Corbett said he had " a mastery of the English language ".

Many of the jokes revolved around his lack of height, with him delivering many of them himself: when Barker said that the next part " does suit Ronnie C. right down to the ground ", Corbett replied " Mind you, that's not far is it ?".

On Ronnie Barker's death on 3 October 2005, Ronnie Corbett is reported to have said that throughout their many years of association there was never an angry word between them.

James J. Corbett said of Jeffries, " The thing the always impressed me was the speed the youngster had, and he weighed two-hundred-twenty-five pounds.

Corbett is known to have said that " the best actor was the tiger ".

Darrell is said to haunt the site of his death, known as Darrell's stile ( or Style, as well as the church at Ramsbury, two miles away ), although one famed clairvoyant, Tom Corbett, detected nothing of the sort.

Corbett was shown the staff appreciation, and said I ' read it with increasing wonder till at last I felt it my duty to convey to the Admiralty that such a grotesque account of the battle certainly ought not to go out as their considered verdict '.

They were also in the team of writers working for The Frost Report, whose other members included Frank Muir, Barry Cryer, Marty Feldman, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Dick Vosburgh and future Monty Python members Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Eric Idle.

He co-wrote the much-repeated Class sketch with John Law, in which Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett faced the audience, with their descending order of height suggesting their relative social status as upper class ( Cleese ), middle class ( Barker ) and working class ( Corbett ).

Barker got his television break with the satirical sketch series The Frost Report in 1966 where he met future collaborator Ronnie Corbett.

After rejoining the BBC Barker found fame with the sketch show The Two Ronnies ( 1971 – 1987 ) with Ronnie Corbett.

Each episode of the show, which was performed and broadcast live, was focused on a single topic and principally revolved around a continuous monologue from Frost, with sketches from Barker, Corbett and Cleese as the show went on.

Barker starred alongside Cleese and Corbett in The Frost Report < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s best known sketch, which satirised the British class system, with Barker representing the middle class.

With a second series of the show announced, Frost, recognising their potential, signed both Barker and Corbett up to his production company David Paradine Productions.

There, Frost hosted Frost on Sunday, with Barker and Corbett following and again performing sketches on the programme.

Barker and Corbett had a greater role on the show than on The Frost Report and Corbett felt " more aware of what were doing.

In order to maintain the deception, Barker had criticised material he himself had submitted under the pseudonym ; when a Wiley-credited sketch about a ventriloquist had been poorly received by the audience Barker told Corbett " Well, Gerald Wiley let us down there ", and on another occasion, when looking at a script, " I don't understand this line.

Barker encouraged Corbett to buy the rights to the sketch and, further maintaining the myth, told him to reject Wiley's ' request ' for £ 3, 000 as too expensive, before giving Corbett the sketch for free.

Barker, who had told Corbett earlier in the day, stood up and announced he was Wiley, although initially nobody believed him.

Despite Barker's success on ITV, LWT's programme controller Stella Richman opted to fire Frost's company Paradine and as Barker was contracted to the company rather than the network, he lost his job, as did Corbett.

Soon after, Barker, Corbett and Josephine Tewson performed a sketch about Henry VIII at the 1971 BAFTAs, with Barker playing Henry.

" Barker and Corbett wished to avoid being remembered primarily as a duo, and felt they could not work in the same way as a conventional double act like Morecambe and Wise, and so each maintained their solo careers as well.

The end catchphrase and newsreader characters were devised because Barker found it difficult to appear as himself: Corbett explained that Barker " was a very private man, a quiet man ...

Within eight months of Captain Video's debut, two other landmark series were launched-Tom Corbett, Space Cadet ( 8 / 50-6 / 55 ) and Space Patrol ( 3 / 50-2 / 55 ).

Both were killed by hunter Jim Corbett.

This juvenile novel inspired Joseph Greene of Grosset & Dunlap to develop the Tom Corbett, Space Cadet comic books, television series, radio show, comic strip, and novels that were popular in the early 1950s.

In 2005, he and Corbett were part of the first 100 people given stars on London's Avenue of Stars.

While Nelson and fellow MST3K alum Kevin Murphy were part of the cast when MST3K riffed on Manos, their fellow Rifftrax star Bill Corbett nor their writers were not involved in the original episode ; the riffing was expected to be all new.

Over time the area in the reserve was increased — were added in 1991 as a buffer for the Corbett Tiger Reserve.

After Corbett was dropped from the show after the fourth season ( allegedly due to contract disputes between Universal, which owned her contract, and Cherokee Productions, Garner's company ), a new legal adviser ( John " Coop " Cooper, a disbarred attorney who befriends Jim ), and a new romantic interest ( Kathryn Harrold as Dr. Megan Dougherty ) for Rockford were added.

Corbett and Barker were beginning to be thought of as a pair.

As a result, Barker and Corbett were given their own show by the BBC.

There were four modern-day mystery serials featuring the comic detective characters " Piggy Malone " ( Barker ) and " Charley Farley " ( Corbett ).

Another regular feature of the shows was an elaborate musical finale in which Barker and Corbett – often in drag – and company would sing a medley of songs in character, in barbershop, music hall, Gilbert and Sullivan or other styles, with the original words altered to suit whatever comic situation they were portraying.

In late 1940, Corbett and her assistant were charged with violations of the Medical Practice Act of California for treating eyes without a licence.

In the cast were Leonora Corbett as Elvira, Mildred Natwick as Madame Arcati, Clifton Webb as Charles and Peggy Wood as Ruth.

Ronnie Corbett commented that the characters as portrayed in the radio series were " well drawn-out ".

In addition to the annual team-up episodes, Power Rangers Wild Force also had a special episode commemorating it as the tenth incarnation, Forever Red, by having Cole team up with the nine Red Rangers before him, ( in order of incarnations, Jason Lee Scott, Aurico, Tommy Oliver, Theodore J. Jarvis Johnson, Andros, Leo Corbett, Carter Grayson, Wesley Collins and Eric Myers ), in order to prevent the remaining generals of the Machine Empire ( the costumes used were actually from Big Bad Beetleborgs and Beetleborgs Metallix ) from unearthing and reactivating Lord Zedd's zord, Serpentera, which had been left buried on the moon.

Schachner's first eleven stories were all written with Zagat, and after their collaboration dissolved he wrote under his own name and the pseudonyms Chan Corbett and Walter Glamis.

From 1969 – 97 the Tucson Toros were Tucson's Triple-A baseball club, playing at Hi Corbett Field in midtown Tucson.

On May 21, 1891, Corbett fought Peter " Black Prince " Jackson, a much-heralded bout between cross-town rivals, since Corbett and Jackson were boxing instructors at San Francisco's two most prestigious athletic clubs.