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Monty Python's Flying Circus Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Whither Canada?

First aired: Oct/05/1969
Writer: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
Director: Ian MacNaughton

The Sketches:
It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Famous Deaths)
Italian Lesson
Whizzo Butter
It's the Arts
Arthur "Two-Shed's" Jackson
Picasso/Cycling Race
The Funniest Joke in the World


2 :01x02 - Sex and Violence

First aired: Oct/12/1969
Writer: Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Director: Ian MacNaughton

The Sketches:
Flying sheep
French lecture on sheep-aircraft
A man with three buttocks
Musical mice
Marriage guidance counsellor
The wacky queen
Working-class playwright
The wrestling epilogue
The mouse problem


3 :01x03 - How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away

First aired: Oct/19/1969
Writer: Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Guest star: Ian Davidson ((Unknown))

The Sketches:
Court scene with Richelieu
Bicycle repair man
Children's stories
Restaurant sketch
Seduced milkman
Stolen newspaper
Nudge nudge


4 :01x04 - Owl Stretching Time

First aired: Oct/26/1969
Writer: John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Guest star: Kathja Wyeth (Woman Seducing Idle), Dick Vosburgh (Van der Berg)

The Sketches
And did those feet
Art Gallery
Art critic
It's a man's life int he modern army
Undressing in public
Self-defence
Secret service dentists


5 :01x05 - Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century

First aired: Nov/16/1969
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Graham Chapman

The Sketches:
Confuse-a-cat
The Smuggler
Police raid
Newsreader arrested
Erotic film
Silly job interview
Careers advisory board
Burglar / encyclopedia salesman


6 :01x06 - It's the Arts

First aired: Nov/23/1969
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Ian Davidson ((Unknown))

The Sketches:
Johann Gombolputty
Non-illegal robbery
Crunchy frog
The dull life of a city stockbroker
Red Indian in theatre
A Scotsman on a horse
Twentieth-century vole


7 :01x07 - You're No Fun Anymore

First aired: Nov/30/1969
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Donna Reading (Woman in bed and lab)

The Sketches:
Camel-spotting
The audit
Science fiction sketch
Man turns into Scotsman
Police station
Blancmanges playing tennis


8 :01x08 - Full Frontal Nudity

First aired: Dec/07/1969
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Rita Davies (Distraught mother), Kathja Wyeth (Elsie)

The Sketches:
Army protection racket
Art critic: the place of the nude
Buying a bed
Hermits
Dead parrot
The flasher
Hell's grannies


9 :01x09 - The Ant, an Introduction

First aired: Dec/14/1969
Writer: Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Connie Booth (Best girl)

The Sketches:
Llamas
A man with a tape recorder up his nose
Kilimanjaro expedition
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


10 :01x10 - Untitled

First aired: Dec/21/1969
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Barry Cryer (Algy), Ian Davidson ((Unknown)), Carolae Donoghue ((Unknown))

The Sketches:
Walk-on part in sketch
Bank robber in lingerie shop
It's a tree
Vocational guidance counsellor
Ron Obvious
Tunnelling from Godalming to Java
Pet conversions
Gorilla librarian
Letters to "Daily Mirror"
Strangers in the night


11 :01x11 - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

First aired: Dec/28/1969
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Flanagan ((Unknown)), Ian Davidson ((Unknown))

The Sketches:
Lavatorial humour
Interruptions
Agatha Christie
Undertakers film
Jimmy Buzzard interview
Interesting people
Eighteenth-century social legislation
The Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Pearl Harbour


12 :01x12 - The Naked Ant

First aired: Jan/04/1970
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Connie Booth ((Unknown)), Flanagan ((Unknown))

The Sketches:
Falling from building
"Spectrum" talking about things
Visitors from Coventry
Mr. Hilter
Silly voices at the police station
Upperclass Twit of the Year
Ken Shabby
How far can a minister fall?


