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Add MS 89284/2/26
- Record Id:
- 040-003398129
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003389071
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056662941.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89284/2/26
- Title:
- Michael Palin Notebooks 51 and 52: Monty Python Flying Circus
- Scope & Content:
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Notebooks and loose notebook pages (originally includes in a burgundy folder labelled 'Python Series Four) with notes and draft of sketches for series 4 of Monty Python's Flying Circus, as follows:
- Notebook 51 (red Silvine Students notebook, 22 pages plus 20 loose pages) marked 'Mr Neutron/Cabbages'. Headlines include: 'Freedom', 'Court Martial'. Manuscript in Terry Jones and Palin's handwriting and typescript with corrections. The notebooks also includes doodles.
- Notebook 52 (red Silvine Students notebook, 21 pages plus 107 loose pages) marked 'Python Series IV. Sept/Nov 1974'. Sketches include: 'Bogus Psychiatrists', 'A Doctor Whose Patients Are Stabbed by His Nurse', 'David Attenborough', 'BBC News', 'Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Liberal Party', 'Batsmen of the Kalahari', 'Mr Neutron', 'Most Awful Family in Britain'. Headlines include: 'Welsh Interlude', 'Fish News', 'Store Detective', 'Breakfast, Earplugs', 'Lookout', 'Capt. Conquest', 'Documentaries', 'Poss Start for Neutron', 'Animation Map', 'The Garibaldis'. Manuscript in Terry Jones and Palin's handwriting (and possibly Douglas Adams and David Sherlock) and typescript with corrections. The notebook also includes doodles.
- 31 loose pages from a notebook with draft of script of episode 43 'Hamlet' - a combination of holograph manuscript and typescript with holograph corrections (pages are numbered, originally inside a brown envelope marked 'Python Show IV').
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003389071
036-003391163
040-003398129 - Is part of:
- Add MS 89284 : Michael Palin Archive
Add MS 89284/2 : Michael Palin Archive: Notebooks
Add MS 89284/2/26 : Michael Palin Notebooks 51 and 52: Monty Python Flying Circus - Hierarchy:
- 032-003389071[0006]/036-003391163[0026]/040-003398129
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89284
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1974
- End Date:
- 1974
- Date Range:
- [1974]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)