'The Gentleman's Gargling Club'.

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Sketch.
1. Sketch about King Arthur, with 'Gargling Club' material on the reverse of the first page. Manuscript.
2. Typescript with manuscript corrections.
3. A different version of 'The Gentlemen's Gargling Club'. Typescript with manuscript corrections. A song about the Sistine Chapel and a sketch called 'Court in Heaven' are in manuscript on the reverse of the pages.
4. Conclusion of 'Court in Heaven'. Manuscript.

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Archive Record|Table of contents

Papers of Douglas Noël AdamsAdamsDN

Personal, Family and Business MaterialAdamsDN/1

NotebooksAdamsDN/2

Early MaterialAdamsDN/3

Notes, drafts, fragments.AdamsDN/3/1

'When I graduated I decided. . .'AdamsDN/3/1/1

'To do' list.AdamsDN/3/1/2

Setlists.AdamsDN/3/1/3

'What They All Said about *Cerberus*'.AdamsDN/3/1/4

'Press Release' for the 1976 Cambridge Footlights May Week Revue.AdamsDN/3/1/5

Lists of forfeits and prizes.AdamsDN/3/1/6

Cryptic crossword clues.AdamsDN/3/1/7

Notebook of sketches, poems, songs and setlists.AdamsDN/3/1/8

'Luther' notebook.AdamsDN/3/1/9

Notebook with drawing (self-portrait?) on cover, containing prose, sketch material and calculations.AdamsDN/3/1/10

'Are you pleased are you happy are you silly are you bad are you clever'.AdamsDN/3/1/11

'I am emotionally drained.'AdamsDN/3/1/12

'Reflections'.AdamsDN/3/1/13

'A Tale'.AdamsDN/3/1/14

'I have at long last acquired a stereo set'.AdamsDN/3/1/15

'The man and the woman in the restaurant'.AdamsDN/3/1/16

'Story idea: The Dreamer'.AdamsDN/3/1/17

'Blah Blah Blah Blah blares a police car'.AdamsDN/3/1/18

'Write man!'AdamsDN/3/1/19

'Poem': 'Sing heavenly muse if you feel that you must'.AdamsDN/3/1/20

'Day-Return to King's Cross'.AdamsDN/3/1/21

'The Mistress'.AdamsDN/3/1/22

'The man who designed television sets'.AdamsDN/3/1/23

'Medieval Banquet'.AdamsDN/3/1/24

Verse introductions to Cinderella, her Fairy God Mum and the Ugly Sisters.AdamsDN/3/1/25

'The beads ran through the old man's fingers'.AdamsDN/3/1/26

Sheet music.AdamsDN/3/1/27

'Nursery Crimes, or, I Am Impecunious/Orange'.AdamsDN/3/1/28

'Sometime in the evening'.AdamsDN/3/1/29

'Soubriquets, flanoline'.AdamsDN/3/1/30

'Join me in a length of this milky afternoon'.AdamsDN/3/1/31

Song lyrics.AdamsDN/3/1/32

'Someone showed me a wheelchair'.AdamsDN/3/1/33

'Well you laughed in the middle of a theatre show'.AdamsDN/3/1/34

'The Song of the Dancing Rhino' by '[Chris] Keightley & Adams'.AdamsDN/3/1/35

'I was walking down the street today'.AdamsDN/3/1/36

'Song': 'I am the man who dreamed of a future of the theatre turned upside down'.AdamsDN/3/1/37

