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    (Decca DFE 6557) (1959): "Abdul Abulbul Amir" / "Get Away Old Man, Get Away" / "Granny's Old Armchair" / "Donald The Dub (The Dirty Little Pill)" The Psychological...
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  • Armchair Theatre is an anthology series of one-off plays that aired on the ITV network between 1956 and 1974. A total of 426 episodes were produced over...
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  • abridged version of a children's novel or folk tale whilst seated in an armchair. A single book would usually occupy five daily fifteen-minute episodes...
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    Jeanne Calment (category Old age record holders)
    why she was the only one to be still alive in her family. Seated on her armchair, she did gymnastics wearing her stereo headset. Her exercises included...
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  • Doctor Who story "Paradise Towers", Bea in the rag trade drama Connie and Granny Grogan in The Riff Raff Element. Among her film roles were Peeping Tom,...
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  • (1964), Press for Time (1966) and Mary, Queen of Scots (1971). She plays Granny Pig in the children's animated series Peppa Pig (2004–present). White continues...
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  • Jane Lapotaire (category Alumni of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School)
    of two months, she was raised as a foster child by an old-age pensioner, Grace Chisnell (Granny Grace), who was also the foster mother of Lapotaire's...
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  • looking forward to the Eurovision Song Contest, son?" and he replies with "Granny's pubes, y'whore!". This comic actually predates Viz, featuring in some of...
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  • witch ladder found was in an old house in Wellington, Somerset which was demolished in 1878. Six brooms, an old armchair and a ‘rope with feathers woven...
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    television, and film. Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years, she played in several of Shakespeare's...
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  • Lady Clarke Jackanory (1977) - Storyteller Target (1977) - Susan De Veer Armchair Thriller (1978) - Mrs. Franklyn Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt (1978) - Mrs...
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    Hancock and Ivy Louise (née Woodward). Her sister Billie was seven years older. After Enrico and Ivy left the hospitality industry in 1938, the Hancocks...
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  • Doomwatch, Edna, the Inebriate Woman, Upstairs, Downstairs, I, Claudius, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Pickwick Papers, Lillie, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit...
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  • Bernard and Hilda (née Greenberg), who ran a hotel. When she was six weeks old, her parents moved back to Britain, but they returned to South Africa four...
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  • No Smoke Without Fire Part 1) as Nellie Kent - 1973 Armchair 30 (episode: Ross Evan's Story) as Old Lady - 1973 Follyfoot (episode: The Distant Voice)...
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  • Enemy at the Door Feldwebel Fellner Episode: "From a View to a Death" Armchair Theatre Ollie Milton Episode: "The Circe Complex" Minder Chef Episode:...
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    Obituary". BBC News. Retrieved 30 December 2018. White, Leonard (2003). Armchair Theatre: The Lost Years. Kelly Publications. p. 293. ISBN 9781903053188...
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    of Praise on the BBC. Her work for charity and on television in spite of old age and ill health made her an institution. Her advertisements for Churchill...
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  • tormenting) him. Grandad has long white hair and is most often seen in his armchair, sleeping. In World War II he was part of the bomb squad. His wife's name...
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  • of" anthology shows; other examples included Play for Today, Beasts and Armchair Thriller. More recently, anthologies have become less popular with television...
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  • the old boy sitting in his favourite armchair beside the gas fire (which isn't on) – and he's very nearly dead.... By the end of the episode the old boy...
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    of marriage, Greer wrote that she had spent their wedding night in an armchair, because her husband, drunk, would not allow her in bed. Eventually, during...
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    America awards, selecting his ten favorite mystery novels for the magazine Armchair Detective, picked The Player on the Other Side as one of them. He said:...
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  • told stories of prehistory. (Named as a pun after Rock Hudson, the actor.) Granny TV, a rocking antique television set who presented classic film comedies...
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    Island of Stroma (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    as if only recently abandoned: iron bedsteads with mattresses, tables, armchairs, cupboards full of boots and bottles, everything arranged with the same...
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    give away!". Daily Mirror. 19 May 2009. "Stephanie Beacham: I may be a granny but I still feel fabulous". Daily Mirror. 18 May 2009. Kerr, Alison (14...
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  • Chris Savino, with him co-directing with Kyle Marshall on the episodes "The Old and the Restless" (#202B), "Vantastic Voyage" (#205B), and "Patching Things...
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  • Damien (29 May 2016). "Richard Jones – new Britain's Got Talent winner, old tricks?". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 July 2017. "Top Gear returns to BBC Two...
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