Bates, Simon, 602n
Bavarian TV, 48, 59n, 85n, 86–91, 321
Baxter, Stanley, 551
Bayler, Terry, 423
BBC
first series of Monty Python, 13
second series of Monty Python, 18, 35, 37, 49
and Apollo 13 mission, 20
Monty Python spin-offs, 23, 56, 60
North Acton Rehearsal Rooms, 78
cuts Monty Pythons third series, 88, 94–5, 99, 104
‘Blue and Black’ series (Secrets), 97, 98–9, 100, 103, 108, 111, 131–2
annual parties, 100–1, 355, 424, 425
fourth series of Monty Python, 130–1, 133, 136, 143–4, 150, 153, 163
Omnibus film on Monty Python, 159
films Monty Python and the Holy Grail filming, 174
censors Monty Python, 193, 194
and demise of Monty Python, 213, 214
and Tomkinson’s Schooldays, 247, 253, 256, 270, 282–3, 285–6, 288
and Pythons’ court case against ABC, 278, 355
wipes Monty Python tapes, 362 and n
and Ripping Yarns, 403, 408, 411, 465, 468–71, 521
destroys Bob Dylan tape, 422
films The Life of Brian filming, 495, 499
decide to do no more Ripping Yarns, 509–10
documentary on Monty Python, 560 and n
MP offered chat show on BBC2, 560
and possible theatrical release of Ripping Yarns, 570
BBC Light Entertainment Group, 49
BBC Manchester, 601, 604–5
Beach, Jim, 284 and n, 308, 523
Beach Boys, 81
Beame, Abe (mayor of New York), 239
Beatlemania (US live show), 583
The Beatles, 95, 203–4, 367, 394, 449, 575, 576, 578, 583, 591
Beatts, Anne, 480
Beaumont, ‘Binkie’, 265
Beazley (painter), 64
Beck, Jeff, 232
Beckinsale, Kate, 388n
Beckinsale, Richard, 388n, 425, 540
The Bed Before Yesterday (play), 268
Bedford, David, 108
Bedford, Terry, 170, 174, 179 and n, 226, 320, 333, 334–5, 340, 341
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 61, 127, 307
Beetles, Chris, 561 and n
Belfast, 92
Belfast, HMS, filming Monty Python, 189
Belgium, 105
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, 52–3
Bell, Alan J.W., xv, 402, 520 and n, 522, 535, 536, 537, 570
Bell, Madeline, 189 and 190n
Bell Inn, Charlbury, 416, 418–20
Bellow, Saul, 459
Bells Yew Green, East Sussex, 477
Belsize Park, 404
Belushi, John, 459, 460, 462, 528–9, 530, 552, 553
Bemrose, Clive, 129
Ben Hur (film), 352
Ben Lawers, Perthshire, 169, 170
Benacre Church, Suffolk, 181
Benidorm, 196
Benn, Tony, 602
Bennett, Alan, 208
On the Margin, 92
Amnesty International show, 297, 299, 300, 301, 322
Sunset Across the Bay, 334
The Old Country, 462, 463
in New York restaurant, 531
Bennett, Hywel, 23n Benson, Jonathan, 496, 500
Benton & Bowles Advertising Agency, 16–17
Bergman, Ingmar, 134
Berkeley Books, 249
Berkeley Square Jubilee Party (1977), 394
Berlin, 441, 449
Berlin Film Festival, 387, 391–3
Bernstein, Carl, The Final Days, 336 and n
Bernstein, Leonard, 307
Berry, Bill (plasterer), 155
Berry, Cicely, 294, 295, 306
Bert Fegg’s Nasty Book for Boys and Girls
(Palin and Jones), 156 and n, 201, 218, 248–50, 252–3
film proposal, 287, 288
Bertolucci, Bernardo, 415
Bethersden, Kent, 475–6, 478
Betts, Dickie, 540, 541
Beuselinck, Oscar, 465 and n, 559
Beyond the Fringe (stage show), 53, 322, 562
Bhutto, Benazir, 352–3
Bianchi’s, Frith Street, 436
Big Red Book (Monty Python), 65, 106–7
Big Sur, California, 125
Bijou Theatre, London, 534, 544, 559
Billington, Kevin, 6n, 44
Biolek, Alfred, 59n, 71, 86, 89, 90
Bird, John, 10
Amnesty International show, 299, 300, 301
in Jabberwocky, 316, 325–6, 329
Birdsall, Derek, 354 and n
