Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python's Flying Circus

83% Match19694 SeasonsComedy

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

Whither Canada?

1. Whither Canada?

1969-10-05

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.

EP 1
Sex and Violence

2. Sex and Violence

1969-10-12

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.

EP 2
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

1969-10-19

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.

EP 3
Owl Stretching Time

4. Owl Stretching Time

1969-10-26

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.

EP 4
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

1969-11-16

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.

EP 5
It's the Arts

6. It's the Arts

1969-11-23

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.

EP 6
Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

7. Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

1969-11-30

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

EP 7
Full Frontal Nudity

8. Full Frontal Nudity

1969-12-07

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.

EP 8
The Ant, An Introduction

9. The Ant, An Introduction

1969-12-14

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

EP 9
Untitled

10. Untitled

1969-12-21

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.

EP 10