My friend Jim Beach became a lawyer at Harbottle & Lewis, and years later when we won a lawsuit against ABC and the BBC in New York for airing butchered versions of Monty Python’s Flying Circus without our approval, he advised us not to accept the two million pounds on offer but to ask instead for our masters. This brilliant piece of advice earned us everything: ownership and worldwide control over our TV series. It means that, including movies, Python now owns almost everything we ever made. We may be silly but we’re not stupid.
