Colin Bostock-Smith (born 1942)"I was born in 1942, so I was exactly the right age for rock and roll when it all happened. /ref> is a British television and radio comedy writer.
Early career
Until the age of 30, he was a journalist, noting in a review of an early performance by
The Beatles
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("four young men with four fringes, three guitars, and some drums") that they were "not nearly as bad as they might have been".http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/environment/in-focus-she-loved-them-yeah-yeah-yeah-1-151119 He later edited the music newspaper '' Top Pops''. However, he always had—in his words—"this feeling that I would like to write comedy", starting in this area with contributions to the
BBC Radio 4
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show '' Week Ending''.
Bostock-Smith has contributed to a significant number of British television comedies. In a 2008 interview, he noted that he was the sole writer of all 41 episodes of the early-1980s ITV sitcom '' Metal Mickey'', and claims to be most proud of his work on '' Not the Nine O'Clock News'' and the sitcom '' Me and My Girl''.
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* Metal Mickey (Wrote all 41 episodes)
* Terry and June
* Week Ending
* Punchlines (for
BBC Radio 2
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My Sainted Aunt
My or MY may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* My (radio station), a Malaysian radio station
* Little My, a fictional character in the Moomins universe
* ''My'' (album), by Edyta Górniak
* ''My'' (EP), by Cho Mi-yeon
Business
* Market ...
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The Krankies
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* '' As Time Goes By'' (Bostock-Smith claims he only came up with the original concept, saying "I’ve never written a word of it. .I didn’t even write the title. It was my idea, you see.")