13 :01x13 - Intermission

First aired: Jan/11/1970
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: David Ballantyne ((Unknown))

The Sketches:
Restaurant abuse
Advertisements
Albatross
Come back to my place
Me doctor
Historical impersonations
Quiz programme
Probe-around on crime
Mr. Attila the Hun
Psychiatry
Operating theatre


14 :02x01 - Dinsdale

First aired: Sep/15/1970
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Stanley Mason (8th gas man), John Hughman ((Unknown))

The Sketches:
"Face the Press"
New cooker sketch
Prostitute advert
The Ministry of Silly Walks
The Piranha brothers


15 :02x02 - The Spanish Inquisition

First aired: Sep/22/1970
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Marjorie Wilde (Old Lady)

The Sketches:
Man-powered flight
The Spanish Inquisition
Jokes and novelties salesman
Tax on thingy
Photos of Uncle Ted
The semaphore version of Wuthering Heights
Julius Caesar on an Aldis lamp
Court charades


16 :02x03 - Déjà Vu

First aired: Sep/29/1970
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Jeannette Wild ((Unknown))

The Sketches:
Flying lessons
Hijacked plane
The Poet McTeagle
Psychiatrist milkman
Complaints
Déjà Vu


17 :02x04 - The Buzz Aldrin Show

First aired: Oct/20/1970
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Stanley Mason (Unknown), Sandra Richards ((Unknown))

The Sketches:
Architect sketch
How to give up being a Mason
Insurance sketch
"The Bishop"
Living room on pavement
Poets
A choice of viewing
Chemist sketch
Police constable Pan-Am


18 :02x05 - Live from the Grill-o-mat

First aired: Oct/27/1970
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Lyn Ashley (Bride (credited as Mrs. Idle)), Connie Booth ((Unknown)), Ian Davidson ((Unknown))

The Sketches:
Live from the Grill-o-mat
"Blackmail"
Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things
Escape from film
Current affairs
Accidents
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The man who is alternatively rude and polite
Ken Clean-Air System


19 :02x06 - It's A Living

First aired: Nov/03/1970
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Ian Davidson (Various), Rita Davies ((Unknown))

The Sketches:
"It's a Living"
The time on BBC 1
School prize-giving
Films by Mr. Dibley
The news
Free Prizes
Timmy Williams interview
Raymond Luxery Yacht
Getting married
Election Night Special


20 :02x07 - The Attila the Hun Show

First aired: Nov/11/1970
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman

The Sketches:
"The Attila the Hun Show"
Secretary of State striptease
Vox pops on politicians
Ratcatcher
Killer sheep
The news for parrots
The Idiot in Society
Test match
"Take your Pick"


21 :02x08 - Archaeology Today

First aired: Nov/17/1970
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman

The Sketches:
"Archaeology Today"
Silly vicar
Mr. and Mrs. Git
Mosquito hunters
Poofy judges
Mrs. Thing and Mrs. Entity
Beethoven's mynah bird


22 :02x09 - How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body

First aired: Nov/24/1970
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: John Clement ((Unknown)), Ralph Wood ((Unknown)), Alexander Curry ((Unknown)), Roy Gunson ((Unknown)), Vincent Wong (Mr. Kamikaze)

The Sketches:
How to recognize different parts of the body
Bruces
Naughty Bits
The man who contradicts people
Camp square-bashing
Cut-price airline
Batley Townswomen's Guild
The Death of Mary Queen of Scots
Exploding penguin on the TV
There's been a murder


23 :02x10 - Scott of the Antarctic

First aired: Dec/01/1970
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Lyn Ashley ((Unknown [credited as Mrs. Idle]))

The Sketches:
French subtitled film
Scott of the Antarctic
Conrad Poohs and His Dancing Teeth
Fish license
Derby Council v. All Blacks rugby match
Long John Silver Impersonators v. Gynaecologists


24 :02x11 - How Not to Be Seen

First aired: Dec/08/1970
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman

The Sketches:
Conquistador coffee campaign
It all happened on the 11:20 from Hainault
Toothy film director
"Crackpot Religions Ltd."
How not to be seen


25 :02x12 - Spam

First aired: Dec/15/1970
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman

The Sketches:
"The Black Eagle"
Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook
Communist quiz
Art gallery strike
"Ypres 1914"
Hospital for over-actors
Gumby flower arranging
Spam


26 :02x13 - Royal Episode 13

First aired: Dec/22/1970
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman

The Sketches:
The Queen will be watching
Coal mine
The man who says things in a roundabout way
How to feed a goldfish
Insurance sketch
Hospital run by RSM
Exploding version of The Blue Danube
Girls' boarding school
Lifeboat
Undertaker's Sketch


27 :03x01 - Whicker's World

First aired: Oct/19/1972
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Rita Davies ((Unknown)), Connie Booth ((Unknown)), Lyn Ashley ((Unknown [credited as Mrs. Idle]))

The Sketches:
Njorl's saga
Eric Njorl on trial
Stock Market Report
Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion visit Sarte
Whicker's World


28 :03x02 - Mr. & Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular

First aired: Oct/26/1972
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Ringo Starr (Himself)

The Sketches:
Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow
Schoolboy's Life Assurance Company
How to rid the world of all known diseases
The Mrs. explodes
Vicar/salesman
Farming club/Life of Tchaikowsky
Sviatoslav Richter and Rita
Trim Jeans Theatre
Fish-slapping dance
The BBC is short of money
SS Mother Goose
It's Man Chat Show


29 :03x03 - The Money Programme

First aired: Nov/02/1972
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman

The Sketches:
The Money Programme
Erizabeth L.
Fraud film director's squad
Church Police
Jungle restaurant
Apology/Gardening Club
The Lost World of Roiurama
Argument Clinic


30 :03x04 - Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror

First aired: Nov/09/1972
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman

The Sketches:
The man who speaks in anagrams
Anagram quiz
Merchant banker
Pantomime horses
Life and death struggles
Mary recruitment office
Bus conductor
The man who makes people laugh uncontrollably
Army captain as clown
Gestures to indicate pauses in a televised talk
Neurotic announcers/Richard Baker
The Pantomime Horse is a Secret Agent


31 :03x05 - The All-England Summarize Proust Competition

First aired: Nov/16/1972
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman

The Sketches:
All-England Summarize Proust Competition
Everest climbed by hairdressers
Fire Brigade
"Party Hints" with Veronica Smalls
Language laboratory
Travel agent
Theory on Brontosaurus Uses by Anne Elk


32 :03x06 - The War Against Pornography

First aired: Nov/23/1972
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Lyn Ashley ((Unknown [credited as Mrs. Idle]))

The Sketches:
Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign
Gumby brain specialist
Molluscs-"live" TV documentary
Report on the Minister reports
Tuesday documentary/children's story
Match of the Day
An apology
Expedition to Lake Pahoe
The silliest sketch we've ever done


33 :03x07 - Salad Days

First aired: Nov/30/1972
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman

The Sketches:
Biggles dictates a letter
Climbing the north face of Uxbridge Road
Lifeboat
Storage jars
The show so far
Cheese shop
Sam Pekinpah's "Salad Days"
Apology
The news with Richard Baker
Seashore interlude film


34 :03x08 - The Cycling Tour

First aired: Dec/07/1972
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman

The Sketches:
The cycling tour
Prescription for directions
Break-up at the pub
Mr. Gulliver/Clodagh Rogers
Trotsky
Smolensk
Bingo-crazed Chinese
Not Secret Police
Trotsky/Eartha Kitt
Firing Squad
Eartha Kitt/Edward Heath


35 :03x09 - The Nude Organist

First aired: Dec/14/1972
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Lyn Ashley ((Unknown [credited as Mrs. Idle]))

