Monty Python

Monty Python was a programme on Earth. Charlotte considered watching it. (BFA: The Foe from the Future) It had a comedy sketch involving a chemist's shop from which Guy Adams thought his boss Mike got the Italian name "Semprini". Fitz Kreiner didn't understand the specific reference but laughed when Guy said that Mike thought that him and John Cleese had been separated at birth. (EDA: Timeless)

Monty Python's Big Red Book was one of the many volumes stored on the planet known as The Library. (DW: Silence in the Library)

Behind the scenes

 * The Doctor Who franchise has a number of connections to Python, most notably in Douglas Adams, a contributor and occasional bit player in the original series who wrote for and served as script editor for the series in the late 1970s, and John Cleese who had a cameo in DW: City of Death. At one point or another virtually all of the lead actors in Monty Python were rumoured to be in consideration to play the Doctor.


 * "The Chemist Sketch", as it was titled onscreen, starred Cleese as the chemist and involved an apology from the BBC with a list of words that were not to be used again on the programme including "bum" and "Semprini".


 * is referenced in PDA: Heart of TARDIS. When listing objects that had magical abilities, it ends the list with "...and swords of invincibility lobbed at passing knights by a samite-wearing woman in a pond." This appears to be a reference to the famous "Dennis" scene in the film