Dr Fegg’s Encyclopaedia of All World Knowledge (Palin and Jones), 156n
Dr Fegg’s Nasty Book of Knowledge (Palin and Jones), 268, 303–4
Dr Strangelove (film), 506
Dr Who (television series), 209
Dr Who and the Daleks, 202
Doctorow, E L
Book of Daniel, 76
Ragtime, 361
Dodd, David, 439 and n
Dodd, Rosemary, 66
Dog’s Ear Studio, Wapping, 479
Dominique (film), 406 and n, 438
Donaldson, William, 133 and n
Donner, Richard, 376
Donner, Wolf, 392
Donovan, Gerry, 370, 437, 439 and n, 443, 473, 582
Doonican, Val, 425
Dorchester, 199
Doré, Gustave, 378
Dotrice, Michele, 344
Douglas, Kirk, 26, 272
Douglas, Mike, 302–3
Doumanian, Jean, 455–6, 550
Doune Castle, filming Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 170 and n, 172–80
Downey, James, 458
Doyle, Julian, xiv
filming Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 169–70
and Neal’s Yard premises, 296n, 314
and Jabbenwocky, 335, 341–2, 350
and The life of Brian, 515 and n, 523, 532, 533
difficulty in getting into US, 533
Doyle-Murray, Brian, 457 and n
‘Dracula at St Dominies’ (Palin sketch), 471
Dragonara Hotel, Bristol, 116
drought (1976), 314, 335, 337
Drury Lane see Theatre Royal
Duck Soup (film), 52
Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, 80
Dull, Scotland, 171
Dulwich, 129–30, 584
Dulwich Hamlet, 412–13
Dulwich Picture Gallery, 584
Dumpling Inn, Soho, 440
Dunblane, Perthshire, 172
Duncan, Isadora, 25
Duncan, Sean, 154 and n
Dungeness Atomic Power Station, 31
Dunlop, Frank, 539
Durden-Smith, Jo, 231 and n
Durham, 382, 383, 385
Durley Dean Hotel, Bournemouth, 2
dustman’s strike (1979), 531, 533
Duvall, Shelley, 455–6 and n, 474–5, 480
Dyer, Charles, Rattle of a Simple Man, 521
Dylan, Bob, 11, 218, 422
E
Eagle Star, 399
Ealing, 43, 190–1, 538
Ealing Film Studios, 255
Easthampton Airport, 567
Easton Bavents, Suffolk, 8
Easy Rider (film), 456
Ed Sullivan Theater, New York, 305
Eddison, Robert, 313
Eden, Anthony, 429, 431, 433
Edenfield Gardens, Worcester Park, Surrey, 9
Edgar, David, Blood Sports, 324
Edgar Allen’s (steelmaker), 165 and n
Edinburgh, 57
‘First Farewell Tour’, 117–18
Ripping Yarns book-signing tour, 513–14
snow in, 519
Edinburgh, Duke of, 77, 553
Edinburgh Festival, 269n
Edmonton, ‘First Farewell Tour’, 122–3
Edmonton Press Club, 123
Edwards, Blake, 413
Edwards, Jimmy, 262n
Egypt, Cairo Film Festival, 410
Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood, 555
Eidophor screens, 81 and n, 403
Eisenberg, Lee, 325, 328, 360, 437
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 187
Ekland, Britt, 23n
electricity
power-cuts, 47, 48, 71–3, 413
three-day week (1974), 151, 154
Elephant and Casde, 72
Elgar, Edward, 395, 591
Enigma Variations, 503
Elida-Gibbs, 106
Eliot, George, 201, 317
Elizabeth, Queen Mother, 116
Elizabeth I, Queen, 427
Elizabeth II, Queen, 34, 372
visits Poole, 3
Jubilee Day (1977), 389, 394
on Python 10 Year mugs, 545
double, 558
Elizabeth R (film), 332
Elizabethan Image exhibition, London (1970), 13–14
Ellington, Duke, 591
Elliott, Denholm, 23n, 44, 342, 345 and n
Elstree, 412, 589
Elysee Theater, New York, 451–2
Emergency Powers Bill (1973), 148
EMI
and Live at Drury Lane LP, 96, 180
opening of Minify Python and the Holy Grail, 206, 207, 212, 226
and financing of The Life of Brian, 436, 444–5, 446–7, 464
Pythons sue, 465, 497
re-release Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 550
Empire State Building, New York, 311, 453
