Geoffrey Howard Perkins (22 February 1953 – 29 August 2008) was a British comedy producer, writer and performer. He was BBC head of comedy between 1995 and 2001, and produced the first two radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He is one of the people credited with creating the panel game Mornington Crescent for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.[1] In December 2008 he posthumously received an Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award.
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Geoffrey Howard Perkins (22 February 1953 – 29 August 2008) was a British comedy producer, writer and performer. He was BBC head of comedy between 1995...
Chelmsford 123, a situation comedy for Channel 4. Two years later, GeoffreyPerkins became company director, and helped to produce shows such as Father...
Active and KYTV colleague and friend (and long-time BBC producer) GeoffreyPerkins for BBC Radio 4 on 4 October 2008. Deayton was frequently a straight...
post-show party at the Edinburgh Festival by then-BBC controller of comedy GeoffreyPerkins, who encouraged Tate to develop her character ideas, especially to...
who visits his friends in the seminary in Maynooth College. Producer GeoffreyPerkins suggested that the episode's concept be dramatised and rewritten as...
all". Radio Times. Retrieved 8 July 2013. Adams, Douglas (2003). Perkins, Geoffrey (ed.). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts...
Entertainment Shared with Harry Enfield, Simon Greenall, Ian Hislop, GeoffreyPerkins, Nick Newman, Harry Thompson & Kay Stonham Harry Enfield & Chums Won...
Perkins is a surname derived from the Anglo-Saxon corruption of the kin of Pierre (from Pierre kin to Pierrekin to Perkins), introduced into England by...
in 1995, the episode was rebroadcast on BBC2 in 2008 in tribute to GeoffreyPerkins. Ted hosts Cuba's Father Hernandez at the Craggy Island Parochial House...
explained in the script book was that I was also teasing the typist, Geoffrey [Perkins]'s secretary, because ... she'd be typing out this long and extraordinary...
school which closed in 1975. His group of contemporaries included GeoffreyPerkins and Michael Portillo. His Scottish father originally from Glasgow was...
Active during the 1980s, alongside Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, GeoffreyPerkins and Philip Pope, which later led to the television series KYTV. He...
returning to his seminary to catch up with old friends. When producer GeoffreyPerkins asked Linehan and Mathews to discard the mockumentary format and expand...
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