The film also features Carol Cleveland in numerous supporting roles and Neil Innes performing songs.

The performance was recorded on videotape during the show's four-day run starting September 26, 1980 and transferred to film.

The "Silly Olympics" sketch is from the first Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus episode, dubbed into English.

The original version also featured the events "1500m for people and their mothers" and "Hammer throw to America", whereas the latter acted as a link to the next sketch.

A film version of the Hollywood Bowl performances, with direction credited to Terry Hughes, was given a limited theatrical release in North America beginning on 25 June 1982.