Pleasure at Her Majesty's (1976)

Country of Origin: UK
Date of Original Broadcast: 29 December 1976
Number of Seasons: n/a
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times: 74 mins
Format: black and white / colour     35mm
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Amnesty International
Producer: Roger Graef
Stage Producers: Peter Luff, David Simpson

DIRECTION
Directors: Roger Graef, Jonathan Miller

PHOTOGRAPHY
Directors of Photography: Steve Shaw, Charles Stewart, Ernest Vincze

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Thomas Schwalm

SOUND
Sound: Iain Bruce, Eoin McCann, Peter Rann
Performance Sound: Ritchie Gold

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Team: Charles Elsesser, Jan Elson, John Mister, Jana Whitten

LOCATIONS
Locations: Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, London, England, UK

CAST
Alan Bennett (various characters)
John Bird (various characters)
Eleanor Bron (various characters)
Tim Brooke-Taylor (various characters)
Graham Chapman (various characters)
John Cleese (various characters)
Carol Cleveland (various characters)
Peter Cook (various characters)
John Fortune (various characters)
Graeme Garden (various characters)
Terry Gilliam (various characters)
Barry Humphries (Dame Edna Everage)
Neil Innes (various characters)
Des Jones (various characters)
Terry Jones (various characters)
Jonathan Lynn (various characters)
Jonathan Miller (various characters)
Dudley Moore (narrator)
Bill Oddie (various characters)
Michael Palin (various characters)

SUMMARY

A recording of a live show given by members of the Beyond the Fringe and Monty Python teams as well as other Oxbridge comedians, in aid of Amnesty International. Many of the sketches are of a fantastic or absurdist nature.

AVAILABILITY

UK
Television Distributors: Richard Price TV Associates Ltd

TIMELINE

1976
December
29: UK - television broadcast

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe (1976)

LINKS

SEQUELS
The Secret Policeman’s Ball (1981)
The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball (1982)
The Secret Policeman’s Private Parts (1984)
The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball (1987)
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball (1989)

KEYWORDS

live shows

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009