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Robin's Nest (TV Series)
''Robin's Nest'' is a British sitcom produced by Thames Television that aired on the ITV (TV network), ITV network for six series from 11 January 1977 to 31 March 1981. Richard O'Sullivan reprised the role of Robin Tripp, a lead character from the sitcom ''Man About the House'', which had ended on 7 April 1976. The series costars Tessa Wyatt as Robin's girlfriend and later wife Vicky, and Tony Britton as her father. O'Sullivan and Wyatt were a romantic couple in real life at the time and had a son together. Premise Robin Tripp and Vicky Nicholls are an unmarried couple who share a flat over an abandoned Chinese Take-out, takeaway owned by Vicky's father James. Vicky refuses to wed Robin despite his continuous proposals, as she is averse to marriage after witnessing her parents' contentious marriage and divorce. Robin opens a French bistro called Robin's Nest in the abandoned space, with James as his business partner and landlord. James, who disapproves of Robin and his living ar ...
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Sitcom
A sitcom (short for situation comedy or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy produced for radio and television, that centers on a recurring cast of character (arts), characters as they navigate humorous situations within a consistent setting, such as a home, workplace, or community. Unlike sketch comedy, which features different characters and settings in each Sketch comedy, skit, sitcoms typically maintain plot continuity across episodes. This continuity allows for the development of storylines and characters over time, fostering audience engagement and investment in the characters' lives and relationships. History The structure and concept of a sitcom have roots in earlier forms of comedic theater, such as farces and comedy of manners. These forms relied on running gags to generate humor, but the term ''sitcom'' emerged as radio and TV adapted these principles into a new medium. The word was not commonly used until the 1950s. Early television sitcoms were often filme ...
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The Shadows
The Shadows (originally known as the Drifters between 1958 and 1959) were an English instrumental rock group, who dominated the British popular music charts in the pre-Beatles era from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. They served as the backing band for Cliff Richard from 1958 to 1968, and have joined him for several reunion tours. The Shadows had 69 UK chart singles from the 1950s to the 2000s, 35 as the Shadows and 34 as Cliff Richard and the Shadows, ranging from Pop music, pop, Rock music, rock, surf rock and Sentimental ballad, ballads with a jazz influence. The group, who were in the forefront of the UK beat-group boom, were the first backing band to emerge as stars. As pioneers of the four-member instrumental format, the band consisted of lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar and drums. The Shadows built their signature sound on Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, Fender guitars and Vox (musical equipment), Vox amplifiers, but around 1964, they replaced their F ...
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Dave Freeman (British Writer)
David Freeman (22 August 1922 – 28 March 2005) was a British film and television writer, working chiefly in comedy. He was one of the first generation of writers who established television, taking over from radio, as the most popular medium for comedy. His works were known for their usage of puns and double entendre. During the small screen's Golden Age, he wrote scripts for comedians including Benny Hill, Tony Hancock, Ted Ray, Terry Scott, Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes, Peter Sellers, Charlie Drake, Arthur Askey, Sid James, Leslie Crowther, Roy Hudd, Jimmy Edwards, Tommy Cooper, Harry Worth and Frankie Howerd. Early life Dave Freeman was born in Marylebone, London. He trained as an electrician before joining the Royal Naval Fleet Air Arm at the outbreak of the Second World War. His service with the Pacific fleet took him to Ceylon, India, South Africa, Kenya and finally Australia where he met and married his wife, Alberta. Upon return to England in 1946, he joined the Met ...
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Willis Hall
Willis Edward Hall (6 April 1929 – 7 March 2005) was an English playwright and radio, television and film writer who drew on his working-class roots in Leeds for much of his writing. Willis formed an extremely prolific partnership with his life-long friend Keith Waterhouse producing over 250 works. He wrote plays such as ''Billy Liar'', ''The Long and the Short and the Tall'', and ''Celebration''; the screenplays for ''Whistle Down the Wind'', ''A Kind of Loving'' and Alfred Hitchcock's ''Torn Curtain''; and television programmes including ''Budgie'', ''Worzel Gummidge'' and ''Minder''. His passion for musical theatre led to a string of hits, including ''Wind in the Willows'', ''The Card'', and George Stiles' and Anthony Drewe's '' Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure''. Early life Born in Hunslet, Leeds, Hall was the only son and elder child of Walter Hall, an engineer's fitter, and his wife, Gladys (née Gibbon). He attended local council schools as well as Cockburn ...
