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- Canadian comic duo Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster continue their sketch comedy.
- A pilot for a US version of "Up Pompeii". Just like the original BBC comedy it is a vehicle for Frankie Howerd. This is probably the obscurest of all obscure pilots; it isn't mentioned in handbooks or listings.
- Canadian comic duo Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster continue their sketch comedy.
- In this unaired sitcom pilot, Suggs is elected prime minister of the UK, with the rest of Madness as his cabinet. Their plans for a first term in office are put in jeopardy by Doctor Maniac, along with the imminent arrival of their mums.
- In a random bar, a guy dies of a stroke, leaving behind a winning lottery ticket.
- A comedy series consisting of repackaged sketches from previously aired Wayne and Shuster shows.
- When a banker is threatened by extortionists, and his son is kidnapped, woman detective miss Clever goes undercover.
- Tommy Cooper, the UK's bumbling comedian with the fez, does sketches and magic tricks. "Just like that!"
- In a strange turn of events, Sue Jones-Davies became the mayor of a Welsh town where Monty Python's Life of Brian was still banned - the film where she played the female lead.
- Ancient history presented comically (at least, that's the intent) by interviewing with Caesar, Augustus, Ovidius and others in a modern style.
- When the NATO wants to place missiles on a Greek island, the women object and start a sex strike.
- Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? was a quiz show where archaeologists have to guess the age and provenance of artifacts - a revival of the '50s version.
- Portrait of the filmmaker's parents (in law), whose deteriorating health in old age is slowly separating them.
- When the men of Sparta and Athens won't make peace, the women decide to take action and go on strike.
- Jonathan Ross interviews the (living) members of Monty Python on its 30th anniversary. Deleted scenes from Life of Brian are shown (were on laserdisc before that).
- Irreverent, possibly even irrelevant sketch comedy from Melbourne, Australia.
- When EMI refused to produce Monty Python's Life of Brian, George Harrison founded Handmade Pictures so that he could see the film. This is the story of him and Handmade Films.
- 197135mTV EpisodeLast of the 2 black & white Australian episodes. It starts with Pete and Dud on the beach, followed by a sketch with "sir Arthur Greeb Streebling", a job interview (not for Tarzan this time) and "Bollards". It ends when the board the plane back home, discussing the time they had. (Not to be confused with the two part, colour live shows which they also recorded in Australia.)
- A comedy special with skits and music, starring the team of Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster. Before the opening credits there is a teaser that shows what happens on a vacation when vacationers lose their travelers cheques. Johnny and Frank open the show with their rendition of the song 'Together' (includes a series of comic scenes showing the team traveling the world). In the first skit, called 'Fantasy Motel', the cast send-up the Ricardo Montalban television series 'Fantasy Island'. In their version Johnny plays the motel's proprietor (complete with tropical white suit) who tries to grant the fantasies of his guests including, Italian movie star Sofia Erotica (Carol Robinson); professional wrestler the Great Zybisko (Lou Pitoscia) and his greatest challenge, the man who has everything, Greek shipping magnate Aristophanes Ostentatious (Frank). Wayne and Shuster present their regular 'Newsnose' feature, a series of skits showing the 'news that nobody knows'. Includes a new revolutionary self-cleaning kitchen; a talk with General Flackbottom (Johnny) who dismisses the existence of UFO's; and new advances in personal banking. The feature ends with a special edition of the Griff Mervin Show in which Griff (Frank) interviews the Russian star Ivan Ivanovich Shlepnikoff (Johnny), who recently defected to the free world. The main sketch is a spoof of the hit movie Rocky. In their version 80-year-old Rocky Bolognese (Johnny), with the help of his trainer Mickey (Frank), decides to make a dramatic comeback after 32 years of retirement and eight world championships.
- 197242mTV-147.9 (166)TV EpisodeMonty Python return for their second and last German special. Doing the lines in German proved too difficult for most of them the first time, so this time they did it in English. This was of course dubbed for German television - strangely that version is a rather different cut with extra sketches.
- Floris has a chance to win his castle back. This episode had not been completed yet when the production of the series was abandoned and it was never finished or shown (its story was used in the German remake though). In 2016 the raw footage resurfaced and was assembled, using images from the comic strip adaptation to make up for the missing material.