George Layton, the Glossary
George Layton (born George Michael William Löwy; 2 March 1942) is an English actor, director, screenwriter and author best known for three television roles – junior doctor Paul Collier in the comedy series Doctor in the House and its sequels Doctor at Large, Doctor in Charge and Doctor at the Top, that of Bombardier 'Solly' Solomons in the first two series of It Ain't Half Hot Mum, and as Des the mechanic in early episodes of Minder.[1]
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118 relations: Adelphi Theatre, All Night Long (TV series), Australia, Austrians, Barefoot in the Park, BBC One, BBC Sunday-Night Play, Beckfoot Upper Heaton, Belgrade Theatre, Billy Liar, Blankety Blank, Boomers (TV series), Bradford, Bradford Royal Infirmary, British Film Institute, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Carry On Behind, Casualty (TV series), Chips with Everything, Comedy Premiere, Confessions of a Driving Instructor, Coronation Street, Countdown (game show), Coventry, Cyprus, Dig & Dug with Daisy, Dixon of Dock Green, Doctor at Large (TV series), Doctor at the Top, Doctor in Charge, Doctor in the House (TV series), Doctor Who, Doctors (2000 TV series), Don't Wait Up (TV series), EastEnders, Emergency Ward 10, Esther Rantzen, Executive Stress, Fagin, French and Saunders, Geoffrey Palmer (actor), Harry Worth (actor, born 1917), Heartbeat (British TV series), Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (film), Holby City, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (musical), Inside Track, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling, ITV (TV network), ... Expand index (68 more) »
Adelphi Theatre
The Adelphi Theatre is a West End theatre, located on the Strand in the City of Westminster, central London.
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All Night Long (TV series)
All Night Long is a British sitcom starring Keith Barron that aired in 1994.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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Austrians
Austrians (Österreicher) are the citizens and nationals of Austria.
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Barefoot in the Park is a romantic comedy stage play by Neil Simon.
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BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.
BBC Sunday-Night Play
BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.
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Beckfoot Upper Heaton (formerly Belle Vue Boys' School) is a co-educational secondary school in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
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Belgrade Theatre
The Belgrade Theatre is a live performance venue in Coventry, England.
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Billy Liar
Billy Liar is a 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse that was later adapted into a play, a film, a musical and a TV series.
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Blankety Blank
Blankety Blank is a British comedy game show which first aired in 1979.
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Boomers (TV series)
Boomers is a British television sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC One on 15 August 2014.
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Bradford
Bradford is a city in West Yorkshire, England.
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Bradford Royal Infirmary
Bradford Royal Infirmary is a large teaching hospital in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, and is operated by the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.
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Cambridge Arts Theatre
Cambridge Arts Theatre is a 666-seat theatre on Peas Hill and St Edward's Passage in central Cambridge, England.
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Carry On Behind
Carry On Behind is a 1975 British comedy film, the 27th release in the series of 31 ''Carry On'' films (1958–1992).
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Casualty (TV series)
Casualty (stylised as CASUAL+Y since 1997) is a British medical drama series that is broadcast on BBC One.
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Chips with Everything
Chips with Everything is a 1962 play by Arnold Wesker.
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Comedy Premiere
Comedy Premiere was a British television comedy series which aired in 1975.
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Confessions of a Driving Instructor
Confessions of a Driving Instructor is a 1976 British sex-farce film directed by Norman Cohen and starring Robin Askwith and Anthony Booth.
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Coronation Street
Coronation Street (colloquially referred to as Corrie) is a British television soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
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Countdown (game show)
Countdown is a British game show involving word and mathematical tasks that began airing in November 1982.
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Coventry
Coventry is a cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne.
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Cyprus
Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Dig & Dug with Daisy
Dig & Dug with Daisy is a British stop motion animated television series that was produced in the United Kingdom during 1993 by Dorling Kindersley (publishers of the Eyewitness Books Series).
