I think it was actually the pipe that killed him considering he ended up getting throat cancer and not liver disease or something of the like. He quit cold turkey shortly after this.
Those old phones used to make you jump out of your skin, loud as hell. Always fun to ring Granny when she was watching horrors in the house by herself.
The video references the point in time in March 1975 when Python troupe was in Dallas, not when it first aired. Monty Python did indeed first air in the U.S. on KERA in Dallas as noted in Michael Palin's recent autobiography (pg 221). It is well-documented by remaining Python members along with representatives from then syndicator TimeLife and KERA staff that KERA was absolutely the first in the U.S. to broadcast. Stations such as WHYY, WNET and WGBH soon followed, but KERA was first in 1974.
You're completely WRONG, YoungAmerican, by 1975, Monty Python had been aired nearly 3 years already, by both WHYY, PBS-ch.12 in Philadelphia, as well as on WLVT, PBS-ch.39, in Allentown, Pa. I personally bought the 1st Monty Python record album (LP) in 1972, here in E. Pa, where we were already HUGE fans, going on 2 years already. Texans may have "accidentally" discovered MP in '75, but that was YEARS after PENNSYLVANIANS had already been laughing out loud in hysterics at their antics. Sorry
Sooooo....this is the Spanish Inquisition (never mind).....BUT this answers where it all began for us Americans I suppose, AND I've loved these guys ever since, so thank you to the person who gave the guys a chance on PBS! May Monty Python live forever!!
To be fair they never really broke up as they recorded several albums all through the 1970s and 80s and they did make the Holy Grail with John Cleese in 1974 and it was released in 1975.
I wonder what Chapman was thinking about the constant phone ringing.... It seems it could drive any healthier human over the edge, let alone poor Graham, who seemed to be starving for some rest.
Indeed. According to his autobiography, he quit cold turkey shortly after this, so this was likely one of his worst moments. I can't imagine being able to quit just like that after being up to 2 large bottles of gin a day... what an incredible guy.
In case you're fretting, I think what Terry was about to say before the footage cut off was "Owl Stretching Time," in another interview the same question was asked and that was the reply.
Other proposed titles were "A Horse, a Bucket and a Spoon," "Bunn, Wackett, Buzzard, Stubble and Boot," "The Toad Elevating Moment," "Whither Canada?" and "Sex and Violence." The latter three were recycled as first-season episode titles, as was "Owl-Stretching Time."
Contrary to what the narrator at the beginning says and Wikipedia, KERA first showed MPFC in July of 1974. I remember seeing it in TV guide and thinking it was going to be a real circus show and asked my mom if I could watch it. I still watch it faithfully. By 1979 the Sunday night British comedy line-up was Benny Hill, MPFC, The Two Ronnies, Dave Allen at Large, and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.
33 years on and public TV fund drives are no better. In the US, the general public (along with a little gov't money and big arts charity donations) pays for programming on public TV stations. I'm glad for that, because no public TV, no Python (or Doctor Who, Red Dwarf and Blackadder) in the US, at least not in the 1970s-1990s.
I first saw Python as a 7 year old in 1976, thanks to WMVS in Milwaukee. Yay for Channel 10!
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Amazing footage. I knew many of the sketches from them being played on one of the local FM stations for several years before the show came to the US. I remember the great anticipation we all had for the show to finally arrive.
I didn't see this interview when it aired, but I was lucky enough to be living in the Dallas area when Monty Python aired. I had no idea it was the first area of the country to broadcast it. Now I feel special.
In their biography there are lots od possible names, for example: "it's" "owl stretching time" "Gwen Dibley's Flying Circus" "A horse, a spoon and a bucket" "The toad elevating moment" "Megapodes Flying Circus" "Bun, Wackett, Buzzard, Stubble and Boot" "Them"... And much more:-)
This is according to Wikipedia's entry on Fawlty Towers: "Fawlty Towers was a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975." Could probably be chalked up to bad timing. Hope that helps...
