Ian MacNaughton
Director
Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
Season 1
A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.
Released Oct. 5, 1969
Episode 29 min
14+
Genres: Comedy
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Production Companies: BBC
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
7.7
S1E1 - 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.
Oct. 5, 1969, midnight
7.6
S1E2 - 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.
Oct. 12, 1969, midnight
7.9
S1E3 - 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.
Oct. 19, 1969, midnight
7.5
S1E4 - 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.
Oct. 26, 1969, midnight
7.8
S1E5 - 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.
Nov. 16, 1969, midnight
7.1
S1E6 - 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.
Nov. 23, 1969, midnight
7.1
S1E7 - 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.
Nov. 30, 1969, midnight
7.1
S1E8 - 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.
Dec. 7, 1969, midnight
7.4
S1E9 - 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.
Dec. 14, 1969, midnight
7.2
S1E10 - 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.
Dec. 21, 1969, midnight
7.0
S1E11 - 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.
Dec. 28, 1969, midnight
6.9
S1E12 - 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.
Jan. 4, 1970, midnight
7.3
S1E13 - Intermission
Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and Probe Around On Crime.
Jan. 11, 1970, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 29 min.
Season Runtime: 1314 min.
Released: Oct. 5, 1969
Last Air Date: Dec. 5, 1974, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-14
Common sense age: 14+
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