Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)

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19694 Seasons8.3

Comedy

TMDB8.3

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Genre: Comedy
Certificate: TV-14
Origin: GB

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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.

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Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 5, 1969
Network: BBC One
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

34 hrs

45 episodes. About 5 weeks at an hour a night.

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Cast

Graham Chapman

Various

Michael Palin

Various / "It's" man

Terry Jones

Various

Eric Idle

Various

Terry Gilliam

Various

SERIES

19694 Seasons8.3

Comedy

TMDB8.3

Votes750

Your rating

Genre: Comedy
Certificate: TV-14
Origin: GB

About

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.

Where to watch

Region

Stream

Amazon Prime Video

fuboTV

Peacock Premium

Amazon Prime Video with Ads

Peacock Premium Plus

Shout! Factory Amazon Channel

Free

With ads

Buy

Availability from JustWatch via TMDB.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Oct 5, 1969 · 31m · ★ 7.8
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.
E2 · Airs Oct 12, 1969 · 33m · ★ 7.7
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.
E3 · Airs Oct 19, 1969 · 31m · ★ 8.0
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.
E4 · Airs Oct 26, 1969 · 29m · ★ 7.6
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.
E5 · Airs Nov 16, 1969 · 29m · ★ 7.9
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.
E6 · Airs Nov 23, 1969 · 30m · ★ 7.1
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.
E7 · Airs Nov 30, 1969 · 30m · ★ 7.2
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.
E8 · Airs Dec 7, 1969 · 29m · ★ 7.3
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.
E9 · Airs Dec 14, 1969 · 29m · ★ 7.5
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.
E10 · Airs Dec 21, 1969 · 30m · ★ 7.3
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.
E11 · Airs Dec 28, 1969 · 31m · ★ 7.1
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.
E12 · Airs Jan 4, 1970 · 31m · ★ 7.2
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.
E13 · Airs Jan 11, 1970 · 29m · ★ 7.4
Intermission
Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and Probe Around On Crime.