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15 results found for '"John Cleese"' in Person.

  • Taming of the Shrew, The (2007 Multimedia)

    Series
    Sourcebooks Shakespeare Series, The

    Combined book and audio CD. Includes performances by John Cleese as Petruchio (BBC Television Shakespeare series), Peter O’Toole as Petruchio (Living Shakespeare series), Roger Allam and Frances Barber...

  • Taming of the Shrew, The (1980 Television)

    aka: The Shakespeare Plays

    Series
    BBC Television Shakespeare
    Director
    Jonathan Miller
    Producer
    Jonathan Miller

    Television production of the play, with John Cleese as Petruchio and Sarah Badel as Katherina.

  • City of Death. Part 4 (1979 Television)

    Series
    Doctor Who
    Director
    Michael Hayes
    Producer
    Graham Williams

    British science fiction television serial. The Doctor and Romana are on holiday in Paris in 1979 when they sense that someone is tampering with time. He, Romana and a private detective named Duggan are then...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • I’m Sorry I’Ll Read That Again [15/02/1970] (1970 Radio)

    Series
    I’m Sorry I’Ll Read That Again
    Producer
    David Hatch; Peter Titheradge

    Classic British radio comedy series. First episode in series eight includes a fifteen-minute parody of The Taming of the Shrew ("Pruneplay of the Week"). A breakneck smattering of silly voices and dreadful...

  • 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......