Yeh,left the TV show,but he said he was always gonna do any films,so that doesn't explain him being missing here,after all he's in 'Holy Grail'.Plus Eric's not there,so maybe they just stayed at the hotel
I've seen an interview with Michael Palin where he says one of the first names for the show was going to be "its". There were others also...too bad it cut off!
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Idle and Cleese, if you read Michael Palin's diary, were jerks about coming to America... I'm glad they didn't come, could of ruined the whole vibe by being all nasty and bitter.
I seem to recall seeing Monty Python on TV on the PBS station channel 11 WTTW before 1975. I remember it because my sister and I used to pretend we were Gumbies. Of course,later chicago became the Monty Python fan capitol of the world.
Terry Jones was a bit restrained in describing the hold commercial TV had in the US in the 1970s. By 1975 all Python's TV stuff was finished, with only movies to follow. It was old news in the rest of the word. It had been a hit everywhere, subtitled and dubbed from one end of Europe to the other. The US was about the only country that had never heard of it. Such was the power of the networks, they kept it out for five years.
Very nice!! I'm reading MP's autobiography this broadcast is mentioned. EI is not there because a few months ago he officially left Python. JC rarely went on these publicity tours. PBS in Dallas was the first station to show Python. Funny thing MP took the armidillo and it scared him at night when he went to for a pee!
Why did they cut it off? I want to see the rest of the footage!
Not the Python interview...I want to see what is going on in that warehouse. The foreman was there, some kind of inspection, it looked like serious business.
The TV show's last season was in 1974 (only Cleese left, Idle was still there). All the movies they did were after this and were made with the complete, original Python group.
just want to point out there show was not saved from the scraphead by a us station, they were huge in europe its just the us took wayyy longer to catch on.
Graham mentioned that the prog caught on in spite of being shown late at night. In fact it's timing, Friday night at 11, coincided with the pubs shutting thus giving it an audience who were in a more receptive mood. I watched the first episode in 1969, after beating my Dad home from the pub.
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Superb video! I watched with amazement; KERA and MPFC, during the mid-seventies. It started my lifelong love of British comedy. The things they showed, SHOCKING, and we loved it!
This is a great clip, extraordinarily rare. Fantastic footage! My only complaint is that one of the pledge drivers behind the fellow in the red shirt is chewing gum! How unbelievably rotten!
This is great thumbs up !!
byafu 2 months ago
THANK YOU!
mijadane 2 months ago
lol at the loud wine bottle opening at 12:14
odinssverd 3 months ago
I love that the tape ends, at the most important part of his sentence..! ...:)
PandaJungle 3 months ago
Thumbs up if you wanted to know the other names for monty python
TheTechnoToast 4 months ago
cheers to KERA in Dallas
pope183 7 months ago
i love la camilla!
jmaxcamp 8 months ago
Chapman looks as drunk as a lord!
jkoff76 9 months ago 5
@jkoff76 1975 he probably was.
pulpstress 7 months ago 7
tewwy jones
MrsTokiWartooth 10 months ago
March 1975.
JHollowayNetwork 11 months ago
OMG! They were allowed to smoke in the studio! :D
PlushWitch 11 months ago
The Beatles of comedy!!.. and they have the hair to prove it.
jcspeb010 1 year ago 5
GORGEOUS hair...
OlaNaTungee6 1 year ago 4
Things I love about this video...
1. The way the whole audience is sitting on the floor. So 70s.
2. Graham Chapman's pipe
3. Terry Gilliam's American accent in the process of morphing into a British one
4. The guy at 10:43. Definitely baked.
5. The way that chick at 11:10 looks at Graham. Pure lust.
6. Everything about Michael Palin. I'm not gay, but if I had to fuck one of the Pythons, it'd be him.
7. The ending. WE'LL NEVER FUCKING KNOW
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Bestmanme08 1 year ago
He was about to say "owl stretching time" one of the early possible names for the show. Graham came up with that one.
graaar 1 year ago
Oh my god! He was electrified?! That's horrible!
