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Monty Python's Flying Circus

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Created by Ian MacNaughtonGraham ChapmanMichael PalinTerry Jones
Monty Python's Flying Circus poster
5 Oct 1969First aired
4Seasons
15BBFC rating
8.3TMDB score of 10

The series

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

Season 1 · 13 episodes · 1969

Highest rated this season: episode 3, “How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away”, 8.0 out of 10 on TMDB.
  1. Episode 15 Oct 196931m

    Whither Canada?

    7.8 / 10

    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. Episode 212 Oct 196933m

    Sex and Violence

    7.7 / 10

    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. Episode 319 Oct 196931m

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

    8.0 / 10

    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. Episode 426 Oct 196929m

    Owl Stretching Time

    7.6 / 10

    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. Episode 516 Nov 196929m

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

    7.9 / 10

    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. Episode 623 Nov 196930m

    It's the Arts

    7.1 / 10

    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. Episode 730 Nov 196930m

    Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

    7.2 / 10

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

  8. Episode 87 Dec 196929m

    Full Frontal Nudity

    7.3 / 10

    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. Episode 914 Dec 196929m

    The Ant, An Introduction

    7.5 / 10

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

  10. Episode 1021 Dec 196930m

    Untitled

    7.3 / 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.

  11. Episode 1128 Dec 196931m

    The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

    7.1 / 10

    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. Episode 124 Jan 197031m

    The Naked Ant

    7.2 / 10

    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. Episode 1311 Jan 197029m

    Intermission

    7.4 / 10

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

Cast

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