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    From Ben-Tallways@1:379/45 to All on Thu Aug 31 06:42:08 2006
    From: "Ben-Tallways" <igondos@alphalink.com.au>

    All the sites that I have visited so far re:-"Programme titles conference" show
    exactly the same script published from one source. I'm looking for the original
    unedited version that went to air on the ABC in Australia in the early seventies. My memory of that sketch is that it's longer and may involve more than one man in a wheelchair.
    The conversation stretches after a man with an arrow through his head wheels in
    and one of the producers says "I hate cripples...." with another producer rejecting THAT as a potential title, followed by a further comment of ".......I
    hate cripples, especially ones with arrows through their heads....always going round looking for attention"...... with a response of ".....that's even longer".......etc. and "here comes another one.....", and so it goes on till the punchline.

    Regards,
    Louise.

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  • From On-liner@1:379/45 to Ben-Tallways on Thu Aug 31 15:05:26 2006
    From: "On-liner" <GoogleGroups@ctlsoftware.co.uk>

    Ben-Tallways wrote:
    All the sites that I have visited so far re:-"Programme titles
    conference" show exactly the same script published from one source.

    The version shown is the official version as published in the book:- The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: Just the Words (AKA: All the Words).

    I'm looking for the original unedited version that went to air on the
    ABC in Australia in the early seventies.

    If you saw another version which was different from the listed version, then it
    was not the "original", it would have been another version, possibly recorded at a later date from the UK original.

    This would not be particularly unusual as many of the sketches were performed numerous times in various locations and often changed from performance to performance. Quite often there was a certain amount of ad-libbing going on too.

    You may also be recalling an audio version that was done for one of the albums.

    HTH

    Damian

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