Starring | Tim Brooke-Taylor John Cleese Graeme Garden David Hatch Jo Kendall Bill Oddie |
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ISIRTA episodes and songs: a list of episodes, sketches, and songs from the comedy radio series I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again .
The songs are listed after the episodes on which they were featured (the listing of songs is unfortunately incomplete). Also included, where known, are the names of the script writers of the episodes, as well as the names of the singers and songwriters.
For information about the cast and characters of the episodes and sketches, please click on the episode titles.
Episode / Sketch title | Script Writers | Song Titles | Singers | Songwriters |
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The Adventures of Little Martin Copperwick | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Brian Cooke, Graeme Garden, Johnnie Mortimer, and Bill Oddie | "Square Bashing Dance" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
"The Willow Tree" | David Hatch and Jo Kendall | Graeme Garden | ||
Agatha Sotheby's Detective Thriller | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Brian Cooke, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Alan Hutchinson, Bernard King, David Lund, Peter Lund, and Johnnie Mortimer | "A Man’s Best Friend Is His Hound" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
Ali Baba and the 38 Thieves | John Esmonde, Graeme Garden, Bob Larbey, David Lund, and Bill Oddie | "Secular Religious Pop Song" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
"Just One of Those Things" | Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden | Cole Porter | ||
Alice in Wonderland | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | — | — | — |
All Hands on Venus | — | "I'm Gonna Live" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
Angus Prune, Footballer | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Eric Idle, Clive James, and Bill Oddie | "Stop It, I Like It" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
"These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" | Bill Oddie (with interjections by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Jo Kendall) | Jack Strachey and Eric Maschwitz | ||
Angus Prune Story | — | — | — | — |
Ballet Commentary | Humphrey Barclay, Brian Cooke, Chick Jacob, Les Liddy, David Lund, David McKellar, Johnnie Mortimer, Bill Oddie, Peter Vincent, and Hugh Woodhouse | "Ain't Got Rhythm" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
"The House of the Rising Sun" | Graeme Garden, with David Hatch and Bill Oddie (as The Tillingbourne Folk & Madrigal Society) | Traditional, adapted by Graeme Garden | ||
Battle Of The Whispering Mouse | Brian Cooke, Graeme Garden, David McKellar, Johnnie Mortimer, Bill Oddie, and Peter Vincent | "If Folk Singers Went to College" (with interpolations of "Eton Boating Song", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", and "Ball of Kerrymuir") | Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, and Jo Kendall | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie |
Beau Legs | Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie | "Persecuting Pigeons in Trafalgar Square" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
"Il Budgerigar from Covent Garden" | John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, and Bill Oddie | Graeme Garden | ||
Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Musical Football Results" | David Hatch | Bill Oddie |
"Nigel Carter-Smith’s Society Band" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | ||
Britain for the British (Ireland) | John Esmonde, Graeme Garden, Bernard King, Bob Larbey, David Lund, and Bill Oddie | "Down at the Old Boutique" | Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor | Bill Oddie |
Bunny and Claude | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Magical Mystery Bore: I Am the Milkman" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
"The Ballad of Bunny and Claude" | Graeme Garden and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
Camelot (aka "Knights of the Round Table") | Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Eric Idle, and Bill Oddie | "Waiter, there's a Walrus in My Soup" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
Canterbury Tales | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Sunday Evening" | Bill Oddie, with Tim Brooke-Taylor (as Lady Constance de Coverlet), John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, and Jo Kendall | Bill Oddie |
The Case of the Workington Shillelagh | John Esmonde, Graeme Garden, Bob Larbey, David McKellar, Bill Oddie, and Peter Vincent | "Knitting Song" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
"BLIMPHT" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
Champion, the Wonder Mouse | — | "Spring, Spring, Spring" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
A Christmas Carrot | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "The Turkey Strangler's Song" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
"Hare Krishna (Happy Christmas)" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (as The Delhi Telegraph) | Bill Oddie | ||
Circus Life | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Ironing My Goldfish" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
Cleopatra and Caesar | Lizzie Evans, Eric Idle, and Bill Oddie with Graham Chapman and Derek Farmer | "Drinking Song" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