L’Enfant Sauvage (film), 333
Enfield, Connecticut, 526, 527
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (film), 333
Erice, Victor, 314
Ervin, Sam, 120
Esquire magazine, 218, 325, 328, 360, 437
Essoldo, Maida Vale, 68
Etceteras’ Sunday revues, 36
L’Etoile, London, 572, 579
Euro Atlantic, 464, 465, 562, 571, 582
European Community referendum (1975), 238–9 and n
Evans, Laurence, 470, 471
Evening News, 132, 319
Evening Standard, 361, 426, 446, 603
on possible demise of Monty Python, 104
reviews Secrets, 132
reviews Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 226
reviews Ripping Yarns, 466
Everett, Kenny, 442
Ewing, Kenneth, 11
Eworth, Hans, 13
Ex-Franco Arabe Café de L’Oasis, Gabès, 505
Exchange Theatre, Manchester, 316
Exeter, 25, 188
The Exorcist (film), 276
Experimental Theatre Club (ETC), Oxford, 509
Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire, 386
Eyre, Ronald, 522–3, 545
F
FA Cup, 170, 522, 524
Fair Rent Act, 109
Faith, Adam, 173
Faithfull, Marianne, 155
Falcon pub, Wardour Street, 439
Falkland Arms, Great Tew, 419
Falkus, Christopher, 545
Fallender, Deborah, 320
Falls of Killin, 171
Fanshawe, David, 606–7
FAO Schwarz, 379, 380
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 281
Fastnet Race, 1979 storm, 571
Fatso (band), 300
Fawcett (Shepperton Company Secretary), 369
Fawcett Major, Farrah, 548
Fawlty Towers (television series), 24n, 254, 261, 264, 372, 444, 463, 467–8, 522, 534, 536, 539
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film), 529
Feldman, Marty, 20, 47, 50, 132n
MP writes for, ix, 14 and n
contract with Terry Gilliam, 60
The Frost Report, 73n
nervous breakdown, 134
and Royal Variety Performance, 399
rumoured to be in Barbados, 432, 433
Ferreri, Marco, 151
Ferry, Bryan, 444
Festival of Light, 518 and n, 545, 547, 594, 595 and n
Fez, 394
Field, Sally, 439n
Film and Filming, 425
Film Night (television series), 174
Film ’76 (television series), 337, 350, 354
Film ’77 (television series), 415, 416
Finn, Mr (Gibbs toothpaste employee), 105–6
Finney, Albert, 102n, 208n, 292, 293
‘First Farewell Tour’ (1973)
in Britain, 112–19
in Canada, 119–24
in America, 121–2, 124–8
First World War, 386
Fischer, Dr Fritz, 81n
Fisher, Carrie, 560
Fishe
r, Doug, 349n
Fisher’s Island, Long Island Sound, 567–9, 572, 578–80, 589
Fitzgerald, F Scott, 425
Fixx, James E, 576 and n
Flash Gordon (film), 572, 581, 589
The Flask, Hampstead, 137, 404, 407, 424
The Flying Volantes, 452
Flynn, Errol, 335
Focus on Youth (US radio programme), 379
‘Foghat’ (English band), 126
Foot, Michael, 158, 408 and n, 604
Force 10 from Navarone (film), 406, 426
Ford, Gerald, 187, 215, 453
Ford, Graham, 354, 358–9, 376, 405–6, 415–16, 447–8, 475, 562n
Ford, Harrison, 560
Foreign Office building, Whitehall, 133
Forstater, Mark, xv, 137 and n, 207
and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 141–3, 146, 148, 172, 179, 185, 190, 192, 206, 211, 214, 226
Forsyth, Bruce, 474
Fortnum and Mason, 495
Fortune, John, ion, 300
Forwood, Maggie, 586
Foster, Jill (MP’s agent), xv, 16n, 186, 291, 293, 315
and MP’s voice-overs, 16, 187, 463–4
second series of Monty Python, 18
and demise of Monty Python, 104, 213
leaves Fraser and Dunlop, 285–6
and MP’s commercials, 328
lunch with MP, 388
and Royal Variety Performance, 399
and MP’s novel, 405, 505
BBC decide to do no more Ripping Yarns, 509–10
The Life of Brian preview, 525
