Eric Idle – MRQE

“Suddenly Susan”

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Suddenly Susan is an American television sitcom. Shields plays Susan Keane, a glamorous San Francisco magazine writer who begins to adjust to being single, and who learns to be independent-minded, after being taken care of all her life.

The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of the rise and fall of the Pre-Fab Four.

Life of Python (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This BBC documentary tells the history of the Python group, allowing a few glimpses at the works of its predecessors (At Last the 1948 Show, Do Not Adjust Your Sets etc.) and various interviews with the group’s members and other associated artists.

“Do Not Adjust Your Set”

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Innovative and influential, and originally envisaged as childrens show, Do Not Adjust Your Set was a madcap early-evening comedy sketch show that quickly acquired a cult following with Swinging Sixties adults, who rushed home from work to see it. Written by and starring Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, with great performances and additional material by David Jason and Denise Coffey, it also provided an early showcase for the hilarious animations of Terry Gilliam, and the brilliantly bizarre musical antics of the legendary Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.

The Nutcracker and the Mouseking (V)

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The fairytale story revolves around a young prince who – along with his entourage – is turned into a nutcracker through his own ungrateful and selfish behaviour, and awaits a kindly soul who’ll release him from the spell. The mouse-king seeks the magic that made this happen so that he can become all-powerful. The prince (now a nutcracker) finds hope in the form of a girl who risks everything to help him become real again, while the mouse-king and his armies do everything they can to steal the magic for themselves.

The Rutles 2: Can’t Buy Me Lunch (TV)

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Twenty-three years after the release of the original Beatles mockumentary, ‘The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash’, famous artists, actors and musicians speak out on how The Rutles influenced them.

Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie’s Island Adventure (TV)

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Though Eddie’s fired right at Christmastime, his boss sends him and his family on a South Pacific vacation, hoping Eddie won’t sue him after being bitten by a lab monkey. When the Tuttle family winds up trapped on a tropical island, however, Eddie manages to provide for everyone and prove himself a real man.

Monty Python: The Meaning of Live

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

With unprecedented access, this program reveals the humour, chaos and passion that went into bringing the Flying Circus to the stage cumulating in the legendary One Down, Five To Go.

“At Last the 1948 Show”

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A groundbreaking, splendidly silly, surreal sketch comedy series written by and starring The Goodies’ Tim Brooke-Taylor, Monty Python’s Graham Chapman and John Cleese, and comedy legend Marty Feldman.

Not the Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Not The Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy) is a comic oratorio based on Monty Python’s Life of Brian, which retells the tragic tale of Mandy, impregnated by a Roman soldier, giving birth to Brian, a reluctant revolutionary of the People’s Front of Judea who falls in love with Judith, gets mistaken for a Messiah and is arrested by the Romans and sentenced to be crucified. It ranges in reference from Handel, through a naughty Mozart duet, to the Festival of Nine Carols, Bob Dylan, and the classic finale “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”.