"Monty Python's Flying Circus" E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease (1972)

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Director:

Ian MacNaughton

Writers:

Graham Chapman (written by) &
John Cleese (written by) ...

TV Series:

"Monty Python's Flying Circus" (1969)

Original Air Date:

21 December 1972 (Season 3, Episode 10)

Genre:

Comedy | Music

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Nose Joke | Doctor | Monty Python | Sketch Comedy | Comedy Troupe

Cast

Michael Palin	...	Superintendent Gaskell / Sir Philip Sidney / Rev. Arthur Belling / The 'It's' Man / Mr. Burrows / Vicar / Various Roles
Terry Jones	...	Tudor Job Agency Assistant / Messenger / Post Office Clerk / Various Roles
John Cleese	...	Announcer / Roger Last / Dr. E. Henry Thripshaw / Various Roles
Terry Gilliam	...	Man with Pile of Books / Messenger / Animation Voices
Graham Chapman	...	Bookstore Customer / Sergeant Maddox / Interviewer / Mr. Kirkham / Various Roles
Eric Idle	...	Second Assistant / Elizabethan Gent / Mr. Husband / Various Roles
Carol Cleveland	...	Mrs. Sidney / Disturbed Girl
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rosalind Bailey	...	Elizabethan Girl
The Fred Tomlinson Singers	...	Amantillado Chorus

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: During the "Is There?" sketch, one of the show's guests who is supposed to be dead (Sir Brian Hardacre) is quite noticeably breathing.

Quotes:

Roger Last: [chat show set with three guests slumped in their seats] Good evening. Tonight on "Is There?" we examine the question of life after death. And here to discuss it are three dead people. The late Sir Brian Hardacre, former curator of the Imperial War Museum; the late Professor Thynne, until recently an academic, critic, and broadcaster; and putting the view of the Church of England, the very late Prebendary Reverend Ross. Gentlemen, is there a life after death or not? Sir Brian?
[silence]
Roger Last: Professor?
[no response]
[...]

Soundtrack:

Battle on the Ice