"Canadian Forces Public Affairs Branch. The march follows the standard form of AABBCDCDC. The trio (sections C and D) uses tubular bells to symbolize the Liberty Bell ringing. The bells usually begin during the first breakstrain (section D), but some bands use them at the first trio (section C). The march is often associated with the British TV comedy program ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"" (1969–74), which used the version performed by the Band of the Grenadier Guards as a signature tune. The British comedy troupe Monty Python's use of the melody is ironic; the bouncy melody of the march may"
"musical numbers). The theme music is the Band of the Grenadier Guards' rendition of John Philip Sousa's ""The Liberty Bell"" which was first published in 1893. Under the Berne Convention's ""country of origin"" concept, the composition was subject to United States copyright law which states that any works first published prior to 1923 was in the public domain due to copyright expiration. This enabled Gilliam to co-opt the march for the series without having to make any royalty payments. The title ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"" was partly the result of the group's reputation at the BBC. Michael Mills, the BBC's"
"onstage for the next skit, then admonishes Cleese with ""And you get off! You aren't even a proper woman!"", to which Cleese replies, ""Don't you oppress me, mate!"" Albatross (Monty Python sketch) ""Albatross"" is a sketch from ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"". It is particularly known for its opening lines: ""Albatross! Albatross! Albatross!"" The sketch first appeared on British television on 11 January 1970 in episode 13 of the first series, ""."" It features John Cleese and Terry Jones. Despite its short running time (40 seconds) it has proven to be quite memorable for Python fans and was frequently performed during"
"foot and a noticeably flatulent ""splat"" sound reminiscent of a whoopee cushion. (The first 13 episodes, however, used a ""hiss."") At the end of the film ""Monty Python: Live At The Hollywood Bowl,"" the entire march was played over the closing credits. ""The Liberty Bell"" was used by the Foot Guards before it became associated with the television series, after which they chose another march. Nevertheless, the march remains popular with British military bands. The Liberty Bell (march) ""The Liberty Bell"" (1893) is an American military march composed by John Philip Sousa. ""The Liberty Bell"" was written for Sousa's unfinished"
"Rock from the Sun"" and ""Cheers"" (in both of which Cleese has made guest appearances) have cited ""Fawlty Towers"" as an inspiration, especially regarding its depiction of a dysfunctional workplace ""family"". Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan have cited ""Fawlty Towers"" as a major influence on their sitcom ""Father Ted."" ""Guest House"" on Pakistan's PTV also resembled the series. Several of the characters have made other appearances, as spinoffs or in small cameo roles. In 1981, in character as Manuel, Andrew Sachs recorded his own version of the Joe Dolce cod-Italian song ""Shaddap You Face"" (with the B-side ""Waiter, There's a"
"Albatross (Monty Python sketch) ""Albatross"" is a sketch from ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"". It is particularly known for its opening lines: ""Albatross! Albatross! Albatross!"" The sketch first appeared on British television on 11 January 1970 in episode 13 of the first series, ""."" It features John Cleese and Terry Jones. Despite its short running time (40 seconds) it has proven to be quite memorable for Python fans and was frequently performed during the team's live shows. A man, played by John Cleese, is dressed as an ice-cream girl in a film theater, although instead of the regular movie snacks she"
"Spanish Flea in My Soup"") but the record was not released because Joe Dolce took out an injunction: he was about to issue his version in Britain. Sachs also portrayed a Manuel-like character in a series of British TV advertisements for life insurance. Gilly Flower and Renee Roberts, who played the elderly ladies Miss Tibbs and Miss Gatsby in the series, reprised their roles in a 1983 episode of ""Only Fools and Horses."" In 2006, Cleese played Basil Fawlty for the first time in 27 years, for an unofficial England 2006 World Cup song, ""Don't Mention the World Cup"", taking"
"The Liberty Bell (march) ""The Liberty Bell"" (1893) is an American military march composed by John Philip Sousa. ""The Liberty Bell"" was written for Sousa's unfinished operetta ""The Devil's Deputy"", but financing for the show fell through. Shortly afterwards, Sousa and his band manager George Hinton attended the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. As they watched the spectacle ""America"", in which a backdrop depicting the Liberty Bell was lowered, Hinton suggested ""The Liberty Bell"" as the title of Sousa's recently completed march. Coincidentally, Sousa received a letter from his wife, saying their son had marched in a parade in honor of"
