MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS

Detailed Episodes List

 

 

Series 1 (Episodes 1-13)
Series 2 (Episodes 14-26)
Series 3 (Episodes 27-39)
Series 4 (Episodes 40-45)
 

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One
Episode 1 of series 1
First broadcast on 5-10-69
Recorded on 7-9-69
Number as recorded : 2
Whither Canada ?
« 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
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Two
Episode 2 of series 1
First broadcast on 12-10-69
Recorded on 30-8-69
Number as recorded : 1
Sex and violence
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
A Scotsman on a horse
The wrestling epilogue
The mouse problem
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Three
Episode 3 of series 1
First broadcast on 19-10-69
Recorded on 14-8-69
Number as recorded : 3
How to recognize different types of tree from quite a long way away
Court scene (witness in coffin/Cardinal Richelieu)
The larch
Bicycle repair man
Children's stories
Restaurant sketch
Seduced milkmen
Stolen newsreader
Children's interview
Nudge nudge
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Four
Episode 4 of series 1
First broadcast on 26-10-69
Recorded on 21-9-69
Number as recorded : 4
Owl-stretching time
Song (« And did those feet »)
Art gallery
Art critic
It's a man's life in the modern army
Undressing in public
Self-defence
Secret Service dentists
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Five
Episode 5 of series 1
First broadcast on 16-11-69
Recorded on 3-10-69
Number as recorded : 5
Man's crisis of identity in the latter half of the twentieth century
Confuse-a-Cat
The smuggler
A duck, a cat and a lizard (discussion)
Vox pops on smuggling
Police raid
Letters and vox pops
Newsreader arrested
Erotic film
Silly job interview
Careers advisory board
Burglar/encyclopaedia salesman
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Six
Episode 6 of series 1
First broadcast on 23-11-69
Recorded on 5-11-69
Number as recorded : 7
It's the Arts
« It's the Arts »
Johann Gombolputty… von Hautkopf of Ulm
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
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Seven
Episode 7 of series 1
First broadcast on 30-11-69
Recorded on 10-10-69
Number as recorded : 6
You're no fun anymore
Camel spotting
You're no fun any more
The audit
Science fiction sketch
Man turns into Scotsman
Police station
Blancmanges playing tennis
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Eight
Episode 8 of series 1
First broadcast on 7-12-69
Recorded on 25-11-69
Number as recorded : 8
Full frontal nudity
Army protection racket
Vox pops
Art critic - the place of the nude
Buying a bed
Hermits
Dead parrot
The flasher
Hell's Grannies
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Nine
Episode 9 of series 1
First broadcast on 14-12-69
Recorded on 7-12-69
Number as recorded : 10
The ant, an introduction
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
Lumberjack song
Gumby crooner
The refreshment room at Bletchley
Hunting film
The visitors
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Ten
Episode 10 of series 1
First broadcast on 21-12-69
Recorded on 30-11-69
Number as recorded : 9
Untitled
Walk-on part in a sketch
Bank robber (lingerie shop)
Trailer
Arthur Tree
Vocational Guidance Counsellor (chartered accountant)
The first man to jump the Channel
Tunnelling from Godalming to Java
Pet conversions
Gorilla librarian
Letters to « Daily Mirror »
Strangers in the night
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Eleven
Episode 11 of series 1
First broadcast on 28-12-69
Recorded on 14-12-69
Number as recorded : 11
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Letter (lavatorial humour)
Interruptions
Agatha Christie sketch
Literary football discussion
Undertakers film
Interesting people
Eighteenth-century social legislation
The Battle of Trafalgar
Batley Townswomen’s Guild presents the Battle of Pearl Harbour
Undertaker’s film
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Twelve
Episode 12 of series 1
First broadcast on 4-1-70
Recorded on 21-12-69
Number as recorded : 12
The Naked Ant
Falling from buildings
« Spectrum » - talking about things
Visitors from Coventry
Mr Hilter
The Minehead by-election
Police station (silly voices)
Upperclass Twit of the Year
Ken Shabby
How far can a minister fall ?
