Michael Palin: Plumber • Louis XIV • Voice Over #2 • ...
The Golden Age of Ballooning
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Michael Palin credited as playing...
Plumber • Louis XIV • Voice Over #2 • Presenter • Mr. Von Bulow • Helmut • Voice Over #2 • Various
- Announcer: Next week on "The Golden Age of Ballooning", we examine the work of Girlsher and Coxwell, the English balloonists who ascended to a height of seven miles in 1862 without washing. There is also a book called "The Golden Age of Ballooning" published by the BBC to coincide with the series. It's in an attractive hand-tooled binding, is priced £5 and failure to buy it will make you liable to a £50 fine or three months' imprisonment. There's also a record of someone reading the book of "The Golden Age of Ballooning", a crochet-work bedspread with the words "The Golden Age of Ballooning" on it, available from the BBC, price £18 or five months' imprisonment, and there are matching toilet-seat covers and courtesy mats with illustrations of many of the balloons mentioned. Also available is a life-size model frog which croaks the words "The Golden Age of Ballooning" and an attractive bakelite case for storing motorway construction plans in, made in the shape of a balloon. And now, another chance to see a repeat of this morning's re-run of last night's second showing of episode two of the award-winning series "The Golden Age of Ballooning".
- Louis XIV: Look here smart ass, when you're king of France you've got better things to do than go around all day remembering your bloody number!