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War Against Pornography, The (1972 Television)

Series

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Director

Ian MacNaughton

British television comedy series. Includes a sketch, presented in newsreel style, satirising Mary Whitehouse’s campaign against pornography. A coach load of ‘pepperpots’ (middle-class grey-haired women...

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I’m Sorry I’Ll Read That Again [29/03/1970] (1970 Radio)

Series

I’m Sorry I’Ll Read That Again

Classic BBC radio comedy show. Episode 7 in series 8 includes a fifteen-minute parody of Henry VIII ("Pruneplay of the Week"). A breakneck smattering of silly voices and dreadful puns is held together by...

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Secret Policeman’s Ball, The (1979 Film)

aka: Schoolmaster

Director

Roger Graef

Producer

Roger Graef; Thomas Schwalm

A comedy gala to benefit Amnesty International staged at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London. The evening consisted of comedy sketches and music. One sketch, written by Richard Sparks, features Atkinson as a...

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Man Who Speaks in Anagrams, The (1972 Television)

Series

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Producer

Ian MacNaughton

British television comedy series. This episode includes the sketch ‘The Man Who Speaks in Anagrams’. Part of the dialogue is as follows: Palin: And I believe you’re working on an anagram version of...

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Taming of the Shrew, The (1987 Video)

Director

Jonathan Miller

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1987 production of The Taming of the Shrew. Directed by Jonathan Miller with Brian Cox as Petruchio and Fiona Shaw as...

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Spam (1970 Television)

Series

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Director

Ian MacNaughton

British television comedy series. Includes a sketch entitled ‘Hospital for Over-Actors’ which parodies Olivier. Dialogue is as follows: Specialist: Most of these cases are pretty unpleasant. Nurse......

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How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body (1970 Television)

Series

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Producer

Ian MacNaughton

British television comedy series. The episodes features a sketch which presents the first underwater production of Measure For Measure. Dubbed over an expanse of sea is muffled Shakespearean blank verse. The...

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Monty Python’s Fliegender Zirkus, Episode 1 (1972 Television)

aka: Monty Python in Deutschland

Series

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Director

Ian MacNaughton

Producer

Thomas Woitkewitsch

In the first episode of the Monty Python special (performed in phonetic German), a documentary about Albrecht Dürer is interrupted by a condensed performance of The Merchant of Venice, starring ‘The Bad...

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