0x2 A Happy Boxing Day and a Preposterous New Year Episode overview
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1967 26
The pilot was a Boxing Day special screened the same day as the Beatles 'Magical Mystery Tour'. Previously thought lost, the songs and sketches include: Boxing Day dance, Bonzo's Jollity Farm and Captain Fantastic.
The pilot was a Boxing Day special screened the same day as the Beatles 'Magical Mystery Tour'. Previously thought lost, the songs and sketches include: Boxing Day dance, Bonzo's Jollity Farm and Captain Fantastic.
This last slightly longer Rediffusion episode, broadcast later in the year, was an intriguing mixture of new material and newly shot reprises of sketches from the series. It includes .. show full overview
This last slightly longer Rediffusion episode, broadcast later in the year, was an intriguing mixture of new material and newly shot reprises of sketches from the series. It includes slicker new versions of the ‘Travelling Kettle’ sketch and the ‘Stool Pigeon’ sketch (with Palin’s undercover copper now whistling the theme from BBC police procedural Dixon of Dock Green to add a subtle extra gag), latterly disturbed by a little off-screen set disruption.
Meanwhile, The Bonzos are finally able to perform ‘I’m the Urban Spaceman’, with perhaps the most elaborate prop they ever got for the show: a Gerry Anderson–style spacecraft that actually moves, while a grandly orchestrated pre-recorded coda to the song plays elegiac accompaniment.
Palin prepares a rich Christmas pudding from money. Terry Gilliam weighs in with animated Christmas cards.
Intro - Gags - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band carol singing - Turnaround with Eric .. show full overview
Palin prepares a rich Christmas pudding from money. Terry Gilliam weighs in with animated Christmas cards.
Intro - Gags - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band carol singing - Turnaround with Eric Idle - Christmas cookery hints with Ivor Clarke - St. Herbert's - The Circus Lecture - Beauty Desk - Royal Father Christmas College - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band perform By A Waterfall - Ron and Norma - Terry Gilliam's The Christmas Card - World pantomime speed record - Captain Fantastic - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band perform I'm The Urban Spaceman - Party Games - Merry Merry Christmas song
