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and demise of Monty Python, 227
apologises to John Cleese, 234, 236
reviews Jabberwocky, 376
Sunday Mirror, 371
The Sunday Telegraph, 281, 376
The Sunday Times, 8, 37, 76, 601
Atticus article on Monty Python, 100
reviews fourth series of Monty Python, 196
reviews Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 227
reviews Three Men in a Boat, 281
and Monty Python’s court case against ABC, 319
Christopher Matthews’ column, 365
article on John Cleese, 367, 368
reviews Jabberwocky, 376
Sunset Across the Bay (television film), 334
Superman (film), 353, 376–7, 405–6, 466, 515, 516, 568
Susie (Australian model), 335
Swan Hotel, Southwold, 206–7
Swan Hotel, Streatley, 242–3, 244
Sweden, buys Monty Python, 65
Swiss Cottage Baths, 564
Switzerland, 409, 580
Sykes, Eric, 40, 101, 425
Syon Park, 130
T
Tackerberry, Anthony, 202
Take it from Here (radio programme), 18n
Talent (play), 534
Tarrant, Chris, 534
Tate, Clark, 514
Tate Gallery, London, 13, 298, 554
Tay, Loch, 169, 171
Taylor, Derek, 203 and n, 394 and n, 476, 512, 558, 601
Taylor, Gwen, 388, 423, 438, 472, 475, 488, 496, 542
Taylor, James, 553
Taylor, Joan, 394, 512, 601
Taylor, Weston, 176
Ted (lighting rigger), 606
Tehran, 278, 279
Television Theatre, Shepherd’s Bush, 403
Telfer, Alison, xiii, 8, 50, 89, 90, 326
Teresa, Mother, 595
Terry, Sir John, 391, 393
‘The Testing of Eric Olthwaite’ see Ripping Yarns
Tetworth Hall Estate, Cambridgeshire, 385
Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair, 591
Thames, River, 4, 57, 134, 401, 479
filming Ttiree Men in a Boat, 234, 241–2, 244, 246
Thames Television, 215, 269
That Was The Week That Was (television series), 444
Thatcher, Margaret, 469, 513, 559, 573
Theakston’s beer, 542
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 150, 152–3, 154, 157, 158, 159–60, 163
Their Finest Hours (plays), 315 and n, 318, 319
Theroux, Paul, The Great Railway Bazaar, 290
Therson, Jorgen, Sex Life of Christ, 577
Thief of Baghdad (film), 447
32 Flavours, Hampstead, 373
Thomas, Dylan, 294
Thomas, James (Jimmy), 13, 131, 132
Thomas, Leslie, 146
Thomas, Ralph, 23 and n
Thompson, Hunter, 529
Thorpe, Jeremy, 295, 520, 563 and n
Thorp’s bookshop, Guildford, 63
The Three Hostages (television film), 425
Three Men in a Boat (television film), 253, 262
MP offered part in, 208, 213, 233–5, 236
read-through, 240
filming, 241–2, 244–6
editing, 255–6
screening, 279
reviews, 280, 281
MP watches repeat, 401
three-day week (1974), 150, 151, 154, 156
Thumb Gallery, London, 442
Thurmond, Strom, 589
Tibet, Yeti expedition, 390
Tidy, Bill, 54, 143
Till Death Do Us Part (television series), 12, 95, 327
Time Bandits (children’s film), 589–90, 593 and n, 594, 597, 605, 606
Time-Life, 153, 271, 277, 283, 347, 355, 417, 418, 465
Time Out, 226, 365, 375, 584
The Times, 49, 315, 340, 441
reviews Secrets, 131, 132
and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 176
reviews Three Men in a Boat, 280
reviews Tomkinson’s Schooldays, 282
reviews Jabberwocky, 375, 376
criticism of Tlte Life of Brian in, 599
Tinkley, Allen, 284, 305, 413
Tinkley, Diana, 413
Tiswas (television programme), 534
Titanic (film), 548
Titicaca, Lake, 344
Tobago, 360, 437
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 567
Today (radio programme), 592–3
Tognazzi, Ugo, 151n
Tokyo, 401
Tomiczek, John, xiii, 100, 127 and n, 185, 390, 571
Tomkinson’s Schooldays (television programme), 284, 408, 418, 468, 481, 587, 589
