Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)

Name: Monty Python's Flying Circus
Rating: 8.3

Rating: 8.3

Synopsis

A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.

First Air Date: 1969-10-05

Last Air Date: 1974-12-05

Number of Seasons: 4

Number of Episodes: 45

Created By: Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies

Networks: BBC One

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Top Cast

Graham Chapman as Various
Michael Palin as Various / "It's" man
Terry Jones as Various
Eric Idle as Various
Terry Gilliam as Various
John Cleese as Various / Announcer
Carol Cleveland as Various
Lyn Ashley as N/A
Connie Booth as Various
Rita Davies as Hostess / Black Spot Storyteller

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Episodes:

Ep. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 11: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom (1969-12-28)

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom, a footballer is interviewed and Batley Townswomen's Guild re-enact the invasion of Pearl Harbour.
Ep. 12: The Naked Ant (1970-01-04)

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.
Ep. 13: Intermission (1970-01-11)

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