The Definitive UK Sitcom List, part D-H, 711 lines, updated 1999-02-05
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Dad (97,99) BBC Andrew Marshall
   Frustrations of fatherhood across 3 generations
   George Cole, Kevin McNally, Toby Ross-Bryant, Julia Hills
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Dad's Army (68,69abc,70x,x71,72,73,74,75x,x76,77,film 76) BBC  
				  Jimmy Perry & David Croft
   Home Guard
   Arthur Lowe, John LeMesurier, Clive Dunn, Ian Lavender, James Beck(to 73),
   Arnold Ridley, John Laurie, Bill Pertwee, Frank Williams, Edward Sinclair,
   Talfryn Thomas
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The Darling Buds Of May has been adjudged a comedy-drama
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Dead Ernest (82) ITV(Central)  Julian Roach & John Stevenson
   Teacher dies and goes to heaven
   Andrew Sachs, Ken Jones, Harry Fowler
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Dear John (86,87x,3rd series?) BBC John Sullivan
   Therapy/encounter group for singles
   Ralph Bates, Belinda Lang, Peter Blake, Peter Denyer, Rachel Bell
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Dear Ladies (83,84ny) BBC Gyles Brandreth
   Dame Hilda Bracket & Dr Evadne hinge "at home" in Stackton Tressel
   George Logan, Patrick Fyffe (female impersonators)
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Dear Mother ... Love Albert (69,70,71) ITV(Yorkshire)
	Derrick Goodwin & Rodney Bewes
   Yorkshire boy in seedy London writes euphemistic letters home
     (see also Albert, the '72 continuation)
   Rodney Bewes, Christine Hargreaves, Garfield Morgan, Sheila White
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Desmond's (89,90,91-,92,93,94) C4 Trix Worrell 93,94:various writers
   Hairdressers
   Norman Beaton, Carmen Munroe, Ram John Holder, Gyearbour Asante, 
   Geff Francis, Robbie Gee, Valerie Murray, Kim Walker, Justin Pickett,
   Chris Toomey(94only?), Dean Gatiss(94only?)
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The Detectives (93,94,95x,96,97x) BBC(Celador) Steve Knight & Mike Whitehill
   Two defective cops - developed from sketches in Canned Carrott
   Jasper Carrott, Robert Powell, George Sewell
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The Dickie Henderson Show (60,61,62,63,64,65) ITV(AR) script ed Jimmy Gratton
   Domestic sitcom
   Dickie Henderson, June Laverick, John Parsons, Lionel Murton
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Dinnerladies (98) BBC Victoria Wood
   A factory canteen
   Victoria Wood, Thelma Barlow, Andrew Dunn, Shobna Gulati, Celia Imrie,
   Maxine Peake, Duncan Preston, Anne Reid, Julie Walters
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Divided We Stand (87) BBC Myra Taylor
   Unhappily married couple, living in Birmingham
   Anna Keaveney, Shaun Curry
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Doctor At Large (71) ITV(LWT) writers various, include: 
    Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Bernard McKenna, 
    Geoff Rowley, Andy Baker, Oliver Fry, Jonathan Lynn, David A Yallop
   Continuation of Doctor In The House (after graduation) 
   Barry Evans(71), Geoffrey Davies, George Layton, Richard O'Sullivan, 
   Ernest Clark
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Doctor At Sea (74) ITV(LWT) writers include:
     Layton, Lynn, McKenna, Richard Laing, Gail Renard
   2 ships doctors
   Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies, Ernest Clark, John Grieve, Bob Todd
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Doctor At The Top (91) BBC1  George Layton & Bill Oddie
   They're consultants now (I think)
   Geoffrey Davies, George Layton, Robin Nedwell, Jill Benedict
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Doctor In Charge (72,73) ITV(LWT) writers include:
    1972 - Chapman, McKenna, Garden, Oddie, Lynn, George Layton, 
    1973 - Layton, Lynn, McKenna, Phil Redmond, Gail Renard, David Sherlock,
	      David Askey
   further continuation of DoctorInTheHouse/DoctorAtLarge
   Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies, George Layton, Richard O'Sullivan,
   Ernest Clark, Helen Fraser
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Doctor In The House (69,70) ITV(LWT), writers various, include: 
    Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Barry Cryer
   Medical students hijinks
   Barry Evans, George Layton, ?Richard O'Sullivan?only1season?,
   Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davies, Ernest Clark, Simon Cuff,
   Martin Shaw (69), Jonathan Lynn (70)
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Doctor On The Go (75,77) ITV(LWT) writers include:
    1975 - Layton, Lynn, McKenna, Laing, Renard, Steve Thorn, Paul Wolfson
    1977 - Yallop, Thorn, Wolfson, McKenna, Chapman, Renard, Selwyn Roberts, 
	      Douglas Adams, Rob Buckman, Chris Beetles, Brenda Crankmen.
