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    Raymond Percy Galton OBE (17 July 1930 – 5 October 2018) was an English radio and television scriptwriter, best known for the Galton and Simpson comedy...
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    Galton and Simpson were a British comedy scriptwriting duo, who wrote for radio, television and film, consisting of Ray Galton OBE (17 July 1930 – 5 October...
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  • Blood Donor and The Radio Ham). After breaking with his scriptwriters Ray Galton and Alan Simpson later that year, his career declined. Hancock was born...
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  • Steptoerai" being co-directed by Mike Crisp). All episodes were written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Series 7–8 are regularly repeated on Gold. The first...
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  • Steptoe and Son (category Television series created by Ray Galton)
    Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business in 26a Oil Drum Lane, a fictional...
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    an English scriptwriter, best known for the Galton and Simpson comedy writing partnership with Ray Galton. Together they devised and wrote the BBC sitcom...
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    The Galton board, also known as the Galton box or quincunx or bean machine, is a device invented by Sir Francis Galton to demonstrate the central limit...
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  • and starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett. It was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The film was a spin-off from the BBC television comedy...
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    Channel 4's political thriller Low Winter Sun. Gorman played scriptwriter Ray Galton in the BBC Four television play The Curse of Steptoe. He has also appeared...
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  • separate planes. The claim was disputed by the writers of Steptoe and Son, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, who rejected any hatred or conflict. Corbett's nephew...
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  • colleagues, friends and family of the actors, and the Steptoe writers, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The screenplay was written by Brian Fillis, also responsible...
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  • Original air date Prod. code 1 1 "Crossed Swords" Bud Yorkin Story by : Ray Galton & Alan Simpson Teleplay by : Aaron Ruben January 14, 1972 (1972-01-14)...
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  • film directed by Robert Day and starring Tony Hancock. It was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The film concerns the clash between bourgeois and bohemian...
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  • and starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett. It was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The film was a spin-off from the BBC television comedy...
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  • Bob Kellett and starring Frankie Howerd. It was written by Sid Colin, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. It was the second film spin-off from the TV series Up...
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  • Schimmelpenninck (née Galton, 1778–1856), British writer in the anti-slavery movement Peter Galton (born 1942), British vertebrate paleontologist Ray Galton (1930–2018)...
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    Hancock's Half Hour, starring Tony Hancock and Sid James, and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, in the episode broadcast on October 16, 1959. Family...
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  • Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom created by comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, originally broadcast over four series between 1962 and 1965...
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  • Lionel Jeffries, Denholm Elliott, and Colin Blakely. It was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. A dog has a covert listening device implanted before...
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  • Casanova '73 (category Television series created by Ray Galton)
    British sitcom broadcast on BBC1 in September and October 1973. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, the series starred Leslie Phillips as wealthy womaniser...
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  • Paladin. p. 614. ISBN 0586088946. Galton, Ray; Simpsom, Alan (22 January 2012). "Hancock's half-finished: how Galton and Simpson revived their lost movie"...
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  • (1937-)", BFI screenonline John Oliver "Galton, Ray (1930-) and Simpson, Alan (1929-)", BFI screenonline "Ray Galton and Alan Simpson look back in laughter"...
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  • Hancock's Half Hour (category Television series created by Ray Galton)
    television comedy series, broadcast from 1954 to 1961 and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sidney James;...
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  • re-performing a number of classic comedy scripts written by the duo Galton and Simpson (Ray Galton and Alan Simpson), including some originally written for Tony...
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  • (1975) The Mike Reid Show (1976) Spooner's Patch (with Ray Galton 1979) The Tea Ladies (with Ray Galton 1979) The Thoughts of chairman Alf at Christmas (1980)...
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    performer of the sole character in "The Bedsitter" (Hancock 1961) by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson for the BBC, a depiction of the boredom of bedsit existence...
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    Steptoe and Son, "The Desperate Hours". The writers of Steptoe and Son – Ray Galton and Alan Simpson – later said Devlin was second choice to play the part...
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  • glasses Yvonne Paul as receptionist "Pride", is written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton. In it, two motorists meet facing each other on a narrow country road...
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    was produced by Joseph E. Levine in 1965. It starred Lee Tracy and Aldo Ray as Albert and Harold Steptoe. This version was unscreened and did not lead...
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  • Griffith, Eric Sykes and Ronnie Barker. The screenplay was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Hemel Pike and his cousin Ronnie are two boatmen operating...
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