script, 253
casting, 256, 259
rushes, 260–1
studio recording, 262–3
screening, 270, 282
success of, 282–3, 288
Milton Abbas School disapprove of, 435
Spike Milhgan’s potted précis, 498
Tomlin, Lily, 453
Tomlinson, Fred, 85 and n, 257–8
Tomorrow (US television show), 577
The Tonight Show (American television), 126
Took, Barry, xiv, 11 and n, 14n, 141n, 257, 546
Top Haf (film), 519
Top of the Pops (television programme), 240, 257n, 301
Tories see Conservative Party
Toronto, 212, 239, 269, 567
‘First Farewell Tour’, 119–21
Torquay, 24–7
Toscanini, Arturo, 454
Tow Law, County Durham, 384–5
Tower Bridge, London, 134
Trafalgar Square, London, 388
Trattoria San Angelo, Albemarle Street, 585
Trattoria Terrazza, London, 525
Travers, Ben, 268
Rookery Nook, 539
Travesties (Stoppard), 235, 246, 255
Travolta, John, 456
Treasure Island (play), 150
Tree, Sir Ronald, 429, 433
Trinity College, Cambridge, 19
Trudeau, Margaret, 401 and n
Truffaut, François, 155, 333
Truman, Harry S, 449
Trust House Forte, 581
TUC (Trades Union Congress) 152
Tufano, Brian, 242, 246, 334
Tull, Mr (housekeeper in Barbados), 433 and n, 435
Tunis, 196
Tunisia, filming The Life of Brian in, 393–4, 402, 445, 484–509, 510, 519
Turf Club, London, 535
Turner, Teddy, 541
Turtle Bay Gardens, New York, 302, 312
Tutin, Dorothy, 415
TV International, 91
TV Times, 151
TW3 (television series), 53
TWA, 215, 219, 271, 272, 275
Twelfth Night (play), 434
Twentieth Century Fox, 543
Twice a Fortnight ((television series), 26
Two Rivers Hotel, Chepstow, 341
The Two Ronnies (television series), ix, 59, 97, 202, 228, 260
Tyler, Andrew, 176
Tyler, T, 155
U
UEFA Cup, 314
Underwood’s Finest Hour (play), 315–16 and n, 319
Union Cellars, Oxford, 81
United Airlines, 124
United Nations, 199, 312, 393
United States of America
Apollo missions, 3, 4–5, 20–2, 427
Monty Python film proposed, 13, 14, 22
Monty Python screened in, 22–3, 112, 187, 194, 206, 211, 251, 417–18, 458
Marty Feldman series, 60
MP’s first trip to, 76–7 and n
Monty Python LP released in, 82
1972 presidential election, 96
Watergate affair, 120, 127, 142, 186, 187, 216, 336n, 438n
‘First Farewell Tour’, 121–2, 123, 124–8
reluctance to take Monty Python series, 153
possibilities for Monty Python in, 157–8
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Pythons publicity tour, 215–24
Monty Python and the Holy Grail in, 228–32, 239
Bert Fegg publicity tour, 249–53
Monty Python show in New York, 266–7, 280, 284, 301–14
Monty Python court case against ABC, 267 and n, 269–79, 289, 319, 323, 324–5, 355
Jabberwocky opens in, 377, 378–9, 387
PBS interested in Ripping Yarns, 418, 425
and financing of The Life of Brian, 420
MP guest host on Saturday Night Live, 436, 446, 447, 453–62
The Life of Brian distribution problems, 517, 533, 543–4
MP’s second appearance on Saturday Night Live, 525, 528–31
viewings of The Life of Brian, 534
Los Angeles Python stage show, 544
Ripping Yarns shown in, 547
MP’s third stint on Saturday Night Live, 550, 551–3
The Life of Brian marketing trip, 554–8
Royal 10th Anniversary of Python celebration, 558
Palin family holiday on Long Island, 565–70
The Life of Brian opens in, 571, 572, 573
Jewish reaction to The Life of Brian, 574
The Life of Brian’s success in, 574, 575, 576, 580, 582, 583, 588–9
The Life of Brian publicity, 576–7
Claudie Levinson’s visa problems, 600
Universal Pictures, 543
University College Hospital, London, 46, 205
