Monty Python's Flying Circus · Season 1

All Episodes

13 episodes · (Complete)

S01E01: Whither Canada?

Oct 5, 1969 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.

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S01E02: Sex and Violence

Oct 12, 1969 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.

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S01E03: How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away

Oct 19, 1969 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.

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S01E04: Owl Stretching Time

Oct 26, 1969 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.

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S01E05: Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century

Nov 16, 1969 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.

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S01E06: It's the Arts

Nov 23, 1969 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.

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S01E07: Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

Nov 30, 1969 30 min

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

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S01E08: Full Frontal Nudity

Dec 7, 1969 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.

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S01E09: The Ant, An Introduction

Dec 14, 1969 29 min

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

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S01E10: Untitled

Dec 21, 1969 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.

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S01E11: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

Dec 28, 1969 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.

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S01E12: The Naked Ant

Jan 4, 1970 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.

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