
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.
A sketch about the Ministry of Silly Walks. Also: a British minister---attired in a pink tulle dress---talks about housing; 30 gas-company men investigate the installation of a stove; a giant hedgehog wanders London.
An offbeat look at the Spanish Inquisition; an unconventional version of "Wuthering Heights." Also: a jury plays charades while delivering its verdict; a man attempts to find one nontaxable pleasure.
Sketches include: Flying Lessons, Hijacked Plane, Psychiatrist Milkman, Complaints, Déjà vu.
A supersleuth bishop investigates a suspicious insurance business; an elderly couple construct a house that has no walls.
Contestants vie for incriminating photos in "The Blackmail Game"; a boxer spars with schoolgirls.
Sketches include: The time on BBC 1, School Prize Giving, Films by Mr. Dibley, Timmy Williams Interview, Election Night Special
"The Attila the Hun Show"; a burlesque performance by government ministers; a documentary study of village idiots. Also: political groupies pursue MPs.
A dissatisfied bridegroom tries to exchange his spouse; hunters pursue a terrifying mosquito; domestic problems interrupt the work of Beethoven, Shakespeare, Michelangelo and other creative geniuses.
A University of Woolamaloo philosophy-department meeting---the members of which are all named Bruce; an exploding penguin; a radio version of "The Death of Mary Queen of Scots." Also: advice on how to pick up a cosmetic surgeon.
Foam-rubber snow and a stuffed lion are featured in a scene from "Scott of the Antarctic"; a football match is waged between gynecologists and Long John Silver impersonators.
Conquistador coffee campaign; Repeating groove; Ramsey MacDonald striptease; Job hunter; International Chinese Communist Conspiracy; Crelm Toothpaste/Shrill petrol; Agatha Christie sketch (railway timetables); Mr Neville Shunte - railroad playwright; Gavin Millarrrrr writes; Film director/dentist Martin Curry (teeth); City gents vox pops; 'Crackpot Religions Ltd'; 'How not to be seen'; Crossing the Atlantic on a tricycle; Interview in filing cabinet; 'Yummy yummy'; Monty Python's Flying Circus again in thirty seconds.
World revolutionaries are quizzed about football scores; figures from works of art go on strike throughout galleries in England; the search continues for a cure for over-acting; Viking marauders kidnap Englishmen who ask for canned ham.
Miners brawl over historical facts; hospital patients serve the doctors; five shipwrecked mariners decide whom they will have for dinner.
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John Cleese | Sir Robert Eversley |
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Eric Idle | BBC Announcer |
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Michael Palin | Archaeology Today Interviewer |
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Terry Gilliam | Animated Archaeologists |
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Terry Jones | Professor Lucien Kastner |
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Graham Chapman | The Rev. Arthur Belling of St. Looney Up-The-Cream-Bun-and-Jam |
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Carol Cleveland | Danielle |
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Ian Davidson | Colin |
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John Hughman | Gasman |
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Stanley Mason | Gasman |
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Lewis Alexander | Member of RSFPTOTOOT |
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The Fred Tomlinson Singers | Police Choir |
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Lyn Ashley | Schoolgirl |
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David Ballantyne | Sixth Gas Man |
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Sandra Richards | Bikini Model |
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Willy Bowman | Gasman |
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Colin Skeaping | 1 |
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Michael Stayner | Guest at Award Ceremony |
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Reuben Martin | 1 |
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Tom O'Leary | Guest at Award Ceremony |
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David Melbourne | Soldier at Award Ceremony |
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Roy Scammell | 1 |
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Barbara Lindley | Bride |
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James Haswell | Water Rat |
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Bill Leonard | Guest at Award Ceremony |
Director | Ian MacNaughton |
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Writer | Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam | |
Producer | Ian MacNaughton | |
Photography | James Balfour, Terry Hunt |
Nr Discs | 1 |
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Layers | Single side, Single layer |
Watched | |
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Quantity | 1 |
Index | 2562 |
Added Date | Aug 11, 2019 18:15:14 |
Modified Date | Jul 16, 2024 09:17:50 |