Crotchrot 1 year ago
why do everyone in the video have weird hairstyles??was there a shortage of barbers back then?
80corecpu 1 year ago
@80corecpu: it was the '70s. I think everyone had hair like that.
xemily91 1 year ago
@80corecpu They didn't want to be barbers. They wanted to be lumberjacks.
alinemerrow 1 year ago
@80corecpu Nothing weird about those hairstyles. It was the '70s, hair was long. Looks better than the crew-cut 1950s hair kids are wearing now.
fuzzballzz36 3 months ago
lol that looks like where full house was
holysnackpack 1 year ago
haha little did everyone know how epic the holy grail was gong to be
cooliovasquez 1 year ago 6
Heh, Chapman is definitely stoned.
sialababamak537 1 year ago
I think Michael Palin is easily the most charmingly endearing of the Pythons, except for maybe Terry Jones.
OneMorePelican 1 year ago 9
I have never use this kind of comments. I dont normally do that. But I have to say - They are utterly gorgeous!!! I love those 70s haircuts.
janajswe 1 year ago 7
Turn those f'in phones off.
OTSTRETFORD 1 year ago 2
I could watch that all day, ragin it cut off! >:(
syclejames 1 year ago
oh mah fuckin'gawd ! did he dye ? did he died !? is he deaded ? easy ok ? has he have deathed ?
TimeExtention 1 year ago
america's radio sweetheart?
bullseyen 1 year ago
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Graham at 4:00, poisoning himself and innocent people with toxic tobacco smoke, which killed him a few years later.
tripjet999 1 year ago
I actually saw this interview back in Texas...I remember the armadillo sitting in Palin's lap. I was a big Python fan from their beginning.
SouthernWolfman 1 year ago 2
Love how English Gilliam sounded back then!
prunejuicebob 2 years ago 3
lol its a boy
shelovesyou09 2 years ago
Aw, Graham is so adorable! If slightly intoxicated.
HeatherRawriee 2 years ago 13
its amazing that he still managed to be so witty, he was up to 2 liters of gin a day...
graaar 2 years ago 5
Wow, they all look super foxy in this clip! :)
MoonBarrett 2 years ago 7
The clip itself feels like 'Election Night' or something... How wierd!
dbmozart 2 years ago
Chapman's pissed again. Tragic waste of a great talent.
brandstifter68 2 years ago
I think it was actually the pipe that killed him considering he ended up getting throat cancer and not liver disease or something of the like. He quit cold turkey shortly after this.
graaar 2 years ago
1975? It only took you six years to catch on, then!
brandstifter68 2 years ago 3
mike writes about this armadillo in his Diary
AshLuvsJonnyStew 2 years ago 2
where did you find his book? i cant find it anywhere
MichelleRigby 2 years ago
Are you in the US? My local library had it, and I live in a small suburb of Richmond, VA. I think Amazon has it as well :)
AshLuvsJonnyStew 2 years ago
Cool. Graham looks completely pickled.
benskelly 2 years ago 3
Thanks for posting this!
They're absolutely wonderful and gorgeous in this interview
I love Graham Chapman TOO MUCH
The world would be so DULL and DULL and DULL... without Monty Python :-)
SYLVIACOHEN 2 years ago 12
Aww, darn thing cuts off! "Owl-" Stretching Time!!!!
PrudenceNumberNine 2 years ago 2
Never trust a man with glasses on!!!!!! :-)
PeterRoeder31 2 years ago 2
Those old phones used to make you jump out of your skin, loud as hell. Always fun to ring Granny when she was watching horrors in the house by herself.
reverendcutterx 2 years ago 4
I still have one.
