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Add MS 89284/1/7
- Record Id:
- 040-003389383
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003389071
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100050928557.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89284/1/7
- Title:
- 'The Frost Report' - Part 2: Series 2
- Scope & Content:
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Scripts for the following episodes of The Frost Report, written by Terry Jones and Michael Palin (all typescript):
- 'Frost Report on Culture', 18-22 May 1967 - 4 drafts;
- 'Frost Report on Transport', Jun 1967 - 2 drafts;
- 'Frost Report on Crime, Jun 1967 - 3 drafts;
- 'Frost Report on Europe', 8-12 Jun 1967 - 4 drafts;
- 'Frost Report on Youth', Jun 1967 - 2 drafts;
- 'Frost Report on Showbiz', Jun 1967 - 4 drafts;
- 'Frost over Christmas', Dec 1967 - 1 draft;
- loose pages of rehearsal scripts for 'Health Service ''Hygiene in the Hospital'' Quickie'; 'Tipping Quickie' by Eric Idle; 'Quickies'; 'The Frost Report. The All-Purpose Budget Speech' by Barry Cryer (all undated); 'D-Day' by John Cleese and Graham Chapman; 'How to Avoid a Disastrous Christmas Next Year';
- drafts and sequences for other sketches, all undated, entitled as follows: 'A Passionate Love Scene'; 'The Transport Radio', 'Burglars', 'Love-Talk', 'Burglars' Outing', 'Judge', 'Quickie', 'Car-Check', 'Identification Parade', 'Blackboard Quickie', 'The Connoisseur', 'Assorted Seaside Quickies', 'Visiting', 'Drama News', 'Beating Quickie', 'Snogging Quickie', 'Park Bench', 'Karate Quickie', 'News - From the Light Entertainment Department', 'The State of England', 'Commercial People' and a few loose unidentified pages.
The file also includes: draft of sketches for Frost on Sunday, including 'Julie Andrews', 'Overdraft', 'Wedding' and 'One Downmanship', 22 Jul-2 Oct 1968; a small piece of paper with notes in unknown hand, undated; two tickets for The Frost Report, 9 Jun 1966; press cuttings regarding 'Frost Over England' winning the Golden Rose of Montreux award, [1967]; invitation to an End-of-Series party, 5 Jan [1968]; photocopy of a letter from PYE Records regarding division of royalties amongst the scriptwriters of 'The Frost Report on Everything', 17 March 1969, with attached amounts; paper with Python letterhead with a list of papers sent to Peter Vincent on 17th June 1974, in Palin's handwriting; obituary of David Frost, 2014, and Jimmy Gilbert, 2016.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003389071
036-003389350
037-003389544
040-003389383 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89284 : Michael Palin Archive
Add MS 89284/1 : Michael Palin Archive: Projects
Add MS 89284/1/6-7 : Michael Palin Archive: 'The Frost Report (Series 1 and 2)'
Add MS 89284/1/7 : 'The Frost Report' - Part 2: Series 2 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003389071[0005]/036-003389350[0007]/037-003389544[0002]/040-003389383
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89284
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1966
- End Date:
- 2016
- Date Range:
- 1967-2016
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Chapman, Graham, comedian and writer, 1941-1989
Cleese, John Marwood, writer and actor, b 1939
Cryer, Barry Charles, writer, comedian and actor, 1935-2022
Frost, David Paradine, Knight, broadcaster, 1939-2013
Gilbert, Cecil James, aka 'Jimmy', television producer and director, 1923-2016
Idle, Eric, actor and writer, b 1943,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121367272
Vincent, Peter, screenwriter, fl 1968-2013