Monty Python's Flying Circus: Season 4, Episode 3

The Light Entertainment War (14 Nov. 1974)

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Episode credited cast:
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Alex Diamond / Wingco / General / Mrs. Mock Tudor / Third Program Planner / Mansfield Vermon-Jones, Father / Various
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Aging General / Military Defense Counsel / Security Man / Various
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Rear Admiral Humphrey DeVere / Gino Agnelli / Squadron Leader / Corporal / Sapper Walters / First Program Planner / Mother / Dorian Williams / Various
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First Tramp / Reverend Charlie 'Drooper Hyper-Squawk Smith / Bovril / Presiding General / Nude Organist / Mrs. Elizabeth III / Chief Program Planner / Various
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Second Tramp / Len Hanky / Pilot / Colonel Fawcett / 'It's' Man / Second Program Planner / Various
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Rebecca Vermon-Jones
Bob Raymond ...
(as Bob E. Raymond)
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Singing Airman
Marion Mould
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During the "Woody and Tinny Words" sketch, four servants are seen throughout the sketch standing motionless and expressionless behind the rich family. When the father of the family picks up a shotgun and fires at the caribou out on the lawn, the maid standing behind him can be seen accidentally flinching at the sudden bang. See more »

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Mansfield Vermon-Jones, Father: It's a funny thing, dear, all the naughty words sound woody.
Mother: Really dear? How about tit.
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