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Sitcom trivia - help needed please



Does anyone know of any other UK sitcoms where the lead characters use their actual Christian names in the parts they play?

Such as:-

"Terry and June" - Terry and June! (Terry Scott and June Whitfield)

"Hugh and I" - Hugh and Terry (Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott)

"Hancock" - Tony and Sid (Tony Hancock and Sid James)

"Citizen James" - Sydney (Sid James)

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It looks like Hylda Baker played a number of characters called Hylda in sitcoms, but the name isn't in the title so don't know if that's any good.

The Goodies used their real names in the series.

Lee Mack and Tim Vine's characters in Not Going Out are called Lee and Tim.

Hello to Jason Isaacs

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Thank you for that!

I did remember Lee and Tim eventually!

As for Hylda Baker, yes, she did use her name in early sitcoms but the better known ones Not On Your Nellie and Nearest and Dearest she was known in both as Nellie - with different surnames.

Thank you once again though, as you are the only person who has replied!

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You're very welcome. Always happy to help if I can.

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Terry and June also used their own names in Happy Ever After, which was shown before Terry And June , and they're basically the same characters
Jim Davidson was in at least a couple of 70s/80s sitcoms playing a Jim - Home James and Up The Elephant, Round The Castle

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Thank you! :>)

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Life's Too Short
Meet The Wife
Thicker Than Water
(some of these go back a bit!)

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Thank you! :>)

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It's stretching the point a bit but Richard (Rik) Mayall and Adrian (Ade) Edmondson frequently appeared under their own names or modified versions thereof. The Dangerous Brothers was obviously not a sitcom but they called themselves Richard and Sir Adrian Dangerous. Following that, they appeared in various sitcoms frequently as characters called, respectively, Rick/Richie, and Ade/Adie/Eddie. When asked about this adherence to their real names, Rik Mayall explained that they were just too fncki*g lazy to remember different character names when acting together.

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