Discover
Original Release
10/05/1969
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Terry Gilliam | Knight with Chicken / Various / Animated band / Knight With Chicken / Animated Emcee / Animated Pervert / Burglar / Voiceover #2 / Encyclopedia Salesman / Carnival Barker / Kewpie Doll / Mr. Freight / Guard / Wizzo Butter Announcer / Kirt / Knight in Armour / Mona Lisa / Lon Chaney / PolicemenPig / Boar / Boticelli Lover / Medieval Couple / Family Group / Doctor / Bishop / Saint / Dancers / Naked Ladies / Cricket Team / Man Against Exposure / Compére / Fifth Writer / Tex / Animator / Mr. Phillips / Various Animated Swallowed Animals / Animated Chippendale Writing Desk / Animated Compère / Viking with One Line / Animated Man who Wants to Show his Latest Operation |
| Graham Chapman | Vet / Police Constable Henry Thatcher / David Thomas (Stig in the shooting script) / Various / Unnamed vox pop man #2 / Rustic / Pepperpot #1 / a man with two noses / Gladstone / Dad / Kargol / Accountant / The Rt. Hon. Lambert Warbeck / Letter Writer Against Falling from al Building / Alexander Hardacre / Ron Vibbentrop (Von Ribbentrop) / Yokel / Conservative Candidate / Second Sergeant / Rosamund's Father / Surgeon / Headmaster / Vicar / Florence Nightingale / Marcel Marceau / Trevor Atkinson / Crossdressing Sergeant / Spanish Señorita / Jimmy Blenkinshop / The Man with a Tape Recorder Up His Nose's Brother / Member of the Mounties Choir / Pepperpot / Professor R.J. Gumby / Victor / Professor L.R. Gumby / Professor R.J. Canning / Colonel Pickering / Voiceover #4 / Marge / The Colonel / Policeman / Mr. Harrison (Apricot) / The Big Cheese / Singer / Man / Mrs. Fiona Lewis / Inspector Dim of the Yard / Second Superman / Arthur Figgis / Superintendent Parrot / Man in Briefs / City Stockbroker's Neighbour / Man Stting Next to the Indian / Irving C. Saltzberg, Jnr. / Count Dracula / Chairman / Samuel Brainsample / Charles / Englishwoman / Announcer / Voice Over #2 / Mr. Bruce Foster of Guildford / Helmut / Sir Edward Ross / Ron Geppo / Scottland Yard's Crack Inspector / Otto (A Gestapo Officer) / A different Gestapo Officer / Fourth Young Man / Nude man / Mr. Lambert / Norman / Ken Biggles / David Unction / Harry / Caesar / The Cincinnatti Mining Company |
| John Cleese | Announcer / Interviewer for It's the Arts / Viking / Chartered Accountant / Inspector Praline / Frankenstein's Monster / Second Policeman / A Scottsman on a Horse / Fourth Writer / Various / Peter / Board Member / American Voice / Sergeant / Dr. Larch / Voiceover #1 / Douglas / Albatross Seller / Inspector / Nurse / Ivan the Terrible / Interviewer / First 'Probe-Around' Host / Policeman at Ouija Board / Beryl / Flight Lieutenant Ken Frankenstein (Mrs.) / Voice Over #1 / Mr. Bartlett / American Commentator / First Superman / Mungo the Cook / Newsreader / Nazi / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Mariolini / Pepperpot #2 / Interviewer #2 / Sam Trench / General #2 / Officer / Joke Victim / Professor Enid Gumby / Inspector Tiger / Jimmy Buzzard / Ken Dove / A.J.P. Taylor / Roger Thompson / Robber / Voice of Block / Vocational Guidance Counsellor / David / Customer / Pearson / Captain R. H. Pretty / Third Robert / Second Man / Professor Tiddles / Mr. Hilter (Adolf Hitler) / Stockbroker / First Sergeant / Upperclass Twit / Upperclass Twit of the Year Commentator / Third Young Man / Store Manager / Lionel / Eric Praline / Vicar / First Frenchman / Pepperpot #4 / Southerner / A Scottsman on a horse / Mr. A / Janet / RSM Teaching Self-Defense / Man with Rustic Monologue / Stapleton the Bookseller / Voiceover / Spanish Lecturer / The Announcer / Sir George Head / Member of the Mounties Choir / Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Mrs.) / Brian Equator / Woman who is offered a burglary / Voice Over / General / A man in the street / Vox pop interviewer / Shouting man with handkerchief on his head / Brigadier Arthur Gormanstrop (Mrs.) / Silly Job Interviewer |
| Terry Jones | Bishop / Harold Potter / Inspector / Mary Podgorny / Norman Hackforth / Various / Cinema Manager / Man in Dirty Raincoat / Dino Vercotti / Barbara / Voice Over #2 / Groom / African Native / Han / Porter / Flasher / Second Young Man / Englishman / Italian Teacher / Pepperpot #3 / Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson / Private / Commentator / Bespectacled Weedy-Lance Corporal / Joke Corporal / German General / First Robert / Signalman / Landlady / A Gumby / Man in Bowler / Brigadier Mainwaring Smith Smith Smith / Man with Pipe / Gentleman stripper / Mr. Thompson (Tinned Peach) / Brian / Karl / Larry / Vicar / Judge / Mr. Milton / Man in Briefs / Emma Hamilton / Woman in a Pram / Second Writer / Keith Maniac / Second Undertaker / Assistant Chief Constable Theresamanbehindyer / Ali Bayan / Man at Pub / Third Superman / Waiter / Terry / Mr. Phelps / Intermission Announcer / Albatross Person / Mr. Burtenshaw / Second Gumby / Napoleon / City Gent / Policeman with Wand / Very, Very, Very Stupid Policeman / Chief Constable / Pepperpot #2 / Arthur Frampton / Arthur Ewing / Queen Victoria / Mum / Harold Voice / Unnamed vox pop man #1 / Spanish Dancer / Animated Encyclopedia Salesman's Wife / Customer / Ken Buddha / Audrey Equator / Vera Jackson / Frank's Wife / Viking / Ron Obvious / Roman Centurion / 3,000 Year Old Letter Writer / Woman journalist / Mrs. B / Chairman / Man on a roof |
| Eric Idle | Camel spotter / Voice over #2 / Mrs. Brainsample / Mrs. Potter / Female tennis player / Detective Inspector / Tennis commentator / Various / Fairy / First Man / Professional Cricketer / Mr. Johnson / Pepperpot #1 / Inspector / BBC Man / Second Robert / Hell's Grannies reporter / Private Watkins / Mr. Verity / Frank / Announcer eating a yoghurt / Maurice Zatapathique / Assistant / Arthur Tree / Random Man / Mr. Phipps / Mrs. Sybil Agro / Miss Rita Fairbanks / Voiceover #2 / First Undertaker / Chief Superintendent Lookout / Interviewer / Mr. Thomas Walters / Regius Professor F.H. Gumby / Narrator / Eddie Waring / Francesco / Interviewer #3 / Vicky / Reg Moss / Voice Over #3 / Mrs. Scribbler / Officer / German Joker / Norman Nudge / Harold Larch / Storyteller / Manager / Eric / Reg / Second Bandit / Indian / Third Writer / Singer in the Cardiff Rooms, Libya / Fourth Man who is Interested in Pointed Sticks / Arthur Lemming / Voice Over #2 / Spanish Guitarist / Arthur Wilson / Kenny Lust / Arthur Name / Squatter / Shirley / Vicar in Cannibal Pot / Advertisement Announcer / Dr. Walters / Julius Caesar / Fairy Godmother / Second 'Probe Around' Host / Letter Writer Against the 'Mr. Atilla the Hun' Sketch and the Next Letter / Vicar / Pepperpot / Sandy Camp / Boxer / Arrested Newsreader / Encyclopedia salesman (burglar) / Window Cleaner / Announcer / Marriage Counsellor / Ken / Arthur Waring / Viking |
