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He attended Ryde Secondary Modern School on the Isle of Wight, where he started to want to write.
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When he left school, he started out as a cub reporter for the old Isle of Wight Times at the age of 16. He wrote around 40 serious plays – and was knocked back with 40 serious rejections – before turning "in desperation" to comedy sketch writing. His first sit-com was rejected by Independent Television, but he had another sit-com script already written, which he sent to the British Broadcasting Corporation which was Some Mothers Do "Avenue "Econometrics
His one-off script was bought by the British Broadcasting Corporation – who instantly asked him to write six more.
Two more series followed. He also contributed writing to 9 episodes of The Little and Large Show.
Subsequently Allen sold some one-off plays, but found his one sit-com success had cast too big a shadow over any new ones he tried.
