List of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes

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List of episodes from the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus:

Contents [hide] 1 Season 1 (Oct. 1969 - Jan. 1970) 1.1 1. Whither Canada? 1.2 2. Sex and Violence 1.3 3. How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away 1.4 4. Owl-Stretching Time 1.5 5. Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century 1.6 6. It's the Arts 1.7 7. You're No Fun Anymore 1.8 8. Full Frontal Nudity 1.9 9. The Ant, an Introduction 1.10 10. Untitled 1.11 11. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom 1.12 12. The Naked Ant 1.13 13. It's the Arts (alt. title: Intermission) 2 Season 2 (Sep. 1970 - Dec. 1970) 2.1 1. Face the Press 2.2 2. The Spanish Inquisition 2.3 3. Déjà vu 2.4 4. The Buzz Aldrin Show 2.5 5. Live from the Grill-o-mat 2.6 6. It's A Living (alt. title: School Prizes) 2.7 7. The Attila the Hun Show 2.8 8. Archaeology Today 2.9 9. How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body 2.10 10. Scott of the Antarctic 2.11 11. How Not to Be Seen 2.12 12. Spam 2.13 13. Royal Episode 13 3 Season 3 (Oct. 1972 - Jan. 1973) 3.1 1. Whicker's World 3.2 2. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular 3.3 3. The Money Programme 3.4 4. Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror 3.5 5. The All-England Summarize Proust Competition 3.6 6. The War Against Pornography 3.7 7. Salad Days 3.8 8. The Cycling Tour 3.9 9. The Nude Organist 3.10 10. E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease 3.11 11. Dennis Moore 3.12 12. A Book at Bedtime 3.13 13. Grandstand 4 Season 4 (Oct. 1974 - Dec. 1974) 4.1 1. The Golden Age of Ballooning 4.2 2. Michael Ellis 4.3 3. The Light Entertainment War 4.4 4. Hamlet 4.5 5. Mr. Neutron 4.6 6. Party Political Broadcast

Season 1 (Oct. 1969 - Jan. 1970)

1. Whither Canada?

(aired October 5, 1969; recorded September 7, 1969)

• It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Famous Deaths
• Italian Lesson
• Whizzo Butter
• "It's the Arts"
• Arthur "Two-Sheds" Jackson
• Picasso/Cycling Race
• The Funniest Joke in the World

Trivia

• The word "Whizzo" would be used throughtout the series as the title to various companies/products, such as Whizzo's Finest Chocolates produced by the Whizzo Chocolate Company for the Crunchy Frog Sketch.
• The Funniest Joke in the World, or Killer Joke sketch would be the Python's first major success, and would mark the beginning of the series.

2. Sex and Violence

(aired October 12, 1969; recorded August 30, 1969)

• Flying Sheep
• French Lecture on Sheep-Aircraft
• A Man with Three Buttocks
• A Man With Two Noses
• Musical Mice
• Marriage Guidance Counsellor
• The Wacky Queen
• Working-class playwright
• The Wrestling Epilogue
• The Mouse Problem

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

(aired October 19, 1969; recorded September 14, 1969)

• Court Scene with Cardinal Richelieu
• The Larch
• Bicycle Repair Man
• Tirade Against Communists
• Children's Stories
• Restaurant Sketch (Also called The Dirty Fork)
• Seduced Milkmen
• Stolen newsreader
• The Horse Chestnut
• Children's Interview
• Nudge nudge

4. Owl-Stretching Time

(aired October 26, 1969; recorded September 21, 1969)

• Song: "Jerusalem (And did those feet)"
• Art Gallery
• Art Critic
• It's a Man's Life in the Modern Army
• Undressing in Public
• Self-Defence Against Fruit
• Secret Service Dentists

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

(aired November 16, 1969; recorded October 3, 1969)

• Confuse-a-Cat
• The Smuggler
• Vox Pops on Smuggling
• A Duck, a Cat and a Lizard (discussion)
• Police Raid
• Letters and Vox Pops
• Newsreader Arrested
• Erotic film
• Silly Job Interview
• Careers Advisory Board
• Burglar/Encyclopaedia Salesman

6. It's the Arts

(aired November 23, 1969; recorded November 5, 1969)

