Python Night – 30 Years of Monty Python

Python Night – 30 Years of Monty Python
Also known asPython Night
Created byJohn Cleese
Terry Gilliam
Eric Idle
Terry Jones
Michael Palin
StarringJohn Cleese
Terry Gilliam
Eric Idle
Terry Jones
Michael Palin
Carol Cleveland
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of episodes1
Production
Running time220 minutes
Production companiesBBC
A+E Networks
Python (Monty) Pictures
Original release
NetworkBBC 2
Release9 October 1999 (1999-10-09)
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Python Night was an evening of Monty Python-related programmes broadcast on BBC2 on 9 October 1999, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus. It featured newly written sketches, three documentaries and a screening of Monty Python's Life of Brian.

Only the documentaries were screened in the US, broadcast under the title The Life of Python on A&E Biography on 9 April 2000. Most of the evening's content was released in the US later in 2000 on the first disc of the A&E DVD box set The Life of Python. In the UK many of the items were issued as bonus material on the BBC's 2004 Monty Python Live at Aspen DVD.