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    The Woodentops are a British rock band that enjoyed critical acclaim and moderate popularity in the mid-1980s. The band formed in 1983 in South London...
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  • up woodentop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Woodentop may refer to: The Woodentops (TV series), a 1950s BBC children's series The Woodentops, a British...
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  • The Woodentops is a children's television series first shown on BBC Television in 1955. Created by Freda Lingstrom and Maria Bird, it featured on the...
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    policemen who traditionally wear helmets; the nickname is itself an allusion to the Children's TV series The Woodentops. The episode documents PC Jim Carver's...
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  • strings Cleary, David. "Giant – The Woodentops". AllMusic. Retrieved 12 February 2018. Considine, J. D. (1992). "Woodentops". In DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke...
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  • Pete de Freitas (category Echo & the Bunnymen members)
    founding members of the band The Heart Throbs. His brother Frank is the bass player of the Woodentops. 27 Club The Colourfield The Wild Swans Bourke, Fionnuala...
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  • Bobtail that September. The "classic" cycle of shows was in place by September 1955, with the first showing of The Woodentops. Broadcast at 1:30 pm each...
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  • wanted to replicate the "Day in the Life" feature of Woodentop and made sure a police officer was featured in every single scene. The series later adopted...
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  • Good Thing (redirect from The Good Thing)
    Ribbons "Good Thing", by Sam Smith from In the Lonely Hour "Good Thing", by The Woodentops from Giant (The Woodentops album) "Good Thing", by Jolin Tsai from...
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  • "Smithy", also appeared in the series finale. The character of D.I. Roy Galloway appeared in the pilot episode, "Woodentop", aired on 16 August 1983,...
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  • Foot Cops on the Highway is the second studio album by English rock band The Woodentops, released in 1988 by record label Rough Trade. The album reached...
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  • Peter Dean (actor) (category Actors from the London Borough of Hackney)
    Street and Sergeant Jack Wilding in Woodentop. Dean was born in Hoxton, East London, and was an acquaintance of the Kray twins while he was growing up...
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    Ultramarine Taken by Trees The Virgin Prunes The Veils Venom Vomit Launch Warpaint Weekend Lucinda Williams Victoria Williams The Woodentops Robert Wyatt Young...
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    Dukkha in the 1982 Doctor Who story Kinda. He played a police constable in Hi-de-Hi! in 1983, the same year "Woodentop" (the pilot episode of The Bill) aired...
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  • Gary Olsen (category Actors from the City of Westminster)
    Litten in 12 episodes of The Bill between 1984 and 1986 (as well as the 1983 pilot episode, Woodentop). Olsen also starred in the 1986 TV series Prospects...
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  • Wolff The Wombats The Woodentops Woods The Woodsheep Hawksley Workman The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die World Party The Wrens...
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    contemporary British culture, the festival is inspired by the ethos of the hippie, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the free festival movement. Vestiges...
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  • Jim Carver, who were the protagonists of the pilot Woodentop, married after being close friends for the entirety of their time at Sun Hill together. A second...
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    company Westerham Arts which was commissioned by the BBC to create The Woodentops, Andy Pandy and the Flower Pot Men. During a January 1967 visit to Knole...
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  • drummer's job in the Specials but turned it down. Shelton went on to manage other rock bands and musicians including the Woodentops, Tackhead, Adrian...
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  • released on 21 November 2009. The song was shown for the first time on Children in Need 2009. The cover art is a parody of the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely...
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    England. It was first held in 1970 and has been held in the majority of years since then in the summer. Its line-up is diverse, including music, comedy...
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  • aired on 31 August 2010 – 15 days after the 27th anniversary of the pilot episode of The Bill, Woodentop. The long-running police drama aired 2,425 episodes...
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  • Balearic beat (category Music of the Balearic Islands)
    the indie hypno grooves of the Woodentops, the mystic rock of the Waterboys, early house, Europop and oddities from the likes of Peter Gabriel and Chris...
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  • Wonder Showzen The Wonderful World of Disney The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse Wonder Woman The Wonder Years The Woodentops (UK) The Woodlanders Work...
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  • Jim Carver in "Woodentop", which became the pilot episode for The Bill. He was one of four actors in "Woodentop" who returned in the series' first complete...
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  • work as a puppeteer in such series as Flower Pot Men (1952–54), and The Woodentops (1955–58). In around 1956, after separating from her husband, Audrey...
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  • album), 1971 The Giant (Dizzy Gillespie album), 1973 The Giants (album), by Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, and Ray Brown, 1974 Giant (The Woodentops album), 1986...
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  • Members of the Wild Swans have also been members of Echo & the Bunnymen, the Icicle Works, the Woodentops, the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Lightning...
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  • narrated by Maria Bird who also narrated the black & white 1950s original broadcasts of Flower Pot Men, The Woodentops and Bizzy Lizzie.[citation needed] Initially...
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