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Answer: Foot

The giant foot created by Terry Gilliam to periodically smash down on scenes as a transitional device was based on the foot of Cupid in a painting called "Venus, Folly and Time", by Agnolo Bronzino. As the little chicken man drags a banner with the episode title across the screen, the foot descends and a voiceover states "How to recognize different parts of the body. Number one.

The foot."

Answer: Venus de Milo

The life-size marble statue, probably sculpted by Alexandros of Antioch around 100 BCE, which has lost both its arms is thought to be of the Greek Goddess Aphrodite, known to the Romans as Venus. It was found in the ruined city of Milos in 1820, and currently resides in the Louvre.

In the show, we see the top portion of the statue, with a little arrow pointing to her right shoulder as the voiceover announces "Number two. The shoulder."

Answer: The naughty bits

"Number five. The naughty bits." Unsurprisingly for those familiar with the Python team, the naughty bits will reappear in various forms throughout the show. Each of the pictures shows an appropriate image to which Bermuda shorts have been added so as to cover the genital region.

This includes 7 (two inches to the right of a very naughty bit indeed), 12 (the naughty bits of a lady - a female sporting a polka dot bra as well as the shorts), 13 (the naughty bits of a horse), 14 (the naughty bits of an ant) and 27 (more naughty bits - a picture of a cricket match in which all the players are wearing polka-dotted shorts).

Answer: Bruce

The camera reveals that the knee we had just seen was that of First Bruce, played by Eric Idle. He is greeted by Second Bruce (Graham Chapman), Third Bruce (Michael Palin) and Fourth Bruce (John Cleese), who introduces Michael Baldwin to the other members of the Philosophy Department of the University of Woolloomooloo. To keep things simple, they decide to call him Bruce.

The skit ends with a closeup of Fourth Bruce's ear, and a voiceover of "Number nine. The ear."

Answer: It is covering a hook

The hand looks normal to start with, then the camera pulls back to show us a set with two people ready for an interview. The interviewer pulls off his hand to reveal a hook, and introduces his guest, Mr Norman St. John Polevaulter, a serial contradictor. Of course, his continued contradiction of everything that is said, including repetition of his own statements, leads to a swift descent into farce.

The skit ends with a cut to the show's announcer sitting at a desk holding a small pig, as the announcer says "And so on and so on and so on. And now..."

Answer: The Pope

After a pause to let us see the Pope clearly, an arrow descends, pointing at his head as the voiceover announces "Number seventeen. The top of the head." This is quickly followed by a shot of a feather sticking out of some skin, which is identified as "Number eighteen. The feather, rare."

Answer: The nose

Raymond Luxury Yacht is visiting a specialist to get plastic surgery on his nose. Since the nose is an enormous construction of polystyrene, this is clearly a pretext for some other foolishness - it turns out to have been a pick-up ploy. Raymond Luxury Yacht, by the way, pronounces his name 'Throatwobbler Mangrove'.

This skit is followed by several typically Pythonesque segments involving soldiers, then one about a cut-price airline.

Answer: First Heart Transplant

"Nazi War Atrocities" and "Camp on Blood Island" had preceded "Battle for Pearl Harbour". This year the ladies decide to go for something more modern, and finally settle on a dramatization of the first heart transplant, to be written, produced and directed by Rita Fairbanks, and featuring her sister Madge as Christiaan Barnard.

As had been the case for previous presentations from the Batley Townswomen's Guild, the re-enactment involved groups of women running at each other swinging handbags, and ending up grappling each other on the ground (sometimes muddy, here shallow water).

The announcer then informs us of some other open-air spectacles that have used the sea: the first underwater production of "Measure for Measure"; "Hello Dolly" also underwater a bit further out to sea, and Formula 2 car racing on the oyster beds.

After an animation of a racing car going past a sign saying "Pit Stop", we cut to a picture of an armpit, and the voiceover informs us "Number twenty. The armpits."

Answer: Mary, Queen of Scots

To quote the announcer, "And that concludes the week's episode of 'How to Recognize Different Parts of the Body', adapted for radio by Ann Haydon-Jones and her husband, Pip. And now we present the first episode of a new radio drama series, 'The Death of Mary, Queen of Scots.' Part One: The Beginning." What follows is some minimal dialogue, and the sounds of struggle for a few seconds. Part Two, for which it was necessary to change the radio channel, continued with more of the same, and the ladies decided to turn back to the television, which for some reason has a penguin sitting on it. Following lengthy discussion of this circumstance by two pepperpots, the penguin explodes, and we cut to "Number twenty-three.

The shin."

Answer: Interior of a country house

"Number twenty-nine. The interior of a country house" is the final picture. We then cut to a sitting room with three people, who object that it's not a body part, and agree that it's not even a very good link. John Cleese's character concludes that "it's the end of the series, they must be running out of ideas" just before Michael Palin enters to warn them that there has been a murder, make that a burglary, in the vicinity.

A bit more poking fun at inept policemen, a swipe at the Eurovision song contest, and we see an arrow pointing to the buttocks of an exhausted Chief Inspector Jean-Paul Zatapathique as the voiceover announces "Number thirty-one.

The end." (Number thirty, whatever it may have been, seems to have gone missing during the editing process.)