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Seriously Silly - The Life of Terry Jones
The Complete and Utter Incomplete Works of Terry Jones
If you are visiting this site no doubt you have just finished Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones or perhaps you have just stumbled across this, in which case you can order a copy here.
The purpose behind this TERRYOGRAPHY is to celebrate all of Terry’s work in one place and include the areas of his career which did not make the cut (books sadly don’t have elastic pages, but websites do!)
1961
The Chairs: Writer & Director
1962
The Good Person of Setzuan: Actor
Isis: Writer, Editor & Designer
A Month in the Country: Actor
1963
****: Writer & Performer
Isis: Writer, Editor & Designer
Loitering With Intent: Writer & Performer
Professor Taranne: Actor
1964
The Carrier-Baggers: Writer & Performer
Festival Magazine: Writer & Performer
Hang Down Your Head and Die: Writer & Actor
Isis: Writer, Editor & Designer
The Oxford Revue: Writer & Performer
Seven-A-Side: Writer
1965
Anyone for England?: Writer
Billy Cotton’s Music Hall: Writer
Changing Gear: Writer
The Kathy Kirby Show: Writer
The Ken Dodd Show: Writer
The Love Show: Writer
Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life: Writer
The Oxford Line: Writer
1966
The Frost Report: Writer & Actor
The Frost Report on Britain: Writer
The Illustrated Weekly Hudd: Writer
The Kathy Kirby Show: Writer
The Lance Percival Show: Writer
The Late Show: Writer & Performer
1967
Aladdin: Writer
The Frost Report: Writer
The Frost Report On Everything: Writer of ‘Report on the Village Fete’
Frost Over Christmas: Writer
Frost Over England: Writer
The Illustrated Weekly Hudd: Writer
Late Night Line-Up: Writer & Performer
The Late Show: Writer & Performer
Line-Up Review: Writer & Performer
Plymouth Arts Festival: Writer & Performer
A Series of Bird’s: Writer & Script Editor
Twice a Fortnight: Writer & Actor
1968
The Best of Twice a Fortnight: Writer & Actor
Broaden Your Mind: Writer & Actor
Diversions!: Lyricist
Do Not Adjust Your Set: Writer & Performer
Do Not Adjust Your Stocking: Writer & Performer
Four Degrees Over/Three to One On: Writer
Horne A’Plenty: Writer
It’s Marty: Writer & Actor
24 Hours: Writer & Actor
1969
According to Dora: Writer
Christmas Night with the Stars: Writer
The Complete and Utter History of Britain: Writer & Actor
Do Not Adjust Your Set: Writer & Performer
Horne A’Plenty: Writer
It’s Marty: Writer & Actor
Monty Python’s Flying Circus: Writer & Performer
The Price of Fame or Fame at Any Price: Writer
Three to One On: Writer
1970
Frost on Sunday: Writer
Marty Amok: Writer
Monty Python’s Flying Circus: Writer, Composer & Performer
The Tonight Show: Guest
1971
Adverts for Gibbs Shampoo, Guinness & Harmony Hairspray: Writer, Actor & Director
And Now for Something Completely Different: Writer & Performer
Another Monty Python Record: Writer, Performer & Designer
Aquarius ‘Monty Python Newscaster of the Year Awards’: Presenter
Beauty and the Beast: Writer
Euroshow ’71: Guest
Monty Python’s Big Red Book: Writer
Monty Python’s Flying Circus Montreux Special: Writer & Performer
The Two Ronnies: Writer
Who’s There?: Writer & Actor
1972
Christmas Night with the Stars: Writer
Funny Game, Football: Performer
The Least Bizarre of Monty Python’s Comedy Album: Writer & Performer
Monty Python’s Flying Circus: Writer & Performer
Monty Python’s Previous Record: Writer & Performer
The Two Ronnies: Writer
1973
BBC Look North ‘Yorkshire’: Interviewee
Black and Blue: ‘Secrets’: Writer
The Brand New Monty Python Bok: Writer
Down Upper Street: Writer
Is This a Record?: Writer, Performer & Presenter
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: Guest
Monty Python Live at Drury Lane: Writer & Performer
Monty Python’s First Farewell Tour: Writer, Composer & Performer
Monty Python’s Fliegender Zirkus: Writer, Composer & Performer
Monty Python’s Flying Circus: Writer & Performer
The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief: Writer & Performer
The Two Ronnies: Writer
1974
Bert Fegg’s Nasty Book for Boys and Girls: Writer
