William "Bill" MacDonald, was a Scottish heavyweight wrestling champion, and was the father of actor Kenneth MacDonald, who was most famous for playing the role of Mike Fisher in the British sitcom "Only Fools and Horses", a British television sitcom created and written by John Sullivan, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired, until the end of the show in which year?
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Bill MacDonald (wrestler) William "Bill" MacDonald (c.1920/1921 – 1964) was a Scottish heavyweight wrestling champion. He was the father of actor Kenneth MacDonald (1950-2001). Kenneth was most famous for playing the role of Mike Fisher in the British sitcom "Only Fools and Horses" (1981-2003).
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Only Fools and Horses Only Fools and Horses is a British television sitcom created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired until the end of the show in 2003. Episodes are regularly repeated on UKTV comedy channel Gold, Yesterday and occasionally repeated on BBC One.
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Don't Spare the Horses Don't Spare the Horses was a British television comedy series which aired on the BBC during 1952. It featured Jimmy James, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, and Spike Milligan. It aired live for three episodes. These live transmissions were not recorded, as the BBC very rarely telerecorded shows prior to the mid-1950s.
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Norm Macdonald Norman Gene Macdonald (born October 17, 1959) is a Canadian stand-up comedian, writer, producer and actor. He is known for his five seasons as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live", which included anchoring "Weekend Update" for three years. Early in his career, he wrote for the sitcom "Roseanne" and made appearances on shows including "The Drew Carey Show" and "NewsRadio". He starred in "The Norm Show" from 1999 to 2001. Comedy Central named him #83 on the five-part miniseries "100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time" . His brother is Canadian journalist Neil Macdonald, of CBC News.
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Highlands (TV series) Highlands is a 6-part documentary series produced by STV Productions ("then known as "SMG Productions"") and broadcast on STV in Northern and Central Scotland and The History Channel (UK), presented by "Taggart" actor John Michie.
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To Hull and Back "To Hull and Back" is the fourth Christmas special episode of the BBC sitcom, "Only Fools and Horses", first screened on 25 December 1985. It was the first feature-length edition of the show. The title of the special is derived from the film "To Hell and Back". Parts of the special were shot on location in Amsterdam and unlike most other episodes was shot entirely on film and therefore not before a studio audience (making it laugh-track free). In the episode, the Trotters agree to smuggle diamonds from Amsterdam for Boycie.
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Rutland Weekend Television Rutland Weekend Television (RWT) was a television sketch show on BBC2, written by Eric Idle with music by Neil Innes. Two series were broadcast, the first consisting of six episodes in 1975, and the second series of seven episodes in 1976. A Christmas special was broadcast on Boxing Day 1975.
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Bernard McKenna (writer) Bernard McKenna (born 1944) is a Scottish writer/producer who has written, or co-written, many hours of British television comedy. He is most known for his work with Graham Chapman of "Monty Python" fame as well as his collaborations with Peter Cook and Douglas Adams. He had several acting roles in "Monty Python's Life of Brian".
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Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland spans over one hundred years but became popular when the then new independent television network ITV began showing it in 1955, firstly on Saturday afternoons and then also in a late-night midweek slot. It was at its peak of popularity when the television show "World of Sport" was launched in the mid-1960s, making household names out of Adrian Street, Mick McManus, Count Bartelli, Giant Haystacks, Jackie Pallo, Big Daddy, Steve Veidor, Dynamite Kid, and Kendo Nagasaki.
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A Garfield Christmas A Garfield Christmas Special is a 1987 American animated television special based on the "Garfield" comic strip, created by Jim Davis. It is directed by Phil Roman and stars Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield the house cat, as well as Thom Huge, Gregg Berger and Julie Payne. The special is about Garfield spending Christmas with the Arbuckle family on their farm, and discovering the true meaning of Christmas.
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List of Father Ted episodes This is an episode guide for the sitcom "Father Ted" created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan. The series aired on British broadcaster Channel 4 between 21 April 1995 and 1 May 1998.
