Monty Python's Flying Circus
Series· 1969–1974· 30mTV-14

Monty Python's Flying Circus

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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.

Creators:
Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies

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Last airedFinale
S4 · E6Party Political Broadcast

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Season 41974
6 episodes
  • E1The Golden Age of Ballooning
    · 28m

    Features gags and sketches such as The Golden Age of Ballooning, Louis XVI, The Court of George III and a Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Norwegian Party.

  • E2Michael Ellis
    · 28m

    Features the sketches Department Store, Buying an Ant, At Home with the Ant and Other Pets and Toupee Department.

  • E3The Light Entertainment War
    · 30m

    More surreal gags and sketches including Up Your Pavement, RAF Banter, Court Martial, The Public Are Idiots and Woody and Tinny Words.

  • E4Hamlet
    · 27m

    Sketches in this episode include Hamlet and Ophelia, Bogus Psychiatrists, Police Helmets, Boxing Match Aftermath and The Queen Victoria Handicap.

  • E5Mr. Neutron
    · 27m

    Featuring the story of Mr. Neutron and sketches including Post-Box Ceremony and Teddy Salad.

  • E6Party Political BroadcastFinale
    · 28m

    Sketches in this final episode include The Most Awful Family in Britain, Patient Abuse, Brigadier and Bishop and The Man Who Finishes Other People's Sentences.

Season 31972
13 episodes
  • E1Whicker's World
    · 30m

    Features gags and sketches such as Multiple Murderer Court Scene, Njorl's Saga and Whicker’s World.

  • E2Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular
    · 29m

    Features Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow, The Fish Slapping Dance, SS Mother Goose, Trim-Jeans Theatre and some very famous guests.

  • E3The Money Programme
    · 29m

    Features The Money Programme, Erizabeth L, Dead Bishop, Jungle Restaurant and The Argument Skit.

  • E4Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
    · 30m

    Features gags and sketches such as Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror, The Man who Speaks in Anagrams and Pantomime Horses.

  • E5The All-England Summarise Proust Competition
    · 30m

    Featuring in this episode The All-England Summarise Proust Competition, Fire Brigade, Travel Agent and Party Hints with Veronica Smalls.

  • E6The War Against Pornography
    · 28m

    Sketches in this episode include Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign, Gumby Brain Specialist, Expedition to Lake Pahoe and The Silliest Interview We've Ever Had.

  • E7Salad Days
    · 28m

    Features gags and sketches such as Biggles Dictates a Letter, Climbing the North Face of the Uxbridge Road, Lifeboat and The Cheese Shop.

  • E8The Cycling Tour
    · 30m

    This episode tells the story of Mr Pither as he embarks on his Cycling Tour.

  • E9The Nude Organist
    · 30m

    Features gags and sketches such as Bomb on Plane, Mortuary Hour, The Olympic Hide-and-Seek Final, The Cheap Laughs and Prices on the Planet Algon.

  • E10E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease
    · 27m

    Sketches include The Tudor Jobs Agency, Elizabethan Pornography Smugglers, Thripshaw's Disease and The Man Who Says Words in the Wrong Order.

  • E11Dennis Moore
    · 31m

    Features the sketches Dennis Moore, What the Stars Foretell, The Ideal Loon Exhibition, Off-Licence and Prejudice.

  • E12A Book at Bedtime
    · 24m

    Features gags and sketches such as A Book at Bedtime, Kamikaze Scotsmen, No Time to Lose, Spot the Looney and Frontiers of Medicine-Penguins.

  • E13Grandstand (or: The British Showbiz Awards)Finale
    · 26m

    Sketches include The Oscar Wilde Sketch, David Niven’s Fridge, Pasolini’s ‘The Third Test Match’, New Brain from Currys, Blood Donor and the Dirty Vicar Sketch.

Season 21970
13 episodes
  • E1Face the Press
    · 30m

    Featuring Doug and Dinsdale Piranha, Face the Press and the Ministry of Silly Walks. Mrs G Pinnet buys a new gas cooker.

  • E2The Spanish Inquisition
    · 30m

    Featuring the Spanish Inquisition, courtroom charades and a semaphore interpretation of Wuthering Heights.

  • E3Déjà Vu
    · 30m

    Featuring the work of the poet Euan McTeagle, a psychiatrist milkman and some exploding animals. A television presenter suffers from a severe case of deja vu.

  • E4The Buzz Aldrin Show
    · 30m

    More surreal humour from the Monty Python team. Sketches include The Architects, How to Recognise a Mason, Poets and the Chemist sketch.

  • E5Live from the Grill-O-Mat
    · 29m

    Featuring gameshow Blackmail, The Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and boxer Ken Clean-Air System.

  • E6It's a Living
    · 29m

    Featuring It's a Living and a school prize-giving. Timmy Williams presents a new chat show and the fate of the Silly Party hangs in the balance in an Election Night Special.

  • E7The Attila the Hun Show
    · 27m

    Featuring the Attila the Hun Show, a rat catcher, a village idiot, some killer sheep and news for parrots.

  • E8Archaeology Today
    · 29m

    Featuring Mrs Beethoven, the Reverend Arthur Belling, some Australian Mosquito Hunters and a drink party with the Gits.

  • E9How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body
    · 30m

    Featuring a guide on how to recognise parts of the body, a singing policeman, an interview with a plastic surgeon, a camp soldiers' drill and the Verrifast Plane Company.

  • E10Scott of the Antarctic
    · 29m

    Featuring a special report into the shooting of Scott of the Antarctic, from Paignton. Also, a man tries to purchase a fish licence.

  • E11How Not to Be Seen
    · 29m

    Features gags and sketches such as Job Hunter, Railway Timetables, How Not to be Seen and Interview in a Filing Cabinet.

  • E12Spam
    · 30m

    The sketches in this episode include Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook, World Forum-Communist Quiz, Hospital for Over-Actors and Spam.

  • E13Royal Episode 13Finale
    · 30m

    Sketches in this episode include How to Feed a Goldfish, The Man Who Says Things in a Very Roundabout Way and Lifeboat.

Season 11969
13 episodes

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Details

Networks
BBC One
Seasons
4 · 45 episodes
Runtime
30m per episode
Status
Ended
Language
EN
First aired
October 5, 1969
Content rating
TV-14
Production
BBC
IMDB ID
tt0063929

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