							 ^^pseudonym^^
   More medical mishaps.
   Robin Nedwell, Geoffrey Davis, Ernest Clark, Andrew Know
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Doctor Down Under was an Australian production
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Doctors And Nurses (79-) ITV  Rob Buckman & Chris Beetles
   Hospital send-up, adult patients, kid staff
   <cast>
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Doctor's Daughters (81) ITV(ATV)  Richard Gordon & Ralph Thomas
   3 venerable GPs upset when practice taken over by young women
   Patrick Newell, Jack Watling, Bill Fraser, Richard Murdoch, Lesley Duff,
   Victoria Burgoyne
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Dogfood Dan And The Carmarthen Cowboy (p82) ITV (88) BBC David Nobbs
  Dogfood truckers: mirror-image runs, affairs other's wives, none realise
  Malcolm Storry, Peter Blake, Elizabeth Mickery, Arbel Jones
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Don't Drink The Water (74,75) ITV(LWT) Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney
   Blakey from 'On the Buses' retires to Spain
   Stephen Lewis, Pat Coombes
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Don't Forget To Write! (77,78,79) BBC Charles Wood
   Playwright with writer's block [?sitcom or (1vote)comedy drama?]
   George Cole, Gwen Watford, Francis Matthews
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Don't Rock The Boat (82,83) ITV(Thames) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
   Boat owner with 2 grown sons remarries
   Nigel Davenport, Sheila White, David Janson, John Price
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Don't Tell Father (92) BBC Roy Clarke
   Insufferable actor miffed when daughter falls for driving instructor
   Tony Britton, Caroline Quentin, Susan Hampshire 
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Don't Wait Up (83,84,85-,87,88,90) BBC George Layton
   Father & son doctors share flat
   Nigel Havers, Tony Britton, Dinah Sheridan, Jane How
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Dora (72ab) ITV(LWT) ?writer
   <synopsis>
   Dora Bryan, Ivor Dean
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Double First (88) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
   Mysteriously fallen ex-professor lives with Oxford uni acquaintances
   Michael Williams, Holly Aird, Ann Bell, Jennifer Hilary
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Down The 'Gate (75) ITV Maurice Sellar & Roy Tuvey
   Billingsgate fish market
   Reg Varney, Dilys Laye, Tony Melody
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Down To Earth (95) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
   Deposed foreign president's advisor deported back home
   Richard Briers, Kirsten Cooke, Christopher Blake, Tenniel Evans, 
   Steve Edwin, Stephen Bent, Sandor Eles, Roger Swain
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Downwardly Mobile (94) ITV Alistair Beaton & Barry Pilton
   Broke ex-stockbroker & wife move in with brother & wife
   Frances De La Tour, Philip Jackson, Josie Lawrence, Stephen Tompkinson
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Dream Stuffing (84) C4 Paul Hines & Su Wilkins
   2 girls share council flat. "Eighties Liver Birds"
   Rachael Weaver, Amanda Symonds, Maria Charles
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Dressing For Breakfast (95,97,98) C4 Stephanie Calman, 
				     Nick Revell(98), Ian Brown(98)
   Young single woman in search of a man
   Beatie Edney, Holly Aird, Charlotte Cornwell
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Drop The Dead Donkey (90,91,93,94,96,98) C4(HatTrick) Andy Hamilton & Guy Jenkin
   TV newsroom
   Haydn Gwynne(90,91), Jeff Rawle, David Swift, Neil Pearson, 
   Ingrid Lacey(not90,91), Victoria Wicks, Susannah Doyle(not90), 
   Robert Duncan, Stephen Tompkinson
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Duck Patrol (98) ITV Gavin Petrie and Jan Etherington
   Thames river police
   Richard Wilson, Samantha Beckinsale, David Tennant, Geoffrey Hutchings,
   Jason Watkins, Trevor Cooper, Craig Fairbrass, John Biggins, 
   Sue Johnston, Tony Haygarth
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The Dustbinmen (p68,69,70,?3rd series) ITV(Granada) Jack Rosenthal, 
			     3rd series various inc Kenneth Cope, Adele Rose
   Crew of dustcard Thunderbird Three [pilot: There's A Hole In Your 
				       Dustbin, Delilah]
   Bryan Pringle, Paula Wilcox, Graham Haberfield, Trevor Bannister,
   John Woodvine(series1), Brian Wilde(series2&3), John Barrett, Tim Wylton
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Duty Free (84ab,86) ITV(Yorkshire) Eric Chappell and Jean Warr
   2 couples on holiday, one of each pair fancy each other.
