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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. I’m Sorry I’Ll Read That Again [02/07/1967] (1967 Radio)

    Series
    I’m Sorry I’Ll Read That Again
    Producer
    Humphrey Barclay

    Classic British radio comedy series. Episode 11 in series 5 (50th show) includes a fifteen-minute parody of Othello. A breakneck smattering of silly voices and dreadful puns is held together by funny songs...

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  8. I’m Sorry I’Ll Read That Again [09/05/1966] (1966 Radio)

    Series
    I’m Sorry I’Ll Read That Again
    Producer
    Humphrey Barclay

    Classic BBC radio comedy show. Episode 9 in the third series includes a fifteen-minute parody of Julius Caesar. A breakneck smattering of silly voices and dreadful puns is held together by funny songs and...

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