Series
Monty Python's Flying Circus
“And now for something completely different...”
Comedy
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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Seasons & episodes
S1 · 13 epS2 · 13 epS3 · 13 epS4 · 6 ep
1Whither Canada?5 Oct 1969 · 31m · ★ 7.8Featuring '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.
2Sex and Violence12 Oct 1969 · 33m · ★ 7.7Featuring 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.
3How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away19 Oct 1969 · 31m · ★ 8.0Featuring 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.
4Owl Stretching Time26 Oct 1969 · 29m · ★ 7.6Featuring 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.
5Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century16 Nov 1969 · 29m · ★ 7.9Featuring 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.
6It's the Arts23 Nov 1969 · 30m · ★ 7.1Featuring 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.
7Oh, You're No Fun Anymore30 Nov 1969 · 30m · ★ 7.2Featuring camel-spotting, an embezzler at a board-meeting and a science fiction tale about a Scotsman and a tennis-playing blancmange.
8Full Frontal Nudity7 Dec 1969 · 29m · ★ 7.3Featuring 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.
9The Ant, An Introduction14 Dec 1969 · 29m · ★ 7.5Featuring Ken Buddha, a man with a tape-recorder up his nose and a hairdresser who always wanted to be a lumberjack.
10Untitled21 Dec 1969 · 30m · ★ 7.3Featuring a bank robber in a lingerie shop, It's A Tree (with Arthur Tree), a vocational guidance counsellor, Ron Obvious and a gorilla librarian.
11The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom28 Dec 1969 · 31m · ★ 7.1The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom, a footballer is interviewed and Batley Townswomen's Guild re-enact the invasion of Pearl Harbour.
12The Naked Ant4 Jan 1970 · 31m · ★ 7.2Featuring 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.
13Intermission11 Jan 1970 · 29m · ★ 7.4Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and Probe Around On Crime.
Details
- Created by
- Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies
- First aired
- 5 Oct 1969
- Last aired
- 5 Dec 1974
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- BBC One
- Episodes
- 45
- Votes
- 749 on TMDB
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Plex
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Cast
Graham ChapmanVarious
Michael PalinVarious / "It's" man
Terry JonesVarious
Eric IdleVarious
Terry GilliamVarious
