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Season 1

Season 1

Monty Python's Flying Circus

1969
Episodes: 13

Episodes

Whither Canada?

1. Whither Canada?

October 5, 1969

7.7
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.

Sex and Violence

2. Sex and Violence

October 12, 1969

7.6
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.

Guest Stars: Carol Cleveland, Terry Medlicott

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

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

October 19, 1969

7.9
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.

Guest Stars: Ian Davidson, Carol Cleveland

Owl Stretching Time

4. Owl Stretching Time

October 26, 1969

7.5
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.

Guest Stars: Carol Cleveland, Dick Vosburgh

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

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

November 16, 1969

7.8
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.

Guest Stars: Carol Cleveland

It's the Arts

6. It's the Arts

November 23, 1969

7.1
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.

Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

7. Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

November 30, 1969

7.1
30 min

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

Full Frontal Nudity

8. Full Frontal Nudity

December 7, 1969

7.1
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.

Guest Stars: Carol Cleveland, Ewa Aulin, Katya Wyeth

The Ant, An Introduction

9. The Ant, An Introduction

December 14, 1969

7.4
29 min

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

Guest Stars: Connie Booth

Untitled

10. Untitled

December 21, 1969

7.2
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.

Guest Stars: Ian Davidson, Barry Cryer, Carolae Donoghue

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

11. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

December 28, 1969

7.0
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.

Guest Stars: Maureen Flanagan

The Naked Ant

12. The Naked Ant

January 4, 1970

6.9
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.

Guest Stars: Connie Booth, Maureen Flanagan

Intermission

13. Intermission

January 11, 1970

7.3
29 min

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

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