Twice a Fortnight is a 1967 British sketch comedy television series with Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Jonathan Lynn and Tony Buffery. Graeme Garden suggested to the director, Tony Palmer, that Michael Palin and Terry Jones...
Sir Michael Edward Palin ( PAY-lin; born 5 May 1943) is an English actor, writer and television presenter. He was a member of the Monty Python comedy group. He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2013 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2019.
Jonathan Adam Lynn (born 3 April 1943) is a British-American film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed the comedy films Clue, Nuns on the Run, My Cousin Vinny and The Whole Nine Yards. He also co-created and co-wrote the political-satirical...
Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 – 21 January 2020) was a Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian, writer and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English, Jones and writing...
David Graeme Garden (born 18 February 1943) is a Scottish comedian, actor, author, artist and television presenter. He is best known as a member of The Goodies and a regular panellist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. He is the only surviving member of...
The Goodies is a British television comedy series shown in the 1970s and early 1980s. The series, which combines surreal sketches and situation comedy, was broadcast by the BBC, initially on BBC2 but soon repeated on BBC1, from 1970 to 1980. One...
The Goodies were a trio of British comedians: Tim Brooke-Taylor (1940–2020), Graeme Garden (born 1943) and Bill Oddie (1941–2026). The trio created, wrote for and performed in their eponymous television comedy show from 1970 until 1982, combining...
Dilys Rhys Watling (née Jones, 5 May 1942 – 10 August 2021) was an English actress, best known for appearing on British television (Coronation Street, The Benny Hill Show and The Two Ronnies).
Monty Python, also known as the Pythons, were a British comedy troupe formed in 1969 consisting of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. The group initially came to prominence in the UK for the sketch...
Ronald Stephen Fletcher (10 July 1910 – 6 February 1996) was an English radio announcer and newsreader for the BBC. He began his career as a crooner on South African radio in the early 1930s before returning to the United Kingdom and got involved in...