October 1, 1971 –
The comedy-variety sketch series, The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine, starring, Marty Feldman, Spike Milligan, John Junkin, Hugh Paddick, Frances de la Tour, and Barry Levinson, frist aired on ABC-TV on this date.
Terry Gilliam’s animation contributions for this series were the opening and closing credits. The opening was a production line making identical looking mannequins/men, one eventually gets Marty’s head, and is ejected into a rubbish bin. (This sequence appears in Gilliam’s Animations of Mortality book.). The closing credits were various people saying “Good Bye!” and having horrible things happen to them. (i.e. A train conductor pulls a level and gets run over by a train, Mickey Mouse-type thingy gets smashed in a rat trap, etc… )
The Haus of Dcaligari 