Percy Ponsonby

{{Short description|BBC television comedy series}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{italic title}} '''''Percy Ponsonby''''' is a BBC television comedy series broadcast in 1939. It starred Charles Heslop as a "talkative barber", an actor who was poised to become "England's first television comedy star" until the outbreak of the Second World War interrupted his career.{{r|TCM}}{{efn|The BBC ceased television broadcasts on 1 September 1939, the day that Nazi Germany invaded Poland, and did not resume until 7 June 1946.{{r|Transdiffusion}}}}

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<ref name="TCM">{{citation |contribution=The Peterville Diamond |url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/176207 |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=6 March 2013 |title=The Peterville Diamond |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000100/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/176203%7C176207/The-Peterville-Diamond.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

<ref name="Transdiffusion"> {{citation |url=http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/baird/tvoff.php |title=Baird: The edit that rewrote history |last=Graham |first=Russ J. |date=31 October 2005 | accessdate=6 March 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060718223433/http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/baird/tvoff.php |archivedate=18 July 2006}} </ref>

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0426770|Percy Ponsonby}}

Category:1939 British television series endings Category:BBC television comedy Category:1930s British television series Category:1939 British television series debuts