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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.

Comedy

4.1 / 5

5th October 1969 - 5th December 1974
Producer
Ian MacNaughton
Top Cast
Graham ChapmanMichael PalinTerry Jones
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Whither Canada? Still
Whither Canada?
5th October 1969

Episode 1

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.

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Sex and Violence
12th October 1969

Episode 2

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.

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How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
19th October 1969

Episode 3

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.

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Owl Stretching Time
26th October 1969

Episode 4

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.

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Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
16th November 1969

Episode 5

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.

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It's the Arts
23rd November 1969

Episode 6

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.

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Oh, You're No Fun Anymore
30th November 1969

Episode 7

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

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Full Frontal Nudity
7th December 1969

Episode 8

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.

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The Ant, An Introduction
14th December 1969

Episode 9

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

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Untitled
21st December 1969

Episode 10

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.

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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
28th December 1969

Episode 11

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

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The Naked Ant
4th January 1970

Episode 12

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.

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Intermission
11th January 1970

Episode 13

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