The Strange World of Gurney Slade is a surreal six-part British television comedy series devised by Anthony Newley and made by ATV, first transmitted...
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Anthony Newley (category Alumni of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts)
by Lionel Bart). The ATV series The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960) starred Newley, who was also its creator. A comedy series of six half-hour programmes...
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in the area Gurney Slade (writer), the pen name of the children's writer Stephen Bartlett (1886–1956) The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960), a British...
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Anneke Wills (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
working on the TV series The Strange World of Gurney Slade. Newley fathered Wills's first child, Polly, but left her to marry Joan Collins. During the 1960s...
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Porridge (1974 TV series) (redirect from HMP Slade)
Harris, who had also written the theme music for numerous other TV shows, including The Strange World of Gurney Slade, The Gold Robbers and Doomwatch,...
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Geoffrey Palmer (actor) (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
Problems: The Case of the Missing Meerschaum as Mortimer Tregennis (2011) The Army Game (1958–1960) as Various Characters The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960)...
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French", at the Prince of Wales Theatre, alongside Frankie Howerd and the pianist Winifred Atwell. She first appeared on television as one of the Dougie Squires...
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Julie Alexander (category Actors from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham)
Week (1958), Mary in Tell It to the Marines (1959), Play Your Hunch as herself (1961), The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960), Dahlia MacNamara in William...
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wrote the six-part surreal comedy series The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960). In 1961 they wrote the ITV sitcom Winning Widows for Peggy Mount. The partnership...
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Vision On (category Deaf culture in the United Kingdom)
used "Gurney Slade" by Max Harris (the theme music from the TV series The Strange World of Gurney Slade) and "Keystone Capers" by Eric Peters. "The Digger"...
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Ashwick (redirect from Gurney Slade (place))
short-lived 1960 ATV series The Strange World of Gurney Slade continues to have a cult following owing to its postmodern premise that the Newley character is...
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Strawberry Fair (song) (category Year of song unknown)
In the same year, Newley also performed a shortened version of this arrangement in episode 5 of his surreal comedy show The Strange World of Gurney Slade...
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Mike Post The Stockard Channing Show ("Stockard's Theme") – Delaney Bramlett Strange Report – Roger Webb The Strange World of Gurney Slade – Max Harris...
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Fenella Fielding (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
television actress who rose to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, and was often referred to as "England's first lady of the double entendre". She was known for...
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Obverse Books (redirect from The Panda Book of Horror)
and The Strange World of Gurney Slade. In 2018, a charity book published by Obverse contained a section of the abandoned Steven Moffat script for The Day...
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Associated Television (category Mass media in the East Midlands)
Strange World of Gurney Slade Timeslip Tiswas - subsequently made by Central until ending in mid-1982 Toyah 1980 documentary Turtle's Progress Two of a Kind...
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Max Harris (composer) (category British Army personnel of World War II)
commercials in the later 1950s. Harris' theme music for the Anthony Newley series The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960) reached number 11 in the UK Singles...
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number of their sketches on both Round the Horne and The Bona World of Julian and Sandy. In his diaries, Kenneth Williams, so often scathing of his colleagues...
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(by Alun Owen) The Strange World of Gurney Slade (with Anthony Newley) 4 April 1992 – 1969: Galton and Simpson Comedy - "An Extra Bunch of Daffodils" Randall...
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Bowie had first discovered him through the BBC serial The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960). When asked about the separation between rock stars and himself...
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October – The Odd Man (1960–1963) 22 October – The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960) 1 November – The Old Pull 'n Push (1960–1961) 14 November – The Dickie...
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Disney Cruise Line: Behind the Magic (2013) Walt Disney World Resort Hotels (2014) The 12 Foods of Christmas (2016) Halloween Craziet (2021) Clarke, Stewart...
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Howard Lang (category Royal Navy personnel of World War II)
figure in the world of rugby union, both as a player and as an administrator, for more than 40 years. For his role as seafaring Captain Baines in The Onedin...
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Frederic W. H. Myers (redirect from Phantasms of the Living)
The Strange Story of Ada Goodrich Freer. Gerald Duckworth and Company. ISBN 0-7156-1427-4. Hall, Trevor H. (1980). The Strange Case of Edmund Gurney....
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Anomalous experiences (redirect from Hallucinations in the sane)
Bentall and Slade found that as many as 15.4% of a population of 150 male students were prepared to endorse the statement "In the past I have had the experience...
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The literature of the late Victorian era, including Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes stories and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr...
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Mediumship (redirect from Communication with the dead)
(1963). The Spiritualists: The Story of Florence Cook and William Crookes. Helix Press. p. 10 Trevor H. Hall. (1980). The Strange Case of Edmund Gurney. Duckworth...
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Comics. The group is depicted as a collective of assassins who work for Ra's al Ghul, an enemy of the superhero Batman. The group appeared in Strange Adventures...
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Pioneer Playhouse (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
Business by Jay Presson Allen Fiddler on the Roof Proposals by Neil Simon Sylvia by A.R. Gurney 1997 Moon Over Buffalo The Liar Summer and Smoke A Flea in Her...
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Trevor H. Hall (category Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers)
his book The Strange Case of Edmund Gurney (1964), Hall made the claim that Edmund Gurney committed suicide after discovering the frauds of Douglas Blackburn...
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