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	'''''Out of the Trees''''' is a 1975 television [[sketch comedy\|sketch show]] [[pilot episode\|pilot]] written by [[Graham Chapman]], [[Douglas Adams]] and [[Bernard McKenna (writer)\|Bernard McKenna]] that was broadcast on [[BBC 2]] in 1976. The show shared some of the [[Stream of consciousness writing\|stream-of-consciousness]] style of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', of which Chapman was a member. Actors included [[Mark Wing-Davey]] and [[Simon Jones (actor)\|Simon Jones]].		'''''Out of the Trees''''' is a 1975 television [[sketch comedy\|sketch show]] [[pilot episode\|pilot]] written by [[Graham Chapman]], [[Douglas Adams]] and [[Bernard McKenna (writer)\|Bernard McKenna]] that was broadcast on [[BBC 2]] in 1976. The show shared some of the [[Stream of consciousness writing\|stream-of-consciousness]] style of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', of which Chapman was a member. Actors included [[Mark Wing-Davey]] and [[Simon Jones (actor)\|Simon Jones]].

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'''''Out of the Trees''''' is a 1975 television [[sketch comedy|sketch show]] [[pilot episode|pilot]] written by [[Graham Chapman]], [[Douglas Adams]] and [[Bernard McKenna (writer)|Bernard McKenna]] that was broadcast on [[BBC 2]] in 1976. The show shared some of the [[Stream of consciousness writing|stream-of-consciousness]] style of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', of which Chapman was a member. Actors included [[Mark Wing-Davey]] and [[Simon Jones (actor)|Simon Jones]].

The concept of the show was, according to Chapman, to follow the exploits of two modern-day [[linguists]] who would travel around a Britain gripped in rapid decline. The linguists would comment upon the origins of a word or phrase, which would then be the genesis of a sketch. Although two scripts were written (the second a collaboration between Chapman and [[David Yallop]]), only one episode was ever filmed. It was broadcast only once by the BBC, with little promotion, at 10pm on Saturday 10 January 1976 opposite ''[[Match of the Day]]'', and so was seen by relatively few people.

It was reported in 2005, by a representative posting on the forum at the archive television website The Mausoleum Club, that a videotape made by Chapman on an obsolete format had been given to the National Film Television and Videotape Archive. It was restored, a process which took 2 years<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6150254.stm|title='Lost' gems from the TV archives|publisher=BBC}}</ref> and shown at the [[National Film Theatre]] on Saturday, 2 December 2006 as part of the Missing Believed Wiped event. It was shown again on 24 September 2019 as part of the [[BFI]] commemoration of fifty years of Python.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-southbank-programme-calendar-september-2019.pdf|title=BFI Programme September 2019}}</ref> The original broadcast standard videotape of the show was [[Lost television broadcast|wiped]], as often occurred at the time. The film segments shot in outdoor locations survived, and consist of a sketch titled "Severance of a Peony", and some inserts intended for an item about [[Genghis Khan]]. The former was included on the DVD for Adams's 1981 TV series adaptation of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', and also appeared, rewritten as an anecdote, in Chapman's book ''[[A Liar's Autobiography]]''. Rewrites of the Genghis Khan sketch appear in some editions of Adams's posthumously published work ''[[The Salmon of Doubt]]'' as the short story "[[The Private Life of Genghis Khan]]".

==References==
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==Sources==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050623085037/http://orangecow.org/pythonet/ orangecow.org]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051030153023/http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sotcaa/python.html web.ukonline.co.uk]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6150254.stm news.bbc.co.uk]
* [http://www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film/7027 bfi.org.uk]

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|title=Out of the Trees|id=0318527}}

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en>Philip Cross: the BBC was not unique in this practice, not as common by the mid-1970s