Public radio show The Sound of Young America found a really cool 14-minute snippet of Monty Python's Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and the late Graham Chapman being interviewed on Dallas PBS affiliate KERA during the station's 1975 pledge drive. You can view it here (via You Tube).Believe it or not, KERA was the first PBS station with the huevos to air Monty Python's Flying Circus, so the troupe made it a point to drop by Dallas just after the L.A. premiere of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I was particularly interested in this clip because I was living in Dallas in 1975 and my parents were volunteers at KERA. Sometimes I got to hang out in station lobby and watch Sesame Street, Zoom and The Electric Company while they worked. I also remember walking through the studio where this clip was taped.
My parents answered phones during pledge drives on occasion, but I couldn't find them in this clip. They could've been there, though.
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2 comments:
That's a really cool story, Greg. Thanks for posting it, and thanks for posting that link...
Jesse
(the guy in the clip who isn't in 1975)
wow...that's CLASSIC....
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