   Keith Barron, Joanna Van Gyseghem, Neil Stacy, Gwen Taylor,
   Carlos Douglas
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Educating Archie (58..59) ITV(AR) ?Marty Feldman did the radio version
   Ventriloquism
   Peter Brough was in the radio version at least
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The Eggheads (61) BBC Richard Waring & David Croft
   A lighthearted look at student life.  
   <cast>
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El CID has been adjudged a comedy-drama
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Eric Sykes has a listing in Television's Greatest Hits, but most of us
   remember his various series being titled just Sykes, so that's where
   I've listed it
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Ever Decreasing Circles (84abx,86,87x,x89) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
   Compulsive organiser
   Richard Briers, Peter Egan, Penelope Wilton, Stanley Lebor, 
   Geraldine Newman
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Every Silver Lining (93) BBC Simon Block
   Jewish couple run East End cafe
   Frances de la Tour, Andrew Sachs, Oscar Quitak, David Yip, Sarah Malin,
   Danny Swanson
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Executive Stress (86,87) ITV(Thames) George Layton
   Wife gets job at same publishing firm as husband, has to pretend not
   Penelope Keith, Geoffrey Palmer(1st ser), Peter Bowles(2nd ser),
   Paul Boyle, Harry Ditson, Elizabeth Counsell
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Fairly Secret Army (84,86) C4 David Nobbs
   Private army in England's home counties
   Geoffrey Palmer, Michael Robbins, Liz Fraser, Jeremy Child, Diane Fletcher
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Faith In The Future (95,96,98) ITV Jan Etherington & Gavin Petrie
   Mother & daughter from Second Thoughts
   Lynda Bellingham, Julia Sawalha, Jeff Rawle
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The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin (76,77,78-,x82) BBC David Nobbs
   Executive has breakdown, becomes success, gives it all away
   Leonard Rossiter, Geoffrey Palmer, Pauline Yates, John Barron, 
   Sue Nicholls, Sally-Jane Spencer, Tim Preece, Trevor Adams, 
   Bruce Bould, John Horsley
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Fancy Wanders (80) ITV(LWT) Sid Green
   Tramp imagines self and friend into fantastic situations
   Dave King, Joe Marcell
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Farrington Of The F.O. (86?87) ITV(YTV) Dick Sharples
   British Consul General (female) in banana republic
   Angela Thorne, Tony Haygarth, John Quayle, Joan Sims
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Father Charlie (82) ITV(Central) Vince Powell
   Cockney RC priest becomes chaplain to a convent.
   Lionel Jeffries, Anna Quayle, Denyse Alexander, Jamila Massey, 
   Gillian Royale, Deddie Davies, Annet Peters, Wendy Smith, 
   Jean Buik Morton, Iris Fry.  
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Father Dear Father (68,69,70,71ab,72,73,78-) ITV(Thames)
   Brian Cooke & Johnnie Mortimer, later episodes by other writers
   Man has 2 daughters
   Patrick Cargill, Natasha Pyne, Ann Holloway, Noel Dyson, Joyce Carey,
   Ursula Howells, Tony Britton, Sally Conabere (78-), Sigrid Thornton (78-)
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Father Matthew's Daughter (87) BBC ?writer
   <synopsis>
   <cast>
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Father Ted (95,96x,97,98) C4(HatTrick) Graham Linehan & Arthur Mathews
   3 priests and housekeeper on a small island off west of Ireland
   Dermot Morgan, Ardol O'Hanlon, Frank Kelly, Pauline McLynn
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Father's Day (83,84) C4 Peter Spence
   Televisation of the Hunter Davies column from Punch
   John Alderton, Dominique Barnes, Rosalind Ayres, Kate Alderton
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Fawlty Towers (75,79) BBC John Cleese & Connie Booth
   Nutter runs small hotel
   John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Brian Hall(79)
   Ballard Berkeley, Gilly Flower, Renee Roberts
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Feet First (79) ITV John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
   Footballer hits stardom but is out of his depth
   Jonathan Barlow, Jacquie Cassidy, Lee Montague, Doug Fisher.