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Dixon of Dock Green
Dixon of Dock Green is a BBC police procedural television series about daily life at a fictional London police station, with the emphasis on petty crime, successfully controlled through common sense and human understanding.
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Doctor at Large (TV series)
Doctor at Large is a British television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of newly qualified doctors.
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Doctor at the Top
Doctor at the Top is a British television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of doctors.
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Doctor in Charge
Doctor in Charge is a British television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of doctors.
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Doctor in the House (TV series)
Doctor in the House is a British television comedy series based on a set of books and a film of the same name by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of medical students.
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Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.
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Doctors (2000 TV series)
Doctors is a British medical soap opera, first broadcast on BBC One on 26 March 2000.
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Don't Wait Up (TV series)
Don't Wait Up is a British sitcom that was broadcast for six series from 1983 to 1990 on BBC1.
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EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since February 1985.
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Emergency Ward 10
Emergency Ward 10 is a British medical soap opera series shown on ITV between 1957 and 1967.
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Esther Rantzen
Dame Esther Louise Rantzen (born 22 June 1940) is an English journalist and television presenter, who presented the BBC television series That's Life! for 21 years, from 1973 until 1994.
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Executive Stress
Executive Stress is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1986 to 1988.
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Fagin
Fagin is a fictional character and the secondary antagonist in Charles Dickens's 1838 novel Oliver Twist.
French and Saunders
French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comedy duo and namesake Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders that originally broadcast on BBC2 from 1987 to 1993, and later on BBC One until 2017.
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Geoffrey Palmer (actor)
Geoffrey Dyson Palmer (4 June 1927 – 5 November 2020) was an English actor. George Layton and Geoffrey Palmer (actor) are English male radio actors.
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Harry Worth (actor, born 1917)
Harry Bourlon Illingsworth (20 November 1917 – 20 July 1989), professionally known as Harry Worth, was an English comedy actor, comedian and ventriloquist. George Layton and Harry Worth (actor, born 1917) are Male actors from Yorkshire.
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Heartbeat (British TV series)
Heartbeat is a British police procedural period drama series, based upon the Constable series of novels written by Nicholas Rhea, and produced by Yorkshire Television until it was merged by ITV, then by ITV Studios from 1992 until 2010.
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Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (film)
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush is a 1968 British comedy film produced and directed by Clive Donner and starring Barry Evans, Judy Geeson and Angela Scoular.
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Holby City
Holby City (stylised on-screen as HOLBY CIY) is a British medical drama television series that aired weekly on BBC One.
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (musical)
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a 1961 musical by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book of the same name.
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Inside Track
Inside Track was an award winning British property investment information company that went into administration in April 2008 following a sharp downturn in the UK property market.
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It Ain't Half Hot Mum
It Ain't Half Hot Mum is a British television sitcom about a Royal Artillery concert party based in Deolali in British India and the fictional village of Tin Min in Burma, during the final months of the Second World War.
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It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling
It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling was a BBC television situation comedy which ran for a single series of six episodes in November–December 1971, after a pilot in April 1971.
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ITV (TV network)
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.
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ITV Sunday Night Theatre
ITV Sunday Night Theatre, originally titled ITV Saturday Night Theatre and often shortened to simply Sunday Night Theatre or Saturday Night Theatre, is a British television anthology series screened on ITV, whose episodes were contributed by various companies in the ITV network.
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Jerzy Kosiński
Jerzy Kosiński (born Józef Lewinkopf; June 14, 1933May 3, 1991) was a Polish-American writer and two-time president of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English.
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Jonathan Lynn
Jonathan Adam Lynn (born 3 April 1943) is an English stage and film director, producer, writer, and actor.
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Joshua Jones (TV series)
Joshua Jones is a British stop motion children's television series produced by Bumper Films (the company that has also produced Rocky Hollow, Fireman Sam and Starhill Ponies) in 1992.
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Keep It in the Family (1980 TV series)
Keep It in the Family is a British comedy television show that aired for five series between 1980 and 1983.
