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Hancock's Half Hour (BBC, 1956-1960, 58 episodes) |
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 Loser
Tony lives at 23, Railway Cuttings and has his aspirations continually thwarted
by fate, his own pride, or neighbour Sid James. The show was adapted from
Hancock's earlier radio series of the same name.
Writers: Ray Galton/Alan Simpson |
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Happy Ever After/Terry and June (BBC, 1974-1987, 107 episodes) |
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 Terry Scott and June Whitfield starred as the middle-aged suburban husband-and-wife team coming to terms with life after the children have left home. Beryl Cooke (as lodger Aunt Lucy) was a feature of the earlier episodes.
Principal writers: John Chapman/Eric Merriman/John Kane |
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Hi-De-Hi! (BBC, 1980-1988, 58 episodes) |
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entertainers - or Yellowcoats - at Maplins Holiday Camp, in the late 1950s,
formed the core of this show. Bluff, ale-guzzling comic Ted Bovis (Paul Shane),
milksop camp boss Jeffrey Fairbrother (Simon Cadell), and shrill Welsh head
Yellowcoat Gladys Pugh (Ruth Madoc) were key characters.
Writers: Jimmy Perry/David Croft |
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Hot Metal (ITV, 1986-1988, 13 episodes) |
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 An over-the-top spoof on tabloid Fleet Street journalism, in which media baron Twiggy Rathbone (Robert Hardy) reinvents his failing newspaper as a tits'n'bums rag, staffed by journalists with dubious working practices and bizarre story ideas.
Writers: Andrew Marshall/David Renwick |
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