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Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)

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  • 8.3/10 · 747
  • TV-14
  • Oct 5, 1969
  • 4 seasons · 45 episodes
  • English
  • Ended
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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.

Creator
Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies
Starring
Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle
Network
BBC One

Seasons

Season 1 · 13 episodes

  1. 1. Whither Canada?

    Oct 5, 1969 · 31m · ★ 7.8

    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.

  2. 2. Sex and Violence

    Oct 12, 1969 · 33m · ★ 7.7

    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.

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

    Oct 19, 1969 · 31m · ★ 8.0

    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.

  4. 4. Owl Stretching Time

    Oct 26, 1969 · 29m · ★ 7.6

    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.

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

    Nov 16, 1969 · 29m · ★ 7.9

    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.

  6. 6. It's the Arts

    Nov 23, 1969 · 30m · ★ 7.1

    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.

  7. 7. Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

    Nov 30, 1969 · 30m · ★ 7.2

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

  8. 8. Full Frontal Nudity

    Dec 7, 1969 · 29m · ★ 7.3

    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.

  9. 9. The Ant, An Introduction

    Dec 14, 1969 · 29m · ★ 7.5

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

  10. 10. Untitled

    Dec 21, 1969 · 30m · ★ 7.3

    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.

  11. 11. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

    Dec 28, 1969 · 31m · ★ 7.1

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

  12. 12. The Naked Ant

    Jan 4, 1970 · 31m · ★ 7.2

    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.

  13. 13. Intermission

    Jan 11, 1970 · 29m · ★ 7.4

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

Cast

Trailer

Details

First aired
Oct 5, 1969
Last aired
Dec 5, 1974
Status
Ended
Languages
English
Production
BBC
Keywords
surreal, satire, sketch comedy
IMDb
tt0063929

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