No major revamps happened from then until 1998, when Dennis ' baby sister Bea was born.

The first draft, entitled " Decretum de Judaeis " (" Decree on the Jews "), was completed in November 1961, approximately fourteen months after Cardinal Bea was commissioned by Pope John XXIII.

Another of Marsden's personas was Bea Clissold, Lady Counterblast, who starred in a series of sketches in the first series under the title The Clissold Saga, and who invariably managed to introduce her " many, many times " sexual innuendo.

Perhaps her most famous catchphrase was " many, many, many times ", delivered in the dry, reedy tones of Bea Clissold, the ancient actress who was renowned for having given pleasure to many, particularly in " The Little Hut " on Shaftsbury Avenue.

Anthropologists ( such as Bea Medicine ) have documented important social and cultural connections between quilting and earlier important pre-reservation crafting traditions such as women's quill-working societies and other crafting traditions that were difficult to sustain after hunting and off-reservation travel was restricted by the US government.

Whatever the real reason was, in one famous episode, George stops a conversation between Harry ( Clark ) and Blanche ( Bea Benadaret ) and claims that Clark wanted too much money for being on the show, and was being fired.

While doing Husband, veteran character actors Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet had played Rudolph and Iris Atterbury, an older, more financially stable couple as Mr. Atterbury was George Cooper's ( Lucy's radio husband's ) boss.

The book Poem of the Man God received praise from Pope Pius XII's confessor ( Augustin Bea ), and was presented to Pius XII during a special audience in 1948 in which he reportedly approved it, and the Servite priests present signed an affidavit to that effect.

The disease was isolated in The Netherlands in 1921 by Bea Schwarz, a pioneering Dutch phytopathologist, and this discovery would lend the disease its name.

" As Jones was unable to get Foray to play the role, Bea Benaderet supplied the witch's voice.

The owner of the house is a widow named Blanche Devereaux ( Rue McClanahan ), who was joined by fellow widow Rose Nylund ( Betty White ) and divorcée Dorothy Zbornak ( Bea Arthur ).

In March 2010, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences caused controversy when Fawcett was excluded from the " In Memoriam " montage at the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, along with fellow television stars Bea Arthur, Gene Barry and Ed McMahon.

Bea was the tough, ambivalent yet maternal leader, softened after being a mostly unsympathetic character in the 1979 episodes.

Initially introduced solely for the storyline concerning Sharon ( and serving as an opponent for Bea during her stay ), Judy was received well enough by viewers for her to remain in the series as a regular, and stayed as part of the core group of prisoners ( and becoming Bea's unofficial " second in command " in the process ), and eventually became the show's longest serving inmate ( with a few spells on the outside ), and the second longest running character behind Elspeth Ballantyne's portrayal of Meg Jackson, later Morris.

Whilst the series did offer upbeat storylines, where some characters, such as Karen Travers during the 1979 run, made it, it also made clear that for some, like Bea and Lizzie, prison life was the only option.

Notable storylines during the " Bea, Lizzie and Doreen " era of the show ( late-1979 – late-1981 ) included the 1979 cliffhanger involving a terrorist raid on the prison in which governor Erica Davidson was shot and wounded.

Parole Officer Meg was informed by Mum that Bea had sought her help the night before.

The police busted in on Mum, Meg and Bea, who only just had reappeared asking for help again and Mum was passing her money.

Bea was hospitalised for a kidney transplant operation, Lizzie was briefly paroled and Doreen and Judy were temporarily transferred to Barnhurst.

Bea Smith was soon awake to Joan's villainy, and the two became deadly enemies.

The 1983 season was mainly characterised by a high turnover of short-term characters and storylines, but continued the rivalry between Bea and the Freak.

In issue 3185 Tin Can Tommy met Bea, Dennis the Menace's baby sister.

She changed her name briefly to Bea Baker when recording for Okeh Records in 1951, and then became LaVern Baker when singing with Todd Rhodes and his band in 1952.

Both survived when Paddy, having crawled through the ducting system, found them and gave Ferguson the keys – on the condition she carry the unconscious Bea to safety.

Due to the huge popularity of the show when shown in the UK in the late 1980s, the British Prisoner fan club organised successful personal appearance tours for several actresses, including Val Lehman ( Bea Smith ), Carol Burns ( Franky Doyle ), Betty Bobbitt ( Judy Bryant ), Sheila Florance ( Lizzie Birdsworth ), Amanda Muggleton ( Chrissie Latham ) and Judy McBurney ( Pixie Mason ).

However, when Dennis the Menace was revamped to match the new TV series a year later, Bea and Ivy were split up and she reverted back to being a solo strip, again being reprinted Nixon strips, but this time the two page stories from 1998 onwards were used.

In the fourth episode when Betty Jo gives birth to Kathy Jo, Bea provided only her voice.

