Monty Python's Flying Circus

Season 41969

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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13 Episodes

E01 Whither Canada?

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.

October 5, 1969

E02 Sex and Violence

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.

October 12, 1969

E03 How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away

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.

October 19, 1969

E04 Owl Stretching Time

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.

October 26, 1969

E05 Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century

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.

November 16, 1969

E06 It's the Arts

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.

November 23, 1969

E07 Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

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

November 30, 1969

E08 Full Frontal Nudity

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.

December 7, 1969

E09 The Ant, An Introduction

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

December 14, 1969

E10 Untitled

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.

December 21, 1969

E11 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

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

December 28, 1969

E12 The Naked Ant

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.

January 4, 1970

E13 Intermission

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

January 11, 1970

Monty Python's Flying Circus

E01 Whither Canada?

E02 Sex and Violence

E03 How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away

E04 Owl Stretching Time

E05 Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century

E06 It's the Arts

E07 Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

E08 Full Frontal Nudity

E09 The Ant, An Introduction

E10 Untitled

E11 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

E12 The Naked Ant

E13 Intermission

Fawlty Towers

On Becoming a God in Central Florida

Another Period

Hong Kong Phooey

Ripping Yarns

Welcome Back, Kotter

8 Out of 10 Cats

Parade's End

Hyperdrive

Des

The Tick

Lillie

At Last the 1948 Show

Killer Women with Piers Morgan

Upper Middle Bogan

H.R. Pufnstuf

En himla många program

Doctor Snuggles

E01 Whither Canada?

E02 Sex and Violence

E03 How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away

E04 Owl Stretching Time

E05 Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century

E06 It's the Arts

E07 Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

E08 Full Frontal Nudity

E09 The Ant, An Introduction

E10 Untitled

E11 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

E12 The Naked Ant

E13 Intermission