
Monty Python's Flying Circus
And now for something completely different: Monty Python's Flying Circus was simply the most influential comedy program television has ever seen. Five Englishmen, all working under the constraints of conventional TV shows such as The Frost Report (for which the five Englishmen wrote), gathered together with an expatriate American in the spring of 1969 to break the rules. The result, first airing on BBC-1 on October 5, 1969, has influenced countless future men and women in the media and comedy since.
'It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart', Famous Deaths, Italian Lesson, Whizzo Butter, 'It's the Arts', Arthur "Two-Sheds" Jackson, Cycling Race, and The Funniest Joke in the World.
Flying Sheep, French Lecture on Sheep-Aircraft, A Man With Three Buttocks, A Man With Two Noses, Musical Mice, Marriage Guidance Counselor, The Wacky Queen, Working-Class Playwright, A Scotsman on a Horse, The Wrestling Epilogue, and The Mouse Problem.
Court Scene, The Larch, Bicycle Repair Man, Children's Stories, Restaurant Sketch, Seduced Milkmen, Stolen News Reader, Children's Interview, and Nudge Nudge.
A change from street clothes to swim trunks turns into a burlesque act; a karate class exercises defense tactics against fresh fruit; a man tries to buy a book about false teeth.
Confuse-a-Cat, The Smuggler, A Duck, a Cat and a Lizard (Discussion), Vox Pops on Smuggling, Police Raid, Letters on Vox Pops, Newsreader Arrested, Erotic Film, Cartoon - Charles Fatless, Silly Job Interview, Careers Advisory Board, Burglar/Encyclopaedia Salesman
Sketches include: a German composer with an extraordinarily long name; crooks plan an elaborate scheme to buy a watch; a chocolate-company owner markets "Crunchy Frog."
Invaders from another galaxy turn Englishmen into Scotsmen. Also: a comedy about camels; a corporate board meeting.
A pet-shop customer returns his dead parrot; a gang of female senior citizens attacks a town's young men; a young army officer who joined the service to water-ski tries to resign.
A man with double vision organizes a mountain-climbing expedition; llamas are celebrated in a rousing Spanish song; a barber is afraid to cut hair; a couple's romantic evening is ruined by uncouth visitors.
Sketches include: Bank Robber in Lingerie Shop, It's a Tree, Ron Obvious, Pet Conversations, Gorilla Librarian, Strangers in the Night
A half-inch-tall man appears on a talk show; a town's women's guild reenacts Pearl Harbor; the entire Royal Philharmonic Orchestra retires to the restroom.
The 127th annual Twit of the Year Show. Also: Hitler and Himmler are guests for tea in a boarding house; a BBC broadcast is interrupted when a British minister falls into a fissure.
Among "historical" impersonations are Cardinal Richelieu as Petula Clark and Julius Caesar as Eddie Waring. Also: a police fairy tale; a vegetarian restaurant's menu, featuring a naked man with an apple in his mouth.
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John Cleese | Voice Over #1 |
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Eric Idle | Assistant |
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Michael Palin | It's Man |
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Terry Gilliam | Animated Chippendale Writing Desk |
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Terry Jones | Frank's Wife |
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Graham Chapman | David Unction |
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Carol Cleveland | Bride |
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Ian Davidson | Herman Rodriguez |
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Donna Reading | Girl in Bikini with Its Man |
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Maureen Flanagan | Coatcheck Girl |
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Connie Booth | Best Girl |
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Katya Wyeth | Elsie |
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Sheila Sands | Topless Newsagent |
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Arthur Sandifer | Diner |
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Rita Davies | Distraught Wife |
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Adolf Hitler | Self |
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Cy Town | 'Confuse-A-Cat' Worker |
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Richard Nixon | Self |
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The Fred Tomlinson Singers | Mounties Choir |
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David Ballantyne | Prologue |
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Neville Chamberlain | Self (with Munich Accord) |
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Barry Cryer | Algy Braithwaite |
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Artur Axmann | Self |
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Beulah Hughes | Nurse |
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Dick Vosburgh | Van der Berg |
Director | Ian MacNaughton |
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John Howard Davies |
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Writer | Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam | |
Producer | Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies, Irving C. Saltzberg | |
Photography | James Balfour, Alan Featherstone |
Nr Discs | 1 |
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Layers | Single side, Single layer |
Watched | |
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Quantity | 1 |
Index | 2561 |
Added Date | Aug 11, 2019 18:15:14 |
Modified Date | Jul 16, 2024 09:17:50 |