Python Night – 30 Years of Monty Python (1999)

Original title

Python Night: 30 Years of Monty Python

Genre

comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This special evening on BBC2 celebrates Monty Python's history with new sketches, three documentaries, and a showing of Life of Brian. It commemorates the 30th anniversary of their first broadcast.

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What happens

Python Night was an evening of Monty Python-related programmes broadcast on BBC2 on 9 October 1999, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus. It featured newly written sketches, three documentaries and a screening of Monty Python's Life of Brian. Only the documentaries were screened in the US, broadcast under the title The Life of Python on A&E Biography on 9 April 2000. Most of the evening's content was released in the US later in 2000 on the first disc of the A&E DVD box set The Life of Python. In the UK many of the items were issued as bonus material on the BBC's 2004 Monty Python Live at Aspen DVD. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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