Monty Python's Flying Circus

Season 1

1969 · 13 episodes · 6h 32m in all · 7.5/10

Episodes

1. 

   1. Whither Canada?

   5 Oct 1969 · 31 min · 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. 

   2. Sex and Violence

   12 Oct 1969 · 33 min · 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.

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

   19 Oct 1969 · 31 min · 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.

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   4. Owl Stretching Time

   26 Oct 1969 · 29 min · 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.

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

   16 Nov 1969 · 29 min · 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.

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   6. It's the Arts

   23 Nov 1969 · 30 min · 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.

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   7. Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

   30 Nov 1969 · 30 min · 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.

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   8. Full Frontal Nudity

   7 Dec 1969 · 29 min · 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. 

   9. The Ant, An Introduction

   14 Dec 1969 · 29 min · 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.

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    10. Untitled

    21 Dec 1969 · 30 min · 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.

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    11. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

    28 Dec 1969 · 31 min · 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.

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    12. The Naked Ant

    4 Jan 1970 · 31 min · 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.

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    13. Intermission

    11 Jan 1970 · 29 min · 7.4/10

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