Birkdale Primary School, Sheffield, 114 and n, 138, 509
Birmingham
‘First Farewell Tour’, 114–16
IRA bombs, 196
Bishop, Joey, 127–8
Biziou, Peter, 488 and n, 493
Black, Sir Cyril, 237 and n
Black, Peter, 131, 132
Black Horse Hotel, Skipton, 539, 542–3
Black Park, Buckinghamshire, 41
Blackmoor Village, 84
Blackneil, Lillian, 181n
Blazing Saddles (film), 550
Blood Sports (play), 324
Bloody Sunday (1972), 68–9 and n, 70–1, 74
Blooms Deli, London, 318
Bloomsbury, 128
Blount, Fred, 496
‘Blue and Black’ series, Secrets, 97, 98–9, 100, 103, 108, 111, 131–2
Blunt, Anthony, 597–8
and n Blythburgh Hospital, 290, 343, 357–8, 360, 361, 381–2
Bogarde, Dirk, 321
Bonham-Carter, Violet, 512 and n
Bonzo Dog Band, 20
The Book of Lists, 551
Boomtown Rats, 601
Boorman, John, 48
Booth, Connie, xiii, 26–7 and n
And Now For Something Completely Different, 43n
cabaret engagements, 61
Monty Python’s Bavarian TV show, 87
and demise of Monty Python, 227
Fawlty Towers, 254, 463
separation from John Cleese, 265, 319
Hunter Davies on, 367
in Tunisia, 503
Bordon, Hampshire, 83–4
Borehamwood Studios, 412
Borrows, Bill, 75
Boston, Richard, 394n, 397, 404
Bottell, Derek, 340
Boult, Nicky, 585 and n
Boundary Commission, 112n
Bourguiba, Habib, 487, 490, 539
Bournemouth, filming Monty Python in, 2–3
Bovey Tracey dairy, 100
Bowie, David, 117–18, 158
Box, Betty, 23 and n, 26
Boyle, Peter, 529
Brace of Pheasants Inn, Plush, Dorset, 199–200
Bradford, 146–7
Bradley Field International airport, Connecticut, 526
The Brand New Monty Python Bok, 136, 142, 143, 147, 149, 153, 194
Brando, Marlon, 353, 369, 376, 377, 497
Brandreth, Gyles, 146
Brandt, Willy, 295
Branson, Richard, 213
Brasenose College, Oxford, 114, 413–14 and n
Brayfield, Celia, 466
Brazil (film), 535, 572, 577, 581, 589, 593
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (film), 175
Brearley, Michael, 562 and n
Brecht, Bertolt, 345
Brecknock Arms, Bells Yew Green, 477
Brenton, Howard, Weapons of Happiness, 331
Brentwood, California, 555, 556
Bresslaw, Bernard, 329, 330, 332, 343
Bridges, Jeff, 357n, 439n
Brien, Alan, 376, 392 and n
Brierley Roger, 476
Briggs, Dr, 312–13
Brighton, 441
‘First Farewell Tour’, 114
Brightside and Carbrook Co-Operative Players, 315n
Bristol, ‘First Farewell Tour’, 114, 116
British Airways, 270–1, 451
British A
rmy
Bloody Sunday (1972), 68–9 and n
Aldershot bomb, 74
British High Commission (Canada), 122
British Lion, 436
British Rail, 80, 260
Broad, David, 586
Broad, Graham, 586–7
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, 450
Broaden Your Mind (television programme), 13
Broadway, New York, 293
Brodie, Ray, 274–5, 456
Broke, Richard, xv, 103, 425, 599 and n
Bromley, Jabberwocky’s success in, 378
Bron, Eleanor, 299, 300, 301, 561
Branson, Charles, 485n
Brontë, Charlotte, 540
Jane Eyre, 123
Brontë sisters, 317
Bronx Zoo, New York, 308–9
Brooke-Taylor, Tim, xiii, II, 135, 240, 365
cricket match in Bordon, 83, 84
at BBC annual party, 356
BBC rejects Goodies scripts, 399
and Royal Variety Performance, 399
Brooks, Mel, 231, 279
Brown, Gaye, 292
Brown, Joe, 390
Brown, Mr (housekeeper in Barbados), 429, 435
Bruce, Lenny, 231, 300, 324
Bruin Theatre, Westwood, 556
Brunei, 446
Buchan, John, The Three Hostages, 425
Buchanan House, Holborn, 368–9
Buchanans Finest Hour (play), 315–16 and n, 319
