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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strings Cleary, David. "Giant – The Woodentops". AllMusic. Retrieved 12 February 2018. Considine, J. D. (1992). "Woodentops". In DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke...
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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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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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drama, Woodentop, broadcast on 16 August 1983. The programme focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers of all ranks, and the storylines...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Glastonbury Festival (redirect from The Glastonbury Festival)
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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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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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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Maria Bird (category Educational broadcasting in the United Kingdom)
whom she set up Westerham Arts, the production company commissioned by the BBC to produce TV pieces including The Woodentops (1955), Flower Pot Men (1952)...
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Giant (disambiguation) (redirect from The Giants)
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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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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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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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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Scott Litt (category The Get Up Kids)
Hatfield, the Indigo Girls, Paul Kelly, New Order, The Replacements, Patti Smith (Dream of Life), The Woodentops (Wooden Foot Cops on the Highway), That...
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