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Monty Python's Flying Circus

  • TV-14
  • 1969–1974
  • 4 seasons
  • Comedy
  • 8.3

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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.

Episodes

13 episodes
  1. 1Whither Canada?

    31 minOct 5, 19697.8

    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.

  2. 2Sex and Violence

    33 minOct 12, 19697.7

    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.

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

    31 minOct 19, 19698.0

    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.

  4. 4Owl Stretching Time

    29 minOct 26, 19697.6

    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.

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

    29 minNov 16, 19697.9

    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.

  6. 6It's the Arts

    30 minNov 23, 19697.1

    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.

  7. 7Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

    30 minNov 30, 19697.2

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

  8. 8Full Frontal Nudity

    29 minDec 7, 19697.3

    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.

  9. 9The Ant, An Introduction

    29 minDec 14, 19697.5

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

  10. 10Untitled

    30 minDec 21, 19697.3

    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.

  11. 11The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

    31 minDec 28, 19697.1

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

  12. 12The Naked Ant

    31 minJan 4, 19707.2

    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.

  13. 13Intermission

    29 minJan 11, 19707.4

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

Where to watch Monty Python's Flying Circus

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Series cast

Graham ChapmanVarious45 episodes
Michael PalinVarious / "It's" man45 episodes
Terry JonesVarious45 episodes
Eric IdleVarious45 episodes
Terry GilliamVarious45 episodes
John CleeseVarious / Announcer39 episodes
Carol Cleveland5 episodes
Lyn Ashley5 episodes
Connie BoothVarious4 episodes
Rita DaviesThird Juror4 episodes
Peter BrettPatient - Russian3 episodes
Ian Davidson2 episodes
Maureen Flanagan2 episodes
Douglas Adams2 episodes
Dick Vosburgh1 episode
Barry Cryer1 episode
Marjorie Wilde1 episode
Ringo Starr1 episode

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