13 episodes

Monty Python's Flying Circus - Season 1

First aired Oct 5, 1969Season 1

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drystyx

Apr 3, 2023

8.0

Monty Python is funny. The Flying Circus is a motley group of short skits, and often they have weird segues into each other (I hope I spelled "segue" correctly). Many of the bits have become iconic standards. The funny walks, which isn't one of my favorites, is now a clock face. The lumberjack, which is my very favorite, has a cult following, too, and would be great to sing at a bar if you had the mounties in the back doing their thing. If you don't laugh at one skit, you'll probably laugh at the one following it. It is mostly slapstick, and very much nonsense, with the humor coming out of nowhere, instead of based on straight lines. That's the Monty Python way.

Episodes

Episode 1

Whither Canada?

7.8

Oct 5, 196931 min26 votes

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.

Episode 2

Sex and Violence

7.7

Oct 12, 196933 min22 votes

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.

Episode 3

How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away

8.0

Oct 19, 196931 min21 votes

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.

Episode 4

Owl Stretching Time

7.6

Oct 26, 196929 min21 votes

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.

Episode 5

Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century

7.9

Nov 16, 196929 min21 votes

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.

Episode 6

It's the Arts

7.1

Nov 23, 196930 min22 votes

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.

Episode 7

Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

7.2

Nov 30, 196930 min19 votes

Featuring camel-spotting, an embezzler at a board-meeting and a science fiction tale about a Scotsman and a tennis-playing blancmange.

Episode 8

Full Frontal Nudity

7.3

Dec 7, 196929 min22 votes

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.

Episode 9

The Ant, An Introduction

7.5

Dec 14, 196929 min20 votes

Featuring Ken Buddha, a man with a tape-recorder up his nose and a hairdresser who always wanted to be a lumberjack.

Episode 10

Untitled

7.3

Dec 21, 196930 min19 votes

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.

Episode 11

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

7.1

Dec 28, 196931 min21 votes

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom, a footballer is interviewed and Batley Townswomen's Guild re-enact the invasion of Pearl Harbour.

Episode 12

The Naked Ant

7.2

Jan 4, 197031 min20 votes

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.

Episode 13

Intermission

7.4

Jan 11, 197029 min18 votes

Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and Probe Around On Crime.