The Brand New Monty Python Papperbok: Writer
Film Night ‘And Now for Something Completely Different…’: Interviewee
In Vision: Guest
The Midnight Special: Guest
Monty Python: Writer & Performer
1975
The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Writer & Actor
‘The Complete and Utter Palin and Jones in a Two-Man Python Team’: Interviewee
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Writer, Actor & Director
The Story of Heidi: Writer
1976
Dr. Fegg’s Nasty Book of Knowledge: Writer
Festival 40 Monty Python: Writer & Performer
Monty Python Live at City Center: Writer & Performer
Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe/A Poke in the Eye (with a Sharp Stick)/Omnibus ‘Pleasure at Her Majesty’s’: Writer & Performer
Ripping Yarns: ‘Tomkinson’s Schooldays’: Writer & Actor
Their Finest Hours: Writer
The Two Ronnies: Writer
The Worst Best… Monty Python: Writer & Performer
1977
The Monty Python Instant Record Collection: Writer & Performer
Jabberwocky: Actor
The Mermaid Frolics/An Evening Without Sir Bernard Miles: Writer, Performer & Director
Midnight Special: Guest
Monti Python Ik den Holie Gralien (Bok): Writer & Editor
90 Minutes Live: Guest
The Punch Review: Writer
Ripping Yarns: Writer
Tomorrow’s World ‘Cold Moulding’: Guest
The Two Ronnies Volume 2: Writer of ‘Cricket Commentators’
1978
Ripping Yarns script book: Writer
Saturday Night Live: Performer
25 Years of Recorded Comedy: Writer
The Two Ronnies Sketchbook: Writer
1979
A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine: Actor
Henry Cleans Up: Actor
Monty Python’s Life of Brian: Writer, Actor & Director
Monty Python’s Life of Brian/MONTYPYTHONSCRAPBOOK: Writer
More Ripping Yarns script book: Writer
The Pythons: Interviewee
Ripping Yarns: Writer
The Secret Policeman’s Ball: Writer & Performer
1980
Chaucer’s Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary: Writer
Dark Star Magazine ‘A Pepperpot Speaks’: Interviewee
The Dr. Demento Show: Guest
Friday Night, Saturday Morning: Guest
From Fringe to Flying Circus: Interviewee
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl: Writer & Performer
Monty Python’s Contractual Obligation Album: Writer, Composer & Performer
Peter Cook & Co.: Actor
Les rendez-vous du dimanche: Guest
1981
The Box: Writer & Actor
Cambridge Review Magazine ‘The Myth of Progress’: Writer
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare and Monty Python Volume One: Writer
Did You See..?: Guest
Fairy Tales: Writer
Friday Night, Saturday Morning: Presenter
The Monty Python Instant Record Collection Volume II: Writer & Performer
Paperbacks: Presenter
The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball: Writer
‘We Are Most Amused’ The Very Best of British Comedy: Writer & Performer ‘Message from the Swedish Prime Minister’ & ‘Yangtse Kiang’
1982
Good Morning New York: Guest
Late Night with David Letterman: Guest
The Laughing Stock of the BBC: Performer on ‘Nudge Nudge’
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl: Writer, Composer & Performer
The Rupert Bear Story: Writer & Presenter
The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball: Writer & Performer
1983
Comic Roots ‘Michael Palin: Thanks to
The Crimson Permanent Assurance: Actor
De película: Guest
Dr. Fegg’s Encyclopaedia of All World Knowledge: Writer
Good Morning Britain: Presenter
Late Night America: Guest
Live at Five: Guest
The Merv Griffin Show: Guest
The Meaning of Monty Python’s Meaning of Life: Interviewee
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life: Writer, Composer, Actor & Director
Pebble Mill at One: Guest
Prevue Magazine ‘The Confessions of Terry Jones’: Interviewee
The Saga of Erik the Viking: Writer
The Secret Policeman’s Private Parts: Writer, Composer & Performer
Take 30: Guest
1984
Dr. Fegg’s Encyclopaedia of all World Knowledge: Writer
The Eliza Stories: Foreword
Good Morning Britain: Guest
The Secret Policeman’s Private Parts: Writer & Performer
Private Lives: Guest
The Young Ones ‘Nasty’: Actor
1985
Bombardemagnus: Writer
The Children’s Book: Writer of ‘Frank Carew MacGraw’
Nicobobinus: Writer
Wogan: Guest (twice!)
