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!season 1

2 Whither Canada?
	‘It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’; Famous deaths
	Italian Lesson
	Whizzo butter
	‘It's the Arts’ – Sir Edward Ross
	Arthur ‘Two-Sheds’ Jackson
	Picasso/cycling race
	The funniest joke in the world

4 Sex and Violence
	Flying sheep
	French lecture on sheep-aircraft
	Pepperpots discuss French philosophers
	Cartoon – The Thinker
	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
	Cartoon – Flying sheep
	The wrestling epilogue
	Cartoon – Cowboys, baby carriage and the musical statue
	The mouse problem

5 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
	Cartoon – Animals and clergy
	Donkey rides
	Restaurant sketch (dirty fork)
	Cartoon – ‘Purchase a Past’ commercial
	Seduced milkmen
	Stolen newsreader
	Children's interview
	Nudge nudge

6 Owl-Stretching Time
	Live from the Cardiff Rooms, Libya/Song (‘And Did Those Feet’)
	Art gallery
	Art critic
	It's a man's life in the modern army
	Undressing in public (changing on the beach)
	Self-defence against fresh fruit
	Cartoon – Changing on the beach
	Rustic monologue
	Secret Service dentists

7 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
	Cartoon – Charles Fatless
	Silly job interview
	Careers advisory board
	Burglar/encyclopædia salesman

8 It's the Arts
	Caption costs
	Cartoon – Autograph/Introduction to ‘It's the Arts’
	Johann Gombolputty… von Hauptkopf of Ulm
	Cartoon – Censored
	Non-illegal robbery
	Vox pops
	Crunchy frog
	The dull life of a City stockbroker
	Cartoon – Superhero
	Red Indian in theatre
	Policemen make wonderful friends
	A Scotsman on a horse/Young Lochinvar
	Cartoon – Vicious baby carriage
	Twentieth-Century Vole (Irving C. Saltzberg)

16 You're No Fun Any More
	Camel spotting
	Cartoon – Band concert
	You're no fun any more
