Monty Python's Flying Circus (Season 1)

And now for something completely different...

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

  • Poster for Whither Canada?

    Whither Canada? (Episode 1) 7.7

    Writer: Graham Chapman

    Air date: 1969-10-05

    Runtime: 31 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Sex and Violence

    Sex and Violence (Episode 2) 7.6

    Writer: Graham Chapman

    Air date: 1969-10-12

    Runtime: 33 min

    Overview: 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.

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

    How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away (Episode 3) 7.9

    Writer: Graham Chapman

    Air date: 1969-10-19

    Runtime: 31 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Owl Stretching Time

    Owl Stretching Time (Episode 4) 7.5

    Writer: Graham Chapman

    Air date: 1969-10-26

    Runtime: 29 min

    Overview: 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.

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

    Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century (Episode 5) 7.8

    Writer: Graham Chapman

    Air date: 1969-11-16

    Runtime: 29 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for It's the Arts

    It's the Arts (Episode 6) 7.4

    Writer: Graham Chapman

    Air date: 1969-11-23

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

    Oh, You're No Fun Anymore (Episode 7) 7.1

    Writer: Graham Chapman

    Air date: 1969-11-30

    Runtime: 30 min

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

  • Poster for Full Frontal Nudity

    Full Frontal Nudity (Episode 8) 7.4

    Writer: Graham Chapman

    Air date: 1969-12-07

    Runtime: 29 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Ant, An Introduction

    The Ant, An Introduction (Episode 9) 7.4

    Writer: Graham Chapman

    Air date: 1969-12-14

    Runtime: 29 min

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

  • Poster for Untitled

    Untitled (Episode 10) 7.2

    Writer: Graham Chapman

    Air date: 1969-12-21

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

    The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom (Episode 11) 7.4

    Writer: Graham Chapman

    Air date: 1969-12-28

    Runtime: 31 min

    Overview: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom, a footballer is interviewed and Batley Townswomen's Guild re-enact the invasion of Pearl Harbour.

  • Poster for The Naked Ant

    The Naked Ant (Episode 12) 7.2

    Writer: Graham Chapman

    Air date: 1970-01-04

    Runtime: 31 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Intermission

    Intermission (Episode 13) 7.3

    Writer: Graham Chapman

    Air date: 1970-01-11

    Runtime: 29 min

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

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