What is the Python connection to “Hitchhikers Guide” author Douglas Adams?
Adams was a good friend of Graham’s, appeared for a total of two seconds as an extra in two fourth series bits, and co-wrote, among other things, the doctor’s office sketch with Graham in the final episode, which also appears in brief in the “Parrot Sketch Not Included” special. Terry Jones wrote the novel of “Douglas Adams’ Starship Titanic” and voiced a deranged parrot in the game … They also say that Jones is really a Vogon in disguise, but I doubt there’s any truth to that. Q: What is the Python connection to the Beatles? A: Eric Idle and Neil Innes created a TV special parodying the Beatles that was financed by Lorne Michaels. Loosely based on the never-released film “The Long and Winding Road” (later reworked into the Beatles Anthology miniseries), it was called “All You Need is Cash” and featured the Rutles, and is easily one of the better Post-Python productions and Neil Innes’ shining moment. This was only part of a long and odd Python/Beatle connection. Consider: GEORGE HAR
