Peter Richardson
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Peter Richardson (born 15 October 1951) is an English actor, comedian, director, and writer, best known for The Comic Strip Presents... television series. He is also a long time comedy partner with Nigel Planer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Richardson (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Newton Abbot, Devon, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: October 15, 1951
Age: 73 years old
Gender: Male
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A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
Overview: Two students calling themselves Carlos and Miguel arrive in Spain dressed as gunslingers to live out their dream of being in a spaghetti Western. At a cafe in a remote town they meet two Australian girls who have picked up a scruffy hitch-hiker and a would-be rapist dressed as a matador.
Genres: Western Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-21
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Carry On Columbus
Overview: Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-02
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The Supergrass
Overview: While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so that she'll go away on a trip with him as his girlfriend. Although he fails to gain any interest from the girl, the police take a great interest in his story. From this point on, Dennis digs a deeper hole for himself at every turn
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-08
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The Yob
Overview: An illegal psychic teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, and pretentious promo director Patrick gets his genes mixed with those of a football hooligan. Slowly, he begins to change - taking on some undeniably yobbish tendencies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-12
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Les Dogs
Overview: Les Dogs are the band playing in a large marquee to celebrate the wedding of Geoffrey and Angela. During the reception, the fathers of the groom and bride exchange insults and a gun battle ensues in which many guests - and Les Dogs - are casualties though the happy couple escape. Victor, who has wandered in on the scene, is asked to take wedding photographs and has a series of dreamlike fantasies all based around his infatuation with Angela.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-03
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Demonella
Overview: Music producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil - a woman - supplies him with the answer to his dreams, a piece called 'Demonella' he is anxious to fulfill his part of the deal, to give the Devil his mother's secret recipe for chicken soup to serve her celebrity guests in Hell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-20
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The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel
Overview: Janie, daughter of Commander Jackson, the head of D15, has been kidnapped and there are only two men who can save her - former agents Bonehead and Foyle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-03
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Summer School
Overview: A motley band of suburbanites arrives at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. However, the village is right in the middle of a modern university campus which somewhat detracts from its air of authenticity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-31
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Funseekers
Overview: Tourists arrive in Ibiza for the 'funseekers' package holiday. Jamie is upset when the annoying Tony moves into his room. He gets his revenge when he discovers that Tony is too old to be part of the Club 18-30 clientele.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-26
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Jealousy
Overview: Despite trying to cure himself with a hypnosis tape John Pettigrew is insanely jealous of his wife Jane Margory and convinced she is having an affair with her handsome water aerobics instructor. Seeing a name and number in her diary he follows her in drag, only to find it is a transvestite club she is covering as a journalist and where he is embarrassingly chatted up. In the event his suspicions are correct but the proof comes at a cost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-27
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Five Go Mad in Dorset
Overview: In the 1950s, four children, Anne, described as a 'proper little housewife', the rather butch George who has an unhealthy relationship with her dog Timmy and their brothers Dick and Julian, whose relationship seems to be more than fraternal, go on a cycling holiday in Dorset where their flair for detection - plus their snobbery and xenophobia - gets a whole string of suspicious characters arrested.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-02
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Four Men in a Car
Overview: Four salesmen Alan, Ian, Steve and Tim are on their way to a conference where only one of them is guaranteed promotion. There is much bickering, Steve is perpetually sick and gets put in the boot, the C.D. player jams and they have a run-in with a Range Rover driver. When the car breaks down in a snowstorm they wind up in a deserted cottage with a shotgun-wielding, diabetic woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-12
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Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
Overview: Eddie Monsoon is a South African entertainer who, following the failure of several pilot shows for TV in his homeland, faked his suicide, went to Brazil and then to England where he attracted notoriety with his explicit sex farces on the stage and shocking TV shows which even Channel 4 banned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-04
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Four Men in a Plane
Overview: Salesmen Alan, Ian, Tim, and the pushy Tony are on a plane on their way to a sales conference. Alan joins the mile-high club with a model in the toilet but Tim is annoyed that he is two air miles short of joining the others in club class. On arrival in North Africa, they decide to charter a plane rather than face a fifteen-hour coach journey to the conference.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-04
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The Beat Generation
Overview: In the monochrome world of 1960, pretentious Alan, violent Kix and sex-mad Eleanor are part of a colony of beat poets, living a hedonistic, unreal existence in a large villa overlooking the sea. Dumped by his girlfriend Jeremy is anxious to be part of their circle until two girls from the outside world and a wild party open his eyes to what really matters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-17
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Five Go Mad on Mescalin
Overview: On their way to stay with Mrs French at Hot Turkey Farm, the Famous Five hear on the radio their Uncle Quentin's escaped prison. Arriving at the farm they're appalled to meet the vulgar millionaire, Mr Budweiser, and his spoilt son, Willy. Julian and Dick are so incensed, they sleep outdoors where they spy 2 heavies being secretly villainous. The trail leads to Love Island, where they discover Uncle Quentin and his boyfriend Toby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-02
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Dirty Movie
