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‘Llamas’, 52, 113
‘Lochinvar’, 10
‘Long John Silver v. Gynaecologists’, 251
‘Lumberjack Song’, 41, 58, 85n, 203, 257–8 and n, 259–60, 300, 301, 309, 311, 511
‘Man Who Gives Abuse’, 308
‘Michael Miles’, 280
‘Mr Neutron’, 193, 267
‘Montgolfier Brothers’, 267
‘Nudge-Nudge’, 23, 117, 126
‘Paradise Lost’, 74–5
‘Pepperpots’, 128, 159, 280
‘Pet Shop/Parrot’, 29, 58, 81, 113, 115, 160, 300, 301, 498
‘Pither Cycling Tour’, 100n, 101, 226
‘Proust Competition’, 81, 452
‘Psychiatrists’ Dairies’, 26
‘Queen Victoria and Her Gardener’, 1, 10
‘RAF Banter’, 277
‘Salvation Fuzz’, 280
‘Scott of the Antarctic’, 251
‘Scott of the Sahara’, 26
‘Shabby’, 58
‘Silly Elections’, 280
‘Silly Ministers’, 69
‘Silly Olympics’, 126, 356
‘Silly Walks’, 65, 113, 159, 305
‘Soft Fruit’, 23, 41, 452
‘Spam’ song, 82, 85n
‘Spanish Inquisition’, 509
‘Superman’, 9
‘Thomas Hardy Novel-Writing’, 218
‘Time-Check’, 69
‘Travel Agent Sketch’, 312
‘Tudor Jobs’, 79
‘Undertakers’, 22
‘Upper Class Twit of the Year’, 22, 45
‘Working Class Culture’, 36
‘World Forum’, 58
‘World of History’, 22
‘The World’s Most Awful Family’, 267
‘Wrestling’, 113, 126
‘Yangtse Song’, 94
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
discussions about, 224, 236, 310–11, 335
projected profit, 328
script, 344, 348–56, 367–74, 395, 397–8, 402
filming, 372, 390, 393–4, 402, 445
casting, 395, 423, 426, 434, 472–3
read-throughs, 396–7, 475
financing, 420, 436, 444–5, 446–7, 462, 464, 465, 479
rewrites in Barbados, 420–1, 428–35
music, 440, 443
further rewrites, 440–1, 445
Pythons sue EMI, 465, 497
title, 473, 533, 535
costumes, 480
filming in Tunisia, 484–509, 510
Tunisian extras, 491, 505
early working cuts of, 510, 515 and n
publicity, 514–15, 517, 564–5, 566, 567, 569, 573, 592–3
editing, 516, 523, 532, 534–5, 544–5, 549
US distribution problems, 517, 533, 543–4
Festival of Light objects to, 518, 545, 547, 594, 596 and n
reactions to, 519, 523–4, 577
previews, 522–3, 525, 531–3, 534, 544, 546, 559
American viewings, 534
book, 371n, 538, 539, 541–2, 543, 545–6, 607
merchandising, 545
soundtrack album, 545, 565, 570, 571
film certificate, 547
US marketing trip, 554–8
blasphemy case unlikely, 559
‘Ex-Leper’ sequence re-shot, 561–2, 564
Pythons’ earnings from, 563, 579–80
US opening, 571, 572, 573
Jewish reactions in US, 574
success in US, 574, 575, 576, 580, 582, 583
US publicity, 576–7
banned in South Carolina, 588–9
slows in US, 588–9
showing for the crew, 592
Bishop of Southwark and Malcolm Muggeridge criticize, 595–6, 597
reviews of, 597
success of, 597, 607
MP’s mother sees, 600
Monty Python’s Papperbok, 194
Monty Python’s Scrap Book, 581
Moon, Keith, 248 and n, 410, 432 and n, 443, 472, 484
moon landings, 3, 4–5, 20–2, 222, 427
Moore, Dudley, 40, 297
Moore, Stephen, 240 and n, 241–4, 246, 255, 256
More, Kenneth, 291
Morecambe, Eric, 21, 101, 425
Morecambe, Lancashire, 83
Morecambe and Wise, 12, 469
Morley, Sheridan, 224 and n
Morning Telegraph (Sheffield), 315
Mornington Foot Clinic, 598–9
Morris, Colin, 599
Morris, Garrett, 456
Morris, Jan, 473
Mortimer, John, 559 and n
Morton’s restaurant, London, 264–5
Moses, Grandma, 310
Mountbatten, Lord, assassination, 573
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 329
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 594, 595–6, 597, 604
Muir, Frank, 18n, 262n
Mulchrone, Vincent, 39
Munich
Monty Python Bavarian TV shows, 48, 59 and n, 71, 79, 85–91
Olympic Games, 86
bookshops, 441
Municipal Arts Society of New York, 588
Munro, David, 562 and n, 563
The Muppet Show (television series), 433, 442
‘Murder at Moorstones Manor’ see Ripping Yarns
Murphy, Stephen, 214
Murray, Bill, 453n, 456–7 and n, 458–9, 461, 462, 529–30, 553
Musgrove, Mr (throat specialist), 291
Myra Breckinridge (film), 56
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Nabokov, Vladimir, 38
Ada, 392
Despair, 392
Nag’s Head,