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Michael Palins bestselling diaries of the 1980s

After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHONS MEANING OF LIFE Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michaels life culminating in the smash hit A FISH CALLED WANDA for which he won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor and the first of his seven celebrated television journeys for the BBC He coproduced wrote and played the lead in THE MISSIONARY opposite Maggie Smith who also appeared with him in A PRIVATE FUNCTION written by Alan Bennett

Such was his fame in the US he was enticed into once again hosting the enormously popular show Saturday Night Live in one edition of which his mother makes a highly successful surprise guest appearance He filmed several journeys for television and became chairman of the pressure group Transport 2000 His family remains a constant as his and Helens children enter their teens