It follows a period in the life of a fictional jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam ( played by Washington ) as a series of bad decisions result in his jeopardizing both his relationships and his playing career.

As Gilliam is fascinated with the Baroque due to the historical age's pronounced struggle between spirituality and logical rationality, there is often a rich baroqueness and dichotomous eclecticity about his movies, with, for instance, high-tech computer monitors equipped with low-tech magnifying lenses in Brazil, and in The Fisher King a red knight covered with flapping bits of cloth.

At the same time the success of Do Not Adjust Your Set had led Palin, Jones, Idle and Gilliam to be offered their own series and, while it was still in production, Palin agreed to Cleese's proposal and brought along Idle, Jones and Gilliam.

In 2002, Gilliam directed a series of television advertisements called Secret Tournament.

* The Streets of San Francisco ( TV series season 1 episode 5 ) Tower Beyond Tragedy ( 1972 ).... Amory Gilliam, ( TV series season 3 episode 6 ) One Chance To Live ( 1974 ).... Brian Downing

Toying with many television conventions, Monty Python's Flying Circus ( 1969 – 74 ) played around with the concept of cold opens, sometimes having an entire episode before the starting credits, and, in two instances (" The Cycling Tour ", the first episode to have a full-length story, and " The Golden Age of Ballooning ", the first episode of series four ) had no opening credits at all ( the former has a brief title card with the episode's title, and the latter has no titles because Terry Gilliam had not finished the new opening sequence ).

Bumpass is best known to present-day viewers as the voice of Squidward Tentacles, Dr. Gill Gilliam and the anchovies on the Nickelodeon animated comedy series SpongeBob SquarePants.

* Super Robot Wars series ( Alan Igor, Gilliam Yeager )

During the TV series Get Smart ( season 3 ) episode " Die Spy ", several lines of the song are spoken as interplay between Don Adams and Stu Gilliam.

He acted as music arranger on the Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones films Monty Python's The Life of Brian ( 1979 ) and Time Bandits ( 1981 ), the latter starring Sean Connery, and he also co-wrote the music for the stage musical Spamalot, as well as the music and the intro theme of the British series Captain Star.

Writers for the series included Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Roland MacLeod, Marty Feldman, Barry Cryer, Barry Took, Jim Franklin, Simon Brett and Chris Stuart-Clark.

* In the 1970s British comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus the Mona Lisa was used in two animated links by Terry Gilliam, the first as one of many paintings going on strike ( she dons a cap and declares in a low-pitched voice, " I'm off ") and as a temptress who reveals large breasts under her garment ; here she tells the viewer ( in a seductive, smoky American accent ), " Come over here to my window, big boy.

The logo of the Judean People's Front, designed by Terry Gilliam, was a Star of David with a small line added to each point so it resembled a swastika, most familiar in the West as the symbol of the anti-Semitic Nazi movement.

" It's really a Star Chamber ," said Gilliam of the arbitration process, which he claimed took more work than the screenplay itself.

* Philip K. Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle features a ( banned ) fictional work called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, which purports to describe how things might have transpired after World War II if the Allied side had won ( in the reality of the book, the Axis powers triumphed ).

This film was considered the most controversial in the series, mostly because of its fictional World War II sequence.

Fleming based his fictional creation on a number of individuals he came across during his time in the Naval Intelligence Division during World War II, admitting that Bond " was a compound of all the secret agents and commando types I met during the war ".

The Painted Bird, Kosiński's controversial 1965 novel, is a fictional account that depicts the personal experiences of a boy of unknown religious and ethnic background who wanders around unidentified areas of Eastern Europe during World War II and takes refuge among a series of people, many of whom are brutally cruel and abusive, either to him or to others.

* Micah, fictional character in the 1993 film Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice

Romulan ale is a fictional popular blue alcoholic beverage which was illegal because of a Federation trade embargo in the late 23rd century ( per Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ) through the late 24th century ( per Star Trek Nemesis ).

Tactics II, the first general commercial board wargame, featured a fictional landscape with two made up countries but whose armies had capabilities based on contemporary conventional forces.

Edward II, a fictional portrait from Cassell's History of England, published circa 1902

King Edward II of England, a fictional, anonymous 19th century portrait

Jar Jar Binks is a fictional character from the Star Wars Saga ( appears in: Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith ), and the television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

* Domovoi Butler, fictional bodyguard and manservant of Artemis Fowl II, in the Artemis Fowl series

The portrayal of Gaveston as homosexual continued in fictional portrayals, such as Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II from the early 1590s, and the 1924 adaptation of that work by Bertolt Brecht and Lion Feuchtwanger.

Goodman's character is a failed lounge singer named Ralph Jones whose grandmother had an affair with the fictional Duke of Warren, in the line of succession of the " House of Windam ", a not too subtle play on the House of Windsor, the current royal house of the sitting monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

Another variant is scenario paintball, in which players attempt to recreate historical, or fictional settings ; the largest being Oklahoma D-Day's World War II re-enactment.

