Barcode | 191329153178 |
Release Date | 11/24/2020 |
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John Cleese | The Announcer | |
Eric Idle | Hamrag Yatlerot | |
Michael Palin | Interviewer | |
Terry Gilliam | Animation Voices | |
Terry Jones | The Nude Organist | |
Graham Chapman | RSM | |
Carol Cleveland | Joe-jums | |
Frank Lester | Nun | |
The Fred Tomlinson Singers | Dennis Moore Singers | |
Monty Python | Themselves | |
John Hughman | Priest | |
Lyn Ashley | Algon Girl | |
Richard Baker | Self - BBC News Anchor | |
Peter Kodak | ||
Rita Davies | Argument Secretary | |
Peter Kodak | The Late Sir Brian Hardaker |
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Producer |
Ian MacNaughton
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Writer |
Graham Chapman
John Cleese Eric Idle Terry Jones |
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Cinematography |
Alan Featherstone
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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. |
31 mins 10/19/1972 1. Whicker's World | |
A courteous murderer wins a suspended sentence by virtue of his charm; a search for Paris by way of Iceland is interrupted by a plane crash and a shipwreck. Also: how to dispose of pets before going on vacation.
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30 mins 10/26/1972 2. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular | |
A couple investigate the cultural similarities between two London districts, seven miles apart; schoolboys' extracurricular activities are examined; a TV farming club comments on Tchaikovsky.
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29 mins 11/2/1972 3. The Money Programme | |
"The Money Program" features a Swiss banker, a city accountant and a song of praise.
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31 mins 11/9/1972 4. Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror | |
A program called "Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror," featuring a man who speaks exclusively in anagrams; a timorous TV announcer, before and after he undergoes psychiatric treatment; the employment of "pantomime horses."
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31 mins 11/16/1972 5. The All England Summarise Proust Competition | |
Contestants in "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition" are judged in swimsuit and evening-gown categories; an irate customer confronts his travel agent. Also: an expedition to Mount Everest, made by an international group of hairstylists.
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29 mins 11/23/1972 6. The War Against Pornography | |
Surgical tools applied to a mildly anesthetized patient include a power drill and a mallet; a TV program features a lecture on gastropods, highlighted by the visit of a whelk.
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29 mins 11/30/1972 7. Salad Days | |
A climbing expedition negotiates a hazardous London road; an attempt is made to determine whether an urban dwelling is a house or a lifeboat. Also: a mouse's quest for cheese, which leads to the production of a Western called "Rogue Cheddar."
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32 mins 12/7/1972 8. The Cycling Tour | |
Mr Pither; Clodagh Rogers; Trotsky; Smolensk; Bingo-crazed Chinese (British Ambassador); 'Jack in a Box'.
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31 mins 12/14/1972 9. The Nude Man | |
A housing project induced by hypnosis stands---as long as the tenants believe in it. Also: highlights of the Olympic Hide-and-Seek finals; suggestions for improving bullfighting, such as the use of radar.
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28 mins 12/21/1972 10. E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease | |
A police investigator is mistaken for Sir Philip Sidney in a Tudor-period job agency, which actually deals in pornography; King Solomon judges the case of a stray bee; a panel of dead people debates the question "Is There a Life After Death?"
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32 mins 1/4/1973 11. Dennis Moore | |
A highwayman steals "lupins" from the rich and tries to give them to the poor. Also: the first episode in a tatty, tedious 18th-century serial is brought to a screeching halt; peasants clamor for Titian paintings and Venetian glass.
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27 mins 1/11/1973 12. A Book at Bedtime | |
'A Book at Bedtime'; 'Red Gauntlet'; Kamikaze Highlanders; No time to lose; Penguins; BBC pro-gramme planners; Unexploded Scotsmen; 'Spot the Looney'; Rival documentaries; 'Dad's Doctors'; Dad's Pooves'.
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27 mins 1/18/1973 13. Grandstand | |
Oscar Wilde, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, George Bernard Shaw and the future Edward VII exchange epigrams at an evening party; mechanical brain surgery fails to dramatically affect a woman's mentality.
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