| Michael Palin | First Young Man / It's Man / Pepperpot / Luigi Vercotti / Stockbroker / An Art Critic / Assistant / First Hermit / Pet Shop Employee / Pet Shop Employee's Brother / Various / "It's" man / German Radio Voice / Genghis Khan / Giuseppe / Interviewer #1 / Linkman / Raymond Baxter / Pepperpot #4 / General #1 / Ernest Scribbler / Officer / Joke Victim / Interrogated Officer / Head of the Careers Advisory Board / Mr. A / Sergeant / Clock smuggler / Man who forgot the question / Boy Scout / Bevis / A Man with a Tape Recorder Up His Nose / Person on Tape Recorder / Mr. Cook / Sweeney Todd / Lumberjack / Man who Peeks into a Beach Hut / Second Man in Self-defense Class / Lafarge / Arthur Figgis's Fan / Weedy Man in Pullover with National Health Specs / The Boss / First Bandit / Scottsman / A City Stockbroker / House Manager / Betrothed Scottsman / First Writer / Wilkins / Jewish Figure / Redcoat / Angus Podgorny / Ken Shabby / Spectrum Presenter / Heimlich Bimmler (Himmler) / Pepperpot #2 / Jean-Brian Zatapathique / Pepperpot #3 / Compére / Arthur Pewtey / Alfred Lord Tennyson / Charlie Gardener / Man banging on the ceiling with a broom / Voice over #2 / Michael / Cardinal Richelieu / F.G. Superman / Bicycle Repair Man / Compère / Head Waiter / Seduced Milkman / Mr. Notlob / Hopkins / Robbed Man / First Gumby / Wally Wiggin / Inspector Harry H 'Snapper' Organs / Mr. Atilla the Hun (Mr. Alexander the Great) / Brigadier Zoe La Rue (deceased) / Professor R.J. Gumby / Man Outside Bathroom / Voiceover #3 / Constable / 'Interesting Pepole Compère / Professor Gert van der Whoops / Vera's Husband / Frank / Mr. Anchovy / Pet Store Shopkeeper / R.M. Nixon |
| Carol Cleveland | Various Roles / Sister / Receptionist / 'Nude' Woman / Nurse / Lady / Janet / Deirdre Pewtey / Iris / Dora / French Au Pair / Woman with glasses / E.B. Debenham (Mrs.) / Bride / A.J.P. Taylor / Lady Amanda Velloper |
| Ian Davidson | Brain Surgeon / Chief Constable Fire / Clerk of the Court / Edgar Hamilton / Sixth Writer / Herman Rodriguez |
| Maureen Flanagan | Lovely Girl / Coatcheck Girl / Nurse / Anona Winn |
| Donna Reading | Girl in bed / Girl in laboratory / Girl in Bikini with Its Man / Milkman Seducer |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whither Canada? | Sunday, 05 October 1969 |
| 2 | Sex and Violence | Sunday, 12 October 1969 |
| 3 | How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away | Sunday, 19 October 1969 |
| 4 | Owl Stretching Time | Sunday, 26 October 1969 |
| 5 | Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century | Sunday, 16 November 1969 |
| 6 | The BBC Entry for the Zinc Stoat of Budapest (or, It's the Arts) | Sunday, 23 November 1969 |
| 7 | You're No Fun Any More | Sunday, 30 November 1969 |
| 8 | Full Frontal Nudity | Sunday, 07 December 1969 |
| 9 | The Ant: An Introduction | Sunday, 14 December 1969 |
| 10 | Untitled | Sunday, 21 December 1969 |
