• It Sticks Out Half a Mile is a British radio sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC Radio 2 from 1983 to 1984. Starring John Le Mesurier, Ian Lavender...
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  • series It Sticks Out Half a Mile, which ran from 1983 to 1984. Bill Pertwee was offered the role of Hodges in the summer of 1968, when he received a phone...
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    Dad's Army and writing with Snoad the Dad's Army spinoff series It Sticks Out Half a Mile for radio, which became the television series High and Dry. Knowles...
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  • series from 1985 to 1998. She also starred in the radio sitcom It Sticks Out Half a Mile as Miss Perkins, and in eleven episodes of The Dick Emery Show...
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  • 1977, and the radio adaptations, as well as the radio sequel It Sticks Out Half a Mile, set after the war. Pertwee was president of the Dad's Army Appreciation...
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    also had a successful writing career with his writing partner Michael Knowles, writing the Dad's Army radio spinoff, It Sticks Out Half a Mile which evolved...
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    comedy Parsley Sidings. He was in a BBC radio comedy series, a spin-off from Dad's Army called It Sticks Out Half a Mile. Lavender also appeared in films...
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  • archive station BBC Radio 4 Extra along with its radio-only sequel It Sticks Out Half a Mile. Although most of the television episodes were adapted to radio...
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  • as Miss Baxter. It was an attempt to adapt the radio series It Sticks Out Half a Mile for television, but the BBC did not commission a series. Writers...
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  • light out!". He often calls the platoon "Ruddy hooligans!". The character of Hodges would later appear in the radio series It Sticks Out Half a Mile. Reverend...
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  • reprised his role as Captain Mainwaring for the pilot episode of It Sticks Out Half a Mile, a radio sequel to Dad's Army. At Christmas that year he and Joan...
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    Dates with Barker, Coppers End (1971), and 1977's Odd Man Out with John Inman playing his half-sibling. She co-starred in No Appointment Necessary with...
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    Town Council in the pilot episode of It Sticks Out Half a Mile, the radio sequel to Dad's Army, and in 1982–84 he was a regular as Major Dyrenforth in the...
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  • World War. In a radio sequel to Dad's Army, It Sticks Out Half a Mile, which is set in 1948 (three years after the Second World War ended), it is revealed...
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  • also revealed in the radio series (and sequel to Dad's Army) It Sticks Out Half a Mile where Mainwaring meets Wilson in the branch at Frambourne, where...
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  • divorced from his wife, meaning a marriage to Mrs Pike would be bigamous. In the post-war radio sequel It Sticks Out Half a Mile, Wilson claims to be 54 years...
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  • ("A Murder Play") was produced in Leeds in 1964. He played Inspector Cullen. He described the play as a "comedy who-dun-it" and said that he wrote it "because...
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    opened in the year he died, 1884. In the BBC Radio 2 sitcom It Sticks Out Half a Mile (the radio sequel to Dad's Army), Birch is the builder of the...
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  • Hancock's Half Hour Hello, Cheeky! The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again It Sticks Out Half a Mile It's...
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  • and It Sticks Out Half a Mile Gilbert Pike, husband of legendary Newfoundland colonial settler Sheila NaGeira Joe Pike, Elvis Cole's partner in a series...
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  • Snoad and Knowles, of the television series of Dad's Army It Sticks Out Half a Mile, a radio sitcom by Snoad and Knowles that ran from 1983 to 1984 Arnold...
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  • John Le Mesurier (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    In 1982 Le Mesurier reprised the role of Arthur Wilson for It Sticks Out Half a Mile, a radio sequel to Dad's Army, in which Wilson had become the bank...
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  • Red Sticks (also Redsticks, Batons Rouges, or Red Clubs)—the name deriving from the red-painted war clubs of some Native American Creek—refers to an early...
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  • John Le Mesurier on stage, radio, screen and record (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    BBC Home Service in a March 1947 broadcast of Escape or Die. He continued working in television roles throughout his career, but it was his portrayal in...
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  • London–1973. Miles Booy, Love and Monsters: The Doctor Who Experience, 1979 to the Present (2012), p. 155, ISBN 184885479X: "If treating the programme as a multimedia...
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  • 18½ (redirect from 18 and a Half)
    a film that sticks in the mind after you've watched it. Every choice is made with confidence, but from an intuitive place, like decisions made by a lucid...
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  • which case the Para-sticks would be dropped a mile or so away to be picked up and repositioned by the G-Cars. Usually, the Para-sticks were dropped as close...
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    *Hiltbrand, David (November 24, 2013). "Lauren Cohan of 'Walking Dead' sticks it to zombies". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved September 29, 2014....
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    engagements of the war involved the United States military and the Red Sticks (or Upper Creeks), a Muscogee tribal faction who resisted U.S. territorial expansion...
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  • affected the accuracy of the drops, including a solid cloud bank over the entire western half of the 22-mile (35 km) wide peninsula at penetration altitude...
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