Djarra 2 years ago
thanks for the vid !!! enjoyed it verry much !!!
why1so1serious1 2 years ago
thanks this vid is absolutely great
missingsydbarrett 2 years ago
i love Terry Gilliam's comepletely distorted accent
neeerv 2 years ago 37
The video references the point in time in March 1975 when Python troupe was in Dallas, not when it first aired. Monty Python did indeed first air in the U.S. on KERA in Dallas as noted in Michael Palin's recent autobiography (pg 221). It is well-documented by remaining Python members along with representatives from then syndicator TimeLife and KERA staff that KERA was absolutely the first in the U.S. to broadcast. Stations such as WHYY, WNET and WGBH soon followed, but KERA was first in 1974.
televisionbill 2 years ago
You're completely WRONG, YoungAmerican, by 1975, Monty Python had been aired nearly 3 years already, by both WHYY, PBS-ch.12 in Philadelphia, as well as on WLVT, PBS-ch.39, in Allentown, Pa. I personally bought the 1st Monty Python record album (LP) in 1972, here in E. Pa, where we were already HUGE fans, going on 2 years already. Texans may have "accidentally" discovered MP in '75, but that was YEARS after PENNSYLVANIANS had already been laughing out loud in hysterics at their antics. Sorry
ANATOLIACHTZEIN 2 years ago
Your all-caps and cynical "sorry"s weaken your points.
colibri1 2 years ago
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swatty76 2 years ago
I love Michael Palin
LJaders 2 years ago 35
There's Graham with the tobacco drug that killed him at a rather early age!
tripjet999 2 years ago
Sooooo....this is the Spanish Inquisition (never mind).....BUT this answers where it all began for us Americans I suppose, AND I've loved these guys ever since, so thank you to the person who gave the guys a chance on PBS! May Monty Python live forever!!
thebirdman47 2 years ago 3
THIS INTERVEIW IS GOD!!!! but... Your name is really gay Mr. Young American :| i am sorry to say... Please change it.
ATOMICCHOCOLETEBAR 2 years ago
where are eric idle and john cleese?
EuskaltelEuskadi 2 years ago 3
John Cleese left the Pythons in 1973 or 1974...but this interview was in 1975, after they had broken up.
eragonfan000 2 years ago
To be fair they never really broke up as they recorded several albums all through the 1970s and 80s and they did make the Holy Grail with John Cleese in 1974 and it was released in 1975.
ProcolHarum1967 2 years ago 2
I wonder what Chapman was thinking about the constant phone ringing.... It seems it could drive any healthier human over the edge, let alone poor Graham, who seemed to be starving for some rest.
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graaar 2 years ago
He may have been tired, but he was likely also quite drunk, as he generally was in those days.
OeditpusRex 2 years ago 2
Indeed. According to his autobiography, he quit cold turkey shortly after this, so this was likely one of his worst moments. I can't imagine being able to quit just like that after being up to 2 large bottles of gin a day... what an incredible guy.
graaar 2 years ago 3
ohhh they're great!!!!and i love the english accent soooooooooo much...
fittizia12 2 years ago
In case you're fretting, I think what Terry was about to say before the footage cut off was "Owl Stretching Time," in another interview the same question was asked and that was the reply.
B00dle 2 years ago 3
Other proposed titles were "A Horse, a Bucket and a Spoon," "Bunn, Wackett, Buzzard, Stubble and Boot," "The Toad Elevating Moment," "Whither Canada?" and "Sex and Violence." The latter three were recycled as first-season episode titles, as was "Owl-Stretching Time."
OeditpusRex 2 years ago
1:57 LOL!XD
phantomelf14 2 years ago
Palin '12!
1337bard 2 years ago
great stuff! thx 4 posting!
