Terry Jones has died

I was a bit to young to remember Monty Python when it was first broadcast, but I can remember watching Ripping Yarns. Terry wrote Ripping Yarns with Michael Palin but only appeared in the pilot episode, Tomkinsons Schooldays, it's just a shame he didn't appear in more Ripping Yarns. I also remember Terry Jones being in a Young Ones episode called Video Nasty.

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Yes, according to Ade Edmondson he was the only Python who agreed to appear in the Young Ones

Terry Jones was the only Python who agreed to appear in The Young Ones. It was like affirmation from God himself. This was the man who’d directed what was, and still is, the funniest feature film ever made. We loved him for it, and always will. Sadly, he’s eaten his last mint...

— Adrian Edmondson (@AdrianEdmondson) January 22, 2020

It was the 1987* repeats that introduced me to Monty Python, in fact one episode in particular - the one with Dennis Moore and the Hungarian Phrasebook - I remember well as we recorded on a tape that we never recorded over.... I still have it in fact.

I remember there being some excitement ar school when Life of Brian was shown in channel 4 in 1991. That tape had 'keep' written on it and got passed around a bit I seem to remember.


*that period was when I discovered a lot of old comedy, the previous year I'd been introduced to Hancock Half Hour when that was repeated as part of the TV50 season. I recorded and watched them endlessly

Ripping Yarns only ran for two series and was later repeated on BBC Four in 2014, Alexander Armstrong did a special programme for it at the time.