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A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.
A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.
Air date: 1970-09-15
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Featuring Doug and Dinsdale Piranha, Face the Press and the Ministry of Silly Walks. Mrs G Pinnet buys a new gas cooker.
Air date: 1970-09-22
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Featuring the Spanish Inquisition, courtroom charades and a semaphore interpretation of Wuthering Heights.
Air date: 1970-09-29
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1970-10-20
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: More surreal humour from the Monty Python team. Sketches include The Architects, How to Recognise a Mason, Poets and the Chemist sketch.
Air date: 1970-10-27
Runtime: 29 min
Overview: Featuring gameshow Blackmail, The Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and boxer Ken Clean-Air System.
Air date: 1970-11-03
Runtime: 29 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1970-11-11
Runtime: 27 min
Overview: Featuring the Attila the Hun Show, a rat catcher, a village idiot, some killer sheep and news for parrots.
Air date: 1970-11-17
Runtime: 29 min
Overview: Featuring Mrs Beethoven, the Reverend Arthur Belling, some Australian Mosquito Hunters and a drink party with the Gits.
Air date: 1970-11-24
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Air date: 1970-12-01
Runtime: 29 min
Overview: Featuring a special report into the shooting of Scott of the Antarctic, from Paignton. Also, a man tries to purchase a fish licence.
Air date: 1970-12-08
Runtime: 29 min
Overview: Features gags and sketches such as Job Hunter, Railway Timetables, How Not to be Seen and Interview in a Filing Cabinet.
Air date: 1970-12-15
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: The sketches in this episode include Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook, World Forum-Communist Quiz, Hospital for Over-Actors and Spam.
Air date: 1970-12-22
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Sketches in this episode include How to Feed a Goldfish, The Man Who Says Things in a Very Roundabout Way and Lifeboat.