Monty Python's Flying Circus
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A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.
Seasons
1. Whither Canada?
Air Date: 1969-10-05
Featuring 'It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart', an Italian lesson, Whizzo Butter, 'It's the Arts', Arthur 'Two-Sheds' Jackson, a cycling race, and The Funniest Joke in the World.
2. Sex and Violence
Air Date: 1969-10-12
Featuring some flying sheep, a man with three buttocks, a man with two noses, musical mice, a marriage guidance counsellor, a working-class playwright and The Wrestling Epilogue.
3. How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
Air Date: 1969-10-19
Featuring a court scene, the larch, Bicycle Repair Man, children's stories, a restaurant sketch, some seduced milkmen, an interview with some children and a stolen newsreader.
4. Owl Stretching Time
Air Date: 1969-10-26
Featuring fresh fruit as self-defence, some folk-singing, an art gallery sketch and Lemming of the BDA. An Edwardian man struggles to undress on the beach.
5. Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
Air Date: 1969-11-16
Featuring Confuse-a-Cat, discussion programme A Duck, a Cat and a Lizard, the arrest of a newsreader, an erotic film, a silly job interview and a burglar/encyclopaedia salesman.
6. It's the Arts
Air Date: 1969-11-23
Featuring a gang of legal burglars, the Whizzo Quality Assortment, a Scottish wedding and a day in the life of a city stockbroker. Some film moguls try to impress their boss.
7. Oh, You're No Fun Anymore
Air Date: 1969-11-30
Featuring camel-spotting, an embezzler at a board-meeting and a science fiction tale about a Scotsman and a tennis-playing blancmange.
8. Full Frontal Nudity
Air Date: 1969-12-07
Featuring an art critic, some hermits, Hell's Grannies and the dead parrot sketch. Some newlyweds attempt to buy a bed and the mafia offer protecting to the army.
9. The Ant, An Introduction
Air Date: 1969-12-14
Featuring Ken Buddha, a man with a tape-recorder up his nose and a hairdresser who always wanted to be a lumberjack.
10. Untitled
Air Date: 1969-12-21
Featuring a bank robber in a lingerie shop, It's A Tree (with Arthur Tree), a vocational guidance counsellor, Ron Obvious and a gorilla librarian.
11. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
Air Date: 1969-12-28
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom, a footballer is interviewed and Batley Townswomen's Guild re-enact the invasion of Pearl Harbour.
12. The Naked Ant
Air Date: 1970-01-04
Featuring the North Minehead by-election, the Upper Class Twit of the Year competition, Ken Shabby and a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Wood Party.
13. Intermission
Air Date: 1970-01-11
Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and Probe Around On Crime.
1. Face the Press
Air Date: 1970-09-15
Featuring Doug and Dinsdale Piranha, Face the Press and the Ministry of Silly Walks. Mrs G Pinnet buys a new gas cooker.
2. The Spanish Inquisition
Air Date: 1970-09-22
Featuring the Spanish Inquisition, courtroom charades and a semaphore interpretation of Wuthering Heights.
3. Déjà Vu
Air Date: 1970-09-29
Featuring the work of the poet Euan McTeagle, a psychiatrist milkman and some exploding animals. A television presenter suffers from a severe case of deja vu.
4. The Buzz Aldrin Show
Air Date: 1970-10-20
More surreal humour from the Monty Python team. Sketches include The Architects, How to Recognise a Mason, Poets and the Chemist sketch.
5. Live from the Grill-O-Mat
Air Date: 1970-10-27
Featuring gameshow Blackmail, The Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and boxer Ken Clean-Air System.
6. It's a Living
Air Date: 1970-11-03
Featuring It's a Living and a school prize-giving. Timmy Williams presents a new chat show and the fate of the Silly Party hangs in the balance in an Election Night Special.
7. The Attila the Hun Show
Air Date: 1970-11-11
Featuring the Attila the Hun Show, a rat catcher, a village idiot, some killer sheep and news for parrots.
8. Archaeology Today
Air Date: 1970-11-17
Featuring Mrs Beethoven, the Reverend Arthur Belling, some Australian Mosquito Hunters and a drink party with the Gits.
9. How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body
Air Date: 1970-11-24
Featuring a guide on how to recognise parts of the body, a singing policeman, an interview with a plastic surgeon, a camp soldiers' drill and the Verrifast Plane Company.
