War Against Pornography, The

Synopsis: 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 with Mary Whitehouse-style glasses) race around Britain cleaning up the arts. On a theatre stage Desdemona lies on a bed with Othello. The pepperpots race onto the stage and pull him off.
Series: Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Transmission details: 23 Nov 1972 at 22:15 (Channel: BBC1)
Duration: 30 mins

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Notes: Transcript available at http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode32.htm
General: Other Python episodes, too brief to catalogue individually, are a sketch entitled SHAKESPEARE in the episode ARCHEOLOGY TODAY (tx 17 November 1970 ) in which Shakespeare, washing up at the sink, gives Beethoven tips on how to compose the Fifth Symphony. He dismisses the name David as a suitable title for his play (preferring the name Hamlet as suggested by Beethoven). Shakespeare tells Michelangelo that he can have the name. HAMLET (tx 21 November 1974) follows some of the action and characters of the play - Terry Jones plays Hamlet. In THE SPANISH INQUISITION (tx 22 September 1970) there is a sketch JULIUS CAESAR WITH AN ALDIS LAMP.
History: Season 3, episode 32. Available through amazon.com as part of The Complete Monty Python’s Flying Circus Megaset (1991) (Region 1 only)

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