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Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python's Flying Circus
★ 8.3/10•1969•TV-14•Comedy
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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.

StatusEnded
LanguageEN
First Air DateOct 5, 1969

Episodes

Episode 1 - Whither Canada?E131m

Whither Canada?

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.

Oct 5, 1969

Episode 2 - Sex and ViolenceE233m

Sex and Violence

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.

Oct 12, 1969

Episode 3 - How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way AwayE331m

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

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.

Oct 19, 1969

Episode 4 - Owl Stretching TimeE429m

Owl Stretching Time

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.

Oct 26, 1969

Episode 5 - Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th CenturyE529m

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

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.

Nov 16, 1969

Episode 6 - It's the ArtsE630m

It's the Arts

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.

Nov 23, 1969

Episode 7 - Oh, You're No Fun AnymoreE730m

Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

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

Nov 30, 1969

Episode 8 - Full Frontal NudityE829m

Full Frontal Nudity

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.

Dec 7, 1969

Episode 9 - The Ant, An IntroductionE929m

The Ant, An Introduction

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

Dec 14, 1969

Episode 10 - UntitledE1030m

Untitled

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.

Dec 21, 1969

Episode 11 - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the BathroomE1131m

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

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

Dec 28, 1969

Episode 12 - The Naked AntE1231m

The Naked Ant

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.

Jan 4, 1970

Episode 13 - IntermissionE1329m

Intermission

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

Jan 11, 1970

Actors

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

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