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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Magic Christian, The (1969 Film)

    Director
    Joseph McGrath
    Producer
    Denis O’Dell

    Feature film. Satirical comedy commenting on greed and fame and what people are prepared to do for money. Laurence Harvey plays a famous Shakespearean who, after being paid to do so by Peter Sellers,...

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  8. At Last the 1948 Show Compilation No. 5 (1967 Television)

    Series
    At Last the 1948 Show
    Director
    Ian Fordyce

    Compilation of sketches from the series. Includes a one minute skit in which Aimi MacDonald recites Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy whilst tap dancing. Next week Aimi promises King Lear.

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