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4 seasons · 45 episodesSeason 113 ep. · 1969–1970
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Episode 2: The Spanish Inquisition
Sep 22, 1970 · 30 min
Featuring the Spanish Inquisition, courtroom charades and a semaphore interpretation of Wuthering Heights.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Episode 3: The Money Programme
Nov 2, 1972 · 29 min
Features The Money Programme, Erizabeth L, Dead Bishop, Jungle Restaurant and The Argument Skit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Episode 5: Mr. Neutron
Nov 28, 1974 · 27 min
Featuring the story of Mr. Neutron and sketches including Post-Box Ceremony and Teddy Salad.
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.

















