Monty Python’s Personal Best
Cool TV starting tonight on PBS: Monty Python’s Personal Best
“Monty Python’s Personal Best,†a series of six outrageous one-hour specials showcasing the groundbreaking comedians with new footage and original clips, will premiere on PBS February 22, 2006.
Each episode will include members of the original Monty Python troupe performing in favorite clips from their unorthodox television series, “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,†repurposed with exclusive new material. Each of the five living Pythons — John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin — produced and wrote his own episode, and collaborated to create the sixth special in honor of deceased member Graham Chapman. The episodes will air over a three week period in two-hour blocks on PBS on February 22, March 1 and March 8.
Check your local affiliate for showtimes. In St. Louis, the episodes are running at 8 and 9 pm Wednesdays and 2 and 3 am Fridays for the next three weeks.
There were 45 episodes of Flying Circus. Here’s a complete list. Some of the sketch choices are obvious (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10). I just hope to see:
- Anne Elk’s Theory on Brontosauruses
- Gumby Brain Specialist
- Ron Obvious: The First Man to Jump the Channel
- Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things
- The Philosophers Song
- The Olympic Hide-and-seek Final
