by Monty Python
MICHAEL PALIN
SHEFFIELD NORTH (LOST HIS TROUSERS)
MORE UNSUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES
CAROL CLEVELAND (LIBERAL)
BOB E. RAYMOND (VERY LIBERAL) PETER BRETT (EXTREMELY LIBERAL AND RATHER RUDE)
EVEN MORE UNSUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES
DOUGLAS ADAMS
SILLY WORD (NORTH)
NEIL INNES
SILLY WORDS AND MUSIC (NORTH)
(COPYRIGHT 1984 THORPE-O-HITS LTD)
MAKE-UP AND HAIRDRESSING
JO GRIMOND
MORE MAKE-UP
MAGGIE WESTON
EVEN MORE MAKE-UP
ANDREW ROSE (COSTUMES NORTH)
MUCH MORE MAKE-UP
STAN SPEEL (FILM CAMERAMAN NORTH)
MAKE-UP AND SOUND RECORDING
RON (NORTH) BLIGHT
ROSTRUM CAMERA WITH MAKE-UP
PETER WILLIS
FILM EDITOR AND NOT MAKE-UP
BOB DEARBERG
NOT FILM EDITOR NOT MAKE-UP BUT DUBBING MIXER
ROD GUEST
LIGHTING, MAKE-UP AND PRICES AND INCOMES POLICY
JIMMY PURDIE
VISUAL EFFECTS AND MR THORPE'S WIGS
JOHN HORTON
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
BRIAN JONES (MAKE-UP NORTH)
DESIGNER (NORTH)
VALERIE WARRENDER (FAR TOO LIBERAL)
PRODUCED BY
MR LLOYD GEORGE (WHO KNEW IAN MACNAUGHTON'S FATHER)
A BBC-LIBERAL-TV-PARTY PRODUCTION (NORTH)
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BBC News (handovers)
As featured in the Flying Circus TV Show - Episode 45
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The cast:
news reader
Eric Idle
LINKMAN
Michael Palin
MAN
Graham Chapman
VOICE OVER
Michael Palin
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The sketch:
(Nine O'clock News intro in the newsroom behind. Behind the news reader several men including Jeremy Thorpe are drinking and celebrating. A woman is dancing on the table.)
news reader: Good evening. Over 400,000 million pounds were wiped off the value of shares this afternoon, when someone in the Stock Exchange coughed. Sport: capital punishment is to be re-introduced in the first and second division. Any player found tackling from behind or controlling the ball with the lower part of the arm will be hanged. But the electric chair remains the standard punishment for threatening the goalie. Referee's chairman, Len Goebbels said 'at last the referee has been given teeth'. Finally, politics: the latest opinion poll published today shows Labour ahead with 40%, the AA second with 38% and not surprisingly Kentucky Fried Chicken running the Liberals a very close third. And now back to me. Hello. And now it's time to go over to Hugh Delaney in Paignton.
(Cut to the linkman on the pier at Paignton. A smallish crowd is gathered behind him including Jerermy Thorpe who waves at the camera from the back.)
Linkman: Hello and welcome to Paignton, because it's from Paignton that we take you straight back to the studio.
(Cut to a man in swimming trunks and a snorkel pushed back on his head standing in the studio holding a stuffed polecat on a pole.)
Man: Hello. And it's from here we go over there.
(Cut to the 'Most Awful Family' presenter.)
Presenter: Well we're already here so let's go over there.
(Cut back to the news reader.)
news reader: Welcome back. And now it's time for part eight of our series about the life and work of Ursula Hifier, the Surrey housewife who revolutionized British beekeeping in the nineteen-thirties.
Voice Over: and CAPTION: 'THAT WAS A PARTY POLITICAL BROADCAST ON BEHALF OF THE LIBERAL PARTY'
(His voice breaks up with giggles. Fade to blackout. The end.)
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Walk-on part in sketch / Bank Robber (Lingerie Shop) / Trailer / Arthur Tree
The Hungarian Phrasebook sketch
Pornographic Bookshop
'A Book at Bedtime' - The Red gauntlet
Monty Python's Flying Circus in Australia
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Accidents sketch
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Advertisements
13
After-shave
17
Agatha Christie sketch
11
Agatha Christie sketch (railway timetables)
24
Albatross
Anagram quiz
30
Anne Elk
31
Ant Complaints
41
'Anything goes In' (song)
42
Apology