Woman’s Hour: Host
1986
The BAFTA Craft Awards: Interviewee
Comedians Do It On Stage: Performer
The Film Club Preston Sturges: Presenter
Goblins of the Labyrinth: Writer
Inside the Labyrinth: Interviewee
The Kingfisher Book of Comic Verse: Writer of ‘Frank Carew MacGraw’
Labyrinth: Writer
Panama Comedy Greats: Performer
That’s Television Entertainment The First 50 Years of BBC Television: Interviewee
Twenty Years of The Two Ronnies: Writer
Saturday Review: Guest
The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book: Writer of ‘A Christmas Fairy Story’
1987
Nightlife: Interviewee
Once Upon a Time When I Was Young: Contributor
Personal Services: Director
The Sunday Times ‘Whipping Up a Poster Storm’: Interviewee
Twenty-One Years of The Two Ronnies: Writer
Wogan: Guest
1988
Aspel & Company: Guest reading ‘Frank Carew MacGraw’
Attacks of Opinions: Writer
Consuming Passions: Based on the play ‘Secrets’
The Curse of the Vampire’s Socks and Other Doggerel: Poet
East of the Moon: Adapted from Fairy Tales
40 Minutes ‘Scarfe’s Follies’: Interviewee
The Illustrated London News ‘A Place in the Pillory’: Interviewee
Jackanory ‘Nicobobinus’: Writer & Presenter
The Last Resort: Guest
The Monty Python Gift Boks: Writer
Monty Python’s The Final Rip Off: Writer & Performer
Open Air: Guest
Starlog magazine ‘Confessions of the World’s Greatest Liar’: Interviewee
Twenty-Two Years of The Two Ronnies: Writer
1989
Around the World in 80 Days ‘The Challenge’: See-off-er
De película: Guest
The English Programme ‘Models of Writing – Argument and Persuasion’: Writer & Presenter
Erik the Viking: Writer, Actor & Director
Film ’89: Interviewee
The First 200 Years of Monty Python: Interviewee
Lunettes noires pour nuits blanches: Guest
Monty Python Sings: Writer & Performer
Monty Python’s Flying Circus: Just the Words: Writer
Parrot Sketch Not Included: Writer & Performer
Showbiz Today: Guest
Sunday, Sunday: Guest
13 East ‘The Switch’: Writer
Today on NBC: Interviewee
The Utterly, Utterly Amusing and Pretty Damn Definitive Comic Relief Revue Book: Writer of ‘Hendon’ & ‘Horace’
Woman’s Hour ‘Shivering Peaks’: Actor
1990
The Complete Ripping Yarns script book: Writer
8:15 from Manchester: Guest
Hay Festival ‘Comedy Writing’: Debater
Omnibus ‘Life of Python’: Interviewee
Wogan: Guest
1991
The Complete A Poke in the Eye (with a Sharp Stick): Writer & Performer on ‘Court Room Sketch’, ‘So That’s the Way You Like it’, ‘Lumberjack Song’ & ‘Crunchy Frog’
L.A. Story: Actor as the voice of Sara’s mother.
