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Something Completely Different

Date released

1974

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

806

NoS ID

329047

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: When Monty Python’s Flying Circus first hit our television screens people were amazed, shocked and bewildered, but they also laughed - at things they had never laughed at before. Now Monty...

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Last Impressario, The (2014)

Director

Gracie Otto

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 85minutes), £10.99

A portrait of Michael White, the enfant terrible of London’s theatre-land in the 1970s, who was responsible for introducing Yoko Ono, Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch to the international audiences....

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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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Hamlet, Or, The Bogus Psychiatrists (1974 Television)

Series

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Director

Ian MacNaughton

British television comedy series. This episode includes a c5 minute sketch in which a large American car skids around a corner and stops at the side of the curb in a smart Harley Street-like location. Terry...

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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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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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You’Ve Got to Give ‘Em Shakespeare Every Time (1995 Video)

Compilation videotape. Shakespeare parodies and spoofs from the television holdings of the BFI National Archive, London. Compiled by Luke McKernan and Charles Fairall. THE BOWMANS (Hancock) [BBC tx 2.6.61]...

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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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Roll out the Barrel: The British Pub on Film

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 321 minutes), £15.99

An eclectic mix of dramas, trade films, documentaries and newsreels, showing the changing face of the British pub from 1944 to 1982, exploring its role as a locus for community gathering, the exchange of...

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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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