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Kenny Williams (wrestler) Alan Niddrie is a Scottish professional wrestler better known by his ring name Kenny Williams. Niddrie is active in multiple promotions across the United Kingdom and Europe, such as PROGRESS Wrestling, Premier British Wrestling, Preston City Wrestling, British Championship Wrestling, and Scottish Wrestling Alliance but is best known for his work in Insane Championship Wrestling, where he is three-time ICW Zero-G Champion.
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Tom, Dick and Harriet Tom, Dick and Harriet is a British sitcom that was broadcast for two series from 1982 to 1983. It was created by the sitcom writing team of Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, and it starred veteran actor Lionel Jeffries in one of his few television roles, only seven months after his previous TV sitcom role in "Father Charlie", Ian Ogilvy (who had a few years before been cast as Simon Templar a.k.a. The Saint in "Return of the Saint"), and Brigit Forsyth (best known for her role as Thelma Ferris in "The Likely Lads"/"Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?").
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Homesick (Only Fools and Horses) "Homesick" is an episode of the BBC sitcom, "Only Fools and Horses". It was the first episode of series 3, and was first broadcast on 10 November 1983. In the episode Rodney is appointed chairman of the local Tenants Association, and Del expects him to use his influence to secure a move to a council bungalow.
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Lenny McLean Leonard John McLean (9 April 1949 – 28 July 1998), also known as "The Guv'nor," was an English boxer, bouncer, criminal and prisoner, author, businessman, bodyguard, enforcer, weightlifter, television presenter and actor, and has been referred to as "the hardest man in Britain".
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List of Dempsey and Makepeace episodes The following is a list of episodes from the British television series "Dempsey and Makepeace". It ran for three series between 11 January 1985 and 1 November 1986. A total of 30 episodes were produced. The series was devised by Tony Wharmby who also produced the first two series. The third was produced by Ranald Graham. The series was produced by LWT in a joint venture with Golden Eagle films and originally transmitted in the UK on ITV.
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Funnybones Funnybones (Welsh: Y Sgerbyde) is a Welsh/British children's television comedy series, which originally aired in Welsh on S4C, and English on BBC One, from 29 September to 15 December 1992. It was based on the eponymous series of nine storybooks, by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, which were illustrated by André Amstutz, and focused on the adventures of a gang of skeletons who were the eponymous "Funnybones". There was "Big Funnybone" (whose catchphrase was "Good idea."), "Little Funnybone" (who was the brains of the group), "(White, White) Dog ("These Bones") Funnybone" (whose catchphrase was "Woof.") and "(Black, Black) Cat" (whose catchphrase was "Meow."). Each of the show's twelve episodes was five minutes in length. The voices were provided by popular comedian Griff Rhys Jones, who also sang the theme song as the "Moon Man".
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Christmas Crackers (Only Fools and Horses) "Christmas Crackers" is the first Christmas special episode of the BBC sit-com, "Only Fools and Horses", first screened on 28 December 1981, three days after Christmas. It is the first episode to run over 30 minutes, but not the first feature-length.
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The Saturday Night Armistice The Saturday Night Armistice (later The Friday Night Armistice, plus the one-off The Election Night Armistice) was a British satirical television comedy programme presented by Armando Iannucci with Peter Baynham and David Schneider, which ran from 1995 to 1999.
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The True Meaning of Christmas Specials The True Meaning of Christmas Specials is a Canadian television Christmas special, hosted by Dave Foley. It was first broadcast on CBC Television on December 22, 2002.
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John Sullivan (writer) John Richard Thomas Sullivan, OBE (23 December 1946 – 22 April 2011), was a British television scriptwriter responsible for several British sitcoms, including "Only Fools and Horses", "Citizen Smith" and "Just Good Friends".
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Christmas Night with the Stars Christmas Night with the Stars was a television show broadcast each Christmas night by the BBC from 1958 to 1972 (with the exception of 1961, 1965 and 1966). The show was hosted each year by a leading star of BBC TV and featured specially made short seasonal editions (typically about 10 minutes long) of the previous year's most popular BBC sitcoms and light entertainment programs. Most of the variety segments no longer exist in accordance with the BBC's policy of wiping at the time, prevalent into the late 1970s.