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The Fenn Street Gang (71-,72-,73) ITV(LWT) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
   Please Sir spinoff, members of Form 5C have left school
   John Alderton, David Barry, Leon Vitali, Carol Hawkins, Barbara Keogh,
   Peter Cleall
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Ffizz (87,89) ITV(Thames) Richard Fegen and Andrew Norriss
   Wine importing company on verge of bankruptcy
   Richard Griffiths, Benjamin Whitrow, Felicity Montagu
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Fiddlers Three (91) ITV  Eric Chappell
   Office comedy, remake of The Squirrels using the original scripts
   Peter Davison, Paula Wilcox, Charles Kay, Cindy Day, Peter Blake, 
   Tyler Butterworth
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Filthy, Rich And Catflap (87) BBC(Paul Jackson Productions) 
			      Ben Elton +Rik Mayall
   Actor, minder, and agent
   Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer
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A Fine Romance (81,82,83,84) ITV(LWT) Bob Larbey
   Prickly relationship
   Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Susan Penhaligon, Richard Warwick
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Fire Crackers (64) ITV(ATV) Fred Robinson
   Forgotten fire brigade in forgotten village
   Alfred Marks, Joe Baker, Cardew Robinson
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The First Lady (late60s) BBC ?writer
   Yorkshire councillor
   Thora Hird
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First Of The Summer Wine (88p,89) BBC Roy Clarke
   What the guys from Last Of The Summer Wine did in their youth
   David Fenwick, Paul Wyett, Paul McLain, Peter Sallis, Maggie Ollerenshaw,
   Richard Lumsden, Helen Patrick, Linda Davidson, Gary Whitaker
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Flickers (80) ITV(ATV) Roy Clarke
   Early days of British cinema
   Bob Hoskins, Frances De La Tour
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For The Love Of Ada (70ab,71) ITV(Thames) Vince Powell & Harry Driver
   Two geriatrics fall in love and marry.
   Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles, Barbara Mitchell, Jack Smethurst
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Foreign Affairs (64) ITV(Granada) Barry Took
   Bootsie & Snudge enter the diplomatic service
   Alfie Bass, Bill Fraser, Nicholas Phipps
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Foreign Affairs (66) BBC Leonard Samson, Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke
  Spies and diplomats
  Leslie Phillips, Ronnie Barker
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Foreign Bodies (87ab,89) BBC  Bernard Farrell & Graham Reid
   N Irish med student to marry S Ireland nurse
   Colum Convey
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The Fossett Saga (69) ITV(LWT) Dave Freeman
   Victoran era, ambitious writer of penny-dreadfuls
   Jimmy Edwards, Sam Kydd, June Whitfield
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The Fosters (76,77) ITV(LWT) adapted from US "Good Times" by John Watkins
   Black immigrant family, south London
   Norman Beaton, Isabelle Lucas, Sharon Rosita, Lenny Henry, Lawrie Mark
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Foxy Lady (82,84) ITV(Granada) Geoffrey Lancashire
   Woman editor of 50s provincial newspaper
   Diane Keen, Patrick Troughton, Geoffrey Burridge, Sean Scanlan
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Freddie And Max (90) ITV(Thames) Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais
   Ageing US actress in swank hotel, young woman biography ghostwriter
   Anne Bancroft, Charlotte Coleman, Richard Pearson, Ian Congden-Lee, 
   Flaminia Cinque
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French Fields (89,90x,91) ITV(Thames) John Chapman & Ian Davidson
   French continuation of next entry
   Anton Rodgers, Julia MacKenzie, Pamela Salem, Liz Crowther,
   Robin Kermode
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Fresh Fields (83,84,85,86) ITV(Thames)  John Chapman
       (83,84,85,86)=copyright dates - transmission=(84,?84,?85,x85,?86)
   Accountant & wife after kids have left home
   Anton Rodgers, Julia MacKenzie, Ann Beach, Fanny Rowe
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The Front Line (-85) BBC Alex Shearer      pilot "On the frontline" mid70s
  Black policeman shares house with his Rastafarian half-brother
  Paul Barber, Alan Igbon
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Full House (85,?,86) ITV(Thames) Johnnie Mortimer
   Known in US as "Mixed Doubles"
   Two couples decide to share in the ownership of a house.  