The Sketches:
Bomb on plane
A naked man
Housing project built by characters from 19th century English Literature
M1 interchange built by characters from Paradise Lost
Mystico and Janet-flats built by hypnosis
Mortuary Hour
Olympic hide-and-seek final
The Cheap-Laughs
Bull-fighting
Prices on the planet Algon
Reading the credits


36 :03x10 - Henry Thripshaw's Disease

First aired: Dec/21/1972
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman

The Sketches:
Tudor jobs agency
Elizabethan pornography smugglers
Silly disturbances
The free repetition of doubtful words
Is there? . . . life after death?
Thripshaw's disease
Sherry-drinking vicar


37 :03x11 - Dennis Moore

First aired: Jan/04/1973
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Nosher Powell (Jack Bodell)

The Sketches:
Boxing Tonight
Dennis Moore
What the stars foretell
Doctor
TV4 or not TV4
Lupins
Ideal Loon Exhibition
Off-licence
Dennis Moore Etcetera
Prejudice
Redistribution of wealth


38 :03x12 - A Book at Bedtime

First aired: Jan/11/1973
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, John Cleese
Guest star: Caron Gardner (Mary)

The Sketches:
A Book at Bedtime
Kamikaze Highlanders
No time to lose
Frontiers of Medicine-Penguins
Unexploded Scotsman
Spot the Loony
Rival documentaries


39 :03x13 - Grandstand

First aired: Jan/18/1973
Writer: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Graham Chapman

The Sketches:
Light Entertainment Award
Oscar Wilde
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 cast of the Dirty Vicar


40 :04x01 - The Golden Age of Ballooning

First aired: Oct/31/1974
Writer: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Stenson Falke ((Unknown)), Frank Lester ((Unknown)), Peter Brett ((Unknown))

The Sketches:
The Montgolfier brothers
Montgolfier brothers in love
Louis XIV
The Court of George III
Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Norwegian Party
Zeppelin


41 :04x02 - Michael Ellis

First aired: Nov/07/1974
Writer: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman
Guest star: John Hughman (Alfred/Lord Tennyson)

The Sketches:
Department store
Buying an ant
At home with the ant and other pets
Documentary on ants
Ant communication
The anatomy of an ant
Complaints
Ant poetry readings
Toupees
Different endings


42 :04x03 - The Light Entertainment War

First aired: Nov/14/1974
Writer: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman
Guest star: Neil Innes (Singing Soldier), Bob Raymond ((Unknown))

The Sketches:
Up Your Pavement
RAF banter
Trivializing the war
Courtmartial
Anything Goes In
Film trailer
The public are idiots
Programme titles conference
Woody and tinny words
Show-jumping
Newsflash-When Does a Dream Begin?


43 :04x04 - Hamlet

First aired: Nov/21/1974
Writer: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman

The Sketches:
Bogus psychiatrist
Nationwide
Police helmets
Father-in-law
Hamlet and Ophelia
Boxing match aftermath
Boxing commentary
Piston engine (a bargain)
A room in Polonius's house
Live from Epsom
Queen Victoria Handicap


44 :04x05 - Mr. Neutron

First aired: Nov/28/1974
Writer: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman

The Sketches:
Post-box ceremony
Mr. and Mrs. Entrail (or) Mr. Neutron
F.E.A.R. (or) Mr. Neutron is missing
Teddy Salad
Secretary of State and Prime Minister
Bombing
Mrs. Soum
Teddy Salad explodes
Mr. Neutron escapes
Conjuring today


45 :04x06 - Party Political Broadcast

First aired: Dec/05/1974
Writer: Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, John Cleese

The Sketches:
Most Awful Family in Britain
Icelandic Honey Week
Patient abuse
Brigadier and Bishop
Appeal on behalf of extremely rich people
The man who finishes other people's sentences
The walking tree of Dahomey
Batsmen of the Kalahari vs. Warwicksire
BBC News