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Dark Towers
Dark Towers is a 1981 educational production by the BBC in the ''Look and Read'' series. The series remains highly popular in primary schools to this day. Parts of the film were shot at Sutton Court, Somerset. The show involves two main characters; Tracy and Edward. They go about their mission to stop a group, led by Miss Hawk, from stealing the treasures of Dark Towers. Cast * Juliet Waley as Tracey Brown * Gary Russell as Lord Edward Dark * David Collings as Lord Dark / The Friendly Ghost * Christopher Biggins as Benger * Harry Jones as Bunce * Juliet Hammond (credited as Juliet Hammond-Hill) as Miss Hawk * Peter Mayhew Peter William Mayhew (19 May 1944 – 30 April 2019) was a British-American actor. He was best known for portraying Chewbacca in the ''Star Wars'' film series. He played the character in all of his live-action appearances from the 1977 origin ... as The Tall Knight Episodes Part One (Dark Towers in Danger!): A loner named Tracey Brown and her d ...
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David Enrich
David Jules Enrich (born July 3, 1979) is an American journalist and non-fiction author. He is currently financial editor at ''The New York Times'' and was previously financial enterprise editor at ''The Wall Street Journal''. Education Enrich received his bachelor's degree in 2001 from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. While in college, Enrich co-founded claremontmckenna.com, the first online newspaper at the five Claremont Colleges. He also founded and directed Citizens for True Democracy, a Southern California grassroots organization that proposes replacing the Electoral College with direct voting. Career Enrich worked as an intern at ''The Nation'' in the summer of 2000 and at '' U.S. News & World Report'' in 2001. He was a reporter for States News Service in Washington, D.C. He was a reporter with ''Dow Jones Newswire'' for several years. He served as a Washington correspondent covering Congress, the White House and federal regulatory agencies for sever ...
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Juliet Waley
Juliet Capulet () is the female protagonist in William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy ''Romeo and Juliet''. A 13-year-old girl, Juliet is the only daughter of the patriarch of the House of Capulet. She falls in love with the male protagonist Romeo, a member of the House of Montague, with which the Capulets have a blood feud. The story has a long history that precedes Shakespeare himself. Juliet's age As the story occurs, Juliet is approaching her fourteenth birthday. She was born on "Lammas Eve at night" (1 August), so Juliet's birthday is 31 July (1.3.19). Her birthday is "a fortnight hence", putting the action of the play in mid-July (1.3.17). Her father states that she "hath not seen the change of fourteen years" (1.2.9). In many cultures and time periods, women married and had children at a young age. Lady Capulet had given birth to her first child by the time she had reached Juliet's age: "By my count, I was your mother much upon these years that you are now a maid." ( ...
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British Television Shows For Schools
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ...
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BBC Children's Television Shows
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1980s British Children's Television Series
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. ...
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1981 British Television Series Endings
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1981 British Television Series Debuts
Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments. * January 15 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation led by Polish Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa at the Vatican. * January 20 – Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days, minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th President of the United States, ending the Iran hostage crisis. * January 21 – The first DeLorean automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. * January 24 – An earthquake of magnitude in Sichuan, China, kills 150 people. Japan suffers a less serious earthquake on the same day. * January 25 – In South Africa the largest part of the town Laingsburg ...
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Peter Mayhew (actor)
Peter William Mayhew (19 May 1944 – 30 April 2019) was a British-American actor. He was best known for portraying Chewbacca in the '' Star Wars'' film series. He played the character in all of his live-action appearances from the 1977 original to 2015's ''The Force Awakens'' before his retirement from the role. Early life Peter Mayhew was born on 19 May 1944, in Barnes, Surrey. At the age of 8, he was diagnosed with gigantism. Some news outlets have mistakenly reported that he either " idnot have gigantism" or that he had Marfan syndrome. His peak height was . Career Early work Mayhew gained his first acting job when the producers of ''Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger'' (1977) discovered him from a photograph in a newspaper article about men with large feet, and cast him in the role of the Minoton. ''Star Wars'' When casting the original '' Star Wars'' (1977), director George Lucas needed a tall actor who could fit the role of the hairy alien Chewbacca. He originall ...
