n n***ALMOST CERTAINLY NOMINATED FOR SOMETHING SOMEWHERE*** n nThe complete scripts from the four Monty Python series, first shown on BBC television between 1969 and 1974, have been collected in two companion volumes. n nCharacters names, often not spoken, are given as in the original scripts, along with the names of the actual performer added on their first appearance in each sketch. n nThis first volume contains twenty-three classic episodes, featuring some of the most entertaining writing to have gone into television anywhere. The minister of silly walks, the dead parrot, banter in a cheese shop - here is every silly, satirical skit, every snide insult, every saucy aside.n