• It's the Arts
• Johann Gombolputty
• Non-Illegal Robbery
• Vox Pops
• Crunchy Frog
• The Dull Life of a City Stockbroker
• Red Indian in Theatre
• Policemen Make Wonderful Friends
• A Scotsman on a Horse
• Twentieth-Century Vole

7. You're No Fun Anymore

(aired November 30, 1969; recorded October 10, 1969)

• Camel Spotting
• You're No Fun Any More
• The Audit
• Science Fiction Sketch
• Man Turns Into Scotsman
• Police station
• Blancmanges Playing Tennis

8. Full Frontal Nudity

(aired December 7, 1969; recorded November 25, 1969)

• Army Protection Racket
• Vox Pops
• Art Critic - The Place of the Nude
• Buying a Bed
• Hermits
• Dead Parrot
• The Flasher
• Hell's Grannies

9. The Ant, an Introduction

(aired December 14, 1969; recorded December 7, 1969)

• Llamas
• A Man with a Tape Recorder Up His Nose
• Kilimanjaro Expedition (Double Vision)
• A Man with a Tape Recorder Up His Brother's Nose
• Homicidal Barber
• The Lumberjack Song
• Gumby Crooner
• The Refreshment Room at Bletchley
• Ken Buddha and His Inflatable Knees
• Brian Islam and Lucy
• Hunting Film
• The Visitors

10. Untitled

(aired December 21, 1969; recorded November 30, 1969)

• Walk-on part in sketch
• Bank robber in a lingerie shop
• Trailer
• It's a Tree
• Vocational Guidance Counsellor
• Ron Obvious: The First Man to Jump the Channel
• Tunnelling from Godalming to Java
• Pet Conversions
• Gorilla Librarian
• Letters to "Daily Mirror"
• Strangers in the night

11. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

(aired December 28, 1969; recorded December 14, 1969)

• Lavatorial Humour
• Interruptions
• Agatha Christie (Inspector Tiger)
• Literary Football Discussion
• Undertakers Film
• Interesting People
• Eighteenth-Century Social Legislation
• The Battle of Trafalgar
• Batley Townswomans Guild Presents the Battle of Pearl Harbour
• Undertakers Film

12. The Naked Ant

(aired January 4, 1970; recorded December 21, 1969)

• Falling From Building
• "Spectrum" - Talking About Things
• Visitors From Coventry
• Mr. Hilter
• The Minehead by-election
• Silly Voices at the Police station
• Upper Class Twit of the Year
• Ken Shabby
• How Far Can a Minister Fall?

13. It's the Arts (alt. title: Intermission)

(aired January 11, 1970; recorded January 4, 1970)

• Restaurant Abuse/Cannibalism
• Advertisements
• Albatross
• Come Back to My Place
• Me Doctor
• Historical Impersonations
• Quiz Programme: "Wishes"
• Probe-around on crime
• Stonehenge and Mr. Attila the Hun
• Psychiatry
• Operating theatre

Season 2 (Sep. 1970 - Dec. 1970)

1. Face the Press

(aired September 15, 1970; recorded July 9, 1970)

• Face the Press
• New Cooker Sketch
• Tobacconists (Prostitute Advert)
• The Ministry of Silly Walks
• Piranha Brothers

2. The Spanish Inquisition

(aired September 22, 1970; recorded July 2, 1970)

• Man-Powered Flight
• The Spanish Inquisition
• Jokes and Novelties Salesman
• Tax on Thingy
• Vox Pops
• Photos of Uncle Ted
• The Semaphore Version of "Wuthering Heights"
• Julius Caesar on an Aldis lamp
• "Gunfight at the OK Corral" in Morse Code
• Smokesignal Version of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
• Court Charades

3. Déjà vu

(aired September 29, 1970; recorded July 16, 1970)

• A Bishop Rehearsing
• Flying Lessons
• Hijacked Plane
• The Poet McTeagle
• Psychiatrist Milkman
• Complaints
• Déjà vu

4. The Buzz Aldrin Show

(aired October 20, 1970; recorded September 18, 1970)

• Architect sketch
• How to give up being a Mason
• Motor insurance sketch
• The Bishop
• Living room on pavement
• Poets
• A choice of viewing
• Chemist sketch
• Words not to be used again
• After-shave
• Vox Pops
• Police Constable Pan-Am

