Bob Block was a British

United Kingdom

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 radio

Radio

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, television

Television

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 and film

Film

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 comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 scriptwriter

Screenwriter

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Career

His earliest work was for radio, best known for co-writing the domestic sitcom Life with the Lyons

Life With The Lyons

Life with The Lyons was a British radio and television domestic sitcom dating from the 1950s .-Overview:Life with The Lyons was unusual in that it featured a real-life American family...

 for Ben Lyon

Ben Lyon

Ben Lyon was an American film actor and a 20th Century Fox studio executive.-Life:Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Lyon entered films in 1918 after a successful appearance on Broadway opposite Jeanne Eagels. He attracted attention in the highly successful film Flaming Youth , and steadily developed into...

, as well as working with Arthur Askey

Arthur Askey

Arthur Bowden Askey CBE was a prominent English comedian.- Life and career :Askey was born at 29 Moses Street, Liverpool, the eldest child and only son of Samuel Askey , secretary of the firm Sugar Products of Liverpool, and his wife, Betsy Bowden , of Knutsford, Cheshire...

 and Frankie Howerd

Frankie Howerd

Francis Alick "Frankie" Howerd OBE was an English comedian and comic actor whose career, described by fellow comedian Barry Cryer as "a series of comebacks", spanned six decades.-Early career:...

.

Block was best known for writing television comedy series for children, including Pardon My Genie

Pardon My Genie

Pardon My Genie was a children's comedy series produced by British ITV contractor Thames Television, and written by Bob Block who later created Rentaghost....

 (1972-73), Robert's Robots (1974–75), Galloping Galaxies (1985) and the BBC

BBC

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's long-running Rentaghost

Rentaghost

Rentaghost is a British children's television comedy show, broadcast by the BBC between 6 January 1976 and 6 November 1984. The show's plot centred on the antics of a number of ghosts who worked for a firm called Rentaghost, which rented out the ghosts for various tasks.-Background:The company,...

 (1976–84).

Radio

• Variety Bandbox
  Variety Bandbox
  Variety Bandbox was a British radio variety show transmitted by BBC Radio on the Light Programme. Featuring a mixture of comic performances and music, the show helped to launch the careers of a number of leading British performers....
  
   (1940s-1950s)
• Radio Rinso (1950)
• The Starlight Hour (1950)
• Life with the Lyons
  Life With The Lyons
  Life with The Lyons was a British radio and television domestic sitcom dating from the 1950s .-Overview:Life with The Lyons was unusual in that it featured a real-life American family...
  
   (1951-1961)
• Festival of Britain (1951)
• Arthur's Inn (1952)
• Discord in Three Flats (1962)

Television

• Our House (1960)
• That's My Boy (1963)
• Crackerjack (1964-1973)
• Hey Presto it’s Rolf (1966)
• Broaden Your Mind
  Broaden Your Mind
  Broaden Your Mind is a British television comedy series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden, joined by Bill Oddie for the second series...
  
   (1968-1969)
• Ken Dodd and the Diddymen
  Ken Dodd
  Kenneth Arthur Dodd OBE is a British comedian and singer songwriter, famous for his frizzy hair or “fluff dom” and buck teeth or “denchers”, his favourite cleaner, the feather duster and his greeting "How tickled I am!", as well as his send-off “Lots and Lots of Happiness!”...
  
   (1969-1970)
• The Dave King Show (1969-1970)
• Dave Allen At Large (1970-1979)
• Pardon My Genie
  Pardon My Genie
  Pardon My Genie was a children's comedy series produced by British ITV contractor Thames Television, and written by Bob Block who later created Rentaghost....
  
   (1972-1973)
• Roberts Robots (1973-1974)
• Truscott's Luck
• Rentaghost
  Rentaghost
  Rentaghost is a British children's television comedy show, broadcast by the BBC between 6 January 1976 and 6 November 1984. The show's plot centred on the antics of a number of ghosts who worked for a firm called Rentaghost, which rented out the ghosts for various tasks.-Background:The company,...
  
   (1975-1984)
• Grandad (1979-1984)
• Galloping Galaxies! (1985-1986)