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| Books LLC : David Croft Co-Writers: Chesney and Wolfe, Jimmy Perry, Jeremy Lloyd, Richard Spendlove, Michael Knowles, John Stevenson | |
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David Croft Co-Writers: Chesney and Wolfe, Jimmy Perry, Jeremy Lloyd, Richard Spendlove, Michael Knowles, John Stevenson |
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English |
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Paperback |
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26 |
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2010-06-21 |
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1158367767 |
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Books LLC |
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0.11 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.04 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Ronald Chesney (born 1922) and Ronald Wolfe (born 8 August 1924) are British TV comedy screenwriters, best known for their popular 1960s / 1970s sitcoms The Rag Trade and On The Buses. Chesney left school at the age of 16 and became a professional harmonica player. He was declared unfit to serve in World War II because of illness. He began to write potential radio scripts for the BBC where he came into contact with future writing partner Ronald Wolfe. Wolfe was born in London and served in World War II as a radio engineer. In the early 1950s he began to contribute to radio scripts, and his long and fruitful partnership with Chesney began. Wolfe is the cousin of actor Warren Mitchell The first major television series for Chesney and Wolfe was ITV's Educating Archie, in 1958, which featured ventriloquist Peter Brough and his puppet Archie Andrews. Chesney and Wolfe were also involved in writing the original radio version of the series. Two years earlier in 1956 they had written a one-off special for the BBC entitled Here's Archie, which also featured Brough - and his dummy - and Irene Handl. In 1961 the duo created the influential The Rag Trade, starring Peter Jones, Miriam Karlin and Reg Varney. Written for the BBC, this comedy was set in a working class environment and featured strong roles for the female actors, which was unusual for the time. Set in a fabric workshop - Fenner Fashions - it centred on the battles and conflicts between the bosses and the workers, and contained a certain degree of social commentary. Sheila Hancock, Esma Cannon and Barbara Windsor also appeared. In 1963 Chesney and Wolfe repeated their success with the BBC sitcom Meet The Wife starring Dame Thora Hird and Freddie Frinton. It was originally a on... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=482945
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