HelterSkelter085 3 years ago
This is Gold !!!
servo6620 3 years ago
lol the stuffed armadillo
WIIFORWII 3 years ago
Contrary to what the narrator at the beginning says and Wikipedia, KERA first showed MPFC in July of 1974. I remember seeing it in TV guide and thinking it was going to be a real circus show and asked my mom if I could watch it. I still watch it faithfully. By 1979 the Sunday night British comedy line-up was Benny Hill, MPFC, The Two Ronnies, Dave Allen at Large, and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.
akrukowski1964 3 years ago
omg, mike looks so cute here :)
dangeloso 3 years ago 8
The armadillo!! I just finished reading the section about it and this interview in Michael Palin's Diaries 1969-1979.
If you love Palin and/or Python you need to get that book!
7six5four3two1 3 years ago 5
rofl chapman looks wasted!
michaelstarr123 3 years ago 4
i am sure he's wasted but that was the only way he did things
mrsdylan77 3 years ago 4
where was Eric?
Stephie2007 3 years ago 3
and John?
expatdk 3 years ago 2
I believe he was going to say "Owl Stretching Time"
It's also on Wikipedia - a full list of potential names.
Erunno89 3 years ago 4
33 years on and public TV fund drives are no better. In the US, the general public (along with a little gov't money and big arts charity donations) pays for programming on public TV stations. I'm glad for that, because no public TV, no Python (or Doctor Who, Red Dwarf and Blackadder) in the US, at least not in the 1970s-1990s.
I first saw Python as a 7 year old in 1976, thanks to WMVS in Milwaukee. Yay for Channel 10!
murielsartre 3 years ago 3
:=)
HiMtheEvilJoker 3 years ago
montey piethong
ha americans
jamesmanisdabest 3 years ago 3
Well done that engineer.
bermudarailway 3 years ago 5
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1538214 3 years ago
geniuws.i love the armidillo and graham looks awesome with the pipe
jessiethegeek 3 years ago 3
LOL funny hats. :)
peticco 3 years ago
What Terry Jones was about to say was "Owl stretching Time" Which was one of the 1st names to be suggested for the show.
54spiritedwill54 3 years ago 3
Amazing footage. I knew many of the sketches from them being played on one of the local FM stations for several years before the show came to the US. I remember the great anticipation we all had for the show to finally arrive.
Diceydee 3 years ago 2
I didn't see this interview when it aired, but I was lucky enough to be living in the Dallas area when Monty Python aired. I had no idea it was the first area of the country to broadcast it. Now I feel special.
colibri1 3 years ago 2
In their biography there are lots od possible names, for example: "it's" "owl stretching time" "Gwen Dibley's Flying Circus" "A horse, a spoon and a bucket" "The toad elevating moment" "Megapodes Flying Circus" "Bun, Wackett, Buzzard, Stubble and Boot" "Them"... And much more:-)
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ahahah i love those movies
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RrosiePosiie 3 years ago
Does anyone know why John Cleese wasn't there?
humptyodumptyo 3 years ago
This is according to Wikipedia's entry on Fawlty Towers: "Fawlty Towers was a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975." Could probably be chalked up to bad timing. Hope that helps...
MiIIenia 3 years ago 2
cleese had already left MP by that time
hoppareiter 3 years ago
Yeh,left the TV show,but he said he was always gonna do any films,so that doesn't explain him being missing here,after all he's in 'Holy Grail'.Plus Eric's not there,so maybe they just stayed at the hotel
RodCow 3 years ago 3
I've seen an interview with Michael Palin where he says one of the first names for the show was going to be "its". There were others also...too bad it cut off!
cheesewhizmasta 3 years ago
Wtf where are Eric Idle and John Cleese?
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Which one's Monty??
dostoyevskyfan 3 years ago
none of them.
Stephie2007 3 years ago 5
terry jones is so adorable
devilxbesidexyou 3 years ago 24
Chapman's cleary drunk.
SiMags 3 years ago
But Chapman quit drinking - COLD TURKEY no less - in 1977.
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EJECTyt 3 years ago
@xleper17: Why haven't there come to america? And why nasty and bitter?
Mbutterflyy 3 years ago
Incredible material; thanx for sharing.
jmedia1 3 years ago 2
oooh Graham... poor love.
