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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.

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4 seasons · 45 episodes
Season 113 ep. · 1969–1970
  1. Episode 1: Whither Canada?

    Oct 5, 1969 · 31 min

    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. Episode 2: Sex and Violence

    Oct 12, 1969 · 33 min

    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. Episode 3: How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away

    Oct 19, 1969 · 31 min

    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. Episode 4: Owl Stretching Time

    Oct 26, 1969 · 29 min

    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. Episode 5: Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century

    Nov 16, 1969 · 29 min

    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. Episode 6: It's the Arts

    Nov 23, 1969 · 30 min

    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. Episode 7: Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

    Nov 30, 1969 · 30 min

    Featuring camel-spotting, an embezzler at a board-meeting and a science fiction tale about a Scotsman and a tennis-playing blancmange.

  8. Episode 8: Full Frontal Nudity

    Dec 7, 1969 · 29 min

    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. Episode 9: The Ant, An Introduction

    Dec 14, 1969 · 29 min

    Featuring Ken Buddha, a man with a tape-recorder up his nose and a hairdresser who always wanted to be a lumberjack.

  10. Episode 10: Untitled

    Dec 21, 1969 · 30 min

    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. Episode 11: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

    Dec 28, 1969 · 31 min

    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. Episode 12: The Naked Ant

    Jan 4, 1970 · 31 min

    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. Episode 13: Intermission

    Jan 11, 1970 · 29 min

    Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and Probe Around On Crime.

Season 213 ep. · 1970
  1. Episode 1: Face the Press

    Sep 15, 1970 · 30 min

    Featuring Doug and Dinsdale Piranha, Face the Press and the Ministry of Silly Walks. Mrs G Pinnet buys a new gas cooker.

  2. Episode 2: The Spanish Inquisition

    Sep 22, 1970 · 30 min

    Featuring the Spanish Inquisition, courtroom charades and a semaphore interpretation of Wuthering Heights.

  3. Episode 3: Déjà Vu

    Sep 29, 1970 · 30 min

    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. Episode 4: The Buzz Aldrin Show

    Oct 20, 1970 · 30 min

    More surreal humour from the Monty Python team. Sketches include The Architects, How to Recognise a Mason, Poets and the Chemist sketch.

  5. Episode 5: Live from the Grill-O-Mat

    Oct 27, 1970 · 29 min

    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. Episode 6: It's a Living

    Nov 3, 1970 · 29 min

    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. Episode 7: The Attila the Hun Show

    Nov 11, 1970 · 27 min

    Featuring the Attila the Hun Show, a rat catcher, a village idiot, some killer sheep and news for parrots.

  8. Episode 8: Archaeology Today

    Nov 17, 1970 · 29 min

    Featuring Mrs Beethoven, the Reverend Arthur Belling, some Australian Mosquito Hunters and a drink party with the Gits.

  9. Episode 9: How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body

    Nov 24, 1970 · 30 min

    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. Episode 10: Scott of the Antarctic

    Dec 1, 1970 · 29 min

    Featuring a special report into the shooting of Scott of the Antarctic, from Paignton. Also, a man tries to purchase a fish licence.

  11. Episode 11: How Not to Be Seen

    Dec 8, 1970 · 29 min

    Features gags and sketches such as Job Hunter, Railway Timetables, How Not to be Seen and Interview in a Filing Cabinet.

  12. Episode 12: Spam

    Dec 15, 1970 · 30 min

    The sketches in this episode include Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook, World Forum-Communist Quiz, Hospital for Over-Actors and Spam.

  13. Episode 13: Royal Episode 13

    Dec 22, 1970 · 30 min

    Sketches in this episode include How to Feed a Goldfish, The Man Who Says Things in a Very Roundabout Way and Lifeboat.

Season 313 ep. · 1972–1973
  1. Episode 1: Whicker's World

    Oct 19, 1972 · 30 min

    Features gags and sketches such as Multiple Murderer Court Scene, Njorl's Saga and Whicker’s World.

  2. Episode 2: Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular

    Oct 26, 1972 · 29 min

    Features Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow, The Fish Slapping Dance, SS Mother Goose, Trim-Jeans Theatre and some very famous guests.

  3. Episode 3: The Money Programme

    Nov 2, 1972 · 29 min

    Features The Money Programme, Erizabeth L, Dead Bishop, Jungle Restaurant and The Argument Skit.

  4. Episode 4: Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror

    Nov 9, 1972 · 30 min

    Features gags and sketches such as Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror, The Man who Speaks in Anagrams and Pantomime Horses.

  5. Episode 5: The All-England Summarise Proust Competition

    Nov 16, 1972 · 30 min

    Featuring in this episode The All-England Summarise Proust Competition, Fire Brigade, Travel Agent and Party Hints with Veronica Smalls.

  6. Episode 6: The War Against Pornography

    Nov 23, 1972 · 28 min

    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. Episode 7: Salad Days

    Nov 30, 1972 · 28 min

    Features gags and sketches such as Biggles Dictates a Letter, Climbing the North Face of the Uxbridge Road, Lifeboat and The Cheese Shop.

  8. Episode 8: The Cycling Tour

    Dec 7, 1972 · 30 min

    This episode tells the story of Mr Pither as he embarks on his Cycling Tour.

  9. Episode 9: The Nude Organist

    Dec 14, 1972 · 30 min

    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. Episode 10: E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease

    Dec 21, 1972 · 27 min

    Sketches include The Tudor Jobs Agency, Elizabethan Pornography Smugglers, Thripshaw's Disease and The Man Who Says Words in the Wrong Order.

  11. Episode 11: Dennis Moore

    Jan 4, 1973 · 31 min

    Features the sketches Dennis Moore, What the Stars Foretell, The Ideal Loon Exhibition, Off-Licence and Prejudice.

  12. Episode 12: A Book at Bedtime

    Jan 11, 1973 · 24 min

    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. Episode 13: Grandstand (or: The British Showbiz Awards)

    Jan 18, 1973 · 26 min

    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.

Season 46 ep. · 1974
  1. Episode 1: The Golden Age of Ballooning

    Oct 31, 1974 · 28 min

    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. Episode 2: Michael Ellis

    Nov 7, 1974 · 28 min

    Features the sketches Department Store, Buying an Ant, At Home with the Ant and Other Pets and Toupee Department.

  3. Episode 3: The Light Entertainment War

    Nov 14, 1974 · 30 min

    More surreal gags and sketches including Up Your Pavement, RAF Banter, Court Martial, The Public Are Idiots and Woody and Tinny Words.

  4. Episode 4: Hamlet

    Nov 21, 1974 · 27 min

    Sketches in this episode include Hamlet and Ophelia, Bogus Psychiatrists, Police Helmets, Boxing Match Aftermath and The Queen Victoria Handicap.

  5. Episode 5: Mr. Neutron

    Nov 28, 1974 · 27 min

    Featuring the story of Mr. Neutron and sketches including Post-Box Ceremony and Teddy Salad.

  6. Episode 6: Party Political Broadcast

    Dec 5, 1974 · 28 min

    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.