| 11 | The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom | Sunday, 28 December 1969 |
| 12 | The Naked Ant | Sunday, 04 January 1970 |
| 13 | Intermission | Sunday, 11 January 1970 |
Directors
Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies
Writers
Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Terry Gilliam | Knight with Chicken / Various / Animated band / Knight With Chicken / Animated Emcee / Animated Pervert / Burglar / Voiceover #2 / Encyclopedia Salesman / Carnival Barker / Kewpie Doll / Mr. Freight / Guard / Wizzo Butter Announcer / Kirt / Knight in Armour / Mona Lisa / Lon Chaney / PolicemenPig / Boar / Boticelli Lover / Medieval Couple / Family Group / Doctor / Bishop / Saint / Dancers / Naked Ladies / Cricket Team / Man Against Exposure / Compére / Fifth Writer / Tex / Animator / Mr. Phillips / Various Animated Swallowed Animals / Animated Chippendale Writing Desk / Animated Compère / Viking with One Line / Animated Man who Wants to Show his Latest Operation |
| Graham Chapman | Vet / Police Constable Henry Thatcher / David Thomas (Stig in the shooting script) / Various / Unnamed vox pop man #2 / Rustic / Pepperpot #1 / a man with two noses / Gladstone / Dad / Kargol / Accountant / The Rt. Hon. Lambert Warbeck / Letter Writer Against Falling from al Building / Alexander Hardacre / Ron Vibbentrop (Von Ribbentrop) / Yokel / Conservative Candidate / Second Sergeant / Rosamund's Father / Surgeon / Headmaster / Vicar / Florence Nightingale / Marcel Marceau / Trevor Atkinson / Crossdressing Sergeant / Spanish Señorita / Jimmy Blenkinshop / The Man with a Tape Recorder Up His Nose's Brother / Member of the Mounties Choir / Pepperpot / Professor R.J. Gumby / Victor / Professor L.R. Gumby / Professor R.J. Canning / Colonel Pickering / Voiceover #4 / Marge / The Colonel / Policeman / Mr. Harrison (Apricot) / The Big Cheese / Singer / Man / Mrs. Fiona Lewis / Inspector Dim of the Yard / Second Superman / Arthur Figgis / Superintendent Parrot / Man in Briefs / City Stockbroker's Neighbour / Man Stting Next to the Indian / Irving C. Saltzberg, Jnr. / Count Dracula / Chairman / Samuel Brainsample / Charles / Englishwoman / Announcer / Voice Over #2 / Mr. Bruce Foster of Guildford / Helmut / Sir Edward Ross / Ron Geppo / Scottland Yard's Crack Inspector / Otto (A Gestapo Officer) / A different Gestapo Officer / Fourth Young Man / Nude man / Mr. Lambert / Norman / Ken Biggles / David Unction / Harry / Caesar / The Cincinnatti Mining Company |
| John Cleese | Announcer / Interviewer for It's the Arts / Viking / Chartered Accountant / Inspector Praline / Frankenstein's Monster / Second Policeman / A Scottsman on a Horse / Fourth Writer / Various / Peter / Board Member / American Voice / Sergeant / Dr. Larch / Voiceover #1 / Douglas / Albatross Seller / Inspector / Nurse / Ivan the Terrible / Interviewer / First 'Probe-Around' Host / Policeman at Ouija Board / Beryl / Flight Lieutenant Ken Frankenstein (Mrs.) / Voice Over #1 / Mr. Bartlett / American Commentator / First Superman / Mungo the Cook / Newsreader / Nazi / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Mariolini / Pepperpot #2 / Interviewer #2 / Sam Trench / General #2 / Officer / Joke Victim / Professor Enid Gumby / Inspector Tiger / Jimmy Buzzard / Ken Dove / A.J.P. Taylor / Roger Thompson / Robber / Voice of Block / Vocational Guidance Counsellor / David / Customer / Pearson / Captain R. H. Pretty / Third Robert / Second Man / Professor Tiddles / Mr. Hilter (Adolf Hitler) / Stockbroker / First Sergeant / Upperclass Twit / Upperclass Twit of the Year Commentator / Third Young Man / Store Manager / Lionel / Eric Praline / Vicar / First Frenchman / Pepperpot #4 / Southerner / A Scottsman on a horse / Mr. A / Janet / RSM Teaching Self-Defense / Man with Rustic Monologue / Stapleton the Bookseller / Voiceover / Spanish Lecturer / The Announcer / Sir George Head / Member of the Mounties Choir / Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Mrs.) / Brian Equator / Woman who is offered a burglary / Voice Over / General / A man in the street / Vox pop interviewer / Shouting man with handkerchief on his head / Brigadier Arthur Gormanstrop (Mrs.) / Silly Job Interviewer |
| Terry Jones | Bishop / Harold Potter / Inspector / Mary Podgorny / Norman Hackforth / Various / Cinema Manager / Man in Dirty Raincoat / Dino Vercotti / Barbara / Voice Over #2 / Groom / African Native / Han / Porter / Flasher / Second Young Man / Englishman / Italian Teacher / Pepperpot #3 / Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson / Private / Commentator / Bespectacled Weedy-Lance Corporal / Joke Corporal / German General / First Robert / Signalman / Landlady / A Gumby / Man in Bowler / Brigadier Mainwaring Smith Smith Smith / Man with Pipe / Gentleman stripper / Mr. Thompson (Tinned Peach) / Brian / Karl / Larry / Vicar / Judge / Mr. Milton / Man in Briefs / Emma Hamilton / Woman in a Pram / Second Writer / Keith Maniac / Second Undertaker / Assistant Chief Constable Theresamanbehindyer / Ali Bayan / Man at Pub / Third Superman / Waiter / Terry / Mr. Phelps / Intermission Announcer / Albatross Person / Mr. Burtenshaw / Second Gumby / Napoleon / City Gent / Policeman with Wand / Very, Very, Very Stupid Policeman / Chief Constable / Pepperpot #2 / Arthur Frampton / Arthur Ewing / Queen Victoria / Mum / Harold Voice / Unnamed vox pop man #1 / Spanish Dancer / Animated Encyclopedia Salesman's Wife / Customer / Ken Buddha / Audrey Equator / Vera Jackson / Frank's Wife / Viking / Ron Obvious / Roman Centurion / 3,000 Year Old Letter Writer / Woman journalist / Mrs. B / Chairman / Man on a roof |
| Eric Idle | Camel spotter / Voice over #2 / Mrs. Brainsample / Mrs. Potter / Female tennis player / Detective Inspector / Tennis commentator / Various / Fairy / First Man / Professional Cricketer / Mr. Johnson / Pepperpot #1 / Inspector / BBC Man / Second Robert / Hell's Grannies reporter / Private Watkins / Mr. Verity / Frank / Announcer eating a yoghurt / Maurice Zatapathique / Assistant / Arthur Tree / Random Man / Mr. Phipps / Mrs. Sybil Agro / Miss Rita Fairbanks / Voiceover #2 / First Undertaker / Chief Superintendent Lookout / Interviewer / Mr. Thomas Walters / Regius Professor F.H. Gumby / Narrator / Eddie Waring / Francesco / Interviewer #3 / Vicky / Reg Moss / Voice Over #3 / Mrs. Scribbler / Officer / German Joker / Norman Nudge / Harold Larch / Storyteller / Manager / Eric / Reg / Second Bandit / Indian / Third Writer / Singer in the Cardiff Rooms, Libya / Fourth Man who is Interested in Pointed