Monty Python's Flying Circus — Season 1
And now for something completely different...
About this season
A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.
Episodes (13)
1. Whither Canada?
7.8Aired 5 October 1969 • 31 min
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. Sex and Violence
7.7Aired 12 October 1969 • 33 min
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. How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
8.0Aired 19 October 1969 • 31 min
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. Owl Stretching Time
7.6Aired 26 October 1969 • 29 min
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. Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
7.9Aired 16 November 1969 • 29 min
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. It's the Arts
7.1Aired 23 November 1969 • 30 min
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. Oh, You're No Fun Anymore
7.2Aired 30 November 1969 • 30 min
Featuring camel-spotting, an embezzler at a board-meeting and a science fiction tale about a Scotsman and a tennis-playing blancmange.
8. Full Frontal Nudity
7.3Aired 7 December 1969 • 29 min
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. The Ant, An Introduction
7.5Aired 14 December 1969 • 29 min
Featuring Ken Buddha, a man with a tape-recorder up his nose and a hairdresser who always wanted to be a lumberjack.
10. Untitled
7.3Aired 21 December 1969 • 30 min
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. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
7.1Aired 28 December 1969 • 31 min
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. The Naked Ant
7.2Aired 4 January 1970 • 31 min
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. Intermission
7.4Aired 11 January 1970 • 29 min
Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and Probe Around On Crime.