Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Series) How Not to Be Seen (1970) User Reviews

Confusion between Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones

[cameron-sinclair-1 · 10/10 · 17 November 2007]

Thought you ought to know that Neville Shunt, writer of the train timetable murder mystery, was played by Terry JONES not Terry Gilliam, as listed above. Besides that, I loved the episode, as I do all Monty Python (hence the 10 stars), but, of course, particularly the train timetable murder mystery. Although the murder mystery bit itself is not overly funny, the bit following it where the writer is shown at a typewriter, pretending its a train is hilarious. Also the bit after that, where John Clease, as a critic, discusses the meaning and whether there is deliberate ambiguity, etc., in a very round about way is very funny - anyone who has done some kind of literary analysis or studied poetry or anything at all will find Clease's performance here funny.