• Educating Archie was a BBC Light Programme comedy show which was broadcast for nearly ten years between June 1950 and February 1960, mostly at lunchtime...
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  • from Educating Archie, while in June she was in Archie in Goonland, a one-off special programme that was a collaboration between Educating Archie and The...
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  • popular show in its radio format was called Educating Archie, regularly attracting over 15 million listeners. Archie was invariably dressed in a broad-striped...
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    Award winner. In the 1950s, Mitchell appeared on the radio programmes Educating Archie and Hancock's Half Hour. He also performed minor roles in several films...
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  • ventriloquism show Educating Archie, which began in 1950, and also Variety Bandbox.[citation needed] Working on Educating Archie led to him meeting Hattie...
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  • Peter Brough and his dummy Archie Andrews. Chesney's harmonica playing was featured as a musical interlude on Educating Archie; this led to his first meeting...
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  • autobiography Educating Archie in 1955. Because of the success of his radio show, Brough made his debut on television in 1956 in the BBC sitcom Here's Archie which...
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    the Beanstalk, a 12-inch 78 RPM record from the British radio series Educating Archie, issued by His Master's Voice. Her first long-playing (LP) album was...
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    BBC Light Programme comedy show Up the Pole and was a cast member in Educating Archie, from 1950 to 1952. She reportedly made her television début on the...
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    April 1955. Later in the decade, Feldman worked on the scripts for Educating Archie in both its radio and television incarnations, with Ronald Chesney...
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  • Like Policemen" 1958 The Sky Larks Rose Episode: "Free Beer" 1958 Educating Archie Unknown Episode: #1.1 1958 Murder Bag Unknown Episode: "Lockhart Probes...
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  • divorce from June Melville earlier that year) in the radio series Educating Archie. Le Mesurier and Hancock became friends; they would often go for drinking...
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    appeared on TV programmes including Round the Bend (BBC, 1955–56) and Educating Archie (ITV, 1958–59) and appeared with his friend Tony Hancock in several...
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  • he won the Emile Littler Award as the most promising actor. After Educating Archie on radio and The Army Game on television, more television, film and...
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    to the intervention of Sellers. For a time, Stark was a regular in Educating Archie, and substituted for Spike Milligan on The Goon Show when the comedian...
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  • appeared as a guest in a number of comedy series, notably as a regular in Educating Archie and as the Cockney widow Ada Cresswell in For the Love of Ada, which...
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    many times from 1948 onwards. They also featured in the programme Educating Archie, with Stella Tanner. The trio released records on the Melodisc Records...
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    Shakespeare Company. Her first big success came in the BBC radio show Educating Archie as naughty schoolgirl Monica and later as the Brummie, "Marlene." Her...
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  • performed with the Hedley Ward Trio, first appearing with them on the Educating Archie radio show from 1950 to 1952. Tanner pursued a career in television...
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  • Role Type 1957 The Adventures of Long John Silver Paul Series 1959 Educating Archie Ray Series 1960 Armchair Mystery Theatre Detective-Sergeant Cullen...
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  • Again, Jacques came to national prominence. She later appeared on Educating Archie as Agatha Dinglebody, where she worked with Tony Hancock; in 1956 she...
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  • radio show Educating Archie, starring ventriloquist Peter Brough and his dummy Archie Andrews, and featuring Bygraves in the role of Archie's teacher. The...
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  • Deep Trouble (radio comedy series) Delve Special Dial M For Pizza Educating Archie Ed Reardon's Week ElvenQuest Fags, Mags and Bags Fist of Fun Flight...
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    paralleled in the United Kingdom by Peter Brough and his dummy Archie Andrews (Educating Archie). For the radio program, Bergen developed other characters...
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    Team Think? Desert Island Discs (1945–1946) Easy Beat (1960–1967) Educating Archie Family Favourites (1945–1967) Friday Night Is Music Night (1953–1967)...
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  • a Laugh Daisy the Turkey Episode 11 "Let's Talk Turkey" 1955-1958 Educating Archie Various 6 episodes 1956 Floggits Unknown Play 1957 Mrs. Dale's Diary...
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  • well as having his own set-up for some popular radio series, such as Educating Archie and Pertwee's Progress. He later joined the B.B.C. Show Band and in...
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  • followed by appearances on Variety Bandbox and a regular role in Educating Archie. Secombe met Michael Bentine at the Windmill Theatre, and he was introduced...
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  • Dustbinmen (1968–1970) Duty Free (1984–1986) Early Doors (2003–2004) Educating Archie (1958–1959) Elliott from Earth (2021–present) Empty (2008) End of Part...
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    Broadcast 2 October 1953 –19 April 1954 "Archie in Goonland" 1954 1 The Goon Show crossover with Educating Archie; broadcast 11 June 1954 "The Starlings"...
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