John Cleese waiting to begin when Cleese's offer arrived. Palin agreed to work with Cleese and Chapman in the meantime, bringing with him Gilliam, Jones, and Idle. "Monty Python's Flying Circus" ran for four seasons from October 1969 to December 1974 on BBC Television, though Cleese quit the show after the third. Cleese's two primary characterisations were as a sophisticated and a stressed-out loony. He portrayed the former as a series of announcers, TV show hosts, and government officials (for example, "The Ministry of Silly Walks"). The latter is perhaps best represented in the "Cheese Shop" and by Cleese's Mr Praline character,
Heritage of the March "Elfriede" by George Swift, and an arrangement of "Figaro" by Paul Yoder. Hoe also allowed bands to record their own personal favorites, and were sometimes used as "fillers" for the LPs. Many marches that were originally recorded for use in the Heritage of the March series but not included in the LPs were later released as part of the three-volume "Navy Band Leftovers" and four-volume "Miscellaneous Marches". A spinoff series was also created called the "Heritage of John Philip Sousa", consisting of 18 LPs featuring Sousa's marches and operettas performed by the U.S. Marine Band. The Heritage of the March