2000) was a Swedish film actress.

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Isla St Clair

Isla St Clair (born 2 May 1952 as Isabella Margaret Dyce) is a Scottish singer, actress and former game show co-host.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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James Fleet

James Edward Fleet (born 11 March 1952) is a British actor.

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Jim Davidson

James Cameron Davidson, OBE (born 13 December 1953) is an English comedian and presenter.

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Jim'll Fix It

Jim'll Fix It is a long-running British television show, broadcast by the BBC between May 1975 and June 1994.

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Jimmy Tarbuck

James Joseph Tarbuck, OBE (born 6 February 1940) is an English comedian.

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Kelly Holmes

Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE (born 19 April 1970) is a retired British middle distance athlete.

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Kenneth Williams

Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was an English actor, best known for his comedy roles and in later life as a raconteur and diarist.

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Larry Grayson

Larry Grayson (31 August 1923 – 7 January 1995), born William Sulley White, was an English comedian and television presenter who was best known in the 1970s and early 80s.

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Lasse Berghagen

Lars "Lasse" Nils Berghagen (born 13 May 1945) is a Swedish singer, songwriter and actor.

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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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Mel and Sue

Mel Giedroyc (born 15 June 1968) and Sue Perkins (born 22 September 1969), known collectively as Mel and Sue, are an English comedy double act best known for hosting the BAFTA Award-winning BBC One cookery series The Great British Bake Off.

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Mel Giedroyc

Melanie Clare Sophie Giedroyc (born 5 June 1968) is an English television presenter and actress.

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Mies Bouwman

Maria Antoinette "Mies" Bouwman (31 December 1929 – 26 February 2018) was a Dutch television presenter.

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Miranda (TV series)

Miranda was a British television sitcom written by and starring comedian Miranda Hart.

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Miranda Hart

Miranda Katherine Hart Dyke (born 14 December 1972), known professionally as Miranda Hart, is an English actress, model and comedian.

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Omroepvereniging VARA

The Omroepvereniging VARA, the VARA Broadcasting Association, is a Dutch public broadcasting association of the Netherlands.

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Patricia Hodge

Patricia Ann Hodge, OBE (born 29 September 1946) is an English actor.

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Paul O'Grady

Paul James O'Grady, MBE (born 14 June 1955) is an English comedian, television presenter, actor, writer and radio disc jockey.

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Pop Idol

Pop Idol is a British television music competition created by Simon Fuller which ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003.

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Red Nose Day 2011

Red Nose Day 2011 was a fundraising event organised by Comic Relief.

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Rosemarie Ford

Rosemarie Ford (born Rosemarie Poundford; 5 March 1962) is an English dancer, actress and television presenter.

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Rudi Carrell

Rudi Carrell (19 December 1934 – 7 July 2006), born Rudolf Wijbrand Kesselaar, was a Dutch entertainer, born in Alkmaar.

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Rupert Grint

Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint (born 24 August 1988) is a British actor and producer.

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SABC 2

SABC 2 is a South African television channel owned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).

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Saint Etienne (band)

Saint Etienne are an English band from London, formed in 1990.

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Sally Meen

Sally Jennifer Meen (born 13 June 1965) is an English television presenter.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Stuffed toy

A stuffed toy is a toy with an outer fabric sewn from a textile and then stuffed with a flexible material.

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Sue Perkins

Susan Elizabeth Perkins (born 22 September 1969) is an English comedian, broadcaster, actress and writer, born in East Dulwich, south London.

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Talk show

A talk show or chat show is a television programming or radio programming genre in which one person (or group of people) discusses various topics put forth by a talk show host.

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The Great British Bake Off

The Great British Bake Off (often referred to as Bake Off or GBBO) is a British television baking competition produced by Love Productions, in which a group of amateur bakers compete against each other in a series of rounds, attempting to impress a group of judges with their baking skills, with a contestant being eliminated in each round, with the winner being selected from the remaining contestants that make it to the finals.

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Theo Uittenbogaard

Theo Uittenbogaard (born Amstelveen, Nieuwer-Amstel, Netherlands, 1946) is a Dutch radio & TV-producer, who worked for almost all nationwide public networks in The Netherlands since 1965.

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Tonight at the London Palladium

Tonight at the London Palladium is a British television variety show that is hosted from the London Palladium theatre in London's West End.

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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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Vernon Kay

Vernon Charles Kay (born 28 April 1974) is an English television presenter, radio DJ and former model best known for his television roles with ITV, presenting shows such as All Star Family Fortunes (2006–2015), Beat the Star (2008–2009) and Splash! (2013–2014).

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Wogan

Wogan was a British television talk show which was broadcast on BBC1 from 1982 until 1992, presented by Terry Wogan.

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You're in a Bad Way

"You're in a Bad Way" is a song by British pop group Saint Etienne.

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16:9

16:9 (1.7:1) (16:9.

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References

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

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