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Harry Secombe Show, The [16/12/1972] (1972 Television)
- Series
- Harry Secombe Show, The
- Director
- James Moir
- Producer
- Terry Hughes
BBC television comedy sletch show. This episode Includes a c3 minute sketch in which Harry Secombe plays the gravedigger to Julian Orchard’s Hamlet. While Hamlet makes his speech he is interrupted by...
Lines from My Grandfather’s Forehead [08/1972] (1972 Radio)
- Series
- Lines from My Grandfather’s Forehead
- Producer
- John Fawcett Wilson
In a short skit towards the end of this episode of the classic comedy sketch show, Ronnie Barker stars as a forgetful actor who manages to jumble up all the lines from Hamlet’s famous ‘To be or not to...
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...
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...
Morecambe and Wise Show, The [03/06/1971] (1971 Television)
- Series
- Morecambe and Wise Show, The
- Producer
- John Ammonds
Television comedy series. This episode includes a sketch, written by aspiring playwright, Ernie Wise for Glenda Jackson, the guest star. Shows an encounter between Cleopatra, Caesar and Antony with a dubious...
Cilla [23/01/1971] (1971 Television)
- Series
- Cilla
- Producer
- Michael Hurll
Music/comedy series presented by and starring Cilla Black. The show includes a comedy sketch on Romeo and Juliet written by Talbot Rothwell (screenplay writer of the Carry On films, many of which starred...
Lucy Meets the Burtons (1970 Television)
- Series
- Here’s Lucy
- Director
- Jerry Paris
- Producer
- Cleo Smith
US sitcom. Guest appearances from Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Richard Burton had recently bought Taylor a 69-carat diamond ring, a gift which features prominently in the episode (Lucy gets the ring...
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...
Carol Channing’s Mad English Tea Party (1970 Television)
- Director
- Colin Clews
A one-off special variety sketch show. The show was taped in London in (ATV’s studios) and satirises the English. Sketches include Carol and Fred as Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; Anne Boleyn writing an...