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Monty Python's Flying Circus

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First Aired:October 5, 1969
Seasons:4 seasons
Episodes:45
Status:Ended

A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.

Cast

Graham Chapman

Graham Chapman

Various

Michael Palin

Michael Palin

Various / "It's" man

Terry Jones

Terry Jones

Various

Eric Idle

Eric Idle

Various

Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam

Various

Seasons

Whither Canada?

E1Whither Canada?

31m7.8

Oct 5, 1969

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.

Sex and Violence

E2Sex and Violence

33m7.7

Oct 12, 1969

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.

How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away

E3How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away

31m8.0

Oct 19, 1969

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.

Owl Stretching Time

E4Owl Stretching Time

29m7.6

Oct 26, 1969

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.

Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century

E5Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century

29m7.9

Nov 16, 1969

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.

It's the Arts

E6It's the Arts

30m7.1

Nov 23, 1969

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.

Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

E7Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

30m7.2

Nov 30, 1969

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

Full Frontal Nudity

E8Full Frontal Nudity

29m7.3

Dec 7, 1969

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.

The Ant, An Introduction

E9The Ant, An Introduction

29m7.5

Dec 14, 1969

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

Untitled

E10Untitled

30m7.3

Dec 21, 1969

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.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

E11The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

31m7.1

Dec 28, 1969

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom, a footballer is interviewed and Batley Townswomen's Guild re-enact the invasion of Pearl Harbour.

The Naked Ant

E12The Naked Ant

31m7.2

Jan 4, 1970

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.

Intermission

E13Intermission

29m7.4

Jan 11, 1970

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

Face the Press

E1Face the Press

30m7.8

Sep 15, 1970

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

The Spanish Inquisition

E2The Spanish Inquisition

30m7.9

Sep 22, 1970

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

Déjà Vu

E3Déjà Vu

30m7.8

Sep 29, 1970

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.

The Buzz Aldrin Show

E4The Buzz Aldrin Show

30m7.9

Oct 20, 1970

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

Live from the Grill-O-Mat

E5Live from the Grill-O-Mat

29m7.1

Oct 27, 1970

Featuring gameshow Blackmail, The Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and boxer Ken Clean-Air System.

It's a Living

E6It's a Living

29m6.5

Nov 3, 1970

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.

The Attila the Hun Show

E7The Attila the Hun Show

27m7.5

Nov 11, 1970

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

Archaeology Today

E8Archaeology Today

29m7.4

Nov 17, 1970

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

How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body

E9How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body

30m7.5

Nov 24, 1970

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.

Scott of the Antarctic

E10Scott of the Antarctic

29m7.2

Dec 1, 1970

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

How Not to Be Seen

E11How Not to Be Seen

29m7.5

Dec 8, 1970

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

Spam

E12Spam

30m7.9

Dec 15, 1970

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

Royal Episode 13

E13Royal Episode 13

30m7.6

Dec 22, 1970

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

Whicker's World

E1Whicker's World

30m7.2

Oct 19, 1972

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

Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular

E2Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular

29m7.3

Oct 26, 1972

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

The Money Programme

E3The Money Programme

29m6.6

Nov 2, 1972

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

Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror

E4Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror

30m7.7

Nov 9, 1972

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

The All-England Summarise Proust Competition

E5The All-England Summarise Proust Competition

30m7.2

Nov 16, 1972

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

The War Against Pornography

E6The War Against Pornography

28m7.4

Nov 23, 1972

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.

Salad Days

E7Salad Days

28m7.6

Nov 30, 1972

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

The Cycling Tour

E8The Cycling Tour

30m6.9

Dec 7, 1972

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

The Nude Organist

E9The Nude Organist

30m7.3

Dec 14, 1972

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.

E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease

E10E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease

27m7.9

Dec 21, 1972

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

Dennis Moore

E11Dennis Moore

31m7.0

Jan 4, 1973

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

A Book at Bedtime

E12A Book at Bedtime

24m7.7

Jan 11, 1973

Features gags and sketches such as A Book at Bedtime, Kamikaze Scotsmen, No Time to Lose, Spot the Looney and Frontiers of Medicine-Penguins.

Grandstand (or: The British Showbiz Awards)

E13Grandstand (or: The British Showbiz Awards)

26m6.5

Jan 18, 1973

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.

The Golden Age of Ballooning

E1The Golden Age of Ballooning

28m6.7

Oct 31, 1974

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.

Michael Ellis

E2Michael Ellis

28m7.1

Nov 7, 1974

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

The Light Entertainment War

E3The Light Entertainment War

30m6.5

Nov 14, 1974

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

Hamlet

E4Hamlet

27m6.5

Nov 21, 1974

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

Mr. Neutron

E5Mr. Neutron

27m7.1

Nov 28, 1974

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

Party Political Broadcast

E6Party Political Broadcast

28m6.3

Dec 5, 1974

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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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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