• Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series set in ancient Pompeii and broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. The first series...
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  • Up Pompeii is a 1971 British sex comedy film directed by Bob Kellett and starring Frankie Howerd and Michael Hordern. It was written by Sid Colin based...
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    Pompeii (/pɒmˈpeɪ(i)/ pom-PAY(-ee), Latin: [pɔmˈpei̯.iː]) was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of...
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  • Pompeii is a 2014 epic romantic historical disaster film produced and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. An international co-production between the United...
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  • Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) and comedy films including Up Pompeii (1971), Up the Front (1972) and Carry On Matron (1972) amongst others. She...
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  • Up Pompeii!'s first series originally aired on BBC1 between 30 March and 11 May 1970. The pilot episode, "Up Pompeii!", premiered on the BBC's Comedy Playhouse...
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  • Live at Pompeii is a live album and film by David Gilmour, the guitarist of Pink Floyd. It was recorded at the Amphitheatre of Pompeii. It documents his...
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    Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum has been both exhibited as art and censored as pornography. The Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum around the...
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    ancient Roman city of Pompeii has been frequently featured in literature and popular culture since its modern rediscovery. Pompeii was buried under 4 to...
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  • "Pompeii" is a song by British pop rock band Bastille. It is the fourth single from their debut studio album Bad Blood and was released on 11 January...
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  • three film spin-offs from the TV series Up Pompeii! (1969–1970), the first being Up Pompeii (1971), and the third Up the Front (1972). Eleanor of Aquitaine...
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  • the television series Up Pompeii! (the previous films being Up Pompeii (1971), set, like the TV series, in the Roman era; and Up the Chastity Belt (1971)...
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  • called Musik. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the broadcast of the Up Pompeii pilot, Spiteful Puppet released an audio adaptation based on the stage...
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  • Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii is a 1972 concert film directed by Adrian Maben and featuring the English rock group Pink Floyd performing at the ancient...
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  • married to the actress Madeline Smith, who featured in the film version of Up Pompeii (1971) and numerous comedy programmes in the 1970s. In 1968, William Heinemann...
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    and stage actor. His most notable screen roles were in Oliver! (1968), Up Pompeii (1971), Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), Chocolat (1988), Layer Cake (2004)...
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    remarks to the audience, especially in the show Up Pompeii! (1969–70), which was a direct follow-up from Forum. His television work was characterised...
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  • actress. Her television roles include Lt. Sylvia Howell in UFO, Erotica in Up Pompeii!, Rose Bivaque in Clochemerle, Miss Finch in You're Only Young Twice and...
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  • The Champions, The Saint, Department S, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Up Pompeii! (as 'Pussius Galoria' in an episode titled "Jamus Bondus"), Emmerdale...
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  • Hill. He also played alongside Frankie Howerd in two of his BBC shows, Up Pompeii! and Whoops Baghdad. Martyn played the role of the spiv Private Walker...
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    effect on Misenum. Pompeii is never mentioned in Pliny the Younger's letter. Around 1:00 p.m., Mount Vesuvius erupted violently, spewing up a high-altitude...
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    She appeared on the television in small roles in a special episode of Up Pompeii!, in The New Avengers, and a commercial for Head & Shoulders shampoo....
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    Pompeii is a novel by Robert Harris, published by Random House in 2003. It blends historical fiction with the real-life eruption of Mount Vesuvius on...
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  • up Pompei or Pompeii in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pompeii is a ruined Roman city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania. Pompeii...
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  • parts in The Benny Hill Show, Just Jimmy (with Jimmy Clitheroe), Z-Cars, Up Pompeii!, The Goodies, Steptoe and Son and five episodes of Jackanory in 1968...
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    Egyptian queen. Leon's TV credits include The Saint, Randall and Hopkirk, Up Pompeii!, The Avengers, Space: 1999, The Persuaders, Last of the Summer Wine and...
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  • Baron's early television roles included small parts in Crossroads (1978), Up Pompeii (1970), Z-Cars (1971), and the British horror film Hands of the Ripper...
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    The Pompeii Lakshmi is an ivory statuette that was discovered in the ruins of Pompeii, a Roman city destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 79 CE...
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    from 1970 to 1973, and had roles in several television series including Up Pompeii!, Please Sir! and On the Buses before appearing in Both Ends Meet, a sitcom...
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    series The Caesars. The 1975 TV Special Further Up Pompeii! (based on the Frankie Howerd sit-com Up Pompeii!) featured Cyril Appleton as Claudius. In the...
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