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Each series included a serial, in full costume and with drama-series quality props (not that that was ''very'' high quality on the BBC in those days). The most (in)famous was ''The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town'', written by [[Spike Milligan]] ("and a Gentleman"). |
Each series included a serial, in full costume and with drama-series quality props (not that that was ''very'' high quality on the BBC in those days). The most (in)famous was ''The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town'', written by [[Spike Milligan]] ("and a Gentleman"). |
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Barker died in 2005. Corbett |
Barker died in 2005. Corbett died in 2016. |
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Their double act includes examples of: |
Their double act includes examples of: |
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* [[Acceptable Targets]] (Besides Corbett himself for being short - the two later observed in a documentary that "You can't do 'stupid Irishman' jokes anymore, but you can if you just change them to being about 'yokels', because no-one's going to call in and say 'I'm a yokel and this offends me!' Hence the two yokel characters) |
* [[Acceptable Targets]] (Besides Corbett himself for being short - the two later observed in a documentary that "You can't do 'stupid Irishman' jokes anymore, but you can if you just change them to being about 'yokels', because no-one's going to call in and say 'I'm a yokel and this offends me!' Hence the two yokel characters) |
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