Monty Python's Flying Circus

Season 1

13 episodes

  1. 1. Whither Canada?

    31m · Oct 5, 1969

    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

    33m · Oct 12, 1969

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

    31m · Oct 19, 1969

    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. 4. Owl Stretching Time

    29m · Oct 26, 1969

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

    29m · Nov 16, 1969

    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. 6. It's the Arts

    30m · Nov 23, 1969

    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. 7. Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

    30m · Nov 30, 1969

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

  8. 8. Full Frontal Nudity

    29m · Dec 7, 1969

    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

    29m · Dec 14, 1969

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

  10. 10. Untitled

    30m · Dec 21, 1969

    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. 11. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

    31m · Dec 28, 1969

    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. 12. The Naked Ant

    31m · Jan 4, 1970

    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. 13. Intermission

    29m · Jan 11, 1970

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