'How to Plan Countries'.AdamsDN/3/1/38

''Twas on a Monday morning'.AdamsDN/3/1/39

'2 Girls, One Straight, One Trendy'.AdamsDN/3/1/40

'Get back to nature'/'Closer'.AdamsDN/3/1/41

'Deadly Boring'.AdamsDN/3/1/42

'Goodbye everybody, it's the end of the show'.AdamsDN/3/1/43

'Head in Heels over Love'.AdamsDN/3/1/44

'Would I rather cross the channel in a tunnel or a boat?'AdamsDN/3/1/45

'My -- dog's -- got -- no -- nose.'AdamsDN/3/1/46

'The Song of the Don't Knows'.AdamsDN/3/1/47

'Woke up this morning / Fell out of bed'.AdamsDN/3/1/48

'RSS': 'By the Quiet Flowing Don'.AdamsDN/3/1/49

'We're gonna give it to ya gonna be no pussy footing'.AdamsDN/3/1/50

'Swiss Girls' ('You can look under mountains').AdamsDN/3/1/51

'Which Way' and 'Song of Disaster'.AdamsDN/3/1/52

'I married a woman at one time'.AdamsDN/3/1/53

'Well I'm not going to tell you / If you don't already know'.AdamsDN/3/1/54

'The Vasectomy Rag'.AdamsDN/3/1/55

Quickies (short sketches) for Dave Allen.AdamsDN/3/1/56

Sketch material for 'The Burkiss Way'.AdamsDN/3/1/57

Sketch material for 'The Two Ronnies'.AdamsDN/3/1/58

Sketch material for 'Week Ending'.AdamsDN/3/1/59

Gathering of songs/poems and sketches.AdamsDN/3/1/60

Gathering of songs and sketches.AdamsDN/3/1/61

'Pick Up a Milkman'.AdamsDN/3/1/62

Comedy letter from 'Polodius Malfodder' concerning the 'Pedants Revolt'.AdamsDN/3/1/63

'Stonehouse Sketch'.AdamsDN/3/1/64

'The Offence'.AdamsDN/3/1/65

'Box, Son of Box'.AdamsDN/3/1/66

'Spellbound'.AdamsDN/3/1/67

'I did it'/'Ian Diddit'.AdamsDN/3/1/68

'Howard Britter. Food Bazaar and Investigations.'AdamsDN/3/1/69

Satirical album credits.AdamsDN/3/1/70

'Easy Terms'.AdamsDN/3/1/71

'Beagling'.AdamsDN/3/1/72

'Punting ([John] Lloyd)'.AdamsDN/3/1/73

Clive Anderson 'Scottish National Party' monologue.AdamsDN/3/1/74

'There, wasn't that easy?'AdamsDN/3/1/75

'The Gentleman's Gargling Club'.AdamsDN/3/1/76

'Ah Hallo Perkins'/'Onions'.AdamsDN/3/1/77

'Makepiece'.AdamsDN/3/1/78

'Double Crossed'.AdamsDN/3/1/79

'My name's Gasp of the B.O.'AdamsDN/3/1/80

'Far out in the depths of the cosmos. . .'AdamsDN/3/1/81

'Set 'em up again Rothschild'.AdamsDN/3/1/82

'Min-Sick'.AdamsDN/3/1/83

'Rock Interpreter'.AdamsDN/3/1/84

'Man on stage wearing saucepan on head'.AdamsDN/3/1/85

Script portion featuring 'Dermot' and 'Vettergreen', plus an exchange between 'Man' and 'Woman'.AdamsDN/3/1/86

'Zeus'.AdamsDN/3/1/87

'Post Offices Prefer Bombs'.AdamsDN/3/1/88

'Marilyn'/'Marilyn Monroe Sketch'.AdamsDN/3/1/89

'Interesting Professions: A Politician'.AdamsDN/3/1/90

'New McCrappy Album'.AdamsDN/3/1/91

'Court Out'.AdamsDN/3/1/92

'The Play's the Thing'.AdamsDN/3/1/93

'The New Victoria Line'/'New Vic -- alternative opening'.AdamsDN/3/1/94

'Sportsnight with God'.AdamsDN/3/1/95

'The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang'/'Paranoid Society'.AdamsDN/3/1/96

'Here Tomorrow Gone Today'.AdamsDN/3/1/97

'Brief Lines'.AdamsDN/3/1/98

'Readers' Digest' (sic).AdamsDN/3/1/99

'Pritchard'.AdamsDN/3/1/100

'Abroad-Minded'.AdamsDN/3/1/101

'Down in Black and White'.AdamsDN/3/1/102

'Albert Pidgen'.AdamsDN/3/1/103

'Mike & John'.AdamsDN/3/1/104

''Ere where ocean gone?'/''Ere, where's that ocean gone.'AdamsDN/3/1/105

Shoe shop sketch.AdamsDN/3/1/106

'All the World's a Cage'.AdamsDN/3/1/107

'Counter Offensive'.AdamsDN/3/1/108

'Travel Agent Sketch'.AdamsDN/3/1/109

Sketch involving 'Jacobs', 'Sir Archibald' and 'Lady Pause O'Men'.AdamsDN/3/1/110