Idle and Cleese, if you read Michael Palin's diary, were jerks about coming to America... I'm glad they didn't come, could of ruined the whole vibe by being all nasty and bitter.
xleper17 3 years ago
But Cleese lives in America now and I think Idle does, too.
jagdwurstmadl 3 years ago
John Cleese is my favorite. I also watched Faulty Towers.
thomesocksup 3 years ago
thanks for posting! this is great to see.
dbineb1 3 years ago 4
I agree. My favorite sketches were the Lumberjack song and the Pet Shop. "If you hadn't nailed it to the perch..."
thomesocksup 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this interview. Only seen stills in such books as The Pythons by The Pythons etc.
bobgrantsbus 3 years ago
My two favourite Pythons are missing :(. But it`s fun to see such an old show. I wasn´t even born in 1975.^^
LucyMay0610 3 years ago 2
Chapman's probably drunk, but that's his style. Very informative.
Veggieman87 3 years ago 3
Yeah the poor bastard. I think he stopped drinking after 1975 though; just before he played Brian.
BethGoth15 3 years ago
I seem to recall seeing Monty Python on TV on the PBS station channel 11 WTTW before 1975. I remember it because my sister and I used to pretend we were Gumbies. Of course,later chicago became the Monty Python fan capitol of the world.
johnarthurknight 3 years ago
What Terry Jones was about to say was "Owl stretching Time"
Which was one of the 1st names to be suggested for the show.
moondog102 3 years ago 2
Wonder why the engineer cut it off to soon?
MIKECNW 4 years ago
Nooooo. I was just getting into that video!
Jellybladder 4 years ago 2
Cleese was already gone from the group, he wasn't on the fourth season of flying circus.
Itoli 4 years ago
And the phones are ringing and ringing *LOL*
mercuriesque 4 years ago
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fuked again by united statians
ErMataor 4 years ago
Valuable piece of historical footage. A treasure for all MP fans. Big points to you for uploading.
ketmaniac 4 years ago 3
Terry Jones was a bit restrained in describing the hold commercial TV had in the US in the 1970s. By 1975 all Python's TV stuff was finished, with only movies to follow. It was old news in the rest of the word. It had been a hit everywhere, subtitled and dubbed from one end of Europe to the other. The US was about the only country that had never heard of it. Such was the power of the networks, they kept it out for five years.
ketmaniac 4 years ago 7
Very nice!! I'm reading MP's autobiography this broadcast is mentioned. EI is not there because a few months ago he officially left Python. JC rarely went on these publicity tours. PBS in Dallas was the first station to show Python. Funny thing MP took the armidillo and it scared him at night when he went to for a pee!
ferderig 4 years ago
I wonder if he still has that armadillo?
Desperada57 3 years ago 4
Why did they cut it off? I want to see the rest of the footage!
Not the Python interview...I want to see what is going on in that warehouse. The foreman was there, some kind of inspection, it looked like serious business.
daveadler 4 years ago 4
lol
tetranoob 4 years ago
:( Eric is not there:(
JankeyL 4 years ago 5
Gotta love Mike for putting the Armadillo in front of the camera during the lumberjack song...
lol Graham's smile at 10:27
lucynaribola 4 years ago 8
That guy's voice is really annoying.
SusieQ121 4 years ago
i agree
gastoncav 4 years ago
Damn, Chapman looks like he's been on a 5 day bender, which he probably had. RIP Graham.
vonrking 4 years ago 3
where's idle n cleese?!
henrycrumm 4 years ago
they left monthy python by then
viki922 4 years ago
oh, so did they make any material after they'd left?
henrycrumm 4 years ago
im not sure...i think few more episodes of monthy python...
viki922 4 years ago
They were probably just too busy to go.
BethGoth15 4 years ago
The TV show's last season was in 1974 (only Cleese left, Idle was still there). All the movies they did were after this and were made with the complete, original Python group.
