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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...