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The Thin Blue Line (TV series)

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The Thin Blue Line (a colloquial term for police forces) is a British sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson and written by Ben Elton. [1]

62 relations: Accrington, Alan Cox (actor), Alexander Armstrong, BBC One, Ben Elton, Biggles, British sitcom, Captain Mainwaring, Citizen's arrest, Cohabitation, Colin McFarlane, Criminal investigation department, Curly Wurly, Custodian helmet, Dad's Army, David Haig, Dixon of Dock Green, Domestic partnership, E-FIT, Endemol Shine UK, Fourth wall, Geoffrey Perkins, Gloria Hunniford, Graham Hutchings, Honeypots in espionage fiction, Howard Goodall, Indian cuisine, Jack Warner (actor), James Dreyfus, Joy Brook, Kevin Allen (actor), Lance Corporal Jones, List of Dad's Army characters, Lucy Robinson (actress), Malapropism, Mark Addy, Mark Lewisohn, Melvyn Hayes, Mina Anwar, Nicola Stapleton, North Yorkshire Police, Owen Teale, Perry Fenwick, Peter Bennett-Jones, Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, Private Pike, Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal, Queen's Counsel, Radio Trinidad, Rowan Atkinson, ..., Rudolph Walker, Rupert Vansittart, Serena Evans, Stephen Fry, Stephen Moore (actor), Stiff upper lip, Straight man, Sudan, Television special, Tiger Aspect Productions, Trevor Peacock, Trinidad. Expand index (12 more) »

Accrington

Accrington is a town in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England.

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Alan Cox (actor)

Alan Douglas Cox (born 6 August 1970) is an English actor.

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Alexander Armstrong

Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong (born 2 March 1970) is an English comedian, actor, television presenter and bass baritone singer, best known as one half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller and as host of the BBC TV game show Pointless.

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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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Ben Elton

Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is a British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director.

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Biggles

James Bigglesworth, nicknamed "Biggles", is a fictional pilot and adventurer, the title character and hero of the Biggles series of adventure books, written for young readers by W. E. Johns (1893–1968).

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British sitcom

A British sitcom or a Britcom is a situation comedy programme produced for British television.

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Captain Mainwaring

Captain George Mainwaring is a fictional character portrayed by Arthur Lowe in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army.

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Citizen's arrest

A citizen's arrest is an arrest made by a person who is not acting as a sworn law-enforcement official.

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Cohabitation

Cohabitation is an arrangement where two people who are not married live together.

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Colin McFarlane

Colin Andrew Ignatius Peter McFarlane (born 15 September 1961) is a British actor and voice actor.

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Criminal investigation department

A criminal investigation department (CID) is the branch of all territorial police forces within the British Police, and many other Commonwealth police forces, to which plainclothes detectives belong.

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Curly Wurly

Curly Wurly is a brand of chocolate bar currently manufactured by Cadbury UK and sold in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Malta, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, Malaysia, U.A.E and the United Kingdom.

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Custodian helmet

The custodian helmet is the modern name applied to the helmet worn by male police officers in England and Wales (and formerly in Scotland) and certain other places around the world.

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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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David Haig

David Haig Collum Ward, MBE (born 20 September 1955) is an Olivier Award-winning English actor and FIPA Award-winning writer.

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Dixon of Dock Green

Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series about daily life at a London police station, with the emphasis on petty crime, successfully controlled through common sense and human understanding.

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Domestic partnership

A domestic partnership is an interpersonal relationship between two individuals who live together and share a common domestic life but are not married (to each other or to anyone else), but they receive a lot of benefits that guarantee rights of survivor ship, hospital visitation and others.

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E-FIT

Electronic Facial Identification Technique (E-FIT, e-fit, efit) is a computer-based method of producing facial composites of wanted criminals, based on eyewitness descriptions.

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Endemol Shine UK

Endemol Shine UK (formerly Endemol UK Ltd before January 2015) is one of the largest independent media producers in the country.

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Fourth wall

The fourth wall is a performance convention in which an invisible, imagined wall separates actors from the audience.

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Geoffrey Perkins

Geoffrey Howard Perkins (22 February 1953 – 29 August 2008) was a British comedy producer, writer and performer.

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Gloria Hunniford

Mary Winifred Gloria Hunniford, OBE (born 10 April 1940), is a Northern Ireland television and radio presenter and singer on programmes on the BBC and ITV, such as Rip Off Britain with Julia Somerville and Angela Rippon, and her regular appearances as a panellist on Loose Women.

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Graham Hutchings

Graham John Hutchings FRS FIChemE FRSC FLSW is a British chemist, professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research at Cardiff University.

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Honeypots in espionage fiction

In espionage terminology, honeypot and honey trap are terms for recruitment involving sexual seduction.

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Howard Goodall

Howard Lindsay Goodall CBE (born 26 May 1958) is an English composer of musicals, choral music and music for television.

