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Rita Fairbanks
AS SEEN INBatley Townswomen's Guild Presents the Battle of Pearl Harbour

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Rita Fairbanks

Played by Eric Idle

Rita Fairbanks is the organiser of the Batley Townswomen’s Guild’s historical re-enactments in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, played by Eric Idle in drag. She introduces the guild’s Battle of Pearl Harbour (1969) and its first heart…

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Rita Fairbanks is the organiser of the Batley Townswomen’s Guild’s historical re-enactments in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, played by Eric Idle in drag. She introduces the guild’s Battle of Pearl Harbour (1969) and its first heart transplant (1970), each of which collapses into a muddy handbag brawl.

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