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Terence Feely
Terence John Feely (20 July 1928 – 13 August 2000) was a British screenwriter, playwright and author. His work spanned five decades and included creating the ITV police drama series ''The Gentle Touch'' (1980–84) and its spin-off '' C.A.T.S. Eyes'' (1985–87). His theater play script titled “Who Killed Santa Claus” was published by French in 1971. Life and career Feely was born into a middle-class Roman Catholic family of Irish descent in Liverpool. After leaving school, he entered Liverpool's Jesuit College where he studied English and psychology. Upon completion of his university studies, he decided to go into journalism, and got a job with a small local newspaper in Middlesbrough. However, he quickly outgrew the publication, and moved to London where he secured a position in the faster-paced world of Fleet Street, joining the editorial staff of the '' Sunday Graphic''. Around this time he began to write submissions for film scripts; film director Alfred Hitchco ...
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Terence Brady (writer)
Terence Joseph Brady (13 March 1939 – 29 September 2016) was an Irish actor and writer. He was married to fellow writer Charlotte Bingham, with whom he collaborated on several television series. Brady was born in London to Irish parents, and went to Trinity College, Dublin, where he acted in student productions. He relocated to London in 1961, where he appeared in ''Beyond the Fringe'' and met Bingham. They were married in 1964 and had two children, Matthew and Candida. Together, Brady and Bingham wrote for television series such as '' Upstairs, Downstairs'', '' Yes, Honestly'', '' No, Honestly'' and ''Pig in the Middle'', and adapted Jilly Cooper's book '' Riders'' for the miniseries '' Riders'' (1993). As an actor, Brady appeared in TV programmes including ''Nanny'', ''Three Rousing Tinkles'', '' Mrs Thursday,'' and ''Z-Cars''. As well as being an amateur musician, Brady had an interest in breeding racehorses and wrote a cookery column for the ''Daily Mail The ...
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Charlotte Bingham
The Hon. Charlotte Bingham (born 29 June 1942) is an English novelist who has written over 30 mainly historical romance novels and has also written for many television programmes including '' Upstairs, Downstairs''; ''Play for Today''; and '' Robin's Nest''. In her television work, she often worked with her husband, Terence Brady. Biography Early life The Honourable Charlotte Mary Thérèse Bingham was born on 29 June 1942 in Haywards Heath, Sussex. Her father, John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris, wrote detective stories and was a secret member of MI5. Her mother, Madeleine Bingham, née Madeleine Mary Ebel, was a playwright and biographer. Bingham first attended a school in London, but from the age of seven to 16, she went to the Priory of Our Lady's Good Counsel school in Haywards Heath. After she left school, Bingham went to stay in Paris with some French aristocrats with the intention of learning French. She had written since she was 10 years old and her first piece of w ...
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Bernard McKenna (writer)
Bernard McKenna (born 1944) is a Scottish writer/producer who has written, or co-written, many hours of British television comedy. He is most known for his work with Graham Chapman of ''Monty Python'' fame as well as his collaborations with Peter Cook and Douglas Adams. He has occasionally worked as an actor, and had several roles in ''Monty Python's Life of Brian''. McKenna previously taught creative writing, screenwriting and comedy at the University of Winchester. Writing His writing work includes: *''Doctor in the House'' (1969–1977) *'' Doctor Down Under'' (1979) *'' The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs'' (1974) *'' Out of the Trees'' (1975) *'' Robin's Nest'' (1977–1981) *'' The Odd Job'' (1978) *'' Shelley'' (1979–1992) *'' Peter Cook & Co'' (1980) *''Yellowbeard'' (1983) *''Me and My Girl'' (1984–1988) *'' Brotherly Love'' (1999) *''Bad Boys'' *'' Pilgrim's Rest'' Production His production work includes: *'' The New Statesman'' (1987–1994) *''Get Back'' (1992 ...
