"Monty Python's Flying Circus" The Spanish Inquisition (TV Episode 1970) - John Cleese as Man with Flying Contraption, The Announcer, BBC Man, Politician, Gumby Standing on Water, First Businessman, Counsel

The Announcer : And now for the very first time on the silver screen comes the film from two books which once shocked a generation. From Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights' and from the 'International Guide to Semaphore Code,' Twentieth Century Vole presents 'The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights'.
The Announcer : [voiceover of stock footage of a Roman chariot race] From the pulsating pages of history, from the dark and furious days of Imperial Rome, we bring you a story that shattered the world! A tale so gripping that they said it could not he filmed! A unique event in cinema history: 'Julius Caesar' On an Aldis Lamp!

[cuts to closeup of Caesar walking in a Roman street. A soothsayer runs up to him, wild-eyed, and flashes an Aldis lamp]

Soothsayer : [flashing Aldis lamp] Beware the Ides of March.

[Caesar is stabbed by the assassins, and as he collapses to the ground, he pulls out a very big Aldis lamp, and flashes it]

Caesar : [flashing his Aldis lamp] Et tu, Brute?

[cuts to a Western street, with two cowboys facing each other and holding Morse buzzers]

The Announcer : From the makers of 'Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Morse Code.'

[the two buzz a bit. One of them collapses to the ground]

Gunman : [buzzing on his Morse buzzer] AAAAHHH!

[Cuts to a Red Indian making smoke signals]

The Announcer : And the smoke-signal version of 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'!

John Cleese: Man with Flying Contraption, The Announcer, BBC Man, Politician, Gumby Standing on Water, First Businessman, Counsel