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Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python's Flying Circus

S1 · E1

IMDB:

8.3
Monty Python's Flying Circus

Released

10/5/1969

Duration

0h 28m

Genre

Comedy

Country

United States

Cast

Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones

Overview

A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.

Episodes

Whither Canada?EP 1Available

Whither Canada?

31m7.8

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 ViolenceEP 2Available

Sex and Violence

33m7.7

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.

How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way AwayEP 3Available

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

31m8.0

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.

Owl Stretching TimeEP 4Available

Owl Stretching Time

29m7.5

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.

Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th CenturyEP 5Available

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

29m7.8

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.

It's the ArtsEP 6Available

It's the Arts

30m7.1

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 AnymoreEP 7Available

Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

30m7.1

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

Full Frontal NudityEP 8Available

Full Frontal Nudity

29m7.2

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.

The Ant, An IntroductionEP 9Available

The Ant, An Introduction

29m7.5

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

UntitledEP 10Available

Untitled

30m7.3

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.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the BathroomEP 11Available

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

31m7.0

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom, a footballer is interviewed and Batley Townswomen's Guild re-enact the invasion of Pearl Harbour.

The Naked AntEP 12Available

The Naked Ant

31m7.1

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.

IntermissionEP 13Available

Intermission

29m7.4

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

Cast

Graham Chapman

Various

Graham Chapman

Michael Palin

Various / "It's" man

Michael Palin

Terry Jones

Various

Terry Jones

Eric Idle

Various

Eric Idle

Terry Gilliam

Various

Terry Gilliam

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