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The train used in back to the future 3 was the same train that was used in the tv show petticoat junction.

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[–] glorkon@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This man in Monty Python's Life of Brian is none other than British comedy legend Spike Milligan, who, together with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, starred in the 1950s radio comedy show "The Goon Show", which all members of the Pythons cited as their most important influence.

By coincidence Milligan was visiting his old World War II battlefields in Tunisia where the film was being made. The Pythons were alerted to this and he was included in the scene being filmed that morning.