Presents the text of the 1943 Pulitzer Prize-winning play in which the Eternal Family, George and Maggie Antrobus, their children Gladys and Henry, and their maid Sabina, endure thousands of years of near disasters.
Mel Brooks' uproarious version of history features everything from a send-up of the film 2001 to the real stories behind the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.