5. Live from the Grill-o-mat

(aired October 27, 1970; recorded September 10, 1970)

• Live from the Grill-o-Mat
• Blackmail
• Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things
• Escape from Film
• Current affairs
• Accidents sketch
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
• The butcher who is alternately rude and polite
• Ken Clean-Air System

6. It's A Living (alt. title: School Prizes)

(aired November 3, 1970; recorded September 10, 1970)

• "It's a Living"
• The Time on BBC 1
• School prize-giving
• "If" - a film by Mr Dibley
• "Rear Window" - a film by Mr Dibley
• "Finian's Rainbow" (starring the man from the off-licence)
• The Foreign Secretary and Other News
• Free Dung from the "Book of the Month" Club
• Dead Indian
• Timmy Williams interview
• Raymond Luxury Yacht (Throatwobbler Mangrove interview)
• Marriage Registry office
• Election Night Special

7. The Attila the Hun Show

(aired November 10, 1970; recorded October 2, 1970)

• "The Attila the Hun Show"
• Attila the Nun
• Secretary of State Striptease
• Vox pops on political groupies
• Ratcatcher
• Wainscotting
• Killer sheep
• The News for Parrots
• The News for Gibbons
• Today in Parliament
• The News for Wombats
• Attila the Bun
• The Idiot in the Rural Society
• Test Match Against Iceland
• The Epsom furniture race
• "Spot The Braincell"

8. Archaeology Today

(aired November 17, 1970; recorded October 9, 1970)

• Trailer
• "Archeology Today"
• Silly Vicar and Leapy Lee
• Registrar (wife swap)
• Silly doctor sketch (immediately abandoned)
• Mr. and Mrs. Git
• Ray and Hank Spim - Mosquito hunters
• Poofy judges
• Mrs. Thing and Mrs. Entity
• Beethoven's mynah bird
• Shakespeare
• Michaelangelo
• Colin "Chopper" Mozart (ratcatcher)
• Judges

9. How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body

(aired November 24, 1970; recorded September 25, 1970)

• "How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body"
• Bruces sketch
• The Philosophers Song
• Naughty bits
• The man who contradicts people
• Cosmetic surgery
• Camp square-bashing
• Cut-price airline
• Batley Townswomen's Guild presents the first heart transplant
• The first underwater production of "Measure for Measure"
• The death of Mary Queen of Scots
• Exploding penguin on the TV set
• There's Been a Murder
• Police entry for Eurovision Song Contest
• "Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong" (song)

10. Scott of the Antarctic

(aired December 1, 1970; recorded July 2, 1970)

• French Subtitled Film
• Scott of the Antarctic
• Scott of the Sahara
• Conrad Poohs and His Dancing Teeth
• Fish Licence
• Derby Council v. All Blacks rugby match
• Long John Silver Impersonators v. Bournemouth Gynaecologists

11. How Not to Be Seen

(aired December 8, 1970; recorded July 23, 1970)

• Conquistador Coffee Campaign
• Repeating groove
• Ramsey MacDonald striptease
• Job hunter
• International Chinese Communist Conspiracy
• Crelm Toothpaste / Shrill petrol
• Agatha Christie sketch (railway timetables)
• Mr Neville Shunte - railroad playwright
• Gavin Millarrrrr writes
• Film director/dentist Martin Curry (teeth)
• City gents vox pops
• Crackpot Religions Ltd
• How not to be seen
• Crossing the Atlantic on a tricycle
• Interview in filing cabinet
• Yummy yummy
• Monty Python's Flying Circus again in thirty seconds

12. Spam

(aired December 15, 1970; recorded June 25, 1970)

• "The Black Eagle"
• Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook
• Court (phrasebook)
• World Forum - Communist Quiz
• "Ypres 1914" - abandoned
• Art Gallery Strikes
• "Ypres 1914"
• Hospital for Over-Actors
• Gumby Flower Arranging
• Spam

13. Royal Episode 13

(aired December 22, 1970; recorded October 16, 1970)