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Kelly Monteith
Kelly Norton Monteith (October 17, 1942 – January 1, 2023) was an American comedian, actor, writer and producer.
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King's Head Theatre
The King's Head Theatre, founded in 1970 by Dan Crawford, is an off-West End venue in London.
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Len and the River Mob
Len and the River Mob was a ten-part Look and Read serial produced by the BBC in 1968, it was written by Roy Brown.
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Les Dennis
Leslie Dennis Heseltine (born 12 October 1953) is an English television presenter, actor and comedian.
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List of EastEnders characters (2011)
The following are characters who first appeared in the BBC soap opera EastEnders during 2011 listed by order of first appearance.
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London Palladium
The London Palladium is a Grade II* West End theatre located on Argyll Street, London, in Soho.
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MasterChef (British TV series)
MasterChef is a British competitive cooking reality show produced by Endemol Shine UK and Banijay and broadcast in 60 countries around the world.
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Metropolis (British TV series)
Metropolis is an eight-part British television drama series, created and written by playwright Peter Morgan, that first broadcast on ITV on 1 May 2000.
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Minder (TV series)
Minder is a British comedy-drama series about the London criminal underworld.
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More Lies About Jerzy
More Lies About Jerzy is a play written by Davey Holmes, inspired by the last days of the Polish-American novelist, Jerzy Kosiński.
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Mosquito Squadron
Mosquito Squadron is a 1969 British war film made by Oakmont Productions, directed by Boris Sagal and starring David McCallum.
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My Brother's Keeper (TV series)
My Brother's Keeper is a British comedy television series which originally aired on ITV in 1975 and 1976.
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National curriculum
A national curriculum is a common programme of study in schools that is designed to ensure nationwide uniformity of content and standards in education.
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Nearest and Dearest
Nearest and Dearest is a British television sitcom that ran from 1968 to 1973.
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New End Theatre
The New End Theatre, Hampstead, was an 80-seat fringe theatre venue in London, at 27 New End in the London Borough of Camden which operated from 1974 until 2011.
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Nigel Havers
Nigel Allan Havers (born 6 November 1951) is an English actor and presenter.
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Noël Coward Theatre
The Noël Coward Theatre, formerly known as the Albery Theatre, is a West End theatre in St.
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Northern England
Northern England, or the North of England, is a region that forms the northern part of England and mainly corresponds to the historic counties of Cheshire, Cumberland, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire.
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Nottingham
Nottingham (locally) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England.
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Nova (American TV program)
Nova (stylized as NOVΛ) is an American popular science television program produced by WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, since 1974.
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Oliver!
Oliver! is a stage musical, with book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart.
On the Buses
On the Buses is a British television sitcom that was broadcast on ITV from 1969 to 1973.
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Paul Stenning
Paul David Stenning (born 12 June 1976) is an English author and ghostwriter.
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Penelope Keith
Dame Penelope Anne Constance Keith, (née Hatfield; born 2 April 1940) is an English actress and presenter, active in film, radio, stage and television and primarily known for her roles in the British sitcoms The Good Life and To the Manor Born.
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Peter Bowles
Peter John Bowles (16 October 1936 – 17 March 2022) was an English screen and stage actor.
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Pigeon Street
Pigeon Street is a British cutout animated children's television series, written by Michael Cole, originally shown on the BBC in 1981 as part of its 'See-Saw' strand for preschoolers.
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Play of the Week (TV series)
Play of the Week is a 90-minute British television anthology series produced for the ITV network by a variety of companies including Granada Television, Associated-Rediffusion, ATV and Anglia Television.
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Richard Whittington
Richard Whittington (March 1423) of the parish of St Michael Paternoster Royal,Will of Richard Whittington: " I leave to my executors named below the entire tenement in which I live in the parish of St.
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Robin's Nest (TV series)
Robin's Nest is a British sitcom made by Thames Television, which aired on the ITV network for six series from 11 January 1977 to 31 March 1981.