Russell's third novel, A Thread of Grace, tells a fictional story within the fact-based setting of the Resistance in Italy during World War II and the plight of Jewish refugees in Northern Italy escaping from Nazi persecution throughout Europe.

Leto Atreides II (; 10, 205-13, 724 A. G .) is a fictional character from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

One of Knox's most famous works, though currently out of print, Taking as its subject the history of Oxford from the Reformation to shortly before World War II, it traces the disintegration of a common culture though the conversations of the dons of Simon Magus, a fictional college, first in 1588, and then by fifty year intervals until 1938.

Eärnil II is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's universe of Middle-earth.

Quest for Glory II takes place in the fictional land of Shapeir, in the world of Gloriana.

** BFG10K, the fictional weapon of the first-person shooters Quake II and Quake III: Arena, and in later unofficial Doom expansions

The Special Operations Executive ( SOE ), tasked by Winston Churchill to " set Europe ablaze " during World War II, had their headquarters at 64 Baker Street and were often called " the Baker Street Irregulars " after Sherlock Holmes's fictional group of boys employed " to go everywhere, see everything and overhear everyone ," as they spied about London.

The children's book Swallows and Amazons, and sequels Swallowdale and Winter Holiday, are based loosely on life before World War II around a fictional lake derived from a combination of Windermere and Coniston Water.

The general history of the fictional world is similar to the real one ( for instance, there was a Roman Empire, and World War II and 9 / 11 both occurred ), but many fantastic additions exist, such as the known existence of Atlantis.

* VF-22 Sturmvogel II, a fictional aircraft from the Macross anime series

* In the film The Godfather Part II, the fictional gangster Hyman Roth alludes to the scandal when he says, " I've loved baseball ever since Arnold Rothstein fixed the World Series in 1919.

By 1987 Ethernet was clearly winning the standards battle over Token Ring, and in the middle of that year Apple introduced EtherTalk 1. 0 for the newly released Macintosh II computer.

The Apple II computer on display at the Museum of the Moving Image ( New York City ) | Museum of the Moving Image in New York City

An Apple II computer with an external modem

The Norden bombsight was a highly sophisticated optical / mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bomb s accurately.

However, as the system was reaching completion, the personal computer revolution was starting with the release of machines like the Commodore PET, TRS-80 and Apple II.

Soon after, BBS software was being written for all of the major home computer systems of the late 1970s era-the Apple II, Atari, Commodore and TRS-80 being some of the most popular.

Then, if these " digital modules " were able to build a self-sustaining business, the company would be free to use them to develop a complete computer in their Phase II.

With the company established and a successful product on the market, DEC turned its attention to the computer market once again as part of its planned " Phase II ".

Mature versions of the Commodore, SWTPC, Atari and Apple home computer systems all featured a disk operating system ( actually called ' DOS ' in the case of the Commodore 64 ( CBM DOS ), Atari 800 ( Atari DOS ), and Apple II machines ( Apple DOS )), as did ( at the other end of the hardware spectrum, and much earlier ) IBM's System / 360, 370 and ( later ) 390 series of mainframes ( e. g., DOS / 360: Disk Operating System / 360 and DOS / VSE: Disk Operating System / Virtual Storage Extended ).

The need to break German codes in World War II led to advances in cryptography and theoretical computer science, with the first programmable digital electronic computer being developed at England's Bletchley Park.

EasyWriter was a word processor first written for the Apple II series computer in 1979, the first word processor for that platform.

This microprocessor was the first low-power CMOS processor chip, quite on a par with the 8-bit 6502 that was being built into the Apple II desktop computer at that time.

There were three parallel streams of computer development in the World War II era ; the first stream largely ignored, and the second stream deliberately kept secret.

* 1977 – Apple ships its first Apple II personal computer.

The stoning scene is referenced in the computer game Discworld II: Missing Presumed ...!?.

His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the first operational electronic computer, and he established the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University which produced the first working stored program electronic computer in 1948, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine.

In the years immediately after the 1983 ratification of the MIDI specification, MIDI features were adapted to several early computer platforms, including Apple II Plus, IIe and Macintosh, Commodore 64 and Amiga, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes, and PC-DOS.

Quake II is a first-person shooter computer game developed by id Software and distributed by Activision.

See electro-mechanical computers such as ARRA ( computer ), Harvard Mark II, Zuse Z2, and Zuse Z3.

Visicalc was the first electronic spreadsheet on a microcomputer, and it helped turn the Apple II computer into a popular and widely used system.

* 1947 – First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.

" Class II " slot machines ( also known as " video lottery terminals " or " VLTs ") are connected to a centralized computer system that determines the outcome of each wager.