Parrot Sketch Not Included – 20 Years of Monty Python Fliegender Zirkus". True to its title, the popular Dead Parrot sketch is not included. The special was broadcast in the US on the Showtime network on 17 March 1990. This was 90 seconds shorter than the UK version due to a cut scene from the end of the pre-credits sequence which had Steve Martin revealing, via a slowed down clip of the Bruces sketch, that the Pythons were Satanists. This shorter version was released on VHS in the UK by CBS/Fox in 1990 and later on DVD in the US by A&E in 2001, as part of their "Monty Python
The Blue Parrot police go undercover. The Blue Parrot The Blue Parrot is a low budget 1953 British crime film directed by John Harlow and starring Dermot Walsh, Jacqueline Hill, Ballard Berkeley, Richard Pearson and John Le Mesurier. The film was produced by Stanley Haynes for Act Films Ltd. Jacqueline Hill later became well known for playing Barbara, one of the original companions of BBC TV's Doctor Who.. Ballard Berkeley found fame in later life as The Major in Fawlty Towers. British crime reporter Percy Hoskins provided the story. Soho night club The Blue Parrot is at the centre of murder and racketeering