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"A bit surprised there&#39;s no mention of either <i>Whose Line is it Anyway?</i>, which featured an all-star cast of established and up-and-coming British comics (including Stephen Fry and Eddie Izzard) and helped catapult TV improv to the mainstream or <i>Keeping Up Appearances</i>, which skewers the very Heritage Park History and British Imperial nostalgia you&#39;ve been so apt at critiquing here so far. Both shows became big breakouts in the US too, with <i>Keeping Up Appearances</i> becoming a PBS staple and <i>Whose Line...?</i> of course getting a blockbuster ABC remake. <br /><br /><i>Keeping Up Appearances</i> even had a huge amount of cast bleed-over with <i>Doctor Who</i>, especially in the 1980s, with Clive Swift showing up in both &quot;Revelation of the Daleks&quot; and &quot;Voyage of the Damned&quot;, Judy Cornwell getting an amusing turn in &quot;Paradise Towers&quot;, Geoffrey Hughes appearing as an alias of the Valeyard in the last part of &quot;Trial of a Time Lord&quot; and Patricia Routledge even being tapped to play Helen A in &quot;The Happiness Patrol&quot;."
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