   Christopher Strauli, Brian Capron, Sabina Franklyn, Natalie Forbes
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Full Stretch (93) ITV Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais [?just light drama?]
   Ex-footballer in luxury limo business
   Kevin McNally, Reece Dinsdale, Sue Johnston, Wendy Morgan, Rowena King, 
   (David Howey, Clarence Smith), James Aubrey, (William Armstrong)
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Further Adventures Of Lucky Jim (67) BBC1 Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais
   Yorkshire misfit living in 'swinging' London
   Keith Barron (67)
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Further Up Pompeii (75,91) 
	  75:BBC Talbot Rothwell, Sid Collin
	  91:ITV(LWT) Brian Leveson, Paul Minett 
  2 one-off specials: continuation of Up Pompeii
  Frankie Howerd
  75: Mark Dignam, Elizabeth Larner, Kerry Gardner
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The Fuzz (77) ITV(Thames) Willis Hall
   <synopsis>
   Michael Robbins, Nigel Lambert
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The Gaffer (81,82,83) ITV(YTV) Graham White
   Light engineering company
   Bill Maynard, Pat Ashton, Russell Hunter, Chris Langham, Leslie Sarony
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Game On! (95,96,98) BBC(Hat Trick) Andrew Davies & Bernadette Davis
   3 flatmates
   Ben Chaplin->Neil Stuke, Matthew Cottle, Samantha Janus, 
   Tracey Keating(96-), Crispin Bonham-Carter(98)
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George And Mildred (76,77,78ab,79,film80) ITV(Thames) 
	   Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke
   Hen pecked husband scenario, spin off from Man About the House
   Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce, Norman Eshley, Sheila Fearn,
   Nicholas Bond-Owen, Simon Lloyd, Roy Kinnear, Avril Elgar, 
   Reginald Marsh, Gretchen Franklin
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George And The Dragon (66,67,68ab) ITV(ATV) Harry Driver & Vince Powell
   Chauffeur & housekeeper
   Peggy Mount, Sid James, John Le Mesurier, Keith Marsh
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Get Back (92,93) BBC(Alomo, 93 at least) Lawrence Marks & Maurice Gran
		  93:some eps Gary Lawson & John Phelps 
   Brothers who made it are hit by recession and return to the council estate
   Larry Lamb, Ray Winstone, Carol Harrison
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Get Real (98) ITV Paul Waite
   I watched this and I still can't think of a good single line synopsis.  
   Lindsay Duncan, Lloyd Owen, Simon Godley, Lesley Vickerage
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Get Some In! (75,76,77,78) ITV John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
   National Service: new recruits to RAF
   Tony Selby, David Janson, Robert Lindsay, Gerald Ryder, Brian Pettifer
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Get The Drift (71) BBC ?writer [?sitcom, or club/standup]
  "Mild and bitter humour" [The Times, 30.vii & 13.viii.71]
   Henry Livings, Alex Glasgow
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Get Well Soon (97) BBC Ray Galton & ?