Overview: Postman Bean is anxious to end his round early to catch a morning showing of 'The Sound of Muzak' at his local cinema. However, he is unaware that the cinema manager Terry Toadstool is using this as a smoke screen to view a pornographic film and that Bean's wife, traffic warden Monica, is the star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-07
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Susie
Overview: In rural England, school teacher Susie Darling is planning to leave her boring husband Martin for lusty mechanic Dave when she meets romantic former pop star Garry Dreadful, who has moved to the village to start a traditional farm and asks her to live with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-14
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Gino: Full Story and Pics
Overview: A hoodlum is turned into a celebrity when he steals a cab and subsequent events are blown out of proportion by the media.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-28
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Slags
Overview: Teen-age gang leaders Passion and Little Sister are released from prison, only to find that their gang the Slags has disbanded due to a rival gang, the Hawaiians, who wear garlands and drink Pina Coladas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-11
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Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
Overview: Jessica, the second Mrs Saunders, arrives with her new husband John at his country estate. Very much left to her own devices she is unnerved by the power that Consuela, the sinister Spanish housekeeper,seems to wield, comparing her to John's first wife and forbidding her to enter a mysterious locked room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Private Enterprise
Overview: Whilst delivering toilet rolls to a recording studio, small-time crook Keith pockets a demo tape by the newly disbanded group Toy Department, which he takes to a promoter, Brian. Together they have a chart hit with the 'mystery' group but complications arise when Brian wants a live tour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-02
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South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
Overview: Two security van personnel plan to rob a bank in an attempt to raise enough cash to mount a rescue mission when a dictator invades the Falklands.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-08
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Oxford
Overview: When American comic actor Steve 'Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants' Wild arrives in Oxford to make a comedy film, his girlfriend Caroline goes behind his back to enroll in a poetry course. Meanwhile, Hannah Van Hosenstratt comes from New Orleans for the course and is tricked into believing she has a place by the dean, but the professor has other ideas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-22
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South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
Overview: In the conclusion of this special two-part story, Stan has somehow managed to make it to the Falklands, which have indeed been taken over by the Argentinians after all. He is tied to a stake alongside Frances who he has finally met and been captured with. The pair are sentenced to death by dictator, General Galtieri. Stan, in a desperate attempt to stall for time, recounts how he and his fellow 'South Atlantic Raiders' managed to make it to the Falklands. After just escaping from prison and making their getaway in an ice cream van.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-08
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The Crying Game
Overview: Roy Brush has aspirations to be a great footballer and this seems likely when he scores for England in the European Cup Final. To add to this he becomes a national hero, having seemingly saved a young lad from drowning. But Roy has a secret - he is gay - and the editor of the scurrilous 'Scum' tabloid is making it his business to out him. However, with the help of his manager, Roy can triumph at an inspirational climactic football match, where his tears touch the heart of the nation - and pundit Jimmy Twizzle gets very high on mushroom tea.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-05
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Spaghetti Hoops
Overview: In a monochrome city that is shamelessly London although everybody acts as if it is Rome, banker Aldo Vini is on the run from Mafia boss Corelli, from whom he has embezzled two million. Corelli hires Mig and Mog, two inept hitmen to go after Vini, killing any witnesses as they go, but when they finally catch up with him, they have no idea what to do with him and confuse Corelli's instructions with their shopping list.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-01
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Red Nose of Courage
Overview: A clown is not happy with his job at his father's circus so he gets into politics, and some weeks later he is the Prime Minister John Major. But after his day job, he has to attend to his real job as Coco the Clown. He falls in love with the leader of the opposition party but she falls in love with Coco the Clown without knowing that he is in fact John Major, the Prime Minister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-09
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Wild Turkey
Overview: Jed, a New York cop, brings home the last Christmas turkey in the shop for his wife Sue. Unfortunately, they make a dramatic discovery whilst stuffing it - namely that it is not dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-24
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Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
Overview: When the lead star of 'The Gourmet Detective' mystery show is mysteriously bumped off. A bunch of various detectives from television shows from the seventies are teamed up with a television detective of the nineties to solve the crime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-22
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Queen of the Wild Frontier
Overview: Convicts Mick and Gary are being escorted to the dentist when their prison van has an accident and they wind up at a remote farmhouse occupied by Fiona and Susie, two sex-starved sisters who have been waiting to have babies with the right men, whilst these two may not be the right ones, they are certainly available.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-06
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Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
Overview: Governor Wilkins brings rookie cop Lucille Bromley to see the imprisoned cannibal Dr Genghis in order to gain information about a serial killer. At the same time the extremely boring Gregory Dawson,who is interested in serial killers,is building his own torture chamber and making a very mundane video diary about his life. However the two worlds are shortly about to collide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-13
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Five Go to Rehab
Overview: The Famous Five are back. Thirty years after the Comic Strip arrived on our screens with their famous Enid Blyton spoof - Five Go Mad in Dorset. These famous children's characters have again been brought back from the past to confront today's modern world. This time they are made to account for their racist and sexist views. But they seem blissfully unrepentant as they gather for a reunion on Dick's birthday in leafy Dorset - still a magical land of rolling hills, woods, ruined castles, and of course dodgy villains in big black cars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-07