So This is Progress: Writer & Presenter
The Very Best of Rowan Atkinson: Performer
Wogan: Guest
1992
Fantastic Stories: Writer
Going Live!: Guest
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: ‘Barcelona, 1917’: Actor & Director
1993
The Beast with a Thousand Teeth: Writer
A Fish of the World: Writer
Jackanory ‘The Slow Ogre’, ‘The Star of the Farmyard’ & ‘Ship of Fools’: Writer & Presenter
The Late Late Show: Guest
1994
Arts Programme ‘Python at 25’: Interviewee
Best of the Balls: Writer & Performer
Clive Anderson Talks Back: Guest
Dead Parrot Society: Writer & Performer
The Fly-by-Night: Writer
Instant Monty Python CD Collection: Writer & Performer
Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book: Writer
Late Night with Conan O’Brien: Guest
Life Before and After Monty Python: The Solo Flights of the Flying Circus: Interviewee
The Sea Tiger: Writer
The Ultimate Monty Python Rip Off: Writer & Performer
1995
Crusades: Writer & Presenter
The Fairly Incomplete and Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Songbook: Writer & Performer
Radio Times ‘Richard the Lionheart was a Thug!’: Interviewee
1996
Blazing Dragons: Creator & Executive Producer
Blazing Dragons video game: Creator & Actor
Crusades: Writer
Empire magazine ‘The Full Monty’: Interviewee
The Goblin Companion: A Field Guide to Goblins: Writer
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Writer, Game Announcer, Performer & Director
The Nearly New Monty Python’s Flying Circus Datebook: Writer
The Rutles Anthology: With Thanks
Space Ghost Coast to Coast ‘Explode’: Actor
Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells: Based on Quentin Cottington’s Journal of Faery Research: Writer
Twenty-Five Years of The Two Ronnies: Writer
The Wind in the Willows: Writer, Actor, Composer & Director
1997
Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic: Writer
The Empire Awards: Recipient of the Inspirational Award for Monty Python
Fierce Creatures: Based on ‘The Fierce Animal Policy’
The Knight and the Squire: Writer
Late Night with Conan O’Brien: Guest
Monty Python’s Life of Brian laserdisc: Director’s Commentary
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life video game: Actor
Omnibus ‘Reeves and Mortimer: The Film’: Interviewee
Ruby: Guest
1998
An Awfully Big Adventure ‘Kenneth Grahame’: Interviewee
Ancient Inventions: Writer & Presenter
Blazing Dragons: Creator & Executive Producer
The Daily Show: Guest
Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Journal: Writer
Monty Python Live at Aspen: Performer & Interviewee
Starship Titanic video game: Actor
1999
Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar, English version: Writer & Actor
The BFI London Imax Signature Film: Director
Le Créateur: Actor
Long Live the Dead Parrot – 30 Years of Python: Interviewee
Python Night – 30 Years of Monty Python: Writer & Performer (Incorporating From Spam to Sperm: Interviewee; Pythonland: Interviewee)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian at the (Roman) Empire, Leicester Square: Interviewee
Roy & H.G.’s Planet Norwich: Guest
30 Years of Monty Python, A Revelation: Guest
This Morning: Guest
2000
The Boy in Darkness: Storyteller
Doug Fisher Tribute: Writer & Performer
Fairy Tales: Writer & Reader
Gladiators – The Brutal Truth: Writer & Presenter
Help! I’m a Fish, English version: Actor
The Lady and the Squire: Writer
Top Ten ‘Comedy Records’: Interviewee
What a Performance! ‘Madcap’: Interviewee
2001
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones ‘Espionage Escapades’: Actor & Director
The Big Schmooze: Guest
Comedy Lab ‘Knife & Wife’: Actor
Omnibus ‘Douglas Adams: The Man Who Blew Up the World’: Interviewee
