US Navy cruiser USS Northampton (CA-26), Panama Canal, Panama mb-height 7186 Actor John Cleese dressed in

Actor John Cleese dressed in a bikini poses with five other girls wearing bikinis alongside fellow satirist Mike Palin during filming of the opening show

Mr Punch raises the stirrup-cup in a toast to Prince Leopold

and a parasol

The cars are lined up in the pits

US Navy cruiser USS Northampton (CA-26), Panama Canal, Panama mb-height 7186 Actor John Cleese dressed inUS Navy cruiser USS Northampton (CA 26), Panama Canal, Panama, 1931. Commissioned in 1930, the 'Northampton' was the lead ship of her class of heavy cruisers. She was sunk by Japanese torpedoes at the Battle of Tassafaronga off Guadalcanal on 30 November 1942. The photograph was taken during a Cunard Line cruise to the West Indies between January and March 1931.