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Sex Actually
Overview: Colombian Luccio and his girlfriend Angie move into a respectable part of Berkshire, learning that Ron and Helen, the previous owners of their house, died mysteriously. Angie discovers that their neighbours, estate agent Roy and his wife Jane, high court judge Charles and his bickering wife Carol and Bilbo, a conceptual artist and his partner were all members of a wife-swapping circle who usually met at Ron and Helen's house. Luccio reveals himself to be a policeman and is curious as to how Ron and Helen died, lining up all the suspects.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-28
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The Hunt for Tony Blair
Overview: The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, follows Prime Minister Tony Blair (Stephen Mangan), wanted for murder and on the run. Escaping from Number 10 and leaving behind his adoring wife Cherie (Catherine Shepherd), Tony vows to clear his name no matter what the consequences.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-15
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Red Top
Overview: Comic fantasy telling the story of Rebekah, an innocent and beguiling Northern girl who accidentally becomes Chief Executive of News International and gets caught up in a seventies Watergate-style scandal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-20
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30 Years of Comic Strip
Overview: In true Peter Richardson fashion, "30 Years Of Comic Strip" defies the conventional norms of a retrospective documentary. It brings together some of the most prominent figures in UK comedy, reflecting on the show's impact and influence on the British comedy scene over the past three decades. The documentary unveils previously unseen footage and reconnects with characters from iconic episodes. The cast and crew of The Comic Strip share anecdotes about the making of the show, recounting experiences marked by a playful disregard for health and safety.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-03
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The Comic Strip - A Retrospective
Overview: A look back at the comedy series The Comic Strip Presents
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-04
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War
Overview: 1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and Godfrey retreat to their rural hide-away but after witnessing a bunch of incompetent commandos kill each other, they get separated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-03
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Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
Overview: A couple of bored escorts find themselves suddenly involved with a hit gang and an ax murderer - Mr. Jolly. Gratuitous violence, rivers of blood, and maximum hilarity, all rolled into one.
Genres: Comedy Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-05
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Eat the Rich
Overview: Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex & cohorts attempt to go on a rampage. Meanwhile, General Karprov and Spider plot to involve the inept anarchists into their plans to derail the prime-minister-to-be's campaign.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-23
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The Hunt for Tony Blair
Overview: The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, follows Prime Minister Tony Blair (Stephen Mangan), wanted for murder and on the run. Escaping from Number 10 and leaving behind his adoring wife Cherie (Catherine Shepherd), Tony vows to clear his name no matter what the consequences.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-15
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The Comic Strip
Overview: A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to 'The Comic Strip Presents'
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The Strike
Overview: Paul, a former miner, writes a hard-hitting screenplay about his own experiences of the 1984 miners' strike. However, the Hollywood production company that gets hold of his script turns it into a ludicrously sensationalist and anachronistic action film, starring Al Pacino as Arthur Scargill, and Meryl Streep as his wife.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-20
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Bad News
Overview: A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journalist Sally at a motorway service station where they argue about the cost of sausage and chips.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-24
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More Bad News
Overview: Four years after they were last the subject of a documentary, the heavy metal band Bad News get back together again for another film of their exploits, beginning with a reunion gig at the Flying Horse.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-27
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Space Virgins from Planet Sex
Overview: A craft full of Space Rats,glamorous extra-terrestrials from the planet Sex,arrive on Earth desperate to find men with whom they can procreate in order to ensure the continuity of their race and whom they imprison in their sex factory. Fortunately for the world the secret agent James Blond,a decidedly non-feminist secret agent,sets out to rescue the men and see off the Space Rats in his own inimitable way.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-29
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The Line, the Cross & the Curve
Overview: A singer struggles to dance well in rehearsal with her band. A power outage leaves her alone in the studio, reviewing her life, when a mysterious woman appears through the mirror and gives her a pair of Red Shoes. The cursed shoes dance beautifully, but endlessly. The singer is drawn irresistibly into the fey world beyond the mirror, where she must redeem three magic symbols from the mysterious woman in order to obtain release from the cursed shoes.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-13
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The Pope Must Die
Overview: A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and the reappearance of his old lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-21
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GLC: The Carnage Continues
Overview: The Greater London Council fight to save the capital against the wicked Ice Maiden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-05
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Didn't You Kill My Brother?
Overview: Carl Moss leaves jail,where he has taken the rap for his evil twin Sterling,and has been declared a model prisoner. Pauline Sneek,his probation officer - and girlfriend - gets him community work teaching youngsters how to lead law-abiding lives. This displeases Sterling,as he needs the young delinquents for his bicycle stealing ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-19
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Completely Bad News
Overview: A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-29
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The Rise of the Comic Strip
Overview: Documentary about the beginnings and the Channel 4 years of the Comic Strip.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-23
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