"four runs of ""Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels"" as Dickie Lewis; Smigger in ""Lost Soul"" in 2007, 2008 and 2017; Brian in ""Good Golly Miss Molly""; Moey in the Alan Bleasdale comedy ""On the Ledge""; Paul Sheldon in ""Misery""; the Traveller in ""Eight Miles High""; Danny in ""Council Depot Blues""; Joe in ""Night Collar""; JJ in ""The Flags"" and Mr Briggs in ""Our Day Out - The Musical"". He performed all of these roles at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. He won the 2008 Scouseology Award for Theatre on 25 April 2008. He played guitar in the pit band for"
"series regulars Philip and Julie Martin, while Ben Nicholas reprised his role as Stingray Timmins. The first episode of the five-part series was released on 30 October 2017. Several records were released in the 1980s. The ""Neighbours"" theme tune sung by Barry Crocker was released by BBC Records in 1988. It reached a peak of 84 on the UK Singles Chart. The Angry Anderson power ballad ""Suddenly"" which was featured in ""Episode 523"" was released in 1987, while the show's love theme ""In Your Arms"" by Lynne Hamilton was released in 1989. ""Suddenly"" was later covered by Sam Clark in"
"has also written a new contemporary musical work entitled CELESTIAL. Based on the poems of the late Johnnie Douglas-Pennant, this work is narrated by actor Michael Sheen and features Steve Howe on guitar and soundscapes by Chris Watson. Paul K. Joyce Paul Kevin Joyce (born July 1957) is a British composer, producer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor. He is known for his music for theatre and television, including the 2005 BBC TV film ""The Snow Queen"" and the 2008 British TV film ""Clay"". He wrote ""Can We Fix It?"", the theme song to the children's television programme ""Bob the Builder"" that"
"between father and son. Henry employs two cleaners during the show's life; first Enid Thompson, and, in the third season, Fiona Fennell. The show's theme tune is Lionel Bart's """"Consider Yourself"""" from ""Oliver!"", arranged in a jazz style by Peter Knight. The series was later repeated on Channel 4, and ITV3. All 29 episodes have now been released on DVD by Network DVD. Home to Roost Home to Roost is a British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television between 19 April 1985 and 19 January 1990. Written by Eric Chappell, it stars John Thaw as Henry Willows and Reece Dinsdale as"
"and Dave's Knees-up"", broadcast in 1983. In 1985, Chas & Dave recorded the theme song to the BBC sitcom ""In Sickness and in Health"". Chas & Dave had previously been offered the chance to record the theme song for another BBC sitcom, ""Only Fools and Horses"", but turned it down as they were in Australia at the time due to the success of ""Ain't No Pleasing You"". However, their song ""Margate"" was used in a feature-length episode of the series entitled ""The Jolly Boys' Outing"" in 1989. They also created the theme tune and incidental music for the children television"
"Palin as the Sun. Gilliam was considered for the voice of the river. In terms of numbers of productions, Cleese has the most prolific solo career, having appeared in dozens of films, several TV shows or series (including ""Cheers"", ""3rd Rock from the Sun"", Q's assistant in the James Bond movies, and ""Will & Grace""), many direct-to-video productions, some video games, and a number of commercials. His BBC sitcom ""Fawlty Towers"" (written by and starring Cleese together with his then-wife Connie Booth) is the only comedy series to rank higher than the ""Flying Circus"" on the BFI TV 100's list,"
"era, and at its peak it was watched by 15 million people. British satire has also washed over into Quiz shows – popular examples include the news quiz ""Have I Got News for You"", ""Mock the Week"", ""8 out of 10 cats"" and music-based ""Never Mind The Buzzcocks"". One of the most influential groups in comedy is Monty Python. Their ""Flying Circus"" sketch show aired on the BBC between 1969-1974. The group itself consisted of six members, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. All were UK-born except Gilliam, who was US-born. Chapman, Cleese,"
"Secret Policeman's Ball"", the third in the series of ""The Secret Policeman's Balls"" fundraising shows for Amnesty International. Connolly was the first comedic performer in the series who was not an alumnus of the Oxbridge school of middle-class university-educated entertainers and he made the most of his appearance. Appearing in the company of long-established talents such as John Cleese and Peter Cook helped elevate the perception of Connolly as one of Britain's leading comedic talents. Lewis also teamed Connolly with Cleese and Cook to appear in the television commercial for the album. In 1981, John Cleese and Martin Lewis invited"
