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2011
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Although he never became the kind of international superstar someone with his remarkable skills should have, Harry Nilsson...
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2010
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This live performance of Monty Python's Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) does the same thing to Life of Brian that...
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Screenwriter
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2009
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2008
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Shrek and Fiona's (Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz, respectively) fairy-tale wedding has gone off without a hitch, yet just as...
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2007
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"A family walks into a talent agent's office..." So begins "The Aristocrats," a joke kept mostly secret by stand-up comedians...
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2005
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Few television comedy programs have had the enduring success of the legendary Monty Python show. Now fans of the surrealist...
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2005
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Adapted from author Gail Carson Levine's award-winning children's book of the same name, the Miramax-financed modern fantasy...
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Narrator
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2004
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Airplane stars Robert Hays and Leslie Nielsen are reunited in this animated fairytale about a bratty prince who learns a...
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2004
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2003
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Further cementing 2003 as the year of Ron Shelton cop movies, the director continued his vacation from the sports genre with...
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2003
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Director, Narrator,Dirk McQuickley
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2003
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Originally titled The Soul Patrol, the made-for-cable The Scream Team was loosely based on a Disney internet game. After the...
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Coffin Ed
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2002
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Glenn Close goes to the dogs once again in this sequel to 101 Dalmatians, Disney's 1996 live-action adaptation of their...
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2000
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After giving George of the Jungle human form, Brendan Fraser returns to cartoon-land with another live-action update of an...
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The Prospector
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1999
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The most tasteless third graders on television graduate to the big screen, as Trey Parker and Matt Stone expand their...
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1999
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1999
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1999
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1999
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Bill Kowalchuk produced and directed this animated interpretation of the familiar Christmas fable about the eccentric...
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Slyly the Fox
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1998
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This film features all the surviving members of Python, gathered together to perform at a comedy festival in Colorado. Many...
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1998
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1998
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1998
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First, a little background: in 1955, the Director's Guild of America created the pseudonym Alan Smithee, which film directors...
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Alan Smithee
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1997
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Rat
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1996
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With his nerves at the breaking point, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) is in no mood for the rude behavior he encounters at every...
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1996
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Based on the popular cartoon character, this family-oriented "ghost story" is about a not-so-scary spirit who bonds with a...
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Dibs
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1995
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1995
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Splitting Heirs is a dull mistaken identity comedy about a British Duke (Eric Idle) who is switched at birth when his parents...
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Executive Producer, Screenwriter, Tommy Patel
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1993
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1992
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1992
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In this riotous British satire, a conniving Catholic priest convinces a dying tycoon into writing the church into his will...
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Sonny Rivers
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1991
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1991
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In this comedy thriller two dopey pals try to solve a puzzling riddle. If they succeed, one of them will inherit a valuable...
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1991
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Screenwriter, Brian Hope
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1990
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This 56-minute video celebrates 25 years' worth of inspired lunacy from Britain's Monty Python's Flying Circus. Loyal...
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1990
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Director Terry Gilliam adroitly applies his Monty Python sensibilities upon the "career" of famed German prevaricator Baron...
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Berthold
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1989
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This is a retrospective of the British comedy troupe on their 20th anniversary. Hosted by comedian Steve Martin, many of the...
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1989
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Pierce Brosnan stars as adventurer Phineas Fogg in this adaptation of Jules Verne's classic story, in which to win a wager he...
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Jean Passepartout
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1989
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Monty Python alum Eric Idle stars in an English National Opera production of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic comic opera,...
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Ko-Ko
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1987
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In this theatrically released chapter of the 1984-1987 syndicated animated series, the struggle between the heroic Autobots...
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Wreck-Gar
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1986
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1986
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Despite the many adventures they suffered in National Lampoon's Vacation, the Griswold family decides to take another crack...
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Bike rider
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1985
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The Secret Policeman's Private Parts, the second of two concert films produced on behalf of Amnesty International, is better...
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1984
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Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter, Fourth Fish
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1983
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This colorful spoof of pirate movies had all the makings of a classic farce and yet sank straight to Davy Jones' locker at...
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Screenwriter, Cmdr. Clement
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1983
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The Faerie Tale Theatre production of the classic fairy tale The Tale of the Frog Prince was adapted and directed by...
