Monty Python's Flying Circus, Set 5
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Actor: Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry JonesBrand: A&E
Writer: Graham Chapman
Writer: John Cleese
Writer: Terry Gilliam
Writer: Eric Idle
Writer: Terry Jones
Writer: Michael Palin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-05-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
Product features:
- Contains Episodes 27 to 32 from Season 3#27 Whicker s World ; #28 Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris Ford Popular ; #29 The Money Programme ; #30 Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror ; #31 The All-England Summarize Proust Competition ; #32 The War Against Pornography Perfectly tailored to suit those not quite done with evolution, Monty Python s Flying Circus provides a veritable university education i
Movie Reviews of Monty Python's Flying Circus, Set 5
Movie Review: Five stars, plus one black hole for quality control
Summary: 5 Stars
I must offer kudos to A&E. Before these DVDs, all I had were 12-year-old VHS copies of Flying Circus dubbed off MTV. They were dull and noisy and these DVDs look much better.
Unfortunately, due to the glut of gaffes and omissions in this 45-episode box set, I am forced to keep those VHS tapes as reference copies for several episodes that A&E have unintentionally - and, in at least one case, intentionally - adulterated.
For the uninitiated, here's a laundry list of some of the omissions and gaffes in this set:
Show 31: Line "Masturbating" censored. MTV managed to find an uncensored version - A&E should have done likewise.
Show 33: Dialogue snipped from "Biggles Dictates a Letter". Not censorship, just a jump cut. Major QC goof.
Show 38: EVERYTHING after Eric Idle's "Next week, Black...Botoon..." voiceover is gone. No "Dad's Doctor", no "Dad's Pooves", no "Up the Palace", no "Limestone Dear Limestone". Possible explanation: Tape operator saw the fake fade-out right before these items and pressed "stop".
And in addition to the gaffes noted above, one more omission from Show 30 ("Blood, Devastation, Death, War, and Horror"): In the show, Graham Chapman belts out this brief West Side Story parody: "Tonight, tonight / I'm getting pissed tonight". A&E have cut the line.
The chain of events is easy to imagine:
1) A&E legal department decided they had to clear the line
2) Publisher wanted too much money
3) They cut it
Seems reasonable enough at first glance. So where, gentle reader, did they make their mistake? That's right, in step 1, when they decided they had to clear the line. It's called PARODY, dearhearts, and it's protected under the Fair Use doctrine of U.S. copyright law.
A&E is never going to fix these errors - if they cared about this series as a historical artifact, they never would have made the errors in the first place - so there's not much anyone can do. Except humiliate them with reviews like this. Woo hoo! Feels good! Take that, you corporate behemoth! Oh, wait, they're not reading this. Oh well. Hey, this is why we have tape trading, isn't it folks? Treat yourself.
Summary of Monty Python's Flying Circus, Set 5
Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2000 Run time: 204 minutes Rating: NrThis set contains six "persistently silly" episodes from Monty Python's third and final full season (the ones introduced by Terry Jones's naked keyboardist). The quality of the sketches is not as consistent as it was in the first two seasons, but no Monty Python collection is complete without such series benchmarks as Njorl's Saga, an exciting Icelandic tale appropriated by the North Malden Icelandic Society; a courtroom burlesque featuring Eric Idle as a very apologetic mass murderer; the Argument Clinic sketch; Gumby brain surgery; and the Fish-Slapping Dance, which Michael Palin is on record as saying is his personal favorite bit of Python nonsense. A warning to more sensitive viewers: There is "material that some may find offensive, but which is really smashing," as well as blatant violations of something called the "Strange Sketch Act." Chief among these is the one in which Terry Jones appears as a pitiable man whose every utterance reduces listeners to hysterical fits of laughter; the ill-fated expedition to Lake Pahoe (located at 22A Runcorn Avenue); and an in-person documentary about the sex life of the mollusk, from the scallop ("second in depravity only to the common clam") to the whelk ("gay boy of the gastropods"). Episode 30 has the distinction of featuring two of the most hilariously annoying characters Monty Python ever perpetrated on the public: John Cleese as Miss Anne Elk, who has a theory on brontosauruses, and Idle as the extremely loquacious Mr. Smoke-Too-Much. --Donald Liebenson
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