Do Not Adjust Your Set - Episode 1
Do Not Adjust Your Set (series)
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24m
Directed by Daphne Shadwell • Drama • With Denise Coffey, Eric Idle, David Jason, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band • 1967 • 25 minutes
Here we meet Michael Palin’s prototype unhelpful shop assistant (a distinct precursor of some Python characters of world renown); witness the camera crew not knowing where best to point the lens as the Bonzos rip-it up all over the stage with The Sound of Music, and Terry Jones’ inspired stock-comedy-Scotsman adlib at the end of the last sketch, when the whiskey-dispensing prop refuses to co-operate: ‘his bagpipe’s nae working’.
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