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Palin turned down move to Hollywood -
27 November 2009
-Monty Python star Michael Palin refused to take his career to Hollywood - because he prefers the comfort of his British home.-
-The actor starred in a string of successful films in the 1980s, but declined offers to move to Tinseltown as he was put off by the hectic li
Michael Palin - what members say
review by A customer from Wales
Life of Brian 16 April 2004
review by from London
More travel exploits for Michael Palin 14 September 2004
Michael Palin - filmography
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Michael Palin's New Europe
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Michael Palin
Certificate: 
This set contains all seven episodes of Michael Palin's recent series in which he travels through Eastern Europe from the mountains of Slovenia down through Croatia and the former Yugoslavia to Albania before turning northwards to visit Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, The Ukraine, The Czech Republic, ..read more »
 
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from 653 members
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The Frost Report Is Back - Special
(2007)
Starring: Terry Jones, Marty Feldman, Tim Brooke-Taylor
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A retrospective look at David Frost's groundbreaking 1960s satirical comedy show which became a breeding ground for many of Britain's top comic actors and writers. The programme includes contributions from Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, John Cleese, Michael Palin,Terry Jones, and Tim Brooke-Taylor.
37%
from 8 members
Not available for rental
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Himalaya With Michael Palin
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Michael Palin
Director: John-Paul Davidson, Roger Mills
Certificate: 
Michael Palin undertakes his most challenging journey yet in this BBC travel series, across the Himalayas, the greatest mountain range on earth, made up of a virtually unbroken wall of rock stretching 1800 miles from the borders of Afghanistan to south-west China. Along his journey Michael Palin ..read more »
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from 2,926 members
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Michael Palin's Great Railway Journeys
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Michael Palin
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Includes both his 1980 and 1994 railway journeys. In the first, Michael travels the length of Britain by train. In the second, he travels Ireland whilst tracing the 'family line' of his great grandmother
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from 2,580 members
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Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Michael Palin
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Palin follows in the footsteps of author Ernest Hemingway, offering insights into the quirky, eccentric and less well-known areas of Hemingway's life.
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from 1,668 member
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Spike Milligan - I Told You I Was Ill
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Terry Jones, Eric Sykes, Harry Enfield
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Originally aired six months after Spike Milligan's death in February 2002, this live tribute to the legendary and influential comedian features performances from stars such as Harry Enfield, Kathy Burke, Eddie Izzard, Paul Merton and Michael Palin, among many others, and includes clips and ..read more »
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from 540 members
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Michael Palin - Sahara
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Michael Palin
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Michael Palin undertakes a daunting journey across the Sahara desert in this BBC travel series. Along the way the former Monty Python star experiences the various human cultures which can be found in the desert and learns of the different ways in which man has learned to live in this most ..read more »
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from 2,376 members
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BBC Great Comedy Moments
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Ronnie Corbett
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Ronnie Barker introduces this compilation of fondly-remembered comedy moments from the vaults of the BBC. Includes clips from 'The Two Ronnies', 'Morecambe and Wise', 'Only Fools and Horses', 'Blackadder', 'The Likely Lads', 'One Foot in the Grave', 'The Good Life', 'Yes Minister', 'Hancock', 'Last ..read more »
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from 550 members
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Full Circle With Michael Palin
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Michael Palin
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A box set of all the episodes chronicling Michael Palin's endeavours to travel round the Pacific Rim, a journey that will take him through 18 countries and stretch 50,000 miles. Starting form the Bering Straits, he travels through Russia, Korea, Vietnam, New Zealand, the Americas, before returning ..read more »
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from 2,854 members
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Fierce Creatures
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ronnie Corbett, John Cleese
Director: Robert Young, Fred Schepisi
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When media baron Rod McCain (Kevin Kline) buys Marwood Zoo in England, he sends over his son Vince (also Kline) and the sexy Willa Weston (Jamie Lee Curtis) to ensure that it turns over a 20% profit. The zoo is being run by McCain employee Rollo Lee (John Cleese), who has instigated a policy that ..read more »
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from 4,769 members
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The Wind In The Willows
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Terry Jones, Steve Coogan, Bernard Hill
Director: Terry Jones
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Terry Jones directs and stars in this version of the classic tales by Kenneth Grahame, co-starring several of his Monty Python associates. Mole (Steve Coogan) finds himself homeless after the weasels bulldoze his burrow. He turns to his friends Ratty (Eric Idle) and Toad (Jones) for help. Toad's ..read more »
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from 514 members
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Pole To Pole With Michael Palin
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Michael Palin
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Having completed travelling around the World in 80 days, Michael Palin set out to travel along the 30 degree East line of longtitude - from the North to the South Pole. This, however, proved much more of a challenge and Palin, and his film crew, managed to use most modes of transport to travel ..read more »
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from 2,530 members
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G.B.H.
