Welcome to PythoNET, Garrett Gilchrist's Monty Python page,
probably not updated since 1999, mostly unofficial
and guaranteed to waste a large portion of your
life away before you even know what hit you.

July 4, 2010: Monty Python's PythoNET is now on Youtube! Our Youtube channel is a giant treasure trove of rare clips starring the Monty Python team. Most of these clips are not available on DVD. When I created this page in 1996 one of my goals was to bring attention to some of the lesser-seen works of Monty Python. With the help of this Youtube channel you can enjoy rare clips from Rutland Weekend Television, At Last the 1948 Show, Do Not Adjust Your Set, The Complete and Utter History of Britain, and many other rare and wonderful things. Join us and enjoy.

June 6, 2010: Not the Messiah - Eric Idle's musical stage show based on The Life of Brian. Available on DVD/Blu-Ray on June 8th, this release captures a dynamite one-night-only live stage show that stars a chorus of 140, an orchestra of 80, 5 soloists, 8 bagpipers, and 3 sheep.

At Last ... another 1948 Show episode recovered! Previously thought lost forever, collectors have now discovered a a nearly-complete episode of At Last the 1948 Show, the wonderful pre-Python sketch comedy series starring John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Marty Feldman and Tim Brooke-Taylor at their very best. This makes nearly ten out of thirteen episodes now known to survive, although sadly only five episodes' worth of compilation material has been released on DVD. (Those making the DVD were unaware that complete episodes actually existed, at the time. We here at PythoNET have two 1/2 episodes not released on that DVD, and have had these episodes for about 12 years now ... back when we still updated this website! They're certainly "out there" on the internet for those who look for them.) Roughly all of the series exists on audio as well, but only in fan hands. According to Matthew K Sharp, the known surviving episodes are 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 2/2, 2/3, 2/5, 2/7 (apparently), with 2/1 and now 2/6 reconstructed with some audio only sections. And there's at least some surviving footage from the other 4 episodes, too. At Last the 1948 Show, Associated Rediffusion, tx 31 Oct 1967, Series 2, Programme 6 includes these sketches: Police Banquet/Return Of The Sydney Lotterbies/The Chartered Accountant dance/MI5 Banquet/Dentistry With A Difference/The Four Yorkshiremen. Dick Fiddy, TV consultant at the BFI, said, "Recently, a private collector contacted the BFI's "Missing Believed Wiped" project and handed over two priceless missing items of 1960s TV comedy." The other was a lost episode of The Frankie Howerd Show. "It's good news all round with these finds - they feature some of the UK's finest clowns at their peak and are pure comedy gold dust. The 'Frankie Howerd Show', for example, not only features more rare Frankie stuff but boasts a script from Ray Galton and Alan Simpson and - particularly precious - the great Yootha Joyce hamming it up as a tipsy vamp trying to have her way with the aghast Frankie." For more information, click here to visit the excellent missing episodes forum, and here for a news article.

Out of the Trees has been recovered! The legendary one-episode show, written by Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), long thought lost, has been recovered - a low quality video recording has existed all these years. It has been screened publicly, but not released on DVD. This makes yet another Python series that's sadly unavailable to the public - like our favorite, Rutland Weekend Television, and certain episodes of At Last the 1948 Show and Do Not Adjust Your Set.

Gilliam News: The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, now on DVD, is a fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam and Charles McKeown. The film follows the leader of a travelling theatre troupe who, having made a deal with the Devil, takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations. Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, and Heath Ledger star in the film, though Ledger's death one-third of the way through filming caused production to be temporarily suspended. Ledger's role was recast with Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell portraying transformations of Ledger's character Tony as he travels through a dream world. The film is dedicated to Ledger - the normal credit "A Terry Gilliam Film" is removed in favor of "A Film From Heath Ledger and Friends."

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