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Juliet Hammond-Hill
Juliet Hammond-Hill (born 13 November 1953) is an English actress, best known for her role in the television series '' Secret Army'' (1977–1979). She is also known as Juliet Hammond. Early life Hammond-Hill was born in St Pancras, London, the daughter of Peter Hammond Hill, an actor, and Maureen Glynne-West, who had married at Westminster in 1948. She was the eldest in a family of five, with a sister and three brothers. She trained as an actress at the Webber Douglas Academy and later gained a Post-Graduate Certificate of Education in the performing arts from the University of Greenwich. Career Hammond-Hill came to national attention in 1977 as Natalie Chantrens in the BBC television drama series '' Secret Army'' (1977–1979), with a central role in all three years of the programme. In 1980, she played Madeline Bray and other parts in the first Royal Shakespeare Company production of ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'', staged at the Aldwych Theatre. Several n ...
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Harry Jones (actor)
Harry Jones may refer to: Sports Association football (soccer) *Harry Jones (footballer, born 1891) (1891–1947), English international football player *Harry Jones (footballer, born 1911) (1911–1957), English football player * Harry Jones (Welsh footballer) (fl. 1911–1915), Welsh football player for Port Vale Rugby union *Harry Jones (rugby union, born 1878) (1878–1930), Welsh international rugby union player *Harry Jones (rugby union, born 1989), Canadian international rugby union player * Harry Jones (rugby union, born 1992), New Zealand rugby union player for Waikato * Harry Jones (rugby union, born 1995), Australian professional rugby union player for the New South Wales Waratahs Other sports *Harry Jones (American football) (born 1945), American football player who played for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1967 to 1970 * Harry Jones (Australian footballer, born 1911) (1911–1997), Australian rules football player for Collingwood *Harry Jones (footballer, born 199 ...
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Sutton Court
Sutton Court is an English house remodelled by Thomas Henry Wyatt in the 1850s from a manor house built in the 15th and 16th centuries around a 14th-century fortified pele tower and surrounding buildings. The house has been designated as Grade II* listed building. The house is at Stowey in the Chew Valley in an area of Somerset now part of Bath and North East Somerset and near to the village of Bishop Sutton. The house is surrounded by an extensive estate laid out as a ''ferme ornée'', part of which is now the Folly Farm nature reserve. The estate is boarded by the villages of Chew Magna to the north, Cholwell to the south, Clutton to the east and the reservoir Chew Valley Lake to the west. Since the early modern period the house has been the country seat of several prominent families including the St Loes, one of whom married Bess of Hardwick. They lived at Sutton Court and expanded the property in the second half of the 16th century. Throughout the 18th and 19th cent ...
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Deutsch or Deutsche may refer to: *''Deutsch'' or ''(das) Deutsche'': the German language, in Germany and other places *''Deutsche'': Germans, as a weak masculine, feminine or plural demonym *Deutsch (word), originally referring to the Germanic vernaculars of the Early Middle Ages Businesses and organisations *André Deutsch, an imprint of Carlton Publishing Group *Deutsch Inc., a former American advertising agency that split in 2020 into: **Deutsch NY, a New York City-based advertising agency * d Age, June 13 ..., a New York City-based advertising agency *Deutsche Aerospace AG *Deutsche Akademie">Deutsche Aerospace AG">d Age, June 13 ..., a New York City-based advertising agency *Deutsche Aerospace AG *Deutsche Akademie, a cultural organisation, superseded by the Goethe-Institut *Deutsche Bahn, the German railway service *Deutsche Bank *Deutsche Börse, a German stock exchange *Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft, the German Geophysical Society *Deutsche Grammophon, a Germa ...
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