   1947 TV sanatorium (like where Galton&Simpson first met)
   Eddie Marsan, Matthew Cottle
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The Ghostbusters Of East Finchley (95) BBC Tony Grounds
   Fearless Inland Revenue officers fight fraud: billed as comdram
   Paul Reynolds, Catherine Holman, Jan Francis, Ray Winstone, Marc Warren,
   Tony Grounds, Carol Macready, Bill Paterson, Christopher Fulford,
   Andy Linden, Sheila Reid, Joe Melia, Jean Toussaint, Jane Cox,
   Liz Daniels, John Clemens
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Gimme Gimme Gimme (99) BBC Jonathan Harvey
   A sex-obsessed woman and her gay flatmate
   Kathy Burke, James Dreyfus, Rosalind Knight, Brian Bovell, Beth Goddard
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The Gingerbread Girl (93) ITV Alex Shearer [?sitcom]
   Single mother
   Janet Dibley, John Diedrich, Tyler Butterworth, Isabella Marsh
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Girls About Town (p69,70,71) ITV(ATV) Adele Rose
  2 housewives with 7 year itch (69 pilot diff cast)
  Julie Stevens, Denise Coffey, Robin Parkinson, Peter Baldwin
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Girls On Top (85,86) ITV(Central) Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax
   Four mismatched girls share a flat
   Tracey Ullman(85+guest86), Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax, Dawn French, 
   Joan Greenwood, 
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The Glamour Girls (80,82) ITV David Nobbs
   Sales promotion agency
   Duggie Brown, Sally Watts, Brigit Forsyth, Tom Price
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The Glums (79) ITV  Frank Muir & Denis Norden
   Dad, bonehead son, girlfriend (from 50s radio Take It From Here)
   Patricia Brake, Ian Lavender, Jimmy Edwards
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The Gnomes Of Dulwich (69) BBC Jimmy Perry
   Garden gnomes
   Terry Scott, Hugh Lloyd, John Clive
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Going Straight (78) BBC Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais
   Porridge sequel: Fletcher gets out of jail
   Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Patricia Brake
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The Good Life (75ab-,76,77x,r78) BBC John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
   Self-sufficiency in Surbiton   {retitled for USA: Good Neighbors}
   Felicity Kendal, Richard Briers, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington
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Goodbye, Mr Kent (82) BBC Peter Vincent & Peter Robinson
   Lodger won't leave
   Hannah Gordon, Richard Briers, Talla Hayes
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The Goodies (70,71-,73ab-,75,76,77,80) BBC (x81,82) ITV(LWT)
	     Tim Brooke-Taylor(to75), Bill Oddie, and Graeme Garden.
   Loony fix-it team
   Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
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Goodnight And God Bless (83) ITV(Central) Donald Churchill & Joe McGrath
   Remarried ex-standup comic is successful game show host, inwardly shy
   Donald Churchill, Judy Loe
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Goodnight Sweetheart (93,95x,96,97,98) BBC(Alomo/SelecTV[93-96],Alomo/Pearson[97-])
	 Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran, +[various times]
                Sam Lawrence, Paul Makin, Gary Lawson, John Phelps, Geoff Rowley 
   TV repairman timeslips to 2nd World War London
   Nicholas Lyndhurst, Dervla Kirwan->(97)Elizabeth Carling, 
   Michelle Holmes->(97)Emma Amos, Victor McGuire, Christopher Ettridge
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The Goon Show wasn't really sitcom, but: 68, ITV(Thames) Spike Milligan
   Manic idiocy
   Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, John Cleese, 
   John Hamilton, Christine Pryor
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Grace And Favour (92,93) BBC  Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft   
   {retitled in USA: "Are You Being Served? Again!"}
   Are You Being Served spinoff: big country house
   Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Wendy Richard, Nicholas Smith,
   Fleur Bennett, Billy Burden, Joanne Heywood, Michael Bilton
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The Growing Pains Of Adrian Mole (87) ITV(Thames) Sue Townsend 
   Adrian Mole passes through adolescence [sitcom? votes each way]
   Lulu, Beryl Reid, Gian Sammarco, Stephen Moore, Steven Mackintosh
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The Growing Pains Of PC Penrose (75) BBC Roy Clarke
   A young policeman so wet behind the ears he could grow rice on his lobes.
   Paul Greenwood, Bryan Pringle, Tony Haygarth
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Grownups (97) BBC(Alomo) Paul Makin
  UK 30-somethings
  Penny Bunton, Jason Watkins, James Simmons, Pippa Haywood
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Grundy (80) ITV(Thames) Ken Hoare
  Life-long puritan newsagent comes face-to-face with the permissive society
  Harry H. Corbett(last tv series), Lynda Baron, David Janson
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Haggard (90,92) ITV Eric Chappell
   Regency spendthrift squire
   Keith Barron, Reece Dinsdale, Sam Kelly
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Hallelujah! (83,84) ITV(YTV) Dick Sharples
   Salvation Army captain in the North
   Thora Hird, David Daker, Patsy Rowlands
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Hancock
    61 - BBC  Galton and Simpson.
