| 2024 | Michael Palin in Nigeria (serie) | Self |
| 2023 | Fawlty Towers: 50 Years of Laughs | Self |
| 2023 | Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse | Narrator |
| 2022 | Michael Palin: Into Iraq (serie) | — |
| 2022 | The Fringe, Fame and Me | Self |
| 2020 | Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime (serie) | Self - Host |
| 2020 | Sir David Attenborough and Sir Michael Palin in Conversation | Self |
| 2020 | Staged (serie) | Michael |
| 2020 | Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy | Self |
| 2019 | Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | An Accidental Studio | Self |
| 2019 | Final Ascent: The Legend of Hamish MacInnes | Himself |
| 2018 | Michael Palin in North Korea (serie) | Himself - Host |
| 2018 | Vanity Fair (serie) | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| 2018 | Michael Palin: A Life on Screen | — |
| 2017 | La muerte de Stalin | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| 2016 | Generation '66 | — |
| 2016 | Attenborough at 90 | Self |
| 2015 | Michael Palin's Quest for Artemisia | Himself |
| 2015 | Artsnight (serie) | Self |
| 2014 | A Life on Screen (serie) | Himself |
| 2014 | Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace | Himself |
| 2014 | Remember Me (serie) | Tom Parfitt |
| 2014 | Monty Python: The Meaning of Live | Self |
| 2014 | Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) (serie) | Self (archive footage) |
| 2014 | Monty Python en vivo (Más o menos) | Self, others |
| 2014 | Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar | Self |
| 2014 | 50 Years of BBC Two Comedy | Self |
| 2013 | Michael Palin In Wyeth's World | Himself |
| 2013 | The Meaning of Monty Python | Self |
| 2013 | The Wipers Times | General Mitford |
| 2013 | Frost on Sketch Shows | Self |
| 2012 | Anatomy of a Liar | Self |
| 2012 | Brazil with Michael Palin (serie) | Self (Presenter) |
| 2012 | Produced By George Martin | — |
| 2012 | Autobiografía de un mentiroso | Various (voice) |
| 2011 | Making Qi | Self |
| 2011 | The Jonathan Ross Show (serie) | Self |
| 2010 | ZULU Comedy Galla (serie) | Michael Palin |
| 2010 | Not The Messiah: The Road To Albert Hall | — |
| 2010 | No es el Mesías (Es un Sinvergüenza) | Mrs. Betty Palin / Julius Caesar / Bevis |
| 2009 | Monty Python: Casi la verdad (La versión de los abogados) (serie) | Self |
| 2009 | Monty Python in Aberystwyth | Self |
| 2008 | Around the World in 20 Years | Himself |
| 2008 | Inside Shabby Road: The Music of 'The Rutles' | Self |
| 2008 | Get Up and Go: The Making of 'The Rutles' | Self |
| 2008 | The Last Day of World War One | Presenter |
| 2008 | Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus | Self |
| 2008 | The Seventh Python | Self |
| 2008 | Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation | Self |
| 2008 | Life Of Brian Screenplay | Wise Man #3, Mr. Big Nose, Francis, Mrs. A, Ex-Leper |
| 2008 | Monty Python Conquers America | Self |
| 2007 | Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind | Gariiiiiii (voice) |
| 2007 | Michael Palin's New Europe (serie) | Himself |
| 2007 | Movie Connections (serie) | Self |
| 2007 | The Alan Titchmarsh Show (serie) | Self |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show (serie) | Self |
| 2007 | La vida secreta de Brian | Self |
| 2006 | Legends (serie) | Self |
| 2006 | The South Bank Show: Spamalot | — |
| 2006 | The One Show (serie) | Invitado especial |
| 2006 | Monty Python's Flying Circus - Michael Palin's Personal Best | — |
| 2006 | Monty Python's Personal Best (serie) | Self / Various Characters |
| 2006 | Monty Python's Flying Circus - Graham Chapman's Personal Best | Various Characters |
| 2005 | Michael Palin & the Mystery of Hammershøi | Host |
| 2004 | Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? | Self |
| 2004 | Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove' | Self |
| 2004 | El Himalaya con Michael Palin (serie) | Self - Presenter |
