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Series 8.2

Monty Python's Flying Circus

19694 seasons620 ratings

A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.

Synopsis

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

Seasons & episodes

4 seasons

Whither Canada?

1. Whither Canada?

Oct 5, 1969 31 min

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.

Sex and Violence

2. Sex and Violence

Oct 12, 1969 33 min

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.

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

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

Oct 19, 1969 31 min

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.

Owl Stretching Time

4. Owl Stretching Time

Oct 26, 1969 29 min

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.

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

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

Nov 16, 1969 29 min

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.

It's the Arts

6. It's the Arts

Nov 23, 1969 30 min

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.

Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

7. Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

Nov 30, 1969 30 min

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

Full Frontal Nudity

8. Full Frontal Nudity

Dec 7, 1969 29 min

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.

The Ant, An Introduction

9. The Ant, An Introduction

Dec 14, 1969 29 min

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

Untitled

10. Untitled

Dec 21, 1969 30 min

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.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

11. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

Dec 28, 1969 31 min

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

The Naked Ant

12. The Naked Ant

Jan 4, 1970 31 min

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.

Intermission

13. Intermission

Jan 11, 1970 29 min

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

Ensemble

Cast

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

Production

The details

Release

1969

Seasons

4 seasons

Studio

BBC

Spoken languages: English

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