• The Queen Will be Watching
• Coal mine in Llandarogh Carmarthen
• The man who says things in a very roundabout way
• The man who speaks only the ends of words
• The man who speaks only the beginnings of words
• The man who speaks only the middles of words
• Commercials
• How to feed a goldfish
• The man who collects birdwatcher's eggs
• Insurance Sketch
• Hospital Run by RSM
• Mountaineer
• Exploding Version of "The Blue Danube"
• Girls Boarding School
• Submarine
• Lifeboat (cannibalism)
• Undertaker's sketch

Season 3 (Oct. 1972 - Jan. 1973)

(aired October 19, 1972; recorded January 14, 1972)

1. Whicker's World

• Multiple Murderer Court Scene
• Njorl's Icelandic Saga
• Eric Njorl Court Scene
• Stock Exchange Report
• Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion Visit Sartre
• Whicker's World

2. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular

(aired October 26, 1972; recorded January 28, 1972)

• Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow
• Schoolboys' Life Assurance Company
• How to Rid the World of All Known Diseases
• Mrs. Niggerbaiter Explodes
• Vicar/Salesman
• Farming Club
• "Life of Tschaikowsky"
• Trim-Jeans Theatre
• The Fish-Slapping Dance
• World War Two
• Titanic sinking
• The BBC is Short of Money
• SS Mother Goose
• It's Man Show

3. The Money Programme

(aired November 2, 1972; recorded December 4, 1971)

• The Money Programme
• "There is nothing quite so wonderful as money" (song)
• Erizabeth L
• Fraud Film Director's Squad
• Church Police
• Jungle Restaurant
• Apology for Violence and Nudity
• Ken Russell's "Gardening Club"
• The Lost World of Roiurama
• Six More Minutes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
• The Argument Skit
• Hitting on the Head Lessons
• Inspector Flying Fox of the Yard
• One More Minute of Monty Python's Flying Circus

4. Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror

(aired November 9, 1972; recorded December 11, 1971)

• Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
• The Man Who Speaks in Anagrams
• Anagram Quiz
• Merchant Banker
• Pantomime Horses
• Life and Death Struggles
• Househunters
• Mary Recruitment Office
• Bus Conductor Sketch
• The Man Who Makes People Laugh Uncontrollably
• Army Captain as Clown
• Gestures to Indicate Pauses in a Televised Talk
• Neurotic Announcers
• The news with Richard Baker (vision only)
• The Pantomime Horse is a Secret Agent

5. The All-England Summarize Proust Competition

(aired November 16, 1972; recorded April 24, 1972

• Summarize Proust Competition
• Hairdressers Climb Up Mount Everest
• Fire Brigade
• Our Eamonn
• "Party Hints" with Veronica Smalls
• Language Laboratory
• Travel Agent
• Watney's Red Barrel
• Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses

6. The War Against Pornography

(aired November 23, 1972; recorded January 21, 1972)

• Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign
• Gumby Brain Specialist
• Molluscs - "Live" TV Documentary
• Report on the Minister reports
• Tuesday Documentary
• Children's Story
• Match of the Day
• An Apology
• Expedition to Lake Pahoe
• The Silliest Interview We've Ever Had
• The Silliest Sketch We've Ever Done

7. Salad Days

(aired November 30, 1972; recorded January 7, 1972)

• Biggles Dictates a Letter
• Climbing the North Face of the Uxbridge Road
• Lifeboat
• Old lady snoopers
• Storage Jars
• The Show so Far
• Cheese Shop sketch
• Philip Jenkinson on Cheese Westerns
• Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days"
• Apology
• The News with Richard Baker
• Seashore Interlude Film

8. The Cycling Tour

(aired December 7, 1972; recorded May 4, 1972)

• Mr. Pither
• Mr. Gulliver and Clodagh Rogers
• Trotsky
• Smolensk
• Bingo-crazed Chinese
• Not Secret Police
• Trotsky / Eartha Kitt
• Firing Squad
• Eartha Kitt/ Edward Heath

9. The Nude Organist

(aired December 14, 1972; recorded May 11, 1972)

• Bomb on Plane
• A Naked Man
• Ten Seconds of Sex
• Housing Project Built by Characters from Nineteenth-century English Literature
• M1 Interchange Built by Characters from 'Paradise Lost'
• Mystico and Janet - Flats Built by Hypnosis
• Mortuary Hour
• The Olympic Hide-and-seek Final
• The Cheap-Laughs
• Bull-fighting
• The British Well-Basically Club
• Prices on the Planet Algon
• Mr. Badger Reads the Credits