| 2004 | The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2003 | The Meaning of Making 'The Meaning of Life' | Self |
| 2002 | Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television | Himself - Presenter |
| 2002 | El Sáhara con Michael Palin (serie) | Self - Presenter |
| 2002 | Spike Milligan I told you I was ill... A live tribute | Self |
| 2001 | The Quest for the Holy Grail Locations | Self |
| 2000 | The Unknown Peter Sellers | Himself |
| 1999 | Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure (serie) | — |
| 1999 | Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm | Self |
| 1999 | The Monty Python Story | Self |
| 1999 | Monty Python: 30th Anniversary Sketches | Self |
| 1999 | Monty Python: Pythonland | — |
| 1998 | Fantasy World Cup (serie) | Self |
| 1998 | Monty Python: Live at Aspen | Self |
| 1997 | Palin on Redpath | Himself / Presenter |
| 1997 | Full Circle with Michael Palin (serie) | Himself |
| 1997 | Criaturas feroces | Adrian 'Bugsy' Malone |
| 1996 | The Willows in Winter | Rat |
| 1996 | Clive Anderson All Talk (serie) | Self |
| 1995 | El viento en los sauces | Rat |
| 1995 | The Frank Skinner Show (serie) | Self |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien (serie) | Invitado especial |
| 1993 | Tracey Ullman: A Class Act | Various |
| 1991 | The South Bank Show: Terry Gilliam | — |
| 1991 | G.B.H. (serie) | Jim Nelson |
| 1991 | American Friends | Rev. Francis Ashby |
| 1990 | Viz: The Documentary | Self |
| 1990 | Life of Python | Self / Various Roles |
| 1989 | Los Simpson (serie) | Springfield History Museum curator (voice) |
| 1989 | Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python | Self / Various Characters |
| 1989 | Michael Palin: The Art of Travel (serie) | — |
| 1989 | Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days (serie) | Himself |
| 1989 | The Movie Life of George | Self |
| 1988 | Un pez llamado Wanda | Ken Pile |
| 1988 | John Cleese's First Farewell Performance | Self |
| 1986 | Omnibus Presents Comic Relief (serie) | — |
| 1986 | Comedians Do It On Stage | Self |
| 1985 | Brazil | Jack Lint |
| 1984 | Función privada | Gilbert Chilvers |
| 1984 | The Dress | Howard |
| 1983 | Comic Roots: Michael Palin | — |
| 1983 | El sentido de la vida | Various Roles |
| 1982 | The Missionary | The Reverend Charles Fortescue |
| 1982 | Monty Python Show en el Hollywood Bowl | Various Roles |
| 1982 | Wogan (serie) | Self |
| 1980 | Travels with Palin (serie) | Himself |
| 1980 | Great Railway Journeys - Confessions of a Train Spotter | Himself |
| 1980 | Great Railway Journeys (serie) | Self - Presenter |
| 1979 | Roger of the Raj | Roger |
| 1979 | Whinfrey's Last Case | Gerald Whinfrey |
| 1979 | The Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979 | Self |
| 1978 | The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash | Eric Manchester |
| 1977 | Murder at Moorstones Manor | Charles Chiddingford |
| 1977 | Escape from Stalag Luft 112B | Major Errol Phipps |
| 1977 | The Testing of Eric Olthwaite | Eric Olthwaite |
| 1977 | La bestia del reino | Dennis Cooper |
| 1976 | The Secret Policeman's Ball (serie) | Self |
| 1976 | Ripping Yarns (serie) | — |
| 1976 | Tomkinson's Schooldays | Tomkinson |
| 1975 | Three Men in a Boat | Harris |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live (serie) | Self - Host |
| 1975 | Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (serie) | Self |
| 1974 | Monty Python & the Holy Grail Location Report | Self |
| 1974 | Henry Cleans Up | Henry |
| 1973 | Is This a Record? | Various |
| 1972 | Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (serie) | Various Characters |
| 1971 | The Great Birds Eye Peas Relaunch 1971 | — |
| 1970 | Monty Python: Who's There? | Ken |
| 1970 | Ending It All | — |
| 1969 | Clangers (serie) | Narrator (voice) |
| 1969 | El circo volador de los Monty Python (serie) | Various / "It's" man |
| 1969 | How to Irritate People | Various |
| 1967 | Do Not Adjust Your Set (serie) | Various Characters |
| 1967 | Twice a Fortnight (serie) | — |