"to some ancient injury?"" The song ends with Cleese saying he loves his pet half-a-bee ""semi-carnally"", which Palin mishears as Cyril Connolly, a British writer and literary critic. It is one of Cleese's personal favourite sketches. On more than one occasion, Cleese has expressed his regret in not having the song follow ""Fish Licence"" in the sketch's airing on ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"" (Episode 23, ""Scott of the Antarctic"" 1970) as he describes himself as ""most unmusical."" Eric the Half-a-Bee ""Eric the Half-a-Bee"" is a song by the British comedy troupe Monty Python that was composed by Eric Idle with"
"Life on Mars (UK TV series) Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between 9 January 2006 and 10 April 2007. The series combines elements of speculative fiction and police procedural, featuring a present-day police officer from the Greater Manchester Police (played by John Simm) who wakes up in 1973 after being involved in a road accident. The title is a reference to David Bowie's 1973 single ""Life on Mars?, with its lyrics ""Take a look at the law man, beating up the wrong guy"". An American adaptation of the series was produced by ABC"
"Chambers (series) Chambers was a BBC radio and television sitcom. It was written by barrister Clive Coleman and starred John Bird and Sarah Lancashire in both versions. The radio version was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in three series between 1996 and 1999, and the television version was broadcast on BBC One. The theme music was ""Dance with Mandolins"" from Prokofiev's ""Romeo and Juliet"". John Bird plays the lead role of John Fuller-Carp, a monstrously egotistical and avaricious barrister heading Forecourt Chambers. His colleagues are Hilary Tripping, a rather ineffectual young man, and Ruth Quirke, initially a rather militantly left"
"this series in April 2008 on his own website, headcast.co.uk. Cleese collaborated with Los Angeles Guitar Quartet member William Kanengiser in 2008 on the text to the performance piece ""The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha"". Cleese, as narrator, and the LAGQ premiered the work in Santa Barbara. 2008 also saw reports of Cleese working on a musical version of ""A Fish Called Wanda"" with his daughter Camilla. At the end of March 2009, Cleese published his first article as ""Contributing Editor"" to ""The Spectator"": ""The real reason I had to join ""The Spectator"""". Cleese has also hosted comedy galas at"
"bringing it to a larger audience. The second series of eight episodes aired on BBC Two from November 2007; the third series aired from November 2008; and the final series aired from 31 May 2011 until 5 July. Comparisons were made by critics to the successful American comedy ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"", and positive comments were made about ""Lead Balloon""'s characters, particularly Anna Crilly's Magda, the Eastern European housekeeper. The first series was released on DVD in November 2007. The show's theme tune is a cover version of ""One Way Road"", written by Noel Gallagher and performed by Paul Weller. The"
"a UK comedy-drama television series starring Russ Abbot and Michael Williams which ran for three series between 1993 and 1995. The music was also used for the credits British sitcom in the television series ""May to December"" (a quote from the opening line of the song), which ran for 39 episodes, from 2 April 1989 to 27 May 1994 on BBC One. It was covered by Anjelica Huston (Huston's granddaughter) in an episode of the NBC musical series Smash(S01.ep14). The BBC Radiophonic Workshop recorded a cover of September Song, which was commonly used in intervals on both BBC1 and BBC2."
"(Each of the book titles is a play on a pop culture phrase or film title that is of, or relevant to, the '70s, those being ""Blood, Bullets and Babes"", ""A Fistful of Dollars"", ""Borstal Boy"" and ""Get Carter""). Life on Mars (UK TV series) Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between 9 January 2006 and 10 April 2007. The series combines elements of speculative fiction and police procedural, featuring a present-day police officer from the Greater Manchester Police (played by John Simm) who wakes up in 1973 after being involved in a road"
"""Monty Python's Previous Record"" (1972) and ""The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief"" (1973), he played a major role in performing and writing songs and sketches for their final TV series in 1974, after John Cleese left. He wrote a squib of a song called ""George III"" for the episode ""The Golden Age of Ballooning"", which was sung by The Flirtations, but billed onscreen as the Ronettes. He also wrote the song ""When Does a Dream Begin?"", used in ""Anything Goes: The Light Entertainment War"". He co-wrote the ""Most Awful Family in Britain"" sketch and played a humorous stilted guitar"
"Hammersmith. He also played Lloyd Dallas in one of the casts of the long-running production of ""Noises Off"" in the early 1980s. He is probably best known for his role as radio boss Don Satchley in the BBC television detective series ""Shoestring"", and playing Scrooge's nephew Fred in the musical film version ""Scrooge"", as well as for his role in ""The Army Game"", a British television comedy series of the late 1950s and early 1960s. With Bernard Bresslaw, Leslie Fyson and Alfie Bass, he took the theme tune from ""The Army Game"" into the UK Singles Chart in 1958, where"