'Oedipus'.AdamsDN/3/1/111

'The Letter of the Law'.AdamsDN/3/1/112

'Actress and the Bishop', by Martin Smith & Will Adams.AdamsDN/3/1/113

'The Great Mythtake'.AdamsDN/3/1/114

'Jellyfish'/'Fishing for Sales'/'The Soft Sell'.AdamsDN/3/1/115

'Nine Loves'.AdamsDN/3/1/116

'Bus Pirate'.AdamsDN/3/1/117

'Psychoanalysis Sketch'/'Hung Up'.AdamsDN/3/1/118

'First Ever Proper Television Show in the World'.AdamsDN/3/1/119

'Pose' and 'Exhibits'.AdamsDN/3/1/120

'Firemen'.AdamsDN/3/1/121

'Train Compartment'.AdamsDN/3/1/122

'Royal Visit'.AdamsDN/3/1/123

'Penny for This Sketch'.AdamsDN/3/1/124

Sketch involving Charlie Chan and Lord Peter Wimsey.AdamsDN/3/1/125

Prose fragment describing a taxi sequence.AdamsDN/3/1/126

'Bogoffia'.AdamsDN/3/1/127

'Simon Stylites'.AdamsDN/3/1/128

Audition sketch.AdamsDN/3/1/129

'K.G.B.'AdamsDN/3/1/130

'Cabinet meeting'.AdamsDN/3/1/131

Courtroom sketch material.AdamsDN/3/1/132

'World Cup' sketch.AdamsDN/3/1/133

'Italian Government'.AdamsDN/3/1/134

'For Cyril'.AdamsDN/3/1/135

'Swingers'.AdamsDN/3/1/136

'A Noise Annoys'.AdamsDN/3/1/137

'Blue Peter'.AdamsDN/3/1/138

'The Wonderful World of J.Y.'AdamsDN/3/1/139

'Trees Afoot'.AdamsDN/3/1/140

'The Walrus'.AdamsDN/3/1/141

Sketch fragment about cigarettes and bombs.AdamsDN/3/1/142

'How's life with you then'?AdamsDN/3/1/143

'So there I was, fresh out of Cambridge. . .'AdamsDN/3/1/144

'The Not Canvassing for the Union Sketch'.AdamsDN/3/1/145

'Still Life'.AdamsDN/3/1/146

'Barring Accidents: a new comedy in several unnatural acts'.AdamsDN/3/1/147

Police station sketch.AdamsDN/3/1/148

'Prehistoric cave family' sketch.AdamsDN/3/1/149

Notes.AdamsDN/3/1/150

Notes.AdamsDN/3/1/151

'Professor Hardy Symes' sketch.AdamsDN/3/1/152

'The Big One'.AdamsDN/3/1/153

'Ah, this'll be our rep from France'.AdamsDN/3/1/154

Dialogue ('Well I thought that was an absolutely super demonstration' et cetera).AdamsDN/3/1/155

'Courtroom'.AdamsDN/3/1/156

Cerne Abbas Giant drawing folder, in which some items in this sequence were contained.AdamsDN/3/1/157

'ASA -- Rough + W.I. Progress' folder, in which some items in this sequence were contained..AdamsDN/3/1/158

'Adams Smith Adams miscellaneous' folder, in which some items in this sequence were contained.AdamsDN/3/1/159

Developed work and production materialAdamsDN/3/2

Graham Chapman collaborationsAdamsDN/3/3

*Nigel and Simpson*, a.k.a. *S.N.O. 7 and the White Dwarfs*, with John Lloyd.AdamsDN/3/4

*The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* SeriesAdamsDN/4

*Doctor Who*AdamsDN/5

LiffAdamsDN/6

Dirk GentlyAdamsDN/7

*Last Chance to See*AdamsDN/8

Other Works and ProjectsAdamsDN/9

Press and PublicityAdamsDN/10

Magnetic and Optical MaterialAdamsDN/11

Material from other sourcesAdamsDN/Extranea