According to Filmways Publicist Ted Switzer, series creator and producer Paul Henning had decided to cast Bea Benaderet as Granny ; however, when Ryan read for the role, “ with her hair tied back in a bun and feisty as all get out, she just blew everyone away .” Al Simon ( executive producer ) and Henning immediately said: “ That ’ s Granny .” Later when Benaderet saw Ryan's tryout, she agreed.

Bea wonders who will take over the Centre when they're gone, but Kate is happy to take over.

Following her father's death, she returns to NYC and starts a relationship with Bea, whose heart she ends up breaking when she decides to move to Mexico to get away from McCarthyism.

When Tony repeats the inspector's suspicions, Bea wonders if he may be right when they identify the last call was received after hearing the Italy trip was cancelled.

Kit, Tony and Aunt Bea are at the ballet when Tony's assistant Daniel Graham calls him away to tell him it appears £ 1 million has been embezzled from the firm.

For a while, she dated lesbian lawyer Rosa, but the relationship ended when she made Bea choose between her and Mauri after her son, Ezequiel, was born.

In the end, they broke up when Bea choose to go with Mauri to Diego and Abel's wedding ( to give him emotional support ) instead of going with Rosa to meet her family.

Nea Cruz Fontanilla ( Claudine Barretto ) and Jasmin Cruz Fontanilla ( Bea Alonzo ) are sisters, although they haven ’ t seen each other since Nea was five – when Nea ’ s father Larry ( Noni Buencamino ) abandoned her and her mother Elena ( Jacklyn Jose ) to live with the rich Yolanda ( Carmi Martin ).

Jasper tells Grampa that Bea died of a burst ventricle when Grampa was out with the family.

Similarly, Rita Jones's personality was based on Bea Smith, Crystal Fox shared the characteristics of nymphomaniac Marilyn Mason, and Cissie Johnson's daughter rejected her just as Mum's daughter disowned her when she was released in Prisoner.

In Bea Arthur's Tony Award-nominated one-woman show, Just Between Friends, which she played on Broadway and in London's West End, Arthur performs Pierce's favorite joke, A Mother's Ingenuity.

Within a year, her father and Pullman decide that she should marry Pullman, and shortly thereafter Bea becomes pregnant.

Delilah is a master waffle-maker, and Bea capitalizes on Delilah's skills to open first a single " B. Pullman " waffle restaurant, from which she eventually builds a nation-wide and then international chain of highly successful restaurants.

Shorty George and Big Bea had a move, where they stood back-to-back ; they locked arms ; Big Bea bent over, picking Shorty George up on her back ; and then she carried him off the floor, while he kicked his feet.

Other characters include Megan, Marvin's cousin ; Janet, who is Megan's mother and Jenny's sister ( she and her husband were divorced ); Ming Ming, Janet's adopted daughter from China ; and Bea and Roy, Marvin's grandparents.

Parkins had always intended that the character would be called " Bea " ( short for Beatrice ), taken partly from the comic's name and evidenced in the yellow-and-black striped romper suit / onesie she was seen wearing in her first appearance.

In 1979, Michael Bennett cast Loudon as Bea Asher, a widow who becomes romantically involved with a mail carrier she meets at the local dance hall, in Ballroom.

Another famous alumna was the late Rue McClanahan, ( Margaret Jardin ) who went on to bigger fame in Maude playing Maude Findlay's scatterbrained friend, Vivian Cavender Harmon ; and later reteamed with Bea Arthur on The Golden Girls, where she played the lusty Blanche Devereaux.

Marion asks Bea to return to England with her: with Bea's eyesight, she can't continue much longer, and Marion has a huge empty house to share.

When she arrives at the plantation, she is let through the gates, and everyone comes to greet her, excluding Bea who has dropped her glasses.

The insurgents bring Dominica and Christina inside, and interrupt Bea in the hallway where she is trying to make a phone call.

She guest-starred on The Red Skelton Show show, made an appearance in an episode of " Murder, She Wrote " (" If The Frame Fits ") and made an appearance in an episode of The Simpsons (" Old Money "), wherein she voiced the role of Bea Simmons, Grandpa Simpson's girlfriend.

In 2007 she guest-starred in two Doctor Who spin-off adventures: as Bea Nelson-Stanley in The Sarah Jane Adventures story " Eye of the Gorgon " and as Beldonia in the audio drama Doctor Who: The Bride of Peladon.

In 1947, together with former Group Theatre members Elia Kazan and Robert Lewis, she founded The Actor's Studio, which trained Marlon Brando, James Dean, Jerome Robbins, Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Bea Arthur, and many more.

She is featured as main character Daffy Duck's blonde girlfriend in several cartoon shorts but is only referred to as Melissa in one, The Scarlet Pumpernickel, where she is voiced by Bea Benaderet.