    63 - ITV(ATV)  Godfrey Harrison, Richard Harris & Dennis Spooner, 
	  Terry Nation
    66 and 67 series were sketch/variety 
   Morose person
   Tony Hancock
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Hancock's Half Hour (56,57ab,-59,59,60) BBC Ray Galton & Alan Simpson
   Morose person vs. the world
   Tony Hancock, Sid James, Hugh Lloyd, June Whitfield, Kenneth Williams(1st
   2 seasons), Hattie Jacques(occasional)
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The Happy Apple (83) ITV(Thames) Keith Waterhouse from play by Jack Pulman
   Secretary in ad agency
   Lesley Ash, Nicky Henson, John Nettleton, Jeremy Child
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Happy Ever After (76,77,78) BBC John Chapman and Eric Merriman(76)
       writers vary in 2nd and 3rd series
   Suburban couple
   Terry Scott, June Whitfield
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Happy Families (85) BBC Ben Elton
   Attempts to find scattered family members
   Jennifer Saunders, Ade Edmondson, Dawn French, Stephen Fry, Helen Lederer
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Hardwicke House (87) ITV(Central)  ?writer(ex comprehensive school teacher)
   Makes Grange Hill look like a kindergarten for angels: banned after 2 eps
   Roy Kinnear, Granville Saxton,                       (shown as 1 long one)
   Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmondson in unscreened episode
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Hark At Barker (69p,70) ITV(LWT) Various writers, including:
      Peter Caulfield, Bernard McKenna, Chris Miller, Bill Oddie, 
      Gerald Wiley(Ronnie Barker)
   Lord Rustless: lecherous old duffer on verge of second childhood   
   Ronnie Barker, Frank Gatliff, Josephine Tewson, David Jason, Mary Baxter,
   Moira Foot
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Harry Worth (67,68,69?) BBC Ronny Taylor 
   Single man on edge of middle age finds life confusing
   Harry Worth
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Have I Got You ... Where You Want Me? (81) ITV Philip Harland & Paul Harris.
   Still 'going steady' after 10 years
   Ian Lavender, Kim Braden, Ray Lonnen
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Health And Efficiency (-94,95) BBC Andrew Marshall
   Surgical team B versus the cuts, the illnesses, and each other
   Gary Olsen, Felicity Montagu, Roger Lloyd Pack, Deborah Norton, 
   Victor McGuire, Adjoa Andoh
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Heartburn Hotel (98x) BBC John Sullivan and Steve Glover
   Down market residential hotel in Birmingham
   Tim Healy, Clive Russell
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Hello Cheeky was a sketch show.
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The Hello Goodbye Man (84) BBC David Nobbs
  Incompetent salesman for a pharmaceuticals firm
  Ian Lavender, Mary Tamm, Ken Harrington, Dominic Guard
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Hell's Bells (86) BBC Jan Butlin
   Trendy bishop vs. traditionalist dean
   Derek Nimmo, Robert Stephens, Susan Jameson, Phyllida Law, Penelope Horner
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Help! (86,88) BBC Joe Boyle
   Four no-hoper dole-ite scousers
   Stephen McGann, Jake Abrahams, Craig Charles
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Her Majesty's Pleasure (69) ITV(Granada) Leslie Duxbury
   Prison warders feel trapped too
   Ken Jones, John Sharp, John Nettleton, John Normington, Tommy Mann, 
   Neville Smith
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Here's Harry (61,62?,63,64) BBC Vince Powell & Harry Driver
			       , Frank Roscoe, & others
   Nice chap, Harry, but a bit of a bumbler
   Harry Worth
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Hi-De-Hi! (p80,81ab-,82x-,83-,84,x-86,86x,87,x-88) BBC 
	  Jimmy Perry & David Croft
   Holiday camp
   Paul Shane, Su Pollard, Ruth Madoc, Simon Cadell(-84), Jeffrey Holland, 
   David Griffin(84), Diane Holland, Barry Howard, Nikki Kelly, 
   Rikki Howard, Felix Bowness, Leslie Dwyer, The Webb Twins, 
   Chris Andrews, Susan Beagley
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High And Dry (87) ITV(Yorkshire) ?writer
   Bloke buys a derelict pier in 1946
   Bernard Cribbins, Richard Wilson, Vivienne Martin, Angus Barnett
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The High Life (p94,95) BBC Alan Cumming & Forbes Masson
   Glasgow air shuttle
   Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson, Siobhan Redmond, Patrick Ryecart
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Hilary (-85,86) BBC Peter Robinson & Peter Vincent
   Talk show producer's assistant
   Marti Caine, Philip Madoc, Jack Smethurst, Carolyn Moody, Philip Fox, 
   Owen Whittaker
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His And Hers (70,72) ITV(Yorkshire) Ken Hoare & Mike Sharland
  Freelance journalist stays home, accountant wife works in the City
  Ronald Lewis, Sue Lloyd->Barbara Murray, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Madeline Smith, 
  Norman Rossington
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His Lordship Entertains (72)  BBC  Jonathon(sp?) Cobbold = Ronnie Barker
   Lord converts ancestral home into hotel.
