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* FakeAmerican: Most, though not all, of the American characters are played by British actors.

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* FakeAmerican: Most, though not all, of the American characters are played by British actors. These included Creator/JohnMahoney of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', whom many people would be surprised to learn was born in Blackpool, Lancashire.
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* TheCastShowoff: Averted, surprisingly enough. Aversions of this trope would not usually be notable, except that this show cast Julian Ovenden -- an Oxford choral scholar, BBC Proms mainstay, and one of the best singers in the history of British musical theatre -- as Andrew Foyle, and then didn't have him sing a note.
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* NamesTheSame: Dr. Novak attempts suicide because of "what Worth said." It was not the just-murdered Dr. Worth with whom Novak was angry, though. [[spoiler:It was a [=BBC=] journalist named Worth, reporting on the concentration camps. Novak, Jewish, lost his family there.]]
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* DoublingForLondon: Most of the exteriors in the London-set series 8 are shot in Dublin.


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* NamesTheSame: Dr. Novak attempts suicide because of "what Worth said." It was not the just-murdered Dr. Worth with whom Novak was angry, though. [[spoiler:It was a [=BBC=] journalist named Worth, reporting on the concentration camps. Novak, Jewish, lost his family there.]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy / RetroactiveRecognition: It's a British mystery series that's been on since 2002. More than a few familiar faces can be found.
** [[Series/GameOfThrones Tywin Lannister and Edmure Tully]] both show up in "The White Feather."
** [[Series/DoctorWho The Tenth Doctor]] was a pacifist. But he realized that he could actually kill, and if he was capable then he should do his part. ("A Lesson in Murder")
*** The Twelfth Doctor, meanwhile, is a communist. ("A War of Nerves")

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** [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] was a pacifist. But he realized that he could actually kill, and if he was capable then he should do his part.

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** [[Series/DoctorWho The Tenth Doctor]] was a pacifist. But he realized that he could actually kill, and if he was capable then he should do his part. ("A Lesson in Murder")
*** The Twelfth Doctor, meanwhile, is a communist. ("A War of Nerves")
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* UnCanceled: When ITV decided to stop making the series and make two final episodes, one each for 1944 and 1945, there was rather a lot of complaints. In the event it was not only given a final season, ending on V-E Day, but subsequently renewed for another season set in the aftermath of the war.

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* UnCanceled: When ITV decided to stop making the series and make two final episodes, one each for 1944 and 1945, there was rather a lot of complaints. In the event it was not only given a final concluding season, ending on V-E Day, but subsequently renewed for another season three more seasons set in the aftermath of the war.war's aftermath.
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** [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] was a pacifist. But he realized that he could actually kill, and if he was capable then he should do his part.
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* HeyItsThatGuy / RetroactiveRecognition: It's a British mystery series that's been on since 2002. More than a few familiar faces can be found.
** [[Series/GameOfThrones Tywin Lannister and Edmure Tully]] both show up in "The White Feather."
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* TheDanza: Greville '''Woods''' is played by Simon '''Woods''' in "Enemy Fire".
* FakeAmerican: Most, though not all, of the American characters are played by British actors.
* UnCanceled: When ITV decided to stop making the series and make two final episodes, one each for 1944 and 1945, there was rather a lot of complaints. In the event it was not only given a final season, ending on V-E Day, but subsequently renewed for another season set in the aftermath of the war.
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