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8 results found for '"Michael Palin"' in Person.

  • Dresser, The (1993 Radio)

    Series
    Monday Play, The
    Director
    David Blount

    Radio adaptation of a play written by Ronald Harwood which is based on the touring career of Donald Wolfit, for whom Harwood was the dresser. An actor-manager of the old school takes a Shakespearean company...

  • American Friends (1991 Film)

    Director
    Tristram Powell
    Producer
    Patrick Cassavetti; Steve Abbott

    Feature film adapted by Michael Palin from the travel diaries of his greatgrandfather. Francis Ashby, a fellow of Oxford College, falls in love with Elinor, an American girl of 17, while on a walking...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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......