The Colditz Story | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie with Tim Brooke-Taylor | "Cloughie (Bring Back Brian Clough)" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 1 | John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, and Clive James | "The Ferret Song" | John Cleese and the Cast (as The Lovin' Pruneful) | John Cleese and Graham Chapman |
The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 2 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "My Mom Has Lost My Dad" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 3 | Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie with Peter Hutchins and Leslie Sellers | "Where Is My Smile" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 4 | Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Eric Idle, and Bill Oddie with Andy Smith and Don Carroll | "Favourite Melody (Beethoven's Fifth)" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie and Ludwig van Beethoven |
The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 5 | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, Graeme Garden, Eric Idle, and Bill Oddie | "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) [Recorded 'Live in Cabaret' in the Cafe 'Ole']" | Bill Oddie (with introduction by Tim Brooke-Taylor and interruptions by Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David Hatch, and Jo Kendall) | Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer |
The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 6 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "With a Girl Like You: Wild Things" | Bill Oddie (with comment by David Hatch) | Bill Oddie |
The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 7 | Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Eric Idle, Ian Lang, and Bill Oddie | "Working on the Railroad" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 8 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "The Ferrets of Old England" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 9 | Graham Chapman, Graeme Garden, Eric Idle, and Bill Oddie | "Baby Go To Sleep" (Lullaby) | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 10 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "I've Got the Hiccups" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 11 | Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Blues Song" | Tim Brooke-Taylor and David Hatch | Bill Oddie |
"Man's Best Friend - a Duck" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | ||
The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 12 | Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Eric Idle, and Bill Oddie | "Yodelling Goatherd" | Bill Oddie, with Tim Brooke-Taylor (as Lady Constance de Coverlet) and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
The Curse of the Flying Wombat - Part 13 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "I Love a Show" (Footlights) | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
Dentisti (Animal dentist in Africa) | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie | "Taking My Oyster For Walkies" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (with introduction by David Hatch) | Bill Oddie |
Dick Whittington and His Wonderful Hat | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Spring, Spring, Spring" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
"We're Going to a Football Match" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
"The Music of the Dawn" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
"I Love You" | Jo Kendall and John Cleese | Bill Oddie | ||
"The Flippity Floppity Bunny Song" | Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | ||
"We're All Going to Die" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
"Hope You've Had a Very Merry Christmas" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | ||
Doctor Clubfoot of the Antarctic | — | — | — | — |
Doctor Why and the Thing | Brian Cooke, John Esmonde, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Eric Idle, Bob Larbey, Johnnie Mortimer, and Bill Oddie | "Let There Be Love" | Bill Oddie | Lionel Rand and Ian Grant |
"Nuclear Submarine" | Bill Oddie, David Hatch, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor | Bill Oddie | ||
Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jibe | John Esmonde, Graeme Garden, Alan Hutchinson, Bob Larbey, and Bill Oddie | "The Eve of Election" | Bill Oddie and Jo Kendall | Bill Oddie |
"The Rhubarb Tart Song" | John Cleese and the Cast | John Cleese and John Philip Sousa | ||
Dr. Zhivago and His Wonderful Lamp | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Les Girls" | Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, and David Hatch | Bill Oddie |
England Our England (documentary / travelogue) | John Esmonde, Clive James, Bob Larbey, David McKellar, Bill Oddie, and Peter Vincent | "Don't Let It Rain on My Baby" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
"Waiting for the London Bus" | Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and David Hatch | Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie | ||
First Pilot | — | — | — | — |
The Ghost of McMuckle Manse | Simon Brett, Derek Farmer, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie | "I Wish You Love" | Bill Oddie (with interjections by Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden) | Léo Chauliac, Charles Trenet, and Albert Askew Beach |
The Ghost of Objectionable Manor | Tim Brooke-Taylor, David Hatch, Derek Farmer, and Bill Oddie | "I Can Hear the Wombats Dancing" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (with slideshow by John Cleese) | Bill Oddie |
