Work begins on Life of Brian:

Half a year and a few days after we last played Python Live at City Center in New York, the Pythons reassemble at 22 Park Square East for the first day of a two-month writing period on our new film. A fine, sunny day, a good day to take resolutions and make plans.

John suggests straightaway that at some point during this writing period we all go abroad to the sun for a week or ten days (to ‘really break the back of the film’). This is shelved. As Terry J says, ‘Let’s all see if we like each other at the end of the day.’ But we make plans for the next year — writing until Christmas, rewriting throughout March and filming delayed until September/October 1977. There follows some good chat and exchange of ideas about the story and how to treat it. JC now thinks the film should be called “Monty Python’s Life of Christ.”

At lunchtime, TG leaves to complete filming of the Jabberwocky monster in Pembroke. . . . John’s passed his driving test and now has a car of his own — ‘A very old Rolls-Royce,’ he tells me, unable to stifle a trace of embarrassment.

— Michael Palin, Diaries 1969 – 1979: The Python Years