Add MS 89284/1/25

Drafts of scripts for sketches of Monty Python Flying Circus, as follows:

• 'Film Quickies' - typescript with corrections, 2 copies, 1 page each, undated;
• 'The Cricketers' - typescript with corrections, 2 copies, 2 pages, undated;
• 'Police Voices' (this is the sketch 'Silly Voices at the Police Station' from episode 12 in the final version of the show) - typescript with corrections, 3 pages, undated;
• 'Party Political Broadcast' - typescript with corrections, 3 copies, 3 pages each, undated;
• 'Them' (this is episode 7 in the final version of the show) - typescript with corrections, 17 pages, undated;
• 'Letter from BBC' - holograph manuscript, 2 pages, undated;
• 'Magic Police' (this is the sketch 'Quiz Programme: "Wishes"' from episode 13 in the final version of the show - typescript with corrections, 4 pages, undated;
• 'Italian Classes' (this is the sketch with the same title from episode 1 in the final version of the show - typescript with corrections, 3 pages, undated;
• 'Jimmy Buzzard' (possibly very early version of the 'Literary Football Discussion' sketch from episode 11 in the final version of the show) - typescript with corrections, 5 pages, undated;
• 'Buying a Bed (MK 1)' (this is the sketch with the same title from episode 8 in the final version of the show) - typescript with corrections, 3 pages, undated;
• 'Indian' (this is the sketch 'Red Indian in Theatre' from episode 6 in the final version of the show) - typescript with corrections, 3 pages, undated;
• 'Bank Sketch' - typescript with holograph corrections, 2 copies, undated;
• 'Play-of-the-Month' - typescript with corrections, 1 page, undated;
• 'Robbers Again' (this is the sketch 'Non-Illegal Robbery' from episode 6 in the final version of the show - typescript with a few corrections, 4 pages, undated;
• 'Sandwiches' - holograph manuscript, 1 page, undated;
• 'The Visitors' (this is the sketch with the same title from episode 9 in the final version of the show) - typescript with corrections, 5 pages, undated;
• 'Laundrette' - typescript with a few corrections, 3 pages, undated;
• 'The Conjurer Going to Bed' - typescript with corrections, 1 page, undated;
• 'Buying a Bed' (this is the sketch with the same title from episode 8 in the final version of the show) - typescript with corrections, 3 pages, undated;
• 'Hermits Film' (this is the sketch 'Hermits' from episode 9 in the final version of the show - typescript with a few corrections, 3 pages, undated;
• 'Ron Obvious' (these are the sketches 'The First Man to Jump the Channel', 'Eating Chichester Cathedral', 'Tunnelling from Godalming to Java', 'Splitting a railway carriage with his nose' from episode 10 in the final version of the show) - typescript with corrections, 8 pages, undated;
• 'The Cross-Channel Jump' (this is the sketch 'The First Man to Jump the Channel' from episode 10 in the final version of the show) - holograph manuscript, 2 pages, undated;
• 'Picasso' (this is the sketch 'Picasso/Cycling Race' from episode 1 in the final version of the show) - typescript with corrections, 3 pages, undated;
• sketch with Mr [Nerves], a cheque of £256.000 and the laughing lumberjack - holograph manuscript, 4 pages, undated;
• sketch with a cashier and a customer - holograph manuscript, 1 pages, undated;
• sketch with 'The Bigot's Corner' show - typescript with a few corrections, 4 pages, undated;
• loose pages from notebooks with sequences and lists of sketches - holograph manuscript, 9 pages, undated;
• loose pages from unidentified sketches, undated;
• 'A Tale of Tewkesbury' - typescript with corrections, 10 pages, undated;
• 'Art Critic' - typescript with corrections, 3 pages, undated;
• 'Police Raid' - typescript with holograph corrections, 2 pages, undated.

The file also includes: proposed running order for 'Monty Python Flying Visit' (Coventry) - typescript with holograph annotations; letter from Barry Took to Palin confirming the BBC wishes to record a second series of the show ('another 13 episodes'), 21 Oct 1969; letter from Michael Mills to Palin regarding the schedule for the last episode of series 1 and recording of series 2, 27 Nov 1969; letter from Richard Du Vivier to Palin asking his and Terry Jones's availability to re-write a script for him, 15 Apr 1970.