Season 1

Monty Python's Flying CircusSeason 1

1969
13 Episodes

Episodes

Whither Canada?
S01E01
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.

05 Oct 196931m
Sex and Violence
S01E02
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.

12 Oct 196933m
How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
S01E03
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.

19 Oct 196931m
Owl Stretching Time
S01E04
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.

26 Oct 196929m
Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
S01E05
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.

16 Nov 196929m
It's the Arts
S01E06
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.

23 Nov 196930m
Oh, You're No Fun Anymore
S01E07
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.

30 Nov 196930m
Full Frontal Nudity
S01E08
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.

07 Dec 196929m
The Ant, An Introduction
S01E09
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.

14 Dec 196929m
Untitled
S01E10
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.

21 Dec 196930m
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
S01E11
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.

28 Dec 196931m
The Naked Ant
S01E12
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.

04 Jan 197031m
Intermission
S01E13
7.4

Intermission

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

11 Jan 197029m