The 100 Greatest Films: Interviewee
The 100 Greatest Kids TV Shows: Interviewee
The Quest for the Holy Grail Locations: Writer & Presenter
2002
Bedtime Stories: Writer
CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide 30th anniversary edition ‘My Love Affair with Beer’: Writer
Dinotopia: Actor
Doodlez ‘In roaf boat’: Actor
Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python: Composer
The Hidden History of Egypt: Writer & Presenter
The Hidden History of Rome: Writer & Presenter
Lady Cottington’s Fairy Album: Writer
Peter Cook: A Posthumorous Tribute: Writer, Performer & Director
Readers and Writers Roadshow: Guest
Roger’s Profanisaurus – From the Pages of Viz: Foreword
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time, US edition: Writer
Spike Milligan: I Told You I Was Ill… – A Live Tribute: Performer
The Surprising History of Sex and Love: Writer & Presenter
2003
Bitter Jester: Interviewee
Concert for George: Writer, Composer & Performer
Education Tips No. 41: Choosing a Really Expensive School: Actor
The Meaning of Making ‘The Meaning of Life’: Interviewee
The 100 Greatest Christmas Moments: Interviewee
The Pythons By The Pythons: An Autobiography: Writer
This Week: Guest
Timeshift ‘Missing Believed Wiped’: Interviewee
Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery: Writer
2004
Arena ‘Remember the Secret Policeman’s Ball…?’: Interviewee
Medieval Lives: Writer & Presenter
The Mystery of the Missing Morsel of Murder at Moorstones Manor: Writer & Interviewee
The Sunday Programme: Guest
The Terry and Gaby Show: Guest
Terry Jones’ Medieval Lives: Writer & Presenter
Terry Jones’ Medieval Lives book: Writer
Today with Des and Mel: Guest
The Unsteady Chough: Writer & Actor
2005
Fawlty Towers Revisited: Interviewee
How Do You Like Iceland?: Interviewee
Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams: Interviewee
The New Paul O’Grady Show: Guest
Nos Zamis Lé Hyens: Interviewee
The Story of 1: Presenter
Terry Jones’s War on the War on Terror: Writer
Written & Directed by Preston Sturges: Audio Commentary on Sullivan’s Travels
2006
Anna and the Moods: Narrator
Barbarians: Writer & Presenter
Greatest Ever Comedy Movies: Interviewee
HARDtalk Extra: Guest
The Life of Graham: The Authorised Biography of Graham Chapman: Interviewee
Locked Out: Actor as Un SDF
Monty Python’s Personal Best ‘Graham Chapman’ & ‘Terry Jones’: Writer, Performer & Presenter
Popcorn: Presenter
The Sharon Osbourne Show: Guest
Silent Clowns ‘Buster Keaton’ & ‘Harold Lloyd’: Interviewee
The South Bank Show ‘Monty Python’s Spamalot’: Interview
Spam: The Documentary: Interviewee
Stranger Than Fiction: Actor
Terry Jones’ Barbarians: Writer & Presenter
Terry Jones’ Barbarians book: Writer
Turn Back Time: Guest
TV’s 50 Greatest Stars: Interviewee
2007
Behind the Director’s Son’s Cut: Interviewee
Erik the Viking (Director’s Son’s Cut): Audio Commentary
Kombat Opera Presents ‘The South Bragg Show’: Director
The Secret Life of Brian: Interviewee
The World’s Greatest Comedy Characters: Interviewee
2008
Comedy Connections ‘Ripping Yarns’: Interviewee
50 Greatest Comedy Catchphrases: Interviewee
The Frost Report Is Back: Interviewee
Miracles of Evolution: Presenter
Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus: Interviewee
Monty Python Conquers America: Interviewee
The Seventh Python: Interviewee
Terry Jones’ Great Map Mystery: Presenter
Timeshift ‘The Comic Songbook’: Interviewee
2009
Chaucer & The Canterbury Tales: Interviewee
Fawlty Exclusive: Basil’s Best Bits: Interviewee
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened: Interviewee
King Guillaume: Actor as Le professeur d’Oxford
