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| | Television Heaven |
 | | As far as Harry was concerned it was the world that lacked understanding and not him, perfectly summed up by a scene where he attempted to by a rail ticket and asked the ticket-clerk for a return fare. |
 | | Harry Worth was born Harry Illingsworth, in Tankersley, near Barnsley in 1917, and at the age of 14 he went down the mines to work, in spite of the fact that his own father had been killed in a pit accident when Harry was barely a year old. |
 | | Harry's first 'solo' performance, in Newcastle, left him a virtual nervous wreck, but his uncertain, almost apologetic style went down so well with the audience that he developed it as part of his act. |
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