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Indian cuisine

Indian cuisine consists of a wide variety of regional and traditional cuisines native to the Indian subcontinent.

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Jack Warner (actor)

Jack Warner, OBE (born Horace John Waters, 24 October 1895 – 24 May 1981) was a British film and television actor.

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James Dreyfus

James Dreyfus (born 9 October 1968) is an English actor.

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Joy Brook

Joy Brook (born Joy Beadle, 9 May 1969 in Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire) is an English actress who played DC Kerry Holmes in The Bill and Joanne Pearson in Peak Practice.

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Kevin Allen (actor)

Kevin Allen (born 15 September 1959) is a Welsh actor, screenwriter, film director and film producer.

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Lance Corporal Jones

Lance Corporal Jack Jones is a fictional Home Guard platoon lance corporal, veteran of the British Empire and butcher, portrayed by Clive Dunn in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army.

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List of Dad's Army characters

This is a list of characters in the British television comedy series Dad's Army.

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Lucy Robinson (actress)

Lucy Robinson is a British actress working mostly in television.

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Malapropism

A malapropism (also called a malaprop or Dogberryism) is the use of an incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound, resulting in a nonsensical, sometimes humorous utterance.

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Mark Addy

Mark Ian Addy (born 14 January 1964) is an English actor.

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Mark Lewisohn

Mark Lewisohn (born 16 June 1958) is an English author and historian, regarded as one of the world's leading authorities on the English rock band the Beatles.

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Melvyn Hayes

Melvyn Hayes (born Melvyn Hyams, 11 January 1935) is an English actor known for playing the effeminate Gunner (later Bombardier) "Gloria" Beaumont in the 1970s BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum, and the Cliff Richard musical films The Young Ones and Summer Holiday.

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Mina Anwar

Mina Mumtaz Anwar (born 20 September 1969) is a British actress.

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Nicola Stapleton

Nicola Kathleen Stapleton (born 9 August 1974 in Elephant and Castle, London) is an English actress.

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North Yorkshire Police

North Yorkshire Police is the territorial police force covering the non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire and the unitary authority of York in northern England.

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Owen Teale

Owen Teale (born 20 May 1961) is a Welsh actor best known for his role as Ser Alliser Thorne in the HBO fantasy TV series Game of Thrones.

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Perry Fenwick

Perry Fenwick (born 29 May 1962) is an English film and television actor who currently plays Billy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, a role which he has played since 1998.

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Peter Bennett-Jones

Peter Bennett-Jones CBE is a British TV producer and agent.

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Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal

The Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal is a decoration for police officers of the United Kingdom.

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Private Pike

Private Frank Pike is a fictional Home Guard private and junior bank clerk; he was appointed as the platoon's information officer by Captain Mainwaring in The Man and the Hour.

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Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal

The Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal (Médaille du jubilé de la reine Élisabeth II) was a commemorative medal created in 1977 to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elizabeth II's accession in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

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Queen's Counsel

A Queen's Counsel (postnominal QC), or King's Counsel (postnominal KC) during the reign of a king, is an eminent lawyer (usually a barrister or advocate) who is appointed by the Monarch to be one of "Her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law." The term is also recognised as an honorific.

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Radio Trinidad

Radio Trinidad was the oldest radio station in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson, CBE (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, comedian, and screenwriter best known for his work on the sitcoms Blackadder and Mr. Bean.

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Rudolph Walker

Rudolph Malcolm Walker, OBE (born 28 September 1939), is a Trinidadian actor, best known for his roles on British television.

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Rupert Vansittart

Rupert Nicholas Vansittart (born 10 February 1958) is an English character actor.

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Serena Evans

Serena Evans (born 2 December 1959) is a British actress who is best known for playing Police Sergeant Patricia Dawkins in the sitcom The Thin Blue Line which was shown on BBC1 from 1995 to 1996.

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist.

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Stephen Moore (actor)

Stephen Moore (born 11 December 1937) is a retired English actor, known for his work on British television since the mid-1970s.

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Stiff upper lip

One who has a stiff upper lip displays fortitude in the face of adversity, or exercises great self-restraint in the expression of emotion.

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Straight man

The straight man is a stock character in a comedy performance, especially a double act, sketch comedy, or farce.

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Sudan

The Sudan or Sudan (السودان as-Sūdān) also known as North Sudan since South Sudan's independence and officially the Republic of the Sudan (جمهورية السودان Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa.

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Television special

A television special (often TV special, or rarely "television spectacular") is a stand-alone television show which temporarily interrupts episodic programming normally scheduled for a given time slot.

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Tiger Aspect Productions

Tiger Aspect Productions (formerly known as Tiger Television) is a British television production company, particularly noted for its situation comedies.

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Trevor Peacock

Trevor Peacock (born 19 May 1931) is an English stage and television character actor and former screenwriter and songwriter.

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Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Blue_Line_(TV_series)

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