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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.
Cast

Graham Chapman
Various

Michael Palin
Various / "It's" man

Terry Jones
Various

Eric Idle
Various

Terry Gilliam
Various
Seasons

E1Whither Canada?
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.

E2Sex and Violence
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.

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

E4Owl Stretching Time
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.

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

E6It's the Arts
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.

E7Oh, You're No Fun Anymore
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.

E8Full Frontal Nudity
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.

E9The Ant, An Introduction
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.

E10Untitled
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.

E11The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
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.

E12The Naked Ant
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.

E13Intermission
Jan 11, 1970
Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and Probe Around On Crime.

E1Face the Press
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.

E2The Spanish Inquisition
Sep 22, 1970
Featuring the Spanish Inquisition, courtroom charades and a semaphore interpretation of Wuthering Heights.

E3Déjà Vu
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.

E4The Buzz Aldrin Show
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.

E5Live from the Grill-O-Mat
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.

E6It's a Living
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.

E7The Attila the Hun Show
Nov 11, 1970
Featuring the Attila the Hun Show, a rat catcher, a village idiot, some killer sheep and news for parrots.

E8Archaeology Today
Nov 17, 1970
Featuring Mrs Beethoven, the Reverend Arthur Belling, some Australian Mosquito Hunters and a drink party with the Gits.

E9How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body
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.

E10Scott of the Antarctic
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.

E11How Not to Be Seen
Dec 8, 1970
Features gags and sketches such as Job Hunter, Railway Timetables, How Not to be Seen and Interview in a Filing Cabinet.

E12Spam
Dec 15, 1970
The sketches in this episode include Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook, World Forum-Communist Quiz, Hospital for Over-Actors and Spam.

E13Royal Episode 13
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.

E1Whicker's World
Oct 19, 1972
Features gags and sketches such as Multiple Murderer Court Scene, Njorl's Saga and Whicker’s World.

E2Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular
Oct 26, 1972
Features Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow, The Fish Slapping Dance, SS Mother Goose, Trim-Jeans Theatre and some very famous guests.

E3The Money Programme
Nov 2, 1972
Features The Money Programme, Erizabeth L, Dead Bishop, Jungle Restaurant and The Argument Skit.

E4Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
Nov 9, 1972
Features gags and sketches such as Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror, The Man who Speaks in Anagrams and Pantomime Horses.

E5The All-England Summarise Proust Competition
Nov 16, 1972
Featuring in this episode The All-England Summarise Proust Competition, Fire Brigade, Travel Agent and Party Hints with Veronica Smalls.

E6The War Against Pornography
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.

E7Salad Days
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.

E8The Cycling Tour
Dec 7, 1972
This episode tells the story of Mr Pither as he embarks on his Cycling Tour.

E9The Nude Organist
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.

E10E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease
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.

E11Dennis Moore
Jan 4, 1973
Features the sketches Dennis Moore, What the Stars Foretell, The Ideal Loon Exhibition, Off-Licence and Prejudice.

E12A Book at Bedtime
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.

E13Grandstand (or: The British Showbiz Awards)
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.

E1The Golden Age of Ballooning
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.

E2Michael Ellis
Nov 7, 1974
Features the sketches Department Store, Buying an Ant, At Home with the Ant and Other Pets and Toupee Department.

E3The Light Entertainment War
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.

E4Hamlet
Nov 21, 1974
Sketches in this episode include Hamlet and Ophelia, Bogus Psychiatrists, Police Helmets, Boxing Match Aftermath and The Queen Victoria Handicap.

E5Mr. Neutron
Nov 28, 1974
Featuring the story of Mr. Neutron and sketches including Post-Box Ceremony and Teddy Salad.

E6Party Political Broadcast
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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