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Thirteen
Episode 13 of series 1
First broadcast on 11-1-70
Recorded on 4-1-70
Number as recorded : 13
Intermission
Intermissions
Restaurant (abuse/cannibalism)
Advertisements
Albatross
Come back to my place
Me Doctor
Historical Impersonations
Quiz programme - « Wishes »
« Probe-around » on crime
Stonehenge
Mr Attila the Hun
Psychiatry - silly sketch
Operating theatre (squatters)
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Fourteen
Episode 1 of series 2
First broadcast on 15-9-70
Recorded on 9-7-70
Number as recorded : 4
Face the Press
« Face the press »
New cooker sketch
Tobacconists (prostitute advert)
The Ministry of Silly Walks
The Piranha brothers
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Fifteen
Episode 2 of series 2
First broadcast on 22-9-70
Recorded on 2-7-70
Number as recorded : 3
The Spanish Inquisition
Man-powered flight
The Spanish Inquisition
Jokes and novelties salesman
Tax on thingy
Vox pops
Photos of Uncle Ted (Spanish Inquisition)
The semaphore version of « Wuthering Heights »
« Julius Caesar » on Aldis lamp
Court scene (charades)
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Sixteen
Episode 3 of series 2
First broadcast on 29-9-70
Recorded on 16-7-70
Number as recorded : 5
Déjà Vu
A bishop rehearsing
Flying lessons
Hijacked plane (to Luton)
The Poet McTeagle
Psychiatrist milkman
Complaints
Déjà vu
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Seventeen
Episode 4 of series 2
First broadcast on 20-10-70
Recorded on 18-9-70
Number as recorded : 9
The Buzz Aldrin Show
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
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Eighteen
Episode 5 of series 2
First broadcast on 27-10-70
Recorded on 10-9-70
Number as recorded : 7
Live from the Grill-o-Mat snack bar
Live from the Grill-o-Mat snack bar, Paignton
« Blackmail »
Society for Putting Things on top of Other Things
Escape (from film)
Current affairs
Accidents sketch
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The man who is alternately rude and polite
Documentary on boxer
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Nineteen
Episode 6 of series 2
First broadcast on 3-11-70
Recorded on 10-9-70
Number as recorded : 8
It's a Living
« 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)
Foreign Secretary
Dung
Dead Indian
Timmy William interview
Raymond Luxury Yacht interview
Registry office
Election Night Special (Silly and Sensible Parties)
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Twenty
Episode 7 of series 2
First broadcast on 10-11-70
Recorded on 2-10-70
Number as recorded : 11
The Attila the Hun Show
« The Attila the Hun Show »
Attila the Nun
Secretary of State striptease
Vox pops on politicians
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 Society
Test match
The Epsom furniture race
« Take Your Pick »
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Twenty-One
Episode 8 of series 2
First broadcast on 17-11-70
Recorded on 9-10-70
Number as recorded : 12
Archeology Today
Trailer
« Archaeology Today »
Silly vicar
Leapy Lee
Registrar (wife swap)
Silly doctor sketch (immediately abandoned)
Mr and Mrs Git
Mosquito Hunters
Poofy judges
Mrs Thing and Mrs Entity
Beethoven’s mynah bird
Shakespeare
Michaelangelo
Colin Mozart (ratcatcher)
Judges
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Twenty-Two
Episode 9 of series 2
First broadcast on 24-11-70
Recorded on 25-9-70
Number as recorded : 10
How to recognize different parts of the body
« How to recognize different parts of the body »
Bruces
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 TV set
There’s been a murder
Europolice Song Contest
« Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong (song) »
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Twenty-Three
Episode 10 of series 2
First broadcast on 1-12-70
Recorded on 2-7-70
Number as recorded : 2
Scott of The Antarctic
French subtitled film
Scott of the Antarctic
Scott of the Sahara
Fish licence
Derby Council v. All Blacks rugby match
Long John Silver Impersonators v. Bournemouth Gynaecologists
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Twenty-Four
Episode 11 of series 2
First broadcast on 8-12-70
Recorded on 23-7-70
Number as recorded : 6
How not to be seen
Conquistador coffee campaign
Repeating groove
Ramsay MacDonald striptease
Job hunter
Agatha Christie sketch (railway timetable)
Mr Neville Shunte
Film director (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
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Twenty-Five
Episode 12 of series 2
First broadcast on 15-12-70
Recorded on 25-6-70
Number as recorded : 1
