Out of the Trees (1976)

Directed by

Ian MacNaughton

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

33 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A pilot for a television sketch show from 1976. It features a group of performers in short, absurd comedy scenes that jump between ideas without a clear structure.

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What happens

Out of the Trees is a 1976 British television sketch show pilot starring Graham Chapman, Roger Brierley, Simon Jones and Maria Aitken. It was written by Chapman, Bernard McKenna and Douglas Adams and broadcast on BBC2 in 1976. The show shared some of the stream-of-consciousness style of Monty Python's Flying Circus, of which Chapman was a member. The instrumental theme tune was by Neil Innes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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