Do Not Adjust Your Set (Series 1 episode 1)

Here we meet Michael Palin’s prototype unhelpful shop assistant (a distinct precursor of many future Python characters), plus the Bonzos ripping up the stage with The Sound of Music.

Here we meet Michael Palin’s prototype unhelpful shop assistant (a distinct precursor of some Python characters of world renown); witness the camera crew not knowing where best to point the lens as the Bonzos rip-it up all over the stage with The Sound of Music, and Terry Jones’ inspired stock-comedy-Scotsman adlib at the end of the last sketch, when the whiskey-dispensing prop refuses to co-operate: ‘his bagpipe’s nae working’.