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A modern Dad's Army? Stupid boy...

Source: The Telegraph, Nov 14 2012, 12:30am CST

Forget Newsnight, George Entwistle and all that for a moment. The real BBC scandal is much, much worse: talks are under way to make a new film of the jewel in its archives, Dad’s Army. And, horror of horrors, Captain Mainw ...

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Hi-De-Hi! Star Paul Shane Dead At 72

Source: Female First  |   May 17 2013, 8:02pm CDT

The Hi-de-Hi! star passed away at a hospice in Rotherham, England on Thursday (16May13) after a short illness. A former miner, Shane became a club singer and comic after suffering an accident at a colliery in the late 1960s. His variety act ...

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Paul Shane

Source: The Telegraph  |   May 17 2013, 12:34pm CDT

Jimmy Perry, who co-wrote the series with David Croft, was watching Coronation Street in 1979 when he spotted Shane playing a minor character called Frank Roper, a Post Office official. The scene lasted only two minutes, but Per ...

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Paul Shane obituary

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   May 17 2013, 11:42am CDT

Bovis was always concocting scams – dodgy bingo, rigged raffles, embezzling the campers' amenity fund. Paul Shane, who has died aged 72 after a short illness, played the character in 58 episodes, from 1980 to 1988, and was ideally cast as the ...

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Paul Shane's TV career – in videos | Julia Raeside

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   May 17 2013, 9:05am CDT

Ted Bovis has gone to the big holiday camp in the sky. Paul Shane was a true entertainer in the old-fashioned sense of the word. He was the keystone of Jimmy Perry and David Croft's comedy repertory company, appearing in three of their big ...

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Hi-de-Hi!... Ho-de-Ho! 5 camp facts you might not know

Source: The First Post  |   May 17 2013, 5:33am CDT

THE ACTOR Paul Shane, who starred in the 1980s BBC sitcom Hi-de-Hi!, has died at the age of 72. Set in the fictional holiday camp of Maplin's in 1959, Hi-de-Hi! never made it into the annals of the finest British television comedy – but it was h ...

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