Nearest and Dearest is a British television sitcom that ran from 1968 to 1973. A total of 45 episodes were made, 18 in monochrome (black & white) and...
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Nearest and Dearest is a 1972 British comedy film directed by John Robins and starring Hylda Baker and Jimmy Jewel. A spin-off from the ITV sitcom Nearest...
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Hylda Baker (section Early life and career)
Pledge in the Granada ITV sitcom Nearest and Dearest (1968–1973) and for her role in the 1960 film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.[citation needed]...
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the Series 7 DVD of Nearest and Dearest), she stated that Not On Your Nellie was planned as a spin-off from Nearest and Dearest and would focus on the...
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his roles as Fred Jackson in Coronation Street, Stan Hardman in Nearest and Dearest, and Wally Batty in the world's longest-running sitcom, Last of the...
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Film Foundation and appeared in many popular television series, including Theatre 625, Dixon of Dock Green, Nearest and Dearest and Z-Cars. She also...
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1968 to 1973, she played the role of Lily Tattersall on the series Nearest and Dearest. When the series' director, Bill Podmore, took over as producer of...
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achieved most of his fame as the mute and geriatric character of Walter Tattersall in the sitcom Nearest and Dearest from 1969 to 1973. Malin died on 1 March...
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Jimmy Jewel (section Jewel and Warriss)
starred in the sitcom Nearest and Dearest with Hylda Baker, playing bickering brother-and-sister pickle factory owners Eli and Nellie Pledge. The show...
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Peter Tuddenham (section Life and career)
again for Anglia. In comedy he featured in Nearest and Dearest, Only Fools and Horses, One Foot in the Grave and Double First. According to an obituarist...
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psychological awfulness of being trapped to near your nearest and dearest, with no end in sight", and added: "When, late in the film, a phone's "Puttin'...
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Carmel Cryan (section Life and career)
also an actor; and Kirsty, who works as a casting assistant. The couple's elder daughter, Karina (1972–2020), who was born quadriplegic and had learning...
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Width, Nearest and Dearest, Bless This House and Love Thy Neighbour. Driver formed an amateur comedy act with Vince Powell known as Hammond and Powell...
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appeared on television in 1971, as a police officer in the comedy Nearest and Dearest. He was awarded a Laurence Olivier Award in 1991 for his supporting...
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of Dock Green, Nearest and Dearest, Love Thy Neighbour, Z-Cars, The Sweeney, Coronation Street, Hazell and Children's Ward. Friends and Neighbours (1959)...
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he met and married one of its stars, Anne Reid, who played Valerie Barlow. He also produced the sitcom Nearest and Dearest with Hylda Baker and Jimmy Jewel...
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The series is based on the UK sitcom Nearest and Dearest. Julie Harris and Richard Long starred as a brother and sister who run "Paine's Pure Pickles...
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Yootha Joyce (section Final years and death)
(1966) and Charlie Bubbles (1967), as well as TV spin-off films Nearest and Dearest (1972), Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width (1973) and Steptoe and Son...
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moralising busybody in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, and as Rose, the vampy sister of the snobby and overbearing Hyacinth Bucket in the first series of...
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Gossiping woman (uncredited) Mutiny on the Buses (1972) – Norah Nearest and Dearest (1972) – Freda The Optimists of Nine Elms a.k.a. The Optimists (1973)...
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Pilbeam and appeared as Sandra in Granada Television's sitcom Nearest and Dearest in 1968, as well as Her Majesty's Pleasure, The Contenders and Kes in...
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Lennard Pearce (section Health problems and death)
English actor who worked in theatre and television. He played Grandad in the BBC television sitcom Only Fools and Horses from its first episode in 1981...
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with your nearest and dearest and plenty of Grappa. Salute!" David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter gave a positive feedback to the film and he said, "A...
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time to appear on other television programmes, including Z-Cars, Nearest and Dearest and Detective. He was also in the film Catch Me Going Back. In 1981...
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Prairie children's books and TV series Nellie Pledge, a fictional character in the Granada Television series Nearest and Dearest, played by Hylda Baker...
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broadcast in 1980, nor the 13 television episodes from Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense, broadcast in 1984. These are the known, theatrically released,...
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Goldwynisms Homonym Johnny Dangerously Leo Gorcey Mondegreen Mumpsimus Nearest and Dearest Norm Crosby Spoonerism Trailer Park Boys "'Yogisms': Yogi Berra's...
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revenge on their nearest and dearest. Elaborate practical jokes were played on family and friends instigated by their own relatives and friends. It was...
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Man's best friend (section Argos and Odysseus)
against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those...
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Mary-Margaret Humes (section Life and career)
Mary-Margaret Humes is an American actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She won the Miss Florida USA pageant and was third runner up in the 1975 Miss USA...
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