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: Guest
The Legend of Dick and Dom: Narrator
Monty Python Almost the Truth: Writer & Interviewee
Monty Python Almost the Truth Obligatory Making of Special: Interviewee
Monty Python in Aberystwyth: Interviewee
Skavlan ‘Avsnitt 11’: Guest
2010
Comedy Lab ‘Hung Out’: Actor
Home Movie Roadshow: Interviewee
The Inheritance: Director
The Legend of Dick and Dom: Narrator
Marlow Meets…: Guest
Medieval Fight Book: Interviewee
Not the Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy): Writer, Composer & Performer
The Unforgettable Spike Milligan: Interviewee
2011
The Book Show: Guest
Breakfast: Guest
Daybreak: Guest
Directors Cut: Model
Evil Machines: Writer
The Legend of Dick and Dom: Narrator
Marty Feldman: The Biography of a Comedy Legend: Interviewee
The One Show: Guest
Trouble on the Heath: Writer
2012
Anatomy of a Liar: Interviewee
BBC Breakfast: Guest discussing Bristol Slapstick Festival
The Complete Ripping Yarns: Interviewee & commentaries
Film 2012 with Claudia Winkleman: Interviewee
The Hour: Interviewee
A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman: Actor
The One Show: Guest discussing Ripping Yarns
The Secret Policeman’s Ball: Performer
Why? Factor: Actor
2013
Are You Having a Laugh? – Comedy and Christianity: Interviewee
Arqiva British Academy Television Awards: Presenter
The British Academy Television Awards: Presenter
The Graham Norton Show: Guest
Great Welsh Writers ‘Philip Pullman’: Interviewee
John Gould: A Celebration: Writer, Composer & Performer
The Meaning of Monty Python: Interviewee
The Native Hue of Resolution: Writer, Performer & Interviewee
2014
Alexander Armstrong’s Real Ripping Yarns: Interviewee
50 Years of BBC2 Comedy: Interviewee
Imagine ‘Monty Python And Now for Something Rather Similar’: Writer, Composer, Performer & Interviewee
Monty Python Live (Mostly) One Down, Five To Go: Writer, Composer & Performer
Monty Python The Meaning of Live: Writer, Composer, Performer & Interviewee
The New Incomplete and Utter History of Everything: Writer & Presenter
Nicobobinus: Stage adapatation of the book
2015
Absolutely Anything: Writer, Actor & Director
‘Absolutely Anything and Anything at All’ Kylie Minogue music video: Actor
Boom Bust Boom: Writer, Presenter & Composer
Katie Chat ‘HotDocs International Film Festival Chats’: Interviewee
Laugh Out Loud: The Funniest Films Ever: Interviewee
Moments That Changed the Movies ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’: Interviewee
Monty Python and the Holy Grail at the Tribeca Film Festival: Interviewee
Monty Python and the Holy Grail Revisited: Interviewee
Perspectives ‘In Charlie Chaplin’s Footsteps’: Presenter
Tommy Oliver and the Fighting Spirit: Inspiration
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon: Guest
20 Moments That Rocked Comedy: Interviewee
2016
Jeepers Creepers: Director
25th British Academy Cymru Awards: Recipient
2018
Citizen Jones: Interviewee
To Trend on Twitter: Interviewee
The Tyrant and the Squire: Writer
2019
Terry Jones: The Comic Inquisition: Interviewee
2020
Bye Bye Morons: Dedicated
General Prologue to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales App: Writer & Contributor
2021
Forgotten Heroes of Comedy: Foreword Writer and Contributor
2022
Space Goofs But It’s A Monty Python’s Flying Circus: Based on characters & situations
30ème Comité central du Groland: Special Thanks
2025
The Challenge Show ‘Thearaleo TV Monty Python Special’: Special Thanks
Seriously Silly – The Life of Terry Jones: Interviewee
In ProductionThe Land of Sometimes: Actor as the voice of The Wish Watch
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