Some may know him from his work on Reginald Perrin he also wrote for The Two Ronnies, Ken Dodd and Frankie Howerd along with Kenneth Williams, Les Dawson and on the show That Was The Week That Was. He also wrote A Bit of a Do.
Interestingly for me he worked as a journalist on the Sheffield Star newspaper.
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