"In the Moonlight (Portuguese Dictionary Song)" | Bill Oddie (with English translations by John Cleese) | Bill Oddie | ||
Greek Tragedy | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Football Chants" | Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, and Jo Kendall (as The Tillingbourne Folk & Madrigal Society) | Bill Oddie |
Grimm Fairy Tale (Princess Goldilocks and the Perverted Goblins) | Graeme Garden, Eric Idle, Bill Oddie, and Andy Smith | "Aardvark, Ferret, Vulture" | John Cleese and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
"I Must Go to Moscow (Russian Eurovision Song)" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
"Something About Restaurant Food (Garcon, Garcon)" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
The Harder They Fall, the More They Hurt Themselves | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Bradford Girls" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (alias: The Seaside Fellas) | Bill Oddie |
Henry VIII | Graeme Garden, Jo Kendall, and Bill Oddie | "We Are The Lads Of The M.C.C." | Bill Oddie, with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and David Hatch | Bill Oddie |
History of Radio | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie | "Now Is The Time To Sing And Laugh As You Cry" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
"Come into the Garden, Maud" | Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden (as Timothy's Termites) | Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Michael William Balfe | ||
History of the British Army | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie | "I Like Singing in the Bathtub" | Bill Oddie (with Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, and David Hatch as soldiers in a submarine) | Bill Oddie |
History of the Cinema | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Sisters" | Tim Brooke-Taylor (as The De Coverlet Sisters) | Irving Berlin |
"Let's Laugh" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
"The Show Must Go On And On And On" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (with Tim Brooke-Taylor as Lady Constance de Coverlet and Graeme Garden as Arnold Totteridge) | Bill Oddie | ||
Incompetence | Simon Brett, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie | "You'll Feel Much Worse" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
"Trio Los Banditos" | Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, and Tim Brooke-Taylor | Bill Oddie | ||
The Inimitable Grimbling | Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Eric Idle, and Bill Oddie | "Why Can't the Animals" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
Interlude | — | — | — | — |
Inventors | — | — | — | — |
Jack and the Beanstalk | — | — | — | — |
Jack the Ripper | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie with Peter Kemp and Chris Miller | "Cactus In My Y-Fronts" | Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden | Bill Oddie |
Jorrocks: Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "An Excerpt from the Reception for the Belgian Ambassador at 10 Downing Street" (a medley of "There's No Business Like Show Business", "Knees Up, Mother Brown", "That's Entertainment!", and "Make 'Em Laugh") | Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, and the Cast | Irving Berlin / Traditional / Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz / Bill Oddie / Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown |
"Hello! Hello! Who's Your Lady Friend?" | Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, John Cleese, and Tim Brooke-Taylor | Harry Fragson, Worton David, Bert Lee | ||
"Thud-Bang-Bang-Wobble-Bing-Bang-Bong (Eurovision Song)" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
"D'ye Ken John Peel?" | Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden | John Woodcock Graves and Bill Oddie | ||
Julius Caesar | Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Alan Hutchinson, Eric Idle, and Bill Oddie | "The Ship Put to Sea in the Month of May" | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, and Bill Oddie (as The Tillingbourne Folk & Madrigal Society) | Eric Idle and John Cameron |
"Police Constable Herbert Platt, Somerset Constabulary – Greatest Lawman of Them All" | Bill Oddie (with John Cleese as P.C. Herbert Platt) | Bill Oddie | ||
Lady Godiva | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Chartered Accountant" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (with John Cleese as the chartered accountant) | Bill Oddie |
Laurence of Arabia - On Ice | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "The Terrapin Song" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
Liverpool the City | Eric Idle and Bill Oddie | "Ferry Across the Mersey (Liverpudlian Love Song)" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
"Liverpool" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
Long Range Weather Forecast | — | — | — | — |
The Lone Stranger | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Eric Idle, and Bill Oddie | "The Ballad of Sir William Grimbling" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
"Cricket Calypso" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
Lost Eskimos of the South Pole | David Hatch and Bill Oddie | "If I Were the Only Girl in the World" | Jo Kendall | Nat D. Ayer and Clifford Grey |
"Professional Work Song" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
Macbeth | Derek Farmer, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie | "What a Wonderful World" | Bill Oddie, with: Concerned friends – Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden Doctor – John Cleese Nurse – Jo Kendall | Bob Thiele and George David Weiss |