Buckman, Rob, 561 and n
Buddah Records, 82, 121–2, 123, 125, 126
The Bull, Streatley, 243
Bull Inn, Bethersden, 475
Bulldog Drummond stories, 63
Buhner’s Cider, 225
Bunting, Basil, 448–9
Burbank Studios, Hollywood, 557, 558
Burd, Catherine (Helen’s niece), xii, 19, 235, 279, 366 and n
Burd, Edward (Helen’s brother-in-law), xii, 30, 34, 198–9, 358, 366, 387 and n, 481
Burd, Mary (née Gibbins, Helen’s sister), xii, 30, 34, 198–9, 214, 235, 358, 366, 481
Burford, Oxfordshire, 419
Burge, Stuart, 421, 422
Burnett, Paul, 390
Burns, George, 26
Burns, Milly (Designer), 329, 340
Burns, Mr (ABC employee), 277
Burrows, Mr (financial director of Shepperton Studios), 369
Burton, Humphrey, 13 and n, 587
Bush Theatre, Shepherds Bush, 324
Bushey Lock, 244–5
C
Caesar, Sid, 452
Caesar and Cleopatra (play), 265
Café de la Plage, Monastir, 486, 504
Cagney, James, 358
Caine, Marti, 433 and n
Caine, Michael, 432, 433
Cairo Film Festival, 410
Cale, John, 307
Caledonian Hotel, Edinburgh, 514
Caledonian Road, London, 43–4
Calgary, ‘First Farewell Tour’, 122
Call My Bluff (television programme), 195
Callaghan, Jim, 469
Callander, filming Monty Python and the Holy Grail in, 177, 179
Calley, John, 523–4, 544, 555, 568–9, 580, 583
Callow, Simon, 324, 339
Caiman, Mel, 442 and n, 600
Camber Sands, Sussex, 31
Cambridge, 19
Cambridge Theatre Company, 521
Cambridge Union, 552
Cambridge University, 128–9
Camden Council, 14n, 93, 109
Camden Lock, 281
Camden Playgroup, 559
Camden Swimming Gala, 564
Camden Theatre, London, 23
Camden Town, 380
Cameron, James, 238, 604
An Indian Summer, 244
Cammillieri, Mr (Italian tutor), 182, 183
Campaign Magazine, 422
Camus, Albert, L’Étranger, 285
Canada, 75
‘First Farewell Tour’, 119–24, 150
Canby, Vincent, 378–9, 571
Cannan, Denis, 347n
Cannes Film Festival, 102, 550
The Canterbury Tales (film) 146
Cantor, Arthur, 252, 265, 266, 268, 284
Cape Cornwall, 538
Capital Radio, 132, 347, 373
Capote, Truman, 454, 455
The Car versus the People (BBC documentary), 54
Carew, Elaine, 339 and n, 501, 599
Caribbean
Palin family holiday in Tobago, 360
The Life of Brian rewrites in Barbados, 398, 421, 428–35, 519
Carlin, George, 531
Carlisle Arms, London, 532
Carmichael, Hoagy, 577 and n
Carreras, Michael, 444 and n
Carroll, Donald, 590, 591
Carson, Jack, 126
Carson, Johnny, 127
Carter, Jeff, 461
Carter jimmy, 385
Carthage, Tunisia, 507–8
Casey, Pat, 22
Casino cinema, Soho, 211, 212, 357
The Casserole, King’s Road, 133–4
Castiglione della Pescaia, 128
Castle Carew, Monmouthshire, 341
Catholics, Bloody Sunday (1972), 68–9 and n, 70–1
Cave, Bags, 129
Cavett, Dick, 232
CBC, 119, 120
CBC Canada, 209, 212
CBS, 311
CBS Records, 266
Ceauçescu, Nicolae, 595
Celebrity magazine, 333
Cellan Jones, James, 108, 111, 131
Cellier, Peter, 325, 330
Cenac, 34
Central Hotel, Glasgow, 51
Central Park, New York, 216–17, 222, 576
Chambers, Aidan, 584
Chandler, Raymond, 87, 125
Channel 13 (US), 217, 221, 458
Chapman, Graham, xiii
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, 6, 44
homosexuality, 30
charity shows, 35–6
and Helens pregnancy, 42
Guinness commercial, 45
as a host, 48–9
hates carpets, 73
alcohol problems, 79, 113, 344, 388, 396–7, 398, 427
and Terry’s mother’s death, 89–90
needs to earn money, 98
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