Of Funerals and Fish, the Glossary
"Of Funerals and Fish" is the pilot episode of the world's longest-running television sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine (1973–2010), written by Roy Clarke.[1]
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15 relations: Bill Owen (actor), Blake Butler, British Comedy Guide, Comedy Playhouse, James Gilbert (producer), Kathy Staff, Last of the Summer Wine, Michael Bates (actor), Peter Sallis, Ronnie Hazlehurst, Rosemary Martin, Roy Clarke, Sitcom, Television, Television pilot.
- 1970s British television series premieres
- 1973 British television episodes
- Comedy television episode stubs
- Last of the Summer Wine
Bill Owen (actor)
William John Owen Rowbotham, (14 March 1914 – 12 July 1999) was an English actor and songwriter.
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Blake Butler
John David Blake Butler (22 October 1924 – 15 April 1981) was an English actor best known for his role as the lecherous chief librarian Mr.
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British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide or BCG (formerly the British Sitcom Guide or BSG) is a British website covering British comedies.
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Comedy Playhouse
Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 128 episodes from 1961 to 1975.
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James Gilbert (producer)
Cecil James Gilbert (15 May 1923 – 7 July 2016) was a Scottish television producer, director and executive for the BBC, who was its head of comedy from 1973 to 1977 and head of light entertainment from 1977 to 1982.
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Kathy Staff
Kathy Staff (born Minnie Higginbottom; 12 July 1928 – 13 December 2008) was an English actress known for her work on British television.
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Last of the Summer Wine
Last of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom set in Yorkshire created and written by Roy Clarke and originally broadcast by the BBC from 1973 to 2010.
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Michael Bates (actor)
Michael Hammond Bates (4 December 1920 – 11 January 1978) was a British actor born in India.
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Peter Sallis
Peter John Sallis (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) was an English actor, known for his work on British television.
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Ronnie Hazlehurst
Ronald Hazlehurst (13 March 1928 – 1 October 2007) was an English composer and conductor who, having joined the BBC in 1961, became its Light Entertainment Musical Director.
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Rosemary Martin
Rosemary Martin (17 December 1936 – 14 August 1998) was an English actress, born in Birmingham.
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Roy Clarke
Royston Clarke (born 28 January 1930) is an English comedy writer best known for creating the sitcoms Last of the Summer Wine, Keeping Up Appearances, Open All Hours and its sequel series, Still Open All Hours.
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Sitcom
A sitcom (a shortening of situation comedy, or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy centred on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode.
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound.
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Television pilot
A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie) in United Kingdom and United States television, is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distributor.
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See also
1970s British television series premieres
- A Touch of Murder
- Breakaway (Space: 1999)
- Identified (UFO)
- Of Funerals and Fish
- Prisoner and Escort
1973 British television episodes
- A Change of Scene
- A Family Gathering
- A Family Secret (Upstairs, Downstairs)
- A House Divided (Upstairs, Downstairs)
- Carnival of Monsters
- Catholics (ITV Sunday Night Theatre)
- Desirous of Change
- Goodwill to All Men
- Hard Labour (Play for Today)
- Long Day's Journey into Night (ITV Sunday Night Theatre)
- Miss Forrest
- My British Buddy
- Of Funerals and Fish
- Prisoner and Escort
- Rose's Pigeon
- That Old Black Magic (The Goodies)
- The Bolter
- The Deadly Attachment
- The Death of Adolf Hitler (ITV Sunday Night Theatre)
- The Goodies and the Beanstalk
- The Green Death
- The Honourable Man
- The Operation (Play for Today)
- The Recruit (Dad's Army)
- The Royal Train
- The Three Doctors (Doctor Who)
- The Time Warrior
- The Wages of Sin (Upstairs, Downstairs)
- Things That Go Bump in the Night (Dad's Army)
- We Know Our Onions
- What the Footman Saw
- Word of Honour (Upstairs, Downstairs)
Comedy television episode stubs
- Action Family
- Aunt Dahlia, Cornelia and Madeline
- Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room
- Carry On, Hawkeye
- Fish Licence
- For the Good of the Outfit
- Frog Baseball
- Honoria Glossop Turns Up
- Introduction on Broadway
- Jeeves' Arrival
- Let's Join Joanie
- List of The Nation episodes
- Lucy Goes to the Hospital
- Maggie: It's Me
- Meet the Woggels!
- Music Hall Meltdown
- Of Funerals and Fish
- Pilot (Life on a Stick)
- Return to New York (Jeeves and Wooster)
- Saturday Live Again!
- Shangri-La Plaza (TV pilot)
- Something's Up There
- The Daily Show: Indecision 2004
- The First Store
- The Hunger Strike (Jeeves and Wooster)
- The Incredible Jewel Robbery
- The Keys (Seinfeld)
- The Masseuse (Seinfeld)
- The Nanny Reunion: A Nosh to Remember
- The Nose Job
- The One in Barbados
- The Pez Dispenser
- The Purity of the Turf
- The Shower Principle
- The Sniper (M*A*S*H)
- The Ticket (Seinfeld)
- The Wallet
- The Watch (Seinfeld)
- Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber
- Tuppy and the Terrier
- Will Anatole Return to Brinkley Court?
- Young at Heart (1980 TV series)
Last of the Summer Wine
- Compo Simmonite
- First of the Summer Wine
- Last of the Summer Wine
- List of Last of the Summer Wine characters
- List of Last of the Summer Wine episodes
- Nora Batty
- Norman Clegg
- Of Funerals and Fish
- The Funny Side of Christmas
- There Goes the Groom