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Director
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1982
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Screenwriter, Various roles
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1982
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Robert Browning's cautionary poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin is vividly brought to the 21-inch screen by director...
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1982
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Peter Noone of "Herman's Hermits" fame and Eric Idle of "Monty Python" renown appear in this episode as British...
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1981
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A young boy joins a group of renegade dwarves on an unpredictable journey through time in this humorous fantasy. Monty Python...
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Screenwriter
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1981
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On a midnight clear 2,000 years ago, three wise men enter a manger where a babe is wrapped in swaddling clothes. It is an...
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Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter, Stan
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1979
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Host
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1979
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1978
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A mockumentary of a Beatles-like singing group called the Rutles, The Rutles is a collaboration between Monty Python alumnus...
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Director, Screenwriter, Dirk McQuickley,Narrator,S.J. Krammerhead
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1978
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Host
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1977
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An innocent country farmer experiences a number of improbable misadventures that culminate in a battle against the titular...
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1977
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Host
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1976
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In 1976, a member of the office staff at the London offices of Amnesty International, a global human rights watchdog group,...
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1976
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From its opening multi-language titles (that sure looks like Swedish) to the closing arrest of the entire Dark Ages cast by...
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Screenwriter, Concorde,Guard,Maynard,Roger,Sir Robin
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1974
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In this episode, England is held in thrall by Mr. Neutron, the deadliest man in the world. As Mr. Neutron enjoys the...
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Screenwriter
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1973
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Originally broadcast December 5, 1974, "Party Political Broadcast" was the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. The...
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Screenwriter
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1973
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In this episode, Hamlet visits a psychiatrist and confesses that he's always wanted to be a private detective. The...
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Screenwriter
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1973
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The fourth and final season of Monty Python's Flying Circus was launched on October 31, 1974, with the episode titled "The...
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Screenwriter
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1973
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In this episode, Chris Quinn enters a department store and demands to buy an ant named Marcus. When Chris goes home, his mum...
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Screenwriter
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1973
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In this episode, Alex Diamond runs over two singing tramps while en route to lumbago specialist Dr. Emile Koning. Next door...
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Screenwriter
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1973
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As they had done in the summer of 1972, the cast of Monty Python's Flying Circus appeared on a 50-minute special for German...
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Screenwriter
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1973
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Sometime between seasons two and three of Monty Python's Flying Circus, the series' cast appeared in a 50-minute special that...
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Screenwriter
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1972
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Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different was first released in the US in 1973, but didn't really take off as...
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Screenwriter, Various roles
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1971
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In this episode, Mr. Graham gets away with speaking in anagrams until he's caught in a spoonerism. Mrs. Scum wins the grand...
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Screenwriter
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1970
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After an absence of nearly two years, Monty Python's Flying Circus returned to the BBC on October 19, 1972. The first episode...
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Screenwriter
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1970
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"Liberty Bell March" is replaced with "God Save the Queen" as the series' theme music, in anticipation of an expected visit...
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Screenwriter
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1970
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The centerpiece of this November 30, 1972, episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus is a grisly slow-motion sequence from Sam...
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Screenwriter
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1970
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In this episode, Mr. T.F. Gumby's brain is removed by a Harley Street surgeon. A special telecast of the All-Essex Badminton...
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Screenwriter
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1970
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The titular event includes a swimsuit and evening-gown competition, and a 15-second summary of Remembrances of Things Past,...
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Screenwriter
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1970
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In this episode, Reg Pither's bicycle trip through the countryside is fraught with peril. He ends up in a hospital, convinced...
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Screenwriter
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1970
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The Dummy Princess Margaret presents the British Show Biz Awards, with first prize going to the remains of the late Sir Alan...
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Screenwriter
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1970
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The owner of the Tudor Job Agency is unable to locate a travelling companion for Sir Walter Raleigh, but he does a...
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Screenwriter
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1970
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In this episode, 18th Century highwayman Dennis Moore steals lupins from the rich to give to the poor. He later changes his...
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Screenwriter
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1970
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In this episode, dyslexic Sir Jeremy Toogood struggles to read Sir Walter Scott's The Red Gauntlet. The Queen's Own Kamikaze...
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Screenwriter
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1970
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The programme begins with Episode Thlee of Erizabeth L, featuring Sir Flancis Dlake and the Spanish Almada. The Fraud Film...