Sticks / Arthur Lemming / Voice Over #2 / Spanish Guitarist / Arthur Wilson / Kenny Lust / Arthur Name / Squatter / Shirley / Vicar in Cannibal Pot / Advertisement Announcer / Dr. Walters / Julius Caesar / Fairy Godmother / Second 'Probe Around' Host / Letter Writer Against the 'Mr. Atilla the Hun' Sketch and the Next Letter / Vicar / Pepperpot / Sandy Camp / Boxer / Arrested Newsreader / Encyclopedia salesman (burglar) / Window Cleaner / Announcer / Marriage Counsellor / Ken / Arthur Waring / Viking |
| Michael Palin | First Young Man / It's Man / Pepperpot / Luigi Vercotti / Stockbroker / An Art Critic / Assistant / First Hermit / Pet Shop Employee / Pet Shop Employee's Brother / Various / "It's" man / German Radio Voice / Genghis Khan / Giuseppe / Interviewer #1 / Linkman / Raymond Baxter / Pepperpot #4 / General #1 / Ernest Scribbler / Officer / Joke Victim / Interrogated Officer / Head of the Careers Advisory Board / Mr. A / Sergeant / Clock smuggler / Man who forgot the question / Boy Scout / Bevis / A Man with a Tape Recorder Up His Nose / Person on Tape Recorder / Mr. Cook / Sweeney Todd / Lumberjack / Man who Peeks into a Beach Hut / Second Man in Self-defense Class / Lafarge / Arthur Figgis's Fan / Weedy Man in Pullover with National Health Specs / The Boss / First Bandit / Scottsman / A City Stockbroker / House Manager / Betrothed Scottsman / First Writer / Wilkins / Jewish Figure / Redcoat / Angus Podgorny / Ken Shabby / Spectrum Presenter / Heimlich Bimmler (Himmler) / Pepperpot #2 / Jean-Brian Zatapathique / Pepperpot #3 / Compére / Arthur Pewtey / Alfred Lord Tennyson / Charlie Gardener / Man banging on the ceiling with a broom / Voice over #2 / Michael / Cardinal Richelieu / F.G. Superman / Bicycle Repair Man / Compère / Head Waiter / Seduced Milkman / Mr. Notlob / Hopkins / Robbed Man / First Gumby / Wally Wiggin / Inspector Harry H 'Snapper' Organs / Mr. Atilla the Hun (Mr. Alexander the Great) / Brigadier Zoe La Rue (deceased) / Professor R.J. Gumby / Man Outside Bathroom / Voiceover #3 / Constable / 'Interesting Pepole Compère / Professor Gert van der Whoops / Vera's Husband / Frank / Mr. Anchovy / Pet Store Shopkeeper / R.M. Nixon |
| Carol Cleveland | Various Roles / Sister / Receptionist / 'Nude' Woman / Nurse / Lady / Janet / Deirdre Pewtey / Iris / Dora / French Au Pair / Woman with glasses / E.B. Debenham (Mrs.) / Bride / A.J.P. Taylor / Lady Amanda Velloper |
| Ian Davidson | Brain Surgeon / Chief Constable Fire / Clerk of the Court / Edgar Hamilton / Sixth Writer / Herman Rodriguez |
| Maureen Flanagan | Lovely Girl / Coatcheck Girl / Nurse / Anona Winn |
| Donna Reading | Girl in bed / Girl in laboratory / Girl in Bikini with Its Man / Milkman Seducer |
| Katya Wyeth | The Art Critic's Wife / Girl Seducing the Singer / Elsie |
| Sheila Sands | Stripper / Topless Newsagent |
| Connie Booth | Best Girl / Rosamund |
| Neville Chamberlain | Self (with Munich Accord) |
| Dick Vosburgh | Van der Berg |
| Barry Cryer | Algy Braithwaite |
| Rita Davies | Distraught Wife |
| Richard Nixon | Self |
| Ewa Aulin | Harrassed Woman |
| Adolf Hitler | Self |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Ian MacNaughton | Producer |
| John Howard Davies | Producer |
| Irving C. Saltzberg | Producer |
