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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...
A programme combining comedy, drama and song to introduce young children to William Shakespeare. John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson read excerpts from Hamlet, Richard III, and As You Like It; Lynn Redgrave...
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...
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...
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......
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...
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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