   Ronnie Barker, Josephine Tewson, David Jason
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HMS Paradise (64) ITV(AR) Maurice Wiltshire
   Royal Navy.  Was the tv version of radio's The Navy Lark
   Richard Caldicott, Robin Hunter, Ronald Radd, Frank Thornton
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Holding The Baby (97,98) ITV Henry Normal; 98 eps: MArk Wadlow, Chrsi Neil, ?
  Lone father
  Nick Hancock->Hugh Bonneville(98), Joe Duttine, Sally Phillips
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Holding The Fort (80,81,82) ITV(LWT) Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
   She's in the army, he stays home with the baby and brews beer
   Patricia Hodge, Peter Davison, Matthew Kelly
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Home James (87,88,89,90 or is that 89-90?) ITV Geoff McQueen
   Chauffeur; Spin off from "Up the Elephant and Round the Castle"
   Jim Davidson, George Sewell, Harry Towb, Vanessa Knox-Mawer(to88),
   Sherrie Hewson(to88), Juliette Grassby(90)
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Home To Roost (85,86,87x,89-) ITV(Yorkshire) Eric Chappell
   Son comes to live with long-divorced father
   John Thaw, Reece Dinsdale, Elizabeth Bennett(85,86), Joan Blackham(87)
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Honey For Tea (94) BBC Michael Aitkens
   American widow takes 20yr old son to college in Cambridge
   Felicity Kendal, Nigel Le Vaillant, Leslie Phillips, Alan David,
   Patrick McCollough
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Honky Tonk Heroes (81) ITV(ATV) Ray Connolly
   S London Country&Western club [3 1hour plays: may not count as sitcom]
   James Grout, Sheila Steafel
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Hope It Rains (91,92) ITV(Thames) John Esmonde & Bob Larbey
   Seaside waxworks owner and orphaned late teens god-daughter
   Tom Bell, Holly Aird, Eamon Boland
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Horace is listed as drama in Television's Greatest Hits
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Horne A'Plenty was a sketch show
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Hot Metal (86,88) ITV(LWT) Andrew Marshall & David Renwick
   Tabloid circulation wars
   Richard Wilson(88), Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Palmer(86), Richard Kane,
   Geoffrey Hutchings, John Gordon-Sinclair (86), Caroline Milmoe (88)
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The House Of Windsor (94) ITV various writers, including:
      Mark Wadlow,Russell T Davies, Chris Fewtrell&Zeddy Lawrence
   Behind the scenes at Buckingham Palace
   Warren Clarke, Leslie Phillips, Neil Stacy, Serena Gordon, Barry Howard,
   Sean Gallagher, Louise Germaine, Margaret Courtenay, Preston Lockwood
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The House That Jack Built (77) BBC Shelagh Delaney [?sitcom]
   newly married couple
   Duggie Brown & Sharon Duce
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How Do You Want Me? (98) BBC Simon Nye
   City comedian moves to his wife's small country village.
   Dylan Moran, Charlotte Coleman, Frank Finlay, Emma Chambers,
   Clive Merrison, Mark Heap, Geraldine McNulty
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How's Your Father? (74,75) ITV(Granada) John Stevenson
   Aging father lives with daughter and her husband
   Michael Robbins, Barbara Young, Nicholas Hoye, Georgina Moon, 
   Arthur English, Sheila Steafel
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How's Your Father? (79,80) ITV(YTV) Pam Valentine & Michael Ashton
   Widower with 2 teenage children
   Harry Worth, Debbie Cumming, Giles Watling
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Hugh And I (62,62,64,66) BBC John Chapman
   Two friends from Lobelia Avenue, Tooting, dreamers in pursuit of a 
	 quick million
   Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott, Mollie Sugden, Wendy Richard
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Hugh And I Spy (68) BBC John Chapman
   Two friends muddle their way through unlikely adventures
   Hugh Lloyd, Terry Scott
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