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name | Geoffrey Perkins |
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birth name | Geoffrey Howard Perkins |
birth date | February 22, 1953 |
birth place | Bushey, Hertfordshire, England |
death date | August 29, 2008 |
death place | London, England |
years active | 1972 – 2008 |
occupation | Comedy writer, producer and performer |
baftaawards | Best Comedy Programme or Series1995 ''Father Ted'' |
spouse | Lisa Braun (m. 1986-2008) |
parents | }} |
In mid-1977, Perkins produced the first series of Douglas Adams' ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' for BBC Radio 4, taking over from pilot-producer Simon Brett. Perkins assisted the notoriously slow writer in finishing the scripts, before John Lloyd "was drafted in to write large sections of the later episodes." Perkins also drew "on the resources of the Radiophonic Workshop" to help create the groundbreaking audio effects for the series.
In 1986, Perkins married Lisa Braun, "a BBC studio manager on ''The Hitch-Hiker's Guide''."
In 1980, Perkins co-wrote and featured in the radio sketch show ''Radio Active'', revised and adapted from the early Oxford Revue shows, and initially based around the comedy parody group The Hee Bee Gee Bees, consisting of Philip Pope, Angus Deayton and Michael Fenton Stevens. Prior to its leap from the revue to the radio, the production toured and appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, after which it was picked up by BBC Radio 4 for a pilot called ''The Oxford Revue Presents Radio Active''. ''Radio Active'', "which poked fun at the amateurishness of some local radio broadcasting," went on to run for seven series, and won a Sony Award. Perkins featured as a character called Mike Flex, a young cocky disc jockey.
Perkins, with Deayton, wrote much of the series and later saw it transferred to BBC2 television as the Grand Prix and Silver Rose of Montreux-winner ''KYTV''.
In 2005 he cameoed in the fourth radio series of ''Hitchhiker's'' (The Quandary Phase), as the producer of the radio show Arthur Dent worked on. Essentially playing a fictional version of himself from the first series with a fictional version of writer Douglas Adams.
Perkins meticulously read 30 new scripts every week, but "found himself culturally marginalised at the BBC," saying: :"Unfortunately, the term sitcom implies a great disdain. People say it with a curl of their lips." Under Director General John Birt, Perkins also felt "hamstrung by the inevitable bureaucracy," which not only hindered programme-making, but saw Perkins spending "more time on budgets" than more creative pursuits.
Perkins felt that the changes in how the BBC was run
During Perkins' time as Head of Comedy, the BBC produced such hits including ''Coupling,'' ''The Thin Blue Line,'' ''Jonathan Creek,'' ''The Fast Show,'' ''The Royle Family'' and ''My Family.''. Perkins also personally "persuaded David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst to star in a fresh series of the 1980s classic ''Only Fools and Horses'', the first of which was screened at Christmas 2001."
For Tiger Aspect, Perkins produced programmes including ''The Catherine Tate Show'' for the BBC, and ''Benidorm'' for ITV.
In addition to starring in ''KYTV'', Perkins appeared in small cameo roles in several of the comedy programmes he produced, including ''Father Ted'', ''Operation Good Guys'', ''One Foot in the Grave'' and ''The Catherine Tate Show''.
Perkins died from injuries after an accident involving a lorry in Marylebone High Street, London, on 29 August 2008. A coroners' inquest in April 2009 revealed that Perkins had suffered from an undiagnosed case of channelopathies, which caused his heart to stop suddenly. The inquest ruled that Perkins had likely already died when he fell under the wheels of the lorry. The coroner recorded that he died from "natural causes".
On 5 September 2008 Perkins' last production for the BBC and Tiger Aspect - the second series of ''Harry and Paul'' - was aired. The first show was dedicated to his memory. In place of the usual closing credits, the show featured a short tribute to him and concluded with an out-take of Perkins forgetting his lines in a sketch absent from the transmitted series.
On 8 November 2008, BBC Two aired an evening of programmes in tribute to Perkins, comprising episodes of ''The Catherine Tate Show'', ''Father Ted'' (a Channel 4 programme which the BBC was given special permission to broadcast as part of the tribute) and ''The Fast Show'', together with a special edition of ''Comedy Connections'' about Perkins' career in comedy.
He was posthumously awarded the ''Outstanding Contribution to Comedy'' award at the British Comedy Awards on 6 December 2008.
The recipients of both the BAFTAs awarded on 27 April 2009 to ''Harry and Paul'' for Best Comedy Programme and to ''The IT Crowd'' for Best Situation Comedy dedicated their awards to Perkins.
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name | Can I Get a Witness |
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artist | Marvin Gaye |
album | Greatest Hits |
b-side | "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby" |
released | September 1963 |
format | 7" single |
recorded | July 17, 1963; Hitsville U.S.A.(Detroit, Michigan) |
genre | Soul, rock and roll |
length | 2:53 |
label | TamlaT 54087 |
writer | Holland–Dozier–Holland |
producer | Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier |
last single | "Pride and Joy"(1963) |
this single | "Can I Get a Witness"(1963) |
next single | "You're a Wonderful One"(1964) }} |
Category:1963 singles Category:Marvin Gaye songs Category:Songs written by Holland–Dozier–Holland Category:Motown singles
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