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Romany Jones
Romany Jones is a British sitcom made by London Weekend Television, broadcast between 1972 and 1975, involving the comic misadventures of two layabout families living on a caravan site.
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Roy Hudd
Roy Hudd, OBE (16 May 1936 – 15 March 2020) was an English comedian, actor, presenter, radio host, author and authority on the history of music hall entertainment. George Layton and Roy Hudd are English male radio actors.
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Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, also known by its abbreviation RADA, is a drama school in London, England, which provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio.
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Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers
Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers is a 1977 British film directed by Norman Cohen and starring Robin Askwith and Nigel Davenport.
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Sunburn (TV series)
Sunburn is a British television series that followed the lives of a group of British holiday reps.
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Surrey
Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.
Swizzlewick
Swizzlewick was a twice weekly 1964 BBC comedy drama series about the day-to-day events of a corrupt local council in a fictional Midlands town.
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Tetley
Tetley is an English beverage manufacturer founded in 1837 in Yorkshire.
That's Life!
That's Life! was a satirical consumer affairs programme on the BBC, at its height regularly reaching audiences of fifteen to twenty million, and receiving between 10,000 and 15,000 letters a week.
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The Bill
The Bill is a British police procedural television series, first broadcast on ITV from 16 October 1984 until 31 August 2010.
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Der kaukasische Kreidekreis) is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht.
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The Doctor (Doctor Who)
The Doctor is the protagonist of the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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The Kenny Everett Television Show
The Kenny Everett Television Show is a comedy sketch show broadcast on BBC1 from 24 December 1981 to 18 January 1988.
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The Likely Lads
The Likely Lads is a British sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and produced by Dick Clement.
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The Liver Birds
The Liver Birds is a British sitcom, set in Liverpool, North West England, which aired on BBC1 from April 1969 to December 1978, and again in 1996.
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The Madame Blanc Mysteries
The Madame Blanc Mysteries is a cosy crime comedy drama television series, produced by Saffron Cherry Productions, which is broadcast on Channel 5 and Acorn TV.
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The Root of All Evil? (1968 TV series)
The Root of All Evil? is a British television series which aired from 1968 to 1969.
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The Space Pirates
The Space Pirates is the mostly missing sixth serial of the sixth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from 8 March to 12 April 1969.
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The Sweeney
The Sweeney is a 1970s British television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London.
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The Wednesday Play
The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 for six seasons from October 1964 to May 1970.
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Theatre 625
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968.
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Theatre Royal, Bath
The Theatre Royal in Bath, England, was built in 1805.
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Thirty-Minute Theatre
Thirty-Minute Theatre was a British anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.
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This Is Your Life (British TV series)
This Is Your Life is a British biographical television documentary, based on the 1952 American series.
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Tony Britton
Anthony Edward Lowry Britton (9 June 1924 – 22 December 2019) was an English actor.
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Trevor Hill (producer)
Norman Trevor Hill (28 October 1925 – 29 October 2023) was a British writer, producer and director for the BBC, where his career began in 1942 when he was recruited as the sound effects assistant for It's That Man Again.
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Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season.
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United!
United! is a British television series which was produced by the BBC between 1965 and 1967, and was broadcast twice-weekly on BBC1.
Vicious (TV series)
Vicious is a British television sitcom shown on ITV.
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Vienna
Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.
Violet Carson
Violet Helen Carson, OBE (1 September 1898 – 26 December 1983) was a British actress of radio, stage and television, and a singer and pianist, who had a long and celebrated career as an actress and performer during the early days of BBC Radio, and during the last two decades of her life as the matronly Christian widow, town gossip and elderly battle-axe Ena Sharples in the ITV television soap opera Coronation Street.
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West Riding of Yorkshire
The West Riding of Yorkshire was one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Z-Cars
Z-Cars or Z Cars (pronounced "zed cars") was a British television police procedural series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, near Liverpool.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Layton
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