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===Television=== [[Image:Silvey-bernard-cribbens.jpg|thumb|180px|Cribbins with [[Susie Silvey]] during the filming of ''[[Cuffy (TV series)|Cuffy]]''|left]] Cribbins was the star of the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] series ''Cribbins'' (1969β70).<ref name="Screenonline">{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/491092/ |title=BFI Screenonline: Cribbins, Bernard (1928β) Biography |website=[[Screenonline]] |access-date=12 May 2014 |archive-date=24 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024151506/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/491092/ |url-status=live }}</ref> His other TV appearances include ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' (1968), ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'' (1975, as the spoon salesman Mr Hutchinson who is mistaken by the character [[Basil Fawlty]] for a hotel inspector),<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 July 2022 |title=Bernard Cribbins, star of The Railway Children and Doctor Who, dies aged 93 |url=https://www.itv.com/news/2022-07-28/bernard-cribbins-star-of-the-railway-children-and-doctor-who-dies-aged-93 |access-date=28 July 2022 |website=[[ITV News]] |archive-date=28 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728220406/https://www.itv.com/news/2022-07-28/bernard-cribbins-star-of-the-railway-children-and-doctor-who-dies-aged-93 |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Worzel Gummidge]]'' (1980), ''[[Shillingbury Tales]]'' (1980) and its spin-off ''[[Cuffy (TV series)|Cuffy]]'' (1983).<ref name=Coveney/> Besides voicing ''The Wombles'', Cribbins was a regular on BBC children's television in the 1970s as host of performance panel game ''Star Turn'' and ''Star Turn Challenge''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Star Turn (1978) |url=https://www.ravensbourne.ac.uk/bbc-motion-graphics-archive/star-turn-1978 |access-date=28 July 2022 |website=[[Ravensbourne University London]] |archive-date=28 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728220439/https://www.ravensbourne.ac.uk/bbc-motion-graphics-archive/star-turn-1978 |url-status=live }}</ref> These programmes concluded with Cribbins narrating a detective story as recurring character "Ivor Notion", with a script usually by [[Johnny Ball]] but sometimes by [[Myles Rudge]], the co-writer of his Top 10 singles. He starred in the [[BBC]]'s 1975 Christmas production ''Great Big Groovy Horse'', a rock opera based on the story of the [[Trojan Horse]] shown on [[BBC Two|BBC2]] alongside [[Julie Covington]] and [[Paul Jones (singer)|Paul Jones]].<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/612ffe3510ec4d1997059601247c58a0 |title=Great Big Groovy Horse β BBC Two England β 25 December 1975 |issue=2719 |pages=51 |journal=Radio Times |access-date=17 December 2016 |date=18 December 1975 |archive-date=11 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711100447/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/612ffe3510ec4d1997059601247c58a0 |url-status=live }}</ref> It was later repeated on [[BBC1]] in 1977.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c8a45fab0e7f4d099b95b367346c3d5b |title=Great Big Groovy Horse β BBC One London β 21 December 1977 |issue=2823 |pages=47 |journal=Radio Times |access-date=17 December 2016 |date=15 December 1977 |archive-date=11 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711100619/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c8a45fab0e7f4d099b95b367346c3d5b |url-status=live }}</ref> He regularly appeared on BBC TV's [[The Good Old Days (UK TV series)|''The Good Old Days'']] recreating songs made famous by the great stars of Music Hall.<ref>{{cite web |title=Star Turn Challenge [01/10/78] |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b84f24bc6 |website=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=25 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209222458/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b84f24bc6 |archive-date=9 December 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Star Turn |url=http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Star_Turn |website=UK Game Shows.com |access-date=25 April 2013 |archive-date=29 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029205538/http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Star_Turn |url-status=live }}</ref> Among his later TV appearances were ''[[Dalziel and Pascoe]]'' (1999),<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Whitmore |first=Greg |date=28 July 2022 |title=Bernard Cribbins: a life in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2022/jul/28/bernard-cribbins-a-life-in-pictures |access-date=28 July 2022 |website=[[The Guardian]] |archive-date=28 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728220358/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2022/jul/28/bernard-cribbins-a-life-in-pictures |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'' (2003),<ref name="Coveney" /> ''[[Coronation Street]]'' (2003, as Wally Bannister)<ref name=":1" /> and ''Down to Earth'' (2005).<ref name="Screenonline" /> [[File:Bernard new.jpg|thumb|235x235px|Cribbins filming ''[[Old Jack's Boat]]'' in 2012]] Cribbins starred as Jack in the series ''[[Old Jack's Boat]]'', set in [[Staithes]], and broadcast on the [[CBeebies]] channel starting in 2013. The cast included [[Helen Lederer]], [[Janine Duvitski]] and former ''[[Doctor Who]]'' companion [[Freema Agyeman]] in supporting roles.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/oldjacksboat/jacks-friends.html |title=Media Centre β Old Jack's Friends |publisher=BBC |date=14 January 2013 |access-date=11 February 2013 |archive-date=30 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130630023242/http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/oldjacksboat/jacks-friends.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Although Agyeman and Cribbins both played companions and supporting characters during [[David Tennant]]'s tenure in ''Doctor Who'' (appearing in six episodes together), ''Old Jack's Boat'' was the first time the two actors have appeared together on screen. On 9 May 2015, Cribbins gave a reading at [[VE Day 70: A Party to Remember]] in [[Horse Guards Parade]], London which was broadcast live on [[BBC1]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Party to Remember β Credits |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02p6wp8 |access-date=28 July 2022 |publisher=[[BBC]] |archive-date=28 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728220359/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02p6wp8 |url-status=live }}</ref> He made his final on screen appearance as Wilfred Mott in the second 60th anniversary episode [[Wild Blue Yonder (Doctor Who)|''Wild Blue Yonder'']] in December 2023; although he was due to appear in the third of the three episodes and more material had been written for him, Cribbins was too ill and so this became his only scene. In November 2018, it was announced that Cribbins would portray [[Private Godfrey]] in a [[Dad's Army missing episodes#Recreations|series of re-creations of lost episodes]] from the BBC [[sitcom]] ''[[Dad's Army]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/bernard-cribbins-the-new-private-godfrey |title=Bernard Cribbins, the new Private Godfrey |journal=[[The Oldie]] |date=12 November 2018 |access-date=13 November 2018 |archive-date=29 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329134926/https://www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/bernard-cribbins-the-new-private-godfrey |url-status=live }}</ref> However, Cribbins left the production in February 2019 citing "personal reasons". The role of Godfrey was later played by [[Timothy West]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bond |first=Kimberley |date=19 February 2019 |title=Timothy West replaces Bernard Cribbins in Dad's Army remake as cast assemble for first read-through |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/timothy-west-dads-army-remake-gold/ |access-date=28 July 2022 |website=[[Radio Times]] |archive-date=28 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210828033700/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/timothy-west-dads-army-remake-gold/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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