Fowles, John, Daniel Martin, 434n
Fox, Paul, 35 and n, 37, 49, 54, 99
Framlingham, Suffolk, 152
France, 565
Palin family holidays in, 30–4, 481–2
Monty Python and the Holy Grail success in, 279, 546
power-cut, 517
Francis, Derek, 325
Franken, Al, 457–8
and n, 552–3
Franklin, Jim, xv
produces Ripping Yarns, 362, 364, 377, 383, 387, 401, 402, 416, 468–9, 476, 478
Fraser, Bill, 540–1
Fraser and Dunlop, 17, 187, 205, 286
Fraser Gallery, 470
Frayn, Michael, 139n, 299, 604
Frears, Stephen, 208n, 330, 415, 468, 531
Daft as a Brush, 255
Sunset Across the Bay, 334
Three Men in a Boat, 208, 213, 233–5, 240, 241–2, 244–6, 255–6, 262, 279, 280, 281, 401
Freeman, Alan, 261
Freshwater Bay East Coast Path, 341
Freud, Clement, 257
Freudenberg, Dr, 158, 268
Friar Park, Henley, 258–9, 511–12, 583–4, 601–2
Friday Night, Saturday Morning (television series), 594, 595–6, 599
Fried, Clarence, 276–7
Frost, David, 17, 118
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, 6n
Frost Programme (television series), 139
The Frost Report (television series), ix, 26, 40, 67, 73 and n, 98, 143
Frost on Sunday (television series), 6, 13, 319
Funny Peculiar (play), 326
G
Gabès, Tunisia, 504–7
Gail (Charisma Records employee), 180, 185
Gallagher’s Bar, New York, 230
Gambaccini, Paul, 390, 391
Ganga Distributors, 580
Garcia, Jerry, 552
Garden, Graeme, xiii, 15, 131, 240, 281, 365, 520–1, 561n
Garden, Liz, xiii, 281
Garden, Sally, xiii, 281
Garrick Club, London, 591
Gate Cinema, Notting Hill, 393
Gay News, 376, 547, 576
Gay Pride March, London, 562
Gaylord restaurant, Soho, 333
Geffen, David, 455 and n
Geldeston, Suffolk, 233
Geldof, Bob, 601
general elections
June 1970, 27, 28
February 1974, 155–6, 157, 158, 192
October 1974, 192–3
May 1979, 469
General Strike (1926), 72
Genghis Khan, in Monty Python, 3
Geological Museum, London, 284, 584
George-Brown, Lord, 44 and n
George Inn, Southwark, 292
Germany, 65, 196
MP sells encyclopaedias in, 347n
Monty Pythons Bavarian TV shows, 48, 59 and n, 71, 79, 85–91, 579
Berlin Film Festival, 387, 391–3
Jabberwocky does well in, 425
bookshops, 441
Gibbins, Anne (Helens mother), xii, 19n, 78–9 and n, 112, 385, 386, 413, 607–8
Gibbins, Cathy (Helen’s sister), xi, 34 and n
Gibbins, Dearman (Helen’s father), xii, 19n
Gibbins, Norah, 607–8
Gibbons, Ali, 189–90
Gibbons, Brian, 189–90
Gibbs toothpaste, 105–6
Gilbert, James (Jimmy), xv, 151, 474
Head of Comedy at BBC, 143–4 and n
fourth series of Monty Python, 144, 153, 163, 193, 195, 196
discusses fifth series of Monty Python, 209, 228
and demise of Monty Python, 211, 213
and Tomkinson’s Schooldays, 238, 247, 270, 282–3, 285, 286, 288
and Ripping Yarns, 293, 345, 362, 364, 388, 403, 408, 416, 520, 522
and The Goodies, 399
Gilbert and George, 299 and n
Gillette Cup (cricket), 11–12
Gilliam, Terry, xiii
Great Picnic, 4
award for graphics, 17
on Graham Chapman, 30
Guinness commercial, 45
attitude to Monty Python, 65
disillusioned with animations, 74
at BBC annual party, 100
watches Secrets, 132
Drury Lane show, 159–60
jabberumky, 253, 284–5, 293–5, 314, 316, 320, 323, 325–6, 329–30, 333–6, 340–4, 348, 350, 369, 378–9, 425, 449
court case against ABC, 270–9
likes Tomkinson’s Schooldays, 282
Neal’s Yard property deal, 296 and n, 314, 364
Amnesty International show, 300
at Jabberwocky preview, 366
at Berlin Film Festival, 391–2
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