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Robert Lindsay, Lindsay Duncan, Michael Palin
Director: Robert Young
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Alan Bleasdale's epic, darkly humorous story of power, corruption and madness played out in the conflict between the enigmatic politician, Michael Murray (Robert Lindsay) and his nemesis, schoolteacher Jim Nelson (Michael Palin). Nelson accidentally defies a Murray-inspired 24-hour strike and ..read more »
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from 1,821 member
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The Secret Policeman's Ball - The Comple...
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Terry Jones, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore
Director: Roger Graef
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Following on from the success of 'Pleasure at her Majesty's', this 1979 concert was the second of the Amnesty Balls and, much like the first, features top-notch British comedy from top-notch British comedy stars. These include Peter Cook, John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson.
62%
from 201 members
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A Fish Called Wanda
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese, Kevin Kline
Director: Charles Crichton
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Archie Leach (John Cleese, who also provides the script) is a repressed English barrister charged with defending gangster George (Tom Georgeson), who has just pulled off a multi-million jewel heist with the aid of the beautiful Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis), her psychotic 'brother' Otto (Kevin Kline) ..read more »
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from 24,755 members
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East Of Ipswich
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Edward Rawle-Hicks, Janine Duvitski, Joan Sanderson
Director: Tristram Powell
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Michael Palin pens this coming-of-age comedy drama based on memories of his own childhood holidays in the 1950s. Bored teenager Richard (Edward Rawle-Hicks) is a reluctant holiday-maker staying at a guest house on the Suffolk coast with his parents. Things start to look up when he is befriended by ..read more »
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from 275 members
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Brazil
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Ian Holm, Jim Broadbent
Director: Terry Gilliam
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In the future, a clerk at the all-powerful Ministry of Information sticks to his ideals and ends up crushed by the system in this half comedy, half horror story from former 'Monty Python' animator Terry Gilliam. Like Orwell's novel '1984', which it echoes, the future is seen from a 1940's ..read more »
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from 20,652 members
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Brazil - Blu-ray
(1985)
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Ian Holm, Jim Broadbent
Director: Terry Gilliam
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In the future, a clerk at the all-powerful Ministry of Information sticks to his ideals and ends up crushed by the system in this half comedy, half horror story from former 'Monty Python' animator Terry Gilliam. Like Orwell's novel '1984', which it echoes, the future is seen from a 1940's ..read more »
81%
from 75 members
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A Private Function
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Charles McKeown, Pete Postlethwaite, Denholm Elliott
Director: Malcolm Mowbray
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A British couple's attempts to circumvent local food-rationing regulations trigger a chaotic series of events in this satirical comedy set in post-World War II England. The couple's scheme centers on a massive hog which has been illegally raised by a local farmer. Seeing a chance to capitalize on ..read more »
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from 1,641 member
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The Secret Policeman's Ball - Private Parts
(1984)
Starring: Connie Booth, Graham Chapman, John Cleese
Director: Roger Graef
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This film is a selection of highlights from the previous Policeman's Ball stage benefits for Amnesty International. The show includes sketches by the members of Monty Python with noted comedian Peter Cook, as well as musical numbers by Pete Townshend, Phil Collins and Bob Geldof.
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from 6 members
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The Missionary
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Michael Hordern, Trevor Howard, David Suchet
Director: Richard Loncraine
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Recalled to London after spending years in Africa, the Reverend Charles Fortesque (Michael Palin) is given a new and no less difficult mission. He will now be required to bring the Word of the Lord to the ladies of the night. Thus he goes forth amongst them, bringing help and assitance, offering ..read more »
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from 738 members
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Time Bandits - Blu-ray
(1980)
Starring: Kenny Baker, Ralph Richardson, Derrick O'Connor
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Schoolboy Kevin is rescued from his dull suburban life when a gang of dwarves emerge from his wardrobe and carry him off through space and time. Their travels bring them into contact with some leading historical figures; John Cleese is Robin Hood and Sean Connery is Agamemnon in this bizarre comedy ..read more »
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from 866 members
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Time Bandits
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Kenny Baker, Ralph Richardson, Derrick O'Connor
Director: Terry Gilliam
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A young boy joins a group of renegade dwarves on an unpredictable journey through time in this humorous fantasy. Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam mostly achieves a tricky balancing act in his second feature as sole director, creating a dark, irreverent comedy disguised as a family adventure. ..read more »
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from 12,809 members
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The Complete Ripping Yarns
(2 discs)
(1979)
Starring: Michael Palin, Eric Orthwaite
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The complete series from the pens of Michael Palin and Terry Jones. Episode titles: Tomkinson's Schooldays, The Testing of Eric Olthwaite, Escape From Stalag Luft 112 B, Murder at Moorstones Manor, Across the Andes by Frog, The Curse of the Claw, Whinfrey's Last Case, Golden Gordon, Roger of the Raj.