CF1975 4 years ago
oooooh interesting..
lol, wunder y erics not there then
henrycrumm 4 years ago
They hadn't left; Life of Brian was released in 79, so things were still going on.
They were probably busy elsewhere doing promotion for 'Holy Grail'.
Great footage though; thanks for posting.
DcTurner 4 years ago
MIchael looks unnaturally hot...
Sukriti 4 years ago 17
i so agree
beatlephan1982 4 years ago
Which crackpot producer thought it was a good idea to have constant phone ringing in the background!
romanoskar 4 years ago 3
reminded me of Holiday Armadillo, ROss dressed up in season 6 or 7 of Friends
kot282 4 years ago
as if the only reason Monty Python was a success is because it was on *american* tv
binschmidt 4 years ago 2
Wonderful video!
But I hate the way americans pronounce "Pythooooooooon". Rubbish!
LaurelinB 4 years ago 2
Oh Mike has lovely hair in this clip doesn't he? Oh...!! *Gets turned on*
BethGoth15 4 years ago 8
Great footage, I love it.
And Graham saing "medically speaking I think something's wrong with it" about the armadillo XD
Kewen 4 years ago 4
just want to point out there show was not saved from the scraphead by a us station, they were huge in europe its just the us took wayyy longer to catch on.
pixiepameleah 4 years ago
11 great nights of public TV, as opposed to the other 354.
misterrosewater 4 years ago 3
oh dear god the awful collars! (ruffels and points scraping their knees)
hippyfriend 4 years ago
Graham mentioned that the prog caught on in spite of being shown late at night. In fact it's timing, Friday night at 11, coincided with the pubs shutting thus giving it an audience who were in a more receptive mood. I watched the first episode in 1969, after beating my Dad home from the pub.
DavidMJordan 4 years ago
Anybody got any footage relating to the early broadcasts of series 4 (on ABC?)which were so hacked to pieces the Pythons sued the network and won?
That would be interesting to see. Great footage. Thanks for downloading it.
egapnala65 4 years ago
Wow! Terry Jones looks great in this vid...awesome threads...he looks like a british rock star
lockomatic 4 years ago 8
SOO TRUE
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CCVisualArt 4 years ago
Michael Palin has wonderful hair.
sofibea 4 years ago 12
That is very true! :D
There's a site called MPUAP (Michael Palin's UNofficial Appreciation Page) and it has photo albums of him. One of them is called "Great Hair Moments"!
PalinLover 4 years ago
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Sukriti 4 years ago
SOOO true... his hair is unbelieveably gorgeous../
Sukriti 4 years ago
Graham's hair is gorgeous too.
BethGoth15 4 years ago 7
Yeah i know!!! Love him a lot too...
Sukriti 4 years ago
they were the Beatles of comedy
Bellyflops2 4 years ago 9
I couldn't agree with you more! :D
MaccaForever 4 years ago
Superb video! I watched with amazement; KERA and MPFC, during the mid-seventies. It started my lifelong love of British comedy. The things they showed, SHOCKING, and we loved it!
CoincidenceNot 4 years ago 2
This is a great clip, extraordinarily rare. Fantastic footage! My only complaint is that one of the pledge drivers behind the fellow in the red shirt is chewing gum! How unbelievably rotten!
radiofan6872 4 years ago
How could it stop there! Terry was gonna say some of the names for the show! WAAA!
But LOVED the interview, who else thinks Michael Palin is FRIKIN GORGEOUS?!
LovesMrDavidTennant 4 years ago 12
MEEE!!!
aliciabrissou 4 years ago
oh yes, i think so too lovesmrdavidtennant
michael is HOT!! wish i was born in the 60's *sigh*
19ThePurplePython93 4 years ago 8
Lol, i know me too! Shame he was married by this time!
He is the best of the pythons!
Have you seen A Fish Called Wanda?
LovesMrDavidTennant 4 years ago
MEEE~!
Sukriti 4 years ago