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Leslie Sands
Leslie Sands (19 May 1921 – 9 May 2001) was a British actor and writer of TV and film. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Leslie Sands usually specialised in dour types in authority, often policemen. He was married to Pauline Williams (1950 – 9 May 2001, his death). Career According to the obituary published in The Guardian, 'From school in Bradford, he went to Leeds University to read English, ndcaught the acting bug in student productions' In 1941, Sands had his theatrical debut at the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and appeared in several Royal National Theatre productions, among others. His many TV roles included the lead character role of '' Cluff'', '' The Saint'', '' The Avengers'', ''Z-Cars'' (for which he wrote several episodes), ''The Main Chance'', '' Department S'', ''Juliet Bravo'', ''The Two Ronnies'', '' Murder Most English'', '' Boon'' and '' Stay Lucky''. The first TV adaptation of Johnny Speight's ''If There ...
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David Lodge (actor)
David William Frederick Lodge (19 August 1921 – 18 October 2003) was an English actor. Career During the Second World War, Lodge served in the RAF. Before turning to acting he worked as a circus clown. He also appeared in Gang Shows and variety before making his screen debut in ''The Cockleshell Heroes'' and going on to feature in many British films usually portraying military types, and often comedic roles. Lodge was a close friend of Peter Sellers and appeared as part of Spike Milligan's team on his '' Q'' programmes (a running gag being that in each episode he or Spike would mention his role in ''The Cockleshell Heroes''). Lodge was very prolific during the 1950s and in 1958 alone he appeared in ten films. In 1967 Lodge was in '' The Avengers'' episode entitled ("Epic") in which he played the actor policeman killed by Peter Wyngarde. He appeared in a 1969 episode of '' Randall and Hopkirk Deceased'' (" Who Killed Cock Robin?"), and continuing with his military-type ...
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Paula Wilcox
Paula Wilcox (born 13 December 1949) is an English actress. She played Chrissy Plummer in the ITV sitcom '' Man About The House'' from 1973 to 1976, and also had roles in TV shows such as '' The Lovers'', '' Miss Jones and Son'', '' The Queen’s Nose'', '' The Smoking Room'', ''Emmerdale'', '' Mount Pleasant'', '' Boomers'', '' Upstart Crow'' and '' Girlfriends''. From 2020 to 2023, Wilcox appeared as Elaine Jones in ''Coronation Street''. Early life Wilcox was born in Manchester on 13 December 1949 to Joseph and Mary Wilcox. Career Wilcox joined the National Youth Theatre aged seventeen. She was offered her first starring television role in ''The Lovers '', a Granada sitcom produced for the ITV network, largely written by Jack Rosenthal and co-starring Richard Beckinsale. There were two series of ''The Lovers'', plus a feature film. She appeared in an episode of ''The Benny Hill Show'' (Thames) broadcast on 23 February 1972. Wilcox was cast in one of the lead roles of ''M ...
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Norman Eshley
Norman Eshley (born 30 May 1945) is an English actor best known for his television roles. Biography Eshley attended Bristol Grammar School and worked in a bank, before training as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He played many Shakespearean roles on stage. His first screen role was in the 1968 film ''The Immortal Story'', directed by Orson Welles. He played a lead character, Steve, in '' Blind Terror'' (1971) and appeared in the Pete Walker horror film '' House of Mortal Sin'' in 1975. In 1969, Eshley appeared alongside Dudley Sutton in two very similar villainous roles: in the '' Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)'' episode "Could You Recognise the Man Again?", and in the '' Department S'' episode, "Handicap Dead". However, he is possibly best known for his role in the sitcom '' George and Mildred'' (1976–79) as the snobbish, right-wing estate agent Jeffrey Fourmile, the foil to George. In the show's direct predecessor, ''Man About the House'', (1973–76) he had ...
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