WorldOfParts

WORLDS OF PARTS : THE PYTHON ERA

Eric once said he used to play 13 or 14 parts per episode in the good old Monty Python days. A lack of research from me ? A bit of overacting from Eric ? I could only spot an average 5 to 10 - but I took this opportunity to illustrate a few of them. Only visual parts are featured (which excludes the many "voices over" and "voices off" encountered along the shows), and the selection endeavours to capture the essence of each (which means the aesthetic criterium comes only second). Those in capital letters have been submitted to Mrs Conclusion for a full study in the Inside Department. As for me, I've surrendered to the mere fascination of the number of stars to be found in the sky. A galaxy of Ericidles revisited...

FIRST SERIES
Episode 1				Eddie Waring, Francesco, "Two Sheds" Jackson's Interviewer, Vicky, Reg Moss, Mrs Scribbler, General, German Joker, Commentator.
Episode 2				Announcer, Marriage Guidance Counsellor, Ken the Coal-miner, Arthur Waring, Viking.
Episode 3				Parking offender, Storyteller, Manager of Restaurant, Little Eric, Norman.
Episode 4				SINGER, Self-defence student, Book buyer/Arthur Lemming.
Episode 5				Confuse-a-Cat employee, Vicar, Vox pops pepperpot, Sandy Camp, Boxer, Double newsreader, Encyclopaedia salesman.
Episode 6				Honest bandit, Not so honest bandit, Red Indian, Writer for Mr Salzberg.
Episode 7				Camel spotter, Lashee, Mrs Brainsample, Mrs Potter, Tennis player, Detective, Commentator.
Episode 8				Private Watkins, Mr Verity, Hermit, Eating announcer, Hell granny, Sociologist.
Episode 9				Spanish guitarist, Bob the mountaineer, Kenny Lust, Arthur Name.
Episode 10				Lingerie shop assistant, Mr Tree, Vox pops man, Gorilla, Maurice.
Episode 11				Undertaker, Chief Superintendent Lookout, Jimmy Buzzard's Interviewer, Mr Walters, A Gumby, MISS RITA FAIRBANKS.
Episode 12				Man at desk by the window, Cricketer, Mr Johnson, Vox pops pepperpot, Deep voiced inspector, Upperclass twit, BBC man with the rope, Second Robert.
Episode 13				Shirley, Doctor, Julius Caesar, Little Eric, Fairy godmother, Interviewer with a gun, Hippy squatter.

SECOND SERIES
Episode 1	"Face the Press" interviewer, Gas man, Naughty customer, Reporter on the Piranhas Bros, Stig O'Tracey.
Episode 2	Novelty salesman, Second official, Man in suit, Clerk.
Episode 3	BALPA man, Lassie O'Shea, Ian Mac Kellan, Psychiatrist milkman.
Episode 4	A Gumby, Mr Leavey, Reverend Morrison, Vicar in distress, Interviewer, Wordsworth, Customer in chemist's shop.
Episode 5	Toastmaster, Brooky, Accidents man, Third Smith, Butcher, Mrs Clean Air System, Jack.
Episode 6	"It's a living" compere, Second Bishop of East Anglia, Policeman, Timmy Williams, Marriages registrar, Gerald, Officer.
Episode 7	Uncle Tom, Seedy club compere, First Groupie, Scientist, Cyril, Old idiot, Brian, Commentator at Epsom.
Episode 8	Woman who forgot her name, Man who wants to change his wife, Roy Spim, Camp judge, Mrs Entity, Shakespeare.
Episode 9	First Bruce, Porter, Verrifast man, MISS RITA FAIRBANKS, Eurovision girl.
Episode 10	Phil, Gerry Schlick, member of various teams.
Episode 11	S.Frog, John, Nelson, Man with enormous nose, Stuck City gent, Arthur Crackpot, John Lennon, Archbishop Nudge.
Episode 12	Clerk, "World forum" presenter, Private Jenkins, Second art critic, Second Richard III, Mr Bun.
Episode 13	Foreman, Mr Ohn Ith, Adman, Mr Martin, St Pooves doctor, Submarine pepperpot, Third sailor, Fred.

THIRD SERIES
Episode 1	Icelandic gent, MICHAEL NORMAN RANDALL, Usher, Stock market reporter, Mrs Inference, First Whicker.
Episode 2	Man on left, Stebbins, Jackie, New vicar, "Farming Club" presenter, Gary Coover, First knight, Renaissance officer, Second guard, Newsreader with blanket.
Episode 3	"Money Programme" presenter, Clerk, Klaus, Mr Spare-Buttons-Supplied-With-The-Shirt, Inspector Baboon, Inspector Thompson's Gazelle.
Episode 4	Man who speaks in anagrams, Mr Man.
Episode 5	Third climber, Patrice, Second fireman, Veronica, First booth, MR SMOKETOOMUCH.
Episode 6	Tory housewife, Pepperpot, A Gumby, Presenter, Dorothy Lamour, Rating, Woman, Mr Badger.
Episode 7	Chris, Enid, "Storage jars" presenter, Philip Jenkinson, Charles.
Episode 8	Café proprietor, Old lady, Doctor, Mme Brun, Military man, Grip, Soldier, Mr Pither's mother, Russian compere.
Episode 9	Mr Badger, Arthur Huntingdon, Tenant, Commentator, Presenter, Professor Herman Khan.
Episode 10	Tudor assistant, Elizabethan gent, Mr Peepee, Mr Husband.
Episode 11	Parson, Mrs O, Kennedy, Mr Justice Burke, Mac Gough.
Episode 12	Choreographer, Third reader, Second soldier, Consultant, Dr Lewis Hoad, Swedish person, First Major, "Spot the Loony" presenter.
Episode 13	Dickie Attenborough, Third cricketer, Grimshaw, Peter, Eddie Waring.

FOURTH SERIES
Episode 1	Jacques Montgolfier, Lord Interest, Reader, Norwegian, Hollweg.
Episode 2	CHRIS QUINN, Keats, Brian Clough.
Episode 3	Rear-Admiral Humphrey De Vere, Italian chairman, Squadron leader, Corporal, Sapper Walters, First planner, Mrs Vermin Jones, Dorian.
Episode 4	Dr Natal, Michael Charlton, Second assistant, Brian, Queen Victoria presenter.
Episode 5	Captain Carpenter, Mrs Smailes, Italian chairman, Prime Minister, Man in a grey suit.
Episode 6	Mrs Garibaldi, Professor K, Upper-class man, Mother, Brigadier, Mr Vernon, Newsreader.

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