Spam
« The Black Eagle »
Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook
Court (phrasebook)
Communist quiz
« Ypres 1914 » - abandoned
Art gallery strike

« Ypres 1914 »
Hospital for over-actors
Gumby flower arranging
Spam
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Twenty-Six
Episode 13 of series 2
First broadcast on 22-12-70
Recorded on 16-10-70
Number as recorded : 13
Royal Episode
The Queen will be watching
Coal mine (historical argument)
The man who says things in a very roundabout way
The man who speaks only the ends of the words
The man who speaks only the beginnings of the words
The man who speaks only the middles of the 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
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Twenty-Seven
Episode 1 of series 3
First broadcast on 19-10-72
Recorded on 14-1-72
Number as recorded : 5
Whicker's World
Court scene - multiple murderer
Icelandic saga
Court scene (Viking)
Stock Exchange report
Mrs Premise and Mrs Conclusion visit Jean-Paul Sartre
Whicker Island
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Twenty-Eight
Episode 2 of series 3
First broadcast on 26-10-72
Recorded on 28-1-72
Number as recorded : 7
Mr. & Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular
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 Tchaikovsky »
Trim-Jeans Theatre
Fish-slapping dance
World War One
The BBC is short of money
Puss in Boots
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Twenty-Nine
Episode 3 of series 3
First broadcast on 2-11-72
Recorded on 4-12-71
Number as recorded : 1
The Money Programme
« The Money Programme »
« There is nothing quite so wonderful as money » (song)
Erizabeth L
Fraud film squad
Salvation fuzz
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
Argument clinic
Hitting on the head lessons
Inspector Flying Fox of the Yards
One more minute of Monty Python’s Flying Circus
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Thirty
Episode 4 of series 3
First broadcast on 9-11-72
Recorded on 11-12-71
Number as recorded : 2
Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
« Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror »
The man who speaks in anagrams
Anagram quiz
Merchant banker
Pantomime horses
Life and death struggles
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 film »
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Thirty-One
Episode 5 of series 3
First broadcast on 16-11-72
Recorded on 24-4-72
Number as recorded : 9
The All-England Summarize Proust Competition
« Summarize Proust Competition »
Everest climbed by hairdressers
Fire brigade
Our Eamonn
« Party hints » with Veronica Smalls
Language laboratory
Travel agent
Watney’s Red Barrel
Theory on Brontosauruses by Ann Elk (Miss)
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Thirty-Two
Episode 6 of series 3
First broadcast on 23-11-72
Recorded on 21-1-72
Number as recorded : 6
The War against Pornography
Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign
Gumby brain specialists
Molluscs - « live » TV documentary
The Minister for not listening to people
Tuesday documentary/children’s story/party political broadcast
Apology (politicians)
Expedition to Lake Pahoe
The silliest interview we’ve ever had
The silliest sketch we’ve ever done
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Thirty-Three
Episode 7 of series 3
First broadcast on 30-11-72
Recorded on 7-1-72
Number as recorded : 4
Salad Days
Biggles dictates a letter
Climbing the north face of the Uxbridge Road
Lifeboat
Old lady snoopers
« Storage jars »
The show so far
Cheese shop
Philip Jenkinson on Cheese Westerns
Sa Peckinpah’s « Salad Days »
Apology
The news with Richard Baker
Seashore interlude film
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Thirty-Four
Episode 8 of series 3
First broadcast on 7-12-72
Recorded on 4-5-72
Number as recorded : 10
The cycling tour
Mr Pither
Clodagh Rogers
Trotsky
Smolensk
Bingo-crazed Chinese
« Jack in a Box »
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Thirty-Five
Episode 9 of series 3
First broadcast on 14-12-72
Recorded on 11-5-72
Number as recorded : 11
The Nude Organist
Bomb on plane
A naked man
The seconds of sex
Housing project build 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
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Thirty-Six
Episode 10 of series 3
First broadcast on 21-12-72
Recorded on 25-5-72
Number as recorded : 13
Henry Tripshaw's desease
Tudor jobs agency
Pornographic bookshop
Elizabethan pornography smugglers
Silly disturbance (the Rev. Arthur Belling)
The free repetition of doubtful words sketch, by an underrated author
« Is there ? » … life after death ?
