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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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • I’m Sorry I’Ll Read That Again [29/03/1970] (1970 Radio)

    Series
    I’m Sorry I’Ll Read That Again

    Classic BBC radio comedy show. Episode 7 in series 8 includes a fifteen-minute parody of Henry VIII ("Pruneplay of the Week"). A breakneck smattering of silly voices and dreadful puns is held together by...