"Down on Melody Farm" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (with Tim Brooke-Taylor as Constance the Chicken, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, and David Hatch as Marty Mutton and the Baa-Liners, and John Cleese as a mouse) | Bill Oddie | ||
Marriage Bureau | — | — | — | — |
Mike Spanner, Private Eye | Brian Cooke, Graeme Garden, Chick Jacob, Les Liddy, Johnnie Mortimer, and Bill Oddie | "After the Fall" | Bill Oddie and Jean Hart | Bill Oddie |
"The Wind" | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, and Bill Oddie (as The Tillingbourne Folk & Madrigal Society) | Bill Oddie | ||
"The Freedom Day" | Bill Oddie and Jean Hart | Bill Oddie | ||
Moll Flounders | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Philip Cox, and Graeme Garden | "Drown All Your Troubles Away (The Masochism Song)" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
"Train Robbers in the Sky" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | John Cameron and/or Bill Oddie | ||
Murder On The 3:17 To Cleethorpes | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie | "Stuff That Gibbon" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
My Man, Grimbling | — | — | — | — |
Nelson | John Esmonde, Graeme Garden, Eric Idle, Bob Larbey, David Lund, Peter Lund, and Bill Oddie | "Musical Journey" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
"I'm in Love with a Lion" | Jo Kendall | Bill Oddie | ||
Oklahoma | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Nappy Love" | Bill Oddie, with Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor | Bill Oddie |
Operation Chocolate | John Cleese and Bill Oddie | "Julie Andrews" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (with exclamations by Graeme Garden) | Bill Oddie |
Othello | — | "Joke Song" | Bill Oddie (with the other joke by John Cleese) | Bill Oddie |
People Are Out | — | — | — | — |
Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 1 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Knees" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 2 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "We're All Going on a Hovercraft Ride" | Bill Oddie, with Tim Brooke-Taylor | Bill Oddie |
Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 3 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Hold Me In Your Arms (Just to Keep Me Warm)" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 4 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie with John Cleese and John Junkin | "The Ballad of Oliver Cromwell" | John Cleese and the Cast | John Cleese and Frédéric Chopin |
Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 5 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie with Simon Brett | "She's Gone" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (with spoken part by Jo Kendall) | Bill Oddie |
Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 6 | Andrew Fisher, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie | "The Family's On the Rocks" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
"Boobirella" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | ||
"In Perfect Harmony" | Tim Brooke-Taylor (as Boobirella) and Bill Oddie (as Pikelet) | Bill Oddie | ||
Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 7 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Baby Samba" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 8 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Marcellus Lane" | Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, Jo Kendall, and John Cleese | Bill Oddie |
Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 9 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Listening to the Flowers Grow" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 10 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Carry Me Back to Europe" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 11 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Give Me a Song That Has Nothing To Do with a Melody" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 12 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "The Henry V Song" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
Professor Prune And The Electric Time Trousers - Part 13 | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Denmark Street" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
"Strangers in Paradise" | David Hatch | Alexander Borodin, Robert Wright, George Forrest | ||
"The Grimbling Song" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie | ||
"Auld Lang Syne" | Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Jo Kendall, and Bill Oddie | Robert Burns | ||
RAF Briefing | John Cleese, Brian Cooke, Graeme Garden, Tony Hendra, Johnnie Mortimer, and Hugh Woodhouse | "I Love You-ooo (Yippee)" | Jean Hart and Bill Oddie, with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden as coyotes | Bill Oddie |
"She's Gone" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (with spoken word by Jean Hart) | Bill Oddie | ||
The Ramond Nostril Story | — | — | — | — |
Report on Schools | — | — | — | — |
The Return of the Son of the Bride of Frankenstein | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "The Brew That We All Love the Most" | Bill Oddie, John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and David Hatch (with objections from Jo Kendall) | Graeme Garden |
Review of the Pops | — | — | — | — |
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire | — | — | — | — |
The Roaring Twenties | John Cleese and Bill Oddie | "We're Going to a Football Match" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
Robin Hood | Graeme Garden, Peter Hutchins, David McKellar, Eric Idle, and Peter Vincent | "My Baby's Become a Folk Singer" | Bill Oddie | Bill Oddie |
"The Ballad of Robin Hood" | David Hatch | Bill Oddie | ||
Robinson Prunestone | Simon Brett, Rowling Baker, Graeme Garden, and Jo Kendall | "Bounce" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
Search for the Nile | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "The Masochist's Rag" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
"In the Old Bazaar in Cairo" | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | Charlie Chester, K. Morris, Clinton Ford, Bill Oddie | ||
Song of the South | — | — | — | — |
Star Trek | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Sick Man Blues" | Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor | Bill Oddie |
The Supernatural | John Esmonde, David Hatch, Eric Idle, Bob Larbey, David McKellar, Bill Oddie, and Peter Vincent | "Rhubarb Tart Blues" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
"Meet Me in the Churchyard, Nellie" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
Take Your Pixie | — | — | — | — |
Tales of the Old West | — | — | — | — |
The Taming of the Shrew | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Full Frontal Radio" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (announcement by Graeme Garden) | Bill Oddie |
The Telephone | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie | "Silence" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (as The Confirmed Bachelors) | Graeme Garden |
Ten Thousand BC (The Dawn of Civilization) | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Alan Hutchinson, Bill Oddie, and David Tate | "Roger's Keep Fit Class" | Bill Oddie, with Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, and David Hatch | Bill Oddie |
Tim Brown's Schooldays | Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Eric Idle, and Bill Oddie | "My Identikit Gal" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
"Take It Off!" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie | ||
20,000 Leaks Under the Sea | Graeme Garden, Peter Kemp, and Bill Oddie | "TV Themes Medley" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (as The Tillingbourne Folk & Madrigal Society) | Bill Oddie |
The 25th Anniversary Special | Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie with Jo Kendall and Lizzie Lord | "Spring, Spring, Spring" (with an interpolation of "Listening to the Flowers Grow") | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
"The Ferret Song" | John Cleese and the Cast | John Cleese and Graham Chapman | ||
Ulysses | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Lizzie Evans, Derek Farmer, and Bill Oddie | "Telephone Directory Song" | Bill Oddie, with Jo Kendall as the switchboard operator | Bill Oddie |
"I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside" | Bill Oddie | John H. Glover-Kind | ||
The Unexplained | — | — | — | — |
Universal Challenge | — | — | — | — |
The Vikings | Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, and Douglas Young | "The Good Old Days" | Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden | Bill Oddie |
Watergate | — | — | — | — |
William Tell | — | "Repeat After Me" | Bill Oddie and the Cast | Bill Oddie |
William the Conqueror | — | — | — | — |
World of Sport | Tim Brooke-Taylor, David Hatch, Alan Hutchinson, Eric Idle, and Bill Oddie | "Don't Laugh at Me 'Cause I'm a Fool" | Bill Oddie (with laughter from Tim-Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, and Jo Kendall) | Norman Wisdom and June Tremayne |
"Living on My Old-Age Pension" | Bill Oddie and the Cast (as The How) | Bill Oddie | ||
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Monty Python's Flying Circus is a British surreal sketch comedy series created by and starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, who became known collectively as "Monty Python", or the "Pythons". The first episode was recorded at the BBC on 7 September 1969 and premiered on 5 October on BBC1, with 45 episodes airing over four series from 1969 to 1974, plus two episodes for German TV. A feature film adaptation of several sketches, And Now for Something Completely Different, was released in 1971.
"What Up with That?" is a recurring sketch on the NBC television series Saturday Night Live. The sketch first aired in 2009. It stars Kenan Thompson as Diondre Cole, host of a talk show on BET.
Bubble Guppies is an animated children's fantasy television series created by Jonny Belt and Robert Scull and developed by Belt, Scull, and Janice Burgess for Nickelodeon. The series is a combination of the sketch comedy, edutainment, and musical genres, and revolves around the underwater adventures of a group of merperson preschoolers named Molly, Gil, Goby, Deema, Oona, Nonny, and Zooli. The program premiered on Nickelodeon on January 24, 2011, and ran for six seasons until June 30, 2023. The series is produced using 3D software.
The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced between September 18, 1976, and May 21, 1977, the second season of SNL.
The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced between September 28, 1996, and May 17, 1997, the twenty-second season of SNL.
The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced between October 7, 2000, and May 19, 2001, the twenty-sixth season of SNL.
The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced between October 2, 2004, and May 21, 2005, the thirtieth season of SNL.