10. E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease

(aired December 21, 1972; recorded May 25, 1972)

• Tudor Jobs Agency
• Pornographic Bookshop
• Elizabethan Pornography Smugglers
• Silly Disturbances
• The Free Repetition of Doubtful Words Sketch
• 'Is There?'... Life after Death?
• The Man Who Says Words in the Wrong Order
• Thripshaw's Disease
• Silly Noises
• Sherry-drinking Vicar

11. Dennis Moore

(aired January 4, 1973; recorded April 17, 1972)

• "Boxing Tonight" - Jack Bodell v. Sir Kenneth Clark
• Dennis Moore
• What the Stars Foretell
• Doctor
• TV4 or Not TV4 Discussion
• Lupins
• Ideal Loon Exhibition
• Off-licence
• Dennis Moore Rides Again
• Prejudice
• Redistribution of Wealth

12. A Book at Bedtime

(aired January 11, 1973; recorded December 18, 1971)

• Party Political Broadcast (Choreographed)
• A Book at Bedtime - "Redgauntlet"
• Kamikaze Scotsmen
• No Time to Lose
• Frontiers of Medicine - Penguins
• BBC programme planners
• Unexploded Scotsmen
• Spot the Looney
• Rival Documentaries

13. Grandstand

(aired January 18, 1973; recorded May 18, 1972)

• Thames TV Introduction
• "Light Entertainment Awards" with Dickie Attenborough
• Dickie Attenborough
• The Oscar Wilde Sketch
• Charwoman
• David Niven's Fridge
• Pasolini's Film "The Third Test Match"
• New Brain from Curry's
• Blood Donor
• International Wife-Swapping
• Credits of the Year
• The Dirty Vicar Sketch

Season 4 (Oct. 1974 - Dec. 1974)

1. The Golden Age of Ballooning

(aired October 31, 1974; recorded October 12, 1974)

• The Montgolfier Brothers
• Montgolfier Brothers in Love
• Louis XIV
• The Court of George III
• Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Norwegian Party
• Zeppelin

2. Michael Ellis

(aired November 7, 1974; recorded October 19, 1974)

• Department Store
• Buying an Ant
• At Home with the Ant and Other Pets
• Documentary on Ants
• Ant Complaints
• Ant Poetry Reading
• Toupee Department
• Different Endings

3. The Light Entertainment War

(aired November 14, 1974; recorded October 26, 1974)

• Up Your Pavement
• RAF Banter
• Trivializing the War
• Courtmartial
• Basingstoke in Westphalia
• "Anything goes" (song)
• Film trailer
• The Public Are Idiots
• Programme Titles Conference
• The last five miles of the M4
• Woody and Tinny Words
• Show-jumping
• Newsflash
• "When Does A Dream Begin?" (song)

4. Hamlet

(aired November 21, 1974; recorded November 2, 1974)

• Bogus Psychiatrists
• Nationwide
• Police helmets
• Father-in-Law
• Hamlet and Ophelia
• Boxing Match Aftermath
• Boxing Commentary
• Piston Engine (a Bargain)
• A Room in Polonius' House
• Dentists
• Live from Epsom - Jockey Interviews
• Queen Victoria Handicap

5. Mr. Neutron

(aired November 28, 1974; recorded November 9, 1974)

• Post-box Ceremony
• Mr. Neutron
• F.E.A.R. / Mr. Neutron is Missing!
• Teddy Salad
• Secretary of State and Prime Minister
• Bombing
• Mrs. Scum
• Teddy Salad Explodes
• Mr. Neutron Escapes
• Conjuring Today

6. Party Political Broadcast

(aired December 5, 1974; recorded November 16, 1974)

• Most Awful Family in Britain
• Icelandic Honey Week
• Patient Abuse
• Brigadier and Bishop
• Appeal on behalf of extremely rich people
• The man who finishes other people's sentences
• Richard Attenborough
• The walking trees of Dahomey
• Batsmen of the Kalahari
• Cricket match (assegais)
• BBC News (handovers)