70%
from 2,866 members
Currently unavailable
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Monty Python's Life Of Brian
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Charles McKeown, Gwen Taylor, Terry Jones
Director: Terry Jones
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On a midnight clear 2,000 years ago, three wise men enter a manger where a babe is wrapped in swaddling clothes. It is an infant called Brian...and the three wise men are in the wrong manger. For the rest of his life, Brian (Graham Chapman) finds himself regarded as something of a messiah -- yet he'..read more »
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from 61,829 members
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The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: John Halsey, George Harrison, Neil Innes
Director: Gary Weis, Eric Idle
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Mock rockumentary, parodying the rise of a legendary pop band, that features a host of cameos from the likes of Mick Jagger, Paul Simon and George Harrison. Dirk (Eric Idle), Stig (Rikki Fataar), Ron (Neil Innes) and Barry (John Halsey) are the Rutles, a 'fab four' who, after a star appearance on ..read more »
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from 1,355 member
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Jabberwocky
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Annette Badland, Rodney Bewes, Harry H. Corbett
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Set in the medieval period, this light-hearted comedy was written by Terry Gilliam and Charles Alverson and stars Michael Palin, supported by the Monty Python team. Dennis Cooper (Palin), a cooper's apprentice, is mistaken for a prince and declared the Dragonslayer. However, he must live up to his ..read more »
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from 3,221 members
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Three Men In A Boat
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Michael Elphick, Bill Stewart, Stephen Moore
Director: Stephen Frears
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Stephen Frears directs this 1970s BBC adaptation of the classic novel by Jerome K Jerome, with a teleplay by Tom Stoppard. Tim Curry, Michael Palin and Stephen Moore star as the hapless trio who take to the Thames for an outdoor adventure peppered with various diversions into pubs, museums and ..read more »
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from 259 members
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Monty Python's Flying Circus - Series 3
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, John Cleese
Director: Ian McNaughtan
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The complete third series of the classic comedy sketch show. Episodes comprise: 'Njorl's Saga', 'Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular', 'The Money Programme', 'Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror', 'The All-England Summarise Proust Competition', 'The War Against Pornography', 'Salad Days', ..read more »
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from 772 members
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And Now For Something Completely Different
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman
Director: Ian MacNaughton
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Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different was first released in the US in 1973, but didn't really take off as a midnight-movie fixture until after the Monty Python's Flying Circus TV series began making the PBS rounds. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael ..read more »
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from 8,837 members
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Monty Python's Flying Circus - Series 2
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman
Director: Ian MacNaughton
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The complete second series of the classic comedy sketch show. Episodes comprise: 'Dinsdale!', 'The Spanish Inquisition', 'Deja Vu', 'The Buzz Aldrin Show', 'Live from the Grill-o-Mat', 'It's a Living', 'The Attila the Hun Show', 'Archaeology Today', 'How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body', '..read more »
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from 1,080 member
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How To Irritate People
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese
Director: Ian Fordyce
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John Cleese leads a team including Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Connie Booth and Tim Brooke-Taylor in a series of sketches demonstrating how to wind people up most effectively. Filmed in front of a live audience in the late Sixties, the show features 'Airline Pilot', a sketch billed as a lost ..read more »
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Monty Python's Personal Bests Collection
(6 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, John Cleese
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Six one-hour specials showcasing the groundbreaking comedians with new footage and original clips. Each episode includes members of the original Monty Python troupe performing in favourite clips from Monty Python's Flying Circus along with exclusive new material. Each of the five living Pythons - ..read more »
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from 426 members
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The Secret Policeman's Ball - The Early ...
on DVD
Starring: Eric Clapton, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore
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Following on from the success of 'Pleasure at her Majesty's', this 1979 concert was the second of the Amnesty Balls and, much like the first, features top-notch British comedy from top-notch British comedy stars. These include Peter Cook, John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson.
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from 251 members
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Palin On Art
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Michael Palin
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All three parts of the documentary series hosted by ex-Python Michael Palin, which showcases the work of some of his favourite artists, some of whom are not entirely household names. Struck by their vibrant use of colour and light, the works of Danish painter Wilhelm Hammershoi, Scottish artist ..read more »
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from 62 members
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Do Not Adjust Your Set
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Terry Jones, Denise Coffey, David Jason
Director: Daphne Shadwell, Adrian Cooper
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Compilation of episodes from the groundbreaking surreal sketch show which masqueraded as a children's programme while allowing future Monty Python members Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and animator Terry Gilliam, as well as David Jason and Denise Coffey, to hone their comedy skills.
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from 519 members
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American Friends
on DVD
Starring: David Calder, Trini Alvarado, Alfred Molina
Director: Tristram Powell
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Monty Python actor Michael Palin based this romantic story on his grandfather Francis Ashby's travel journals. A Fellow at an Oxford College, Ashby (Michael Palin) has long resigned himself to life without love, but his life is turned upside down when he meets two American women on holiday in ..read more »
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Michael Palin facts
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...Like the other entire travel documentaries Michael Palin has made, this series I found very enjoyable as he blends light humour with the excitement of exploring this planet ...