University of East Anglia, 61
Unvarnished Truth (play), 521
Updike, John, 351n
Upstairs Downstairs (television series), 206, 217
V
Vancouver, ‘First Farewell Tour’, 124
Vandenburg Motel, Santa Maria, 125
Variety
Monty Python and the Holy Grail advertisement, 232
and The Life of Brian, 420, 487, 514–15, 517, 573, 574, 582, 583
and Jabberwocky, 533
MP writes for, 550, 551
Vavasseur, 411
Veeraswamy’s restaurant, London, 589
Veling, Ranji, xiii, 66, 366
Veling, Rolf, xiii, 66
Venice, 582n
Verdelais, 34
Vereen, Ron, 303
Vernon, Richard, 475, 476
Victoria, Queen, 546
Monty Python sketch, 1, 10, 75
Vidal, Gore, 56
Video Arts, 463, 523n
Vietnam war, 35–6, 69, 92, 229, 304
Villa Bianca, Hampstead, 211
Villiers, Jimmy, 292
Virgin Records, 213
Visconti, Luchino, 87
Vogue (magazine), nude photograph of
Pythons, 229, 232, 247
The Vole (magazine), 394 and n, 404
Von Furstenberg, Diana, 455 and n
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Wainwright, Loudon III, 232
Wakefield prison, IRA hunger strikes, 289
Waldorf Hotel, London, 234–5, 600
Wale, Michael, 148 and n, 225
Wales, 199, 445
filming Jabberwocky in, 338–42
Walker, Alexander, 226, 425
Wall, Max, 323, 325–6, 329, 332–3, 335, 338, 340, 343, 371, 376
Wally ‘s, New York, 456, 457
Walmsley, Jane, 201 and n, 320
Walmsley, Nigel, 201 and n
Walters, John, 266
Walton-on-Thames, 34–5, 43, 241
Walton’s restaurant, London, 583
Wangford, Suffolk, 70
Waresley, Cambridgeshire, 385
Warhol, Andy, 232, 454, 455
Warner Books, 308–9
Warner Brothers, 452, 544
Charlie Bubbles, 101
backing for The Life of Brian, 420, 523–4, 554, 556–7
The Life of Brian publicity, 566, 573
The Life of Brian soundtrack album, 570
The Life of Brian opens in US, 572
success of The Life of Brian, 576, 580, 582, 588
and Pythons’ fourth film, 579, 583, 584
Warner Records, 394, 512, 558
Warner Rendezvous, 44
Warrick, Teddy, 390 and n, 391
Washington, US publicity tour, 220
Watergate affair, 120, 127, 142, 186, 187, 216, 336n, 438n
Watergate Complex, Washington, 220
Waterhouse, Keith, 239
Waterman, Ivan, 586
Watford, Gwen, 256, 259, 262
Watkins, Alan, 39
Watson, Caroline, 97, 409
Watson, Lyall, Supernature, 194
Watts, Charlie, 351
Waugh, Evelyn, 116, 131, 235, 555
Decline and Fall, 604
Vile Bodies, 493
Weapons of Happiness (play), 331
Wear, River, 383
A Wedding (film), 536
The Weekend (MP’s play), 553, 558, 581, 582, 583, 584, 594, 597, 601
Weekend TV awards, 21
Weekend World (television programme), 297
Weem, 171
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 424, 602
Weiland, John, 178
Welles, Orson, 440, 537
Wellington Hospital, London, 393
Wells, John, 40
Wembley Stadium, London, 390–1
Wences, Senor (ventriloquist), 452
Wenham, Brian, 559
Wenhaston, Suffolk, 181
Wesker, Arnold, 395 and n
Wesker, Dusty, 547 and n
West, Timothy, 467
West Granby, Connecticut, 250–1
West Indies
Palin family holiday in Tobago, 360
The Life of Brian rewrites in Barbados, 398, 402, 420–1, 428–35
West Kentish Town, 93
Westinghouse TV Studios, Philadelphia, 302
Westminster Abbey, London, 148–9
Westminster Bridge, filming fourth series of
Monty Python, 189
Westminster Hall, IRA bomb, 181
Weston, Bill, 340
Weston, Maggie, xiii, 114 and n, 190, 253, 329, 337–8, 340, 350
Weybourne, Norfolk, 7
Whack-O! (television series), 262 and n
Wheldon, Huw, 35
Where’s Poppa? (film), 68, 309
Wherry Inn, Geldeston, 233
Whetstone High Street, London, 43
Whinfrey, Mr (business manager of Punch), 442