"Monty Python's Flying Circus"
E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease (1972)

Director:

Ian MacNaughton

Writers:

Graham Chapman (written by) &
John Cleese (written by) ...

TV Series:

"Monty Python's Flying Circus" (1969)

Original Air Date:

21 December 1972 (Season 3, Episode 10)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Doctor | Nose Joke | Actor Playing Female Role | Eccentric | Prank

Cast

Michael Palin	...	Superintendent Gaskell / Sir Philip Sidney / Rev. Arthur Belling / The 'It's' Man / Mr. Burrows / Vicar / Various Roles
Terry Jones	...	Tudor Job Agency Assistant / Messenger / Post Office Clerk / Various Roles
John Cleese	...	Announcer / Roger Last / Dr. E. Henry Thripshaw / Various Roles
Terry Gilliam	...	Man with Pile of Books / Messenger / Animation Voices
Graham Chapman	...	Bookstore Customer / Sergeant Maddox / Interviewer / Mr. Kirkham / Various Roles
Eric Idle	...	Second Assistant / Elizabethan Gent / Mr. Husband / Various Roles
Carol Cleveland	...	Mrs. Sidney / Disturbed Girl
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rosalind Bailey	...	Elizabethan Girl
The Fred Tomlinson Singers	...	Amantillado Chorus

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: During the "Is There?" sketch, one of the show's guests who is supposed to be dead (Sir Brian Hardacre) is quite noticeably breathing.

Quotes:

Second Assistant: There's a 'Bridget - Queen of the Whip'.
Porn Shop Customer: Yes...
Second Assistant: Or 'Naughty Nora'... or there's this one: 'Doug, Bob and Gordon Visit the Ark Royal'. Or there's 'Sister Teresa: The Spanking Nun'.
Porn Shop Customer: Mmmm, I see. You don't have anything specially about Devon and Cornwall?
Second Assistant: No, I'm afraid not, sir.
Porn Shop Customer: The one I was really after was Arthur Hotchkiss's 'Devonshire Country Churches'.
Second Assistant: Well how about this, sir: 'Bum Biters'?
Porn Shop Customer: No, not really. I don't suppose you have any general surveys of English church architecture?
Second Assistant: No, it's not really our line, sir.
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