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Year: 1976
Genre: Comedy
Channel: BBC2
Series: 2
Episodes available: 9
Available from: 28 Jul 2022
Removed: 29 Jul 2023

Monty Python stars Michael Palin and Terry Jones present this delightful comic adventure series. Straight from the pages of schoolboy comics, Palin plays a variety of characters in these tall tales of mystery and suspense.

Cast and Crew

Directors: Jim Franklin, Terry Hughes, Alan J.W. Bell
Cast: Michael Palin, Charles McKeown, Barbara New, David Griffin, Michael Stainton, Peter Graham, Terry Jones, Isabel Dean, Denholm Elliott, Roy Kinnear, Hilary Mason, Maria Aitken, Gwen Taylor, Richard Vernon, Gwen Watford, John Barrett, Iain Cuthbertson, Tenniel Evans, Don Henderson, John Phillips, Antony Carrick, Bill Fraser, Joan Sanderson, Ian Ogilvy, Anita Carey, Timothy Carlton, Frank Middlemass, Keith Smith, Eileen Way, Roger Brierley, Edward Hardwicke, Teddy Turner, John Wentworth, Harold Innocent, John Louis Mansi, Aubrey Morris, Liz Smith, Richard Hurndall, John Le Mesurier, David Leland, Sarah Grazebrook, Candace Glendenning, Julian Hough, Reg Lye, Nigel Rhodes, John Berlyne, Jan Francis, Jack May, Chai Lee, David English, Judy Loe, Petra Markham, John White, Ann Zelda, Allan Cuthbertson, Ken Kitson, Gerald Sim, Terrance Denville, Bridget Armstrong, Alan Leith, Roland Macleod, Roger Sloman, Ann Way, Kenneth Colley, Nicholas Day, Gilly Flower, Kevin Moran, David Ellison, Michael Sharvell-Martin, Roger Avon, Vanessa Furse, Hugh Janes, Brian Nolan, Colin Bennett, David Warwick, Philip Graham, Clifford Kershaw, Matthew Scurfield, Anthony Woodruff, James Charles, Norman Mitchell, Roy Sampson, Ken Shorter, Glen Cunningham, Anthony Smee, Phillip Clayton-Gore, Douglas Hinton, Pat Taylor, David Machin, Marcelle Samett, Patrick Bailey, Dorothy Frere, Margot Lawson, Ronald Fletcher, Steve Conway, Tom Harrison, Danny O'Dea, Burt Brooks, Charles Marcelle, Arthur Fortune
Writers: Terry Jones, Michael Palin

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