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Screenwriter
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1970
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Using archeological evidence, the titular Mr. Norris attempts to prove that the residents of Hounslow may have emigrated from...
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Screenwriter
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1970
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A Scotsman threatens to blow up an airliner, only to be ejected from the sketch by the show's director. A discussion of the...
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Screenwriter
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1970
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The first tree to be recognized from quite a long way away is the Larch -- Harold Larch, who, after being hauled into court...
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Screenwriter
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1969
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"Part 2: The Llama Live From Golders Green" is followed by a man with a tape recorder up his nose (he later returns in...
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Screenwriter
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1969
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In this episode, Frank the Plumber is invited to appear in a BBC sketch. A bank robber finds himself in a lingerie shop. The...
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Screenwriter
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1969
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Created in 1969 as the British Broadcasting Corporation's answer to America's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (one of its guiding...
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Screenwriter
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1969
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This first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus originally aired October 5, 1969. The host of "It's Wolfgang Amadeus...
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Screenwriter
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1969
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In one of several sketches in this early Python episode, two Frenchmen with berets discuss the commercial feasibility of...
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Screenwriter
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1969
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After a guitar rendition of "Jerusalem" at the Cardiff Rooms in Libya, an art critic joins Marge and Janet in lunching on a...
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Screenwriter
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1969
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A desperate suburban couple summons Confuse-a-Cat, Ltd. ("Thank God we've arrived in time!") A Customs Official bypasses a...
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Screenwriter
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1969
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In this episode, six chapters of "The Naked Ant" are telescoped into a battle between a polar bear and a railroad engineer....
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Screenwriter
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1969
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An increasingly spectacular series of intermissions punctuates this final episode of season one of Monty Python's Flying...
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Screenwriter
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1969
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Arthur Figgis makes a return appearance to discuss the German composer Johann Gambolputty de von
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Screenwriter
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1969
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An unsuccessful yeti spotter becomes an unsuccessful camel spotter. Dracula stops being fun anymore when his fangs drop out....
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Screenwriter
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1969
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This is the one with the Dead Parrot. Also, Private Watkins' request to be sent home from WWII is dismissed as "silly and...
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Screenwriter
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1969
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In this episode, listeners protest as the sounds of the Warsaw Concerto are heard wafting from the bathroom. "The World of...
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Screenwriter
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1969
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The sketch comedy series At Last the 1948 Show was the first big break for rising young British comedians and friends...
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1967
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Screenwriter
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1967
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You've seen the Disney classic, now experience the tale of Alice in Wonderland as never before in this live-action adaptation...
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1966
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The five Gumbies tortuously announced "The Architect Sketch," wherein Mr. Wiggin designs a lethal apartment house. The BBC...
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Screenwriter
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After a preview of comic BBC attractions (stay tuned for "Snooker My Way"), the host of "Archeology Today" quizzes his guests...
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Screenwriter
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Season two of Monty Python's Flying Circus was launched September 15, 1970, with the episode titled "Dinsdale" (for lack of a...
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Screenwriter
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The School Prize Awards are interrupted by two men, both claiming to be the Bishop of East Anglia. The director of the...
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Screenwriter
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Mr. and Mrs. Attila the Hun star in a sitcom with their kids Robin and Jennie, and Uncle Tom the butler. Later, Attila visits...
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Screenwriter
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An advertising executive comes up with the sure-fire slogan "Conquistador Coffee brings a new meaning to the word 'vomit.'"...
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Screenwriter
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Neither Lady Mountbank nor Reg the Miller were expecting the Spanish Inquisition. In fact, in the words of Cardinal Ximenez,...
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Screenwriter
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Telecast live from the Grill-o-Mat Snack Bar in Paignton, this episode begins with another round of the Blackmail Quiz Show,...
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Screenwriter
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Several cineastes report from the set of Scott of the Antarctic, where inebriated director James McRettin holds court over...
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Screenwriter
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Yes, this is the episode which features the rousing production number "The Spam Song," performed by a chorus of Vikings. But...
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Screenwriter
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Among the body parts identified are the Foot, the Other Foot, the Shoulder, Just Above the Elbow, Margaret Thatcher's Brain,...
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Screenwriter
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