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Monty Python's Flying Circus

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About Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python's Flying Circus is a comedy TV series that premiered on BBC One on October 5, 1969. It has 4 seasons and 45 episodes so far and has ended. The latest episode, Season 4 Episode 6 "Party Political Broadcast", aired on December 5, 1974.

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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Episodes

45 episodes · 4 seasons

Season 1

1969 · 13 episodes · Last episode: 56 years ago

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    13. Intermission

    Finale

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

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    12. 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.

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    11. 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.

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    10. 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.

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    9. 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.

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    8. 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.

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    7. 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.

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    6. 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.

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    5. 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.

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    4. 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.

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    3. 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.

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    2. 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.

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    1. 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.

Season 2

1970 · 13 episodes · Last episode: 55 years ago

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    13. Royal Episode 13

    Finale

    Sketches in this episode include How to Feed a Goldfish, The Man Who Says Things in a Very Roundabout Way and Lifeboat.

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    12. Spam

    The sketches in this episode include Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook, World Forum-Communist Quiz, Hospital for Over-Actors and Spam.

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    11. How Not to Be Seen

    Features gags and sketches such as Job Hunter, Railway Timetables, How Not to be Seen and Interview in a Filing Cabinet.

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    10. Scott of the Antarctic

    Featuring a special report into the shooting of Scott of the Antarctic, from Paignton. Also, a man tries to purchase a fish licence.

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    9. How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body

    Featuring a guide on how to recognise parts of the body, a singing policeman, an interview with a plastic surgeon, a camp soldiers' drill and the Verrifast Plane Company.

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    8. Archaeology Today

    Featuring Mrs Beethoven, the Reverend Arthur Belling, some Australian Mosquito Hunters and a drink party with the Gits.

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    7. The Attila the Hun Show

    Featuring the Attila the Hun Show, a rat catcher, a village idiot, some killer sheep and news for parrots.

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    6. It's a Living

    Featuring It's a Living and a school prize-giving. Timmy Williams presents a new chat show and the fate of the Silly Party hangs in the balance in an Election Night Special.

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    5. Live from the Grill-O-Mat

    Featuring gameshow Blackmail, The Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and boxer Ken Clean-Air System.

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    4. The Buzz Aldrin Show

    More surreal humour from the Monty Python team. Sketches include The Architects, How to Recognise a Mason, Poets and the Chemist sketch.

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    3. Déjà Vu

    Featuring the work of the poet Euan McTeagle, a psychiatrist milkman and some exploding animals. A television presenter suffers from a severe case of deja vu.

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    2. The Spanish Inquisition

    Featuring the Spanish Inquisition, courtroom charades and a semaphore interpretation of Wuthering Heights.

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    1. Face the Press

    Featuring Doug and Dinsdale Piranha, Face the Press and the Ministry of Silly Walks. Mrs G Pinnet buys a new gas cooker.

Season 3

1972 · 13 episodes · Last episode: 53 years ago

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    13. Grandstand (or: The British Showbiz Awards)

    Finale

    Sketches include The Oscar Wilde Sketch, David Niven’s Fridge, Pasolini’s ‘The Third Test Match’, New Brain from Currys, Blood Donor and the Dirty Vicar Sketch.

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    12. A Book at Bedtime

    Features gags and sketches such as A Book at Bedtime, Kamikaze Scotsmen, No Time to Lose, Spot the Looney and Frontiers of Medicine-Penguins.

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    11. Dennis Moore

    Features the sketches Dennis Moore, What the Stars Foretell, The Ideal Loon Exhibition, Off-Licence and Prejudice.

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    10. E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease

    Sketches include The Tudor Jobs Agency, Elizabethan Pornography Smugglers, Thripshaw's Disease and The Man Who Says Words in the Wrong Order.

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    9. The Nude Organist

    Features gags and sketches such as Bomb on Plane, Mortuary Hour, The Olympic Hide-and-Seek Final, The Cheap Laughs and Prices on the Planet Algon.

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    8. The Cycling Tour

    This episode tells the story of Mr Pither as he embarks on his Cycling Tour.

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    7. Salad Days

    Features gags and sketches such as Biggles Dictates a Letter, Climbing the North Face of the Uxbridge Road, Lifeboat and The Cheese Shop.

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    6. The War Against Pornography

    Sketches in this episode include Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign, Gumby Brain Specialist, Expedition to Lake Pahoe and The Silliest Interview We've Ever Had.

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    5. The All-England Summarise Proust Competition

    Featuring in this episode The All-England Summarise Proust Competition, Fire Brigade, Travel Agent and Party Hints with Veronica Smalls.

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    4. Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror

    Features gags and sketches such as Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror, The Man who Speaks in Anagrams and Pantomime Horses.

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    3. The Money Programme

    Features The Money Programme, Erizabeth L, Dead Bishop, Jungle Restaurant and The Argument Skit.

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    2. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular

    Features Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow, The Fish Slapping Dance, SS Mother Goose, Trim-Jeans Theatre and some very famous guests.

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    1. Whicker's World

    Features gags and sketches such as Multiple Murderer Court Scene, Njorl's Saga and Whicker’s World.

Season 4

1974 · 6 episodes · Last episode: 51 years ago

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    6. Party Political Broadcast

    Finale

    Sketches in this final episode include The Most Awful Family in Britain, Patient Abuse, Brigadier and Bishop and The Man Who Finishes Other People's Sentences.

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    5. Mr. Neutron

    Featuring the story of Mr. Neutron and sketches including Post-Box Ceremony and Teddy Salad.

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    4. Hamlet

    Sketches in this episode include Hamlet and Ophelia, Bogus Psychiatrists, Police Helmets, Boxing Match Aftermath and The Queen Victoria Handicap.

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    3. The Light Entertainment War

    More surreal gags and sketches including Up Your Pavement, RAF Banter, Court Martial, The Public Are Idiots and Woody and Tinny Words.

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    2. Michael Ellis

    Features the sketches Department Store, Buying an Ant, At Home with the Ant and Other Pets and Toupee Department.

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    1. The Golden Age of Ballooning

    Features gags and sketches such as The Golden Age of Ballooning, Louis XVI, The Court of George III and a Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Norwegian Party.

Cast & crew

Created by Ian MacNaughton and John Howard Davies

  • Connie Booth

    Connie Booth

    Various

  • Ian Davidson

    Ian Davidson

  • Carol Cleveland

    Carol Cleveland

  • Maureen Flanagan

  • Dick Vosburgh

  • Barry Cryer

    Barry Cryer

  • Marjorie Wilde

  • Ringo Starr

    Ringo Starr

  • Nosher Powell

    Nosher Powell

  • Neil Innes

    Neil Innes

  • Douglas Adams

    Douglas Adams

  • Carolae Donoghue

  • Julia Breck

    Julia Breck

  • Lulu

    Lulu

  • Ewa Aulin

    Ewa Aulin

  • Nigel Jones

Monty Python's Flying Circus FAQ

Will there be new episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus?

Monty Python's Flying Circus has ended, so no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on December 5, 1974.

When did the latest episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus come out?

The most recent episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, Season 4 Episode 6 "Party Political Broadcast", aired on December 5, 1974.

How many seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus are there?

Monty Python's Flying Circus has 4 seasons with 45 episodes in total.

When did Monty Python's Flying Circus first air?

Monty Python's Flying Circus first aired on BBC One on October 5, 1969.

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