Series

Monty Python's Flying Circus

1969 · 4 seasons · 45 episodes · Ended · BBC One

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.

Episodes

  • S01E01Whither Canada?1969-10-0531m

    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.

  • S01E02Sex and Violence1969-10-1233m

    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.

  • S01E03How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away1969-10-1931m

    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.

  • S01E04Owl Stretching Time1969-10-2629m

    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.

  • S01E05Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century1969-11-1629m

    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.

  • S01E06It's the Arts1969-11-2330m

    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.

  • S01E07Oh, You're No Fun Anymore1969-11-3030m

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

  • S01E08Full Frontal Nudity1969-12-0729m

    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.

  • S01E09The Ant, An Introduction1969-12-1429m

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

  • S01E10Untitled1969-12-2130m

    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.

  • S01E11The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom1969-12-2831m

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

  • S01E12The Naked Ant1970-01-0431m

    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.

  • S01E13Intermission1970-01-1129m

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

Cast