The hit BBC satirical program Monty Python parodied Whicker's military-style demeanor in a sketch set on a tropical island where everyone acted and dressed like Whicker.

Last week’s column was done and dusted when I learned from The Times’s diary that — as I correctly speculated in it — the broadcaster Alan Whicker had indeed been much amused by Monty ...

All obituaries of Alan Whicker mentioned Monty Python’s spoof, Whicker Island (above) — though there was less uniformity over the age of the deceased, most newspapers saying he was 87 rather ...

Whicker Island: Members of the Monty Python team - l-r, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman and Terry Jones - filming the famous sketch at Winterton.

Whicker Island: Members of the Monty Python team,, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman and Terry Jones, filming the famous sketch at Winterton in 1970.