"Flying Circus"" with Chapman as the interviewee. The ""Freedom of speech"" sketch, starring Cleese as the host/interviewer and Chapman as interviewee Dr. Rhomboid Goatcabin, features a discussion about freedom of speech in Great Britain, in which Cleese's character repeatedly reformulates the subject's main question (""Do you believe there is freedom of speech in this country?"") in so many ways as to start a monologue and not let Chapman's character speak. This increasingly annoys the interviewee to the point where he is forced to murder the host in order to express his opinion on the matter, only to be interrupted again"
"Florence, Shane Beschen, and Herbie Fletcher. The series' theme song is ""Johnny Appleseed,"" performed by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros. A diverse soundtrack includes ""Tic"" by Kava Kava and songs from TV on the Radio, Muse, Buddy Guy, Kasabian, and the Yardbirds. The pilot for the series was shown directly after the highly anticipated series finale of ""The Sopranos"", but it failed to sustain an audience. ""The Sopranos"" received an audience of 11.9 million people according to Nielsen ratings, but ""John from Cincinnati"" held onto only 3.4 million viewers. Subsequent episodes initially lost viewers, but ratings began to see a"
"Selby, was in use to recreate some interiors of Buckingham Palace. Parts of Liverpool's Georgian quarter were used for exterior locations for the filming of the third series. The theme song is by Martin Phipps, sung by the Mediæval Bæbes. Phipps also wrote and conducted incidental music for the early episodes. For later episodes the conducting role was undertaken by Ruth Barrett. An official soundtrack for the first series was released on 12 January 2017. Series 1 premiered on 28 August 2016 on ITV in the UK, and on 15 January 2017 on PBS in the United States as part"
"in the radio legal sitcom ""Chambers"", which later moved onto television. As of 2005, he has starred as Duncan Stonebridge MP in the topical radio sitcom ""The Party Line"". He also appeared as the Captain on the BBC Radio 7 series ""The Spaceship"". He also plays the part of Sir John Woodstock in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom ""The Castle"" and Inspector Lestrade in the first, third and fourth series of ""The Rivals"". Fleet played John Aubrey in the 2008 BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour production by Nick Warburton of Aubrey's ""Brief Lives"". In 1999–2001 he was the voice of"
"to limit ""Dinnerladies"" to 16 episodes over two series. The origins, background and eventual cancellation of the series would later be humorously referenced in 1987's ""The Secret Policeman's Third Ball"" in a sketch in which Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry present Cleese — who they comically misname ""Jim Cleese"" — with a Dick Emery Lifetime Achievement Award (""Silver Dick"") for his contributions to comedy, then launch into a comical series of questions regarding the show, including Cleese's marriage and divorce from Booth, innocently ridiculing Cleese and reducing him to tears, to a point at which he gets on his knees"
"the cast. As well as writing and acting in the revue, Bill Oddie also wrote the music for the revue, and an album of sketches and songs, produced by George Martin, was released by Parlophone in 1963. Graham Chapman took over from Tony Buffery when he left the revue to pursue an academic career. Likewise, Jonathan Lynn took over from Chris Stuart-Clark when Stuart-Clark left to become a schoolteacher. This revue is a notable part of British television history because it includes early appearances by John Cleese and Graham Chapman (later members of Monty Python), as well as Tim Brooke-Taylor"
"booby prize. A sketch in ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"" (called ""Spot the Brain Cell"" in a later audio version) has John Cleese playing an ""evil"" game show host, hitting contestants over the head with a giant hammer, which is clearly a wildly exaggerated version of Michael Miles (the game he is hosting is a parody of the ""Yes-No Interlude""). An early version of this sketch appeared in ""At Last the 1948 Show"". For a time, after Miles' death, the sketch was not shown by the BBC, but it has since been reinstated. Also, in the Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook sketch in"
"1967 in ""The Frost Report"" episode ""The Frost Report on Advertising"". The original version of ""Bookshop"" from the 1 March 1967 episode of ""At Last the 1948 Show"" had John Cleese as the bookseller and Marty Feldman as the customer (the latter played by Graham Chapman on the ""Contractual Obligation"" version). Cleese had already resurrected the sketch on 8 May 1977 for the second Amnesty benefit concert ""An Evening Without Sir Bernard Miles"" (later re-titled as ""The Mermaid Frolics"" for TV broadcast and vinyl release), where Connie Booth played the customer against Cleese's bookseller. When Graham Chapman guested on NBC's"