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[CHAPMAN, Graham; CLEESE, John; GILLIAM, Terry; IDLE, Eric; JONES, Terry; PALIN, Michael]
Monty Python’s Flying Circus: Series Four, Episode One
N.p. [London]: N.p. [BBC], 1974
Camera script. 69 mimeographed pp. on yellow paper, secured with split pin to top left corner. Text unmarked. Closed tear to left edge of title page, p.28 a little creased and edgeworn, but a very well preserved copy.
Camera script of the first episode of Series Four of Monty Python’s Flying Circus -- the final Python series.
Big changes hit Monty Python’s Flying Circus between Series 3 and 4. The show was renamed Monty Python (as the title page here shows, although the series’ opening titles were not reshot and so retained the longer title). More significantly, John Cleese left the show before filming for the fourth series began, having decided that Python had run its course and was beginning to repeat itself. Fearing Cleese was right, the BBC commissioned only six episodes of this series instead of the usual thirteen.
But quality control on the fourth series remained high. This episode, The Golden Age of Ballooning, was recorded on 19 October 1974 and transmitted on 11 November, and although its title page credits the whole team as writers it was mostly written by Michael Palin. Among this episode’s sketches are The Montgolfier Brothers, The Golden Age of Colonic Irrigation, and A Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Norwegian Party.
With the transmission of the final episode of this series on 5 December 1974, the most influential comedy series ever made took its final bow.
A very scarce survivor, and a well preserved example.
[CHAPMAN, Graham; CLEESE, John; GILLIAM, Terry; IDLE, Eric; JONES, Terry; PALIN, Michael]
Monty Python’s Flying Circus: Series Four, Episode One
N.p. [London]: N.p. [BBC], 1974
Camera script. 69 mimeographed pp. on yellow paper, secured with split pin to top left corner. Text unmarked. Closed tear to left edge of title page, p.28 a little creased and edgeworn, but a very well preserved copy.
Camera script of the first episode of Series Four of Monty Python’s Flying Circus -- the final Python series.
Big changes hit Monty Python’s Flying Circus between Series 3 and 4. The show was renamed Monty Python (as the title page here shows, although the series’ opening titles were not reshot and so retained the longer title). More significantly, John Cleese left the show before filming for the fourth series began, having decided that Python had run its course and was beginning to repeat itself. Fearing Cleese was right, the BBC commissioned only six episodes of this series instead of the usual thirteen.
But quality control on the fourth series remained high. This episode, The Golden Age of Ballooning, was recorded on 19 October 1974 and transmitted on 11 November, and although its title page credits the whole team as writers it was mostly written by Michael Palin. Among this episode’s sketches are The Montgolfier Brothers, The Golden Age of Colonic Irrigation, and A Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Norwegian Party.
With the transmission of the final episode of this series on 5 December 1974, the most influential comedy series ever made took its final bow.
A very scarce survivor, and a well preserved example.