The man who says words in the wrong order
Thripshaw’s disease
Silly noises
Sherry-drinking vicar
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Thirty-Seven
Episode 11 of series 3
First broadcast on 4-1-73
Recorded on 17-4-72
Number as recorded : 8
Dennis Moore
« Boxing Tonight » - Jack Bodell v. Sir Kenneth Clark
Dennis Moore
Lupins
What the stars foretell
Doctor
« TV4 or not TV4 » discussion
Ideal Loon Exhibition
Off-Licence
« Prejudice »
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Thirty-Eight
Episode 12 of series 3
First broadcast on 11-1-73
Recorded on 18-12-71
Number as recorded : 3
A Book at Bedtime
Party Political Broadcast (choreographed)
« A Book at Bedtime »
« Redgauntlet »
Kamikaze Scotsmen
No time to lose
Penguins
BBC programme planners
Unexploded Scotsman
« Spot the Loony »
Rival documentaries
« Dad’s Doctors » (trail)
« Dad’s Pooves » (trail)
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Thirty-Nine
Episode 13 of series 3
First broadcast on 18-1-73
Recorded on 18-5-72
Number as recorded : 12
Grandstand
Thames TV introduction
« Light Entertainment Awards »
Dickie Attenborough
The Oscar Wilde sketch
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
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Forty
Episode 1 of series 4
First broadcast on 31-10-74
Recorded on 12-10-74
Number as recorded : 1
The golden age of ballooning
Montgolfier Brothers
Louis XIV
George III
Zeppelin
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Forty-One
Episode 2 of series 4
First broadcast on 7-11-74
Recorded on 19-10-74
Number as recorded : 2
Michael Ellis
Department store
Buying an ant
At home with the ant and other pets
Documentary on ants
Ant communication
Poetry reading (ants)
Toupee
Different endings
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Forty-Two
Episode 3 of series 4
First broadcast on 14-11-74
Recorded on 26-10-74
Number as recorded : 3
Light entertainment war
« Up Your Pavement »
RAF banter
Trivializing the war
Courtmartial
Basingstoke in Westphalia
« Anything Goes In » (song)
Film trailer
The public are idiots
Programme titles conference
The last five miles of the M2
Woody and tinny words
Show-jumping (musical)
Newflash (Germans)
« When Does A Dream Begin ? » (song)
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Forty-Three
Episode 4 of series 4
First broadcast on 21-11-74
Recorded on 2-11-74
Number as recorded : 4
Hamlet
Bogus Psychiatrists
« Nationwide »
Police helmets
Father-in-law
Hamlet and Ophelia
Boxing match aftermath
Boxing commentary
Piston engine (a bargain)
A room in Polonius’s house
Dentists
Live from Epsom
Queen Victoria Handicap
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Forty-Four
Episode 5 of series 4
First broadcast on 28-11-74
Recorded on 9-11-74
Number as recorded : 5
Mr Neutron
Post box ceremony
Teddy Salad (CIA agent)
« Conjuring Today »
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Forty-Five
Episode 6 of series 4
First broadcast on 5-12-74
Recorded on 16-11-74
Number as recorded : 6
Party Political Broadcast
« Most Awful Family in Britain »
Icelandic Honey Week
A doctor whose patients are stabbed by his nurse
Brigadier and Bishop
Appeal on behalf of extremely rich people
The man who finishes other people’s sentences
David Attenborough
The walking tree of Dahomey
The batsmen of the Kalahari
Cricket match (assegais)
BBC News (handovers)
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