10. Scott of the Antarctic
Air Date: 1970-12-01
Featuring a special report into the shooting of Scott of the Antarctic, from Paignton. Also, a man tries to purchase a fish licence.
11. How Not to Be Seen
Air Date: 1970-12-08
Features gags and sketches such as Job Hunter, Railway Timetables, How Not to be Seen and Interview in a Filing Cabinet.
12. Spam
Air Date: 1970-12-15
The sketches in this episode include Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook, World Forum-Communist Quiz, Hospital for Over-Actors and Spam.
13. Royal Episode 13
Air Date: 1970-12-22
Sketches in this episode include How to Feed a Goldfish, The Man Who Says Things in a Very Roundabout Way and Lifeboat.
1. Whicker's World
Air Date: 1972-10-19
Features gags and sketches such as Multiple Murderer Court Scene, Njorl's Saga and Whicker’s World.
2. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular
Air Date: 1972-10-26
Features Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow, The Fish Slapping Dance, SS Mother Goose, Trim-Jeans Theatre and some very famous guests.
3. The Money Programme
Air Date: 1972-11-02
Features The Money Programme, Erizabeth L, Dead Bishop, Jungle Restaurant and The Argument Skit.
4. Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
Air Date: 1972-11-09
Features gags and sketches such as Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror, The Man who Speaks in Anagrams and Pantomime Horses.
5. The All-England Summarise Proust Competition
Air Date: 1972-11-16
Featuring in this episode The All-England Summarise Proust Competition, Fire Brigade, Travel Agent and Party Hints with Veronica Smalls.
6. The War Against Pornography
Air Date: 1972-11-23
Sketches in this episode include Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign, Gumby Brain Specialist, Expedition to Lake Pahoe and The Silliest Interview We've Ever Had.
7. Salad Days
Air Date: 1972-11-30
Features gags and sketches such as Biggles Dictates a Letter, Climbing the North Face of the Uxbridge Road, Lifeboat and The Cheese Shop.
8. The Cycling Tour
Air Date: 1972-12-07
This episode tells the story of Mr Pither as he embarks on his Cycling Tour.
9. The Nude Organist
Air Date: 1972-12-14
Features gags and sketches such as Bomb on Plane, Mortuary Hour, The Olympic Hide-and-Seek Final, The Cheap Laughs and Prices on the Planet Algon.
10. E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease
Air Date: 1972-12-21
Sketches include The Tudor Jobs Agency, Elizabethan Pornography Smugglers, Thripshaw's Disease and The Man Who Says Words in the Wrong Order.
11. Dennis Moore
Air Date: 1973-01-04
Features the sketches Dennis Moore, What the Stars Foretell, The Ideal Loon Exhibition, Off-Licence and Prejudice.
12. A Book at Bedtime
Air Date: 1973-01-11
Features gags and sketches such as A Book at Bedtime, Kamikaze Scotsmen, No Time to Lose, Spot the Looney and Frontiers of Medicine-Penguins.
13. Grandstand (or: The British Showbiz Awards)
Air Date: 1973-01-18
Sketches include The Oscar Wilde Sketch, David Niven’s Fridge, Pasolini’s ‘The Third Test Match’, New Brain from Currys, Blood Donor and the Dirty Vicar Sketch.
1. The Golden Age of Ballooning
Air Date: 1974-10-31
Features gags and sketches such as The Golden Age of Ballooning, Louis XVI, The Court of George III and a Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Norwegian Party.
2. Michael Ellis
Air Date: 1974-11-07
Features the sketches Department Store, Buying an Ant, At Home with the Ant and Other Pets and Toupee Department.
3. The Light Entertainment War
Air Date: 1974-11-14
More surreal gags and sketches including Up Your Pavement, RAF Banter, Court Martial, The Public Are Idiots and Woody and Tinny Words.
4. Hamlet
Air Date: 1974-11-21
Sketches in this episode include Hamlet and Ophelia, Bogus Psychiatrists, Police Helmets, Boxing Match Aftermath and The Queen Victoria Handicap.
5. Mr. Neutron
Air Date: 1974-11-28
Featuring the story of Mr. Neutron and sketches including Post-Box Ceremony and Teddy Salad.
6. Party Political Broadcast
Air Date: 1974-12-05
Sketches in this final episode include The Most Awful Family in Britain, Patient Abuse, Brigadier and Bishop and The Man Who Finishes Other People's Sentences.
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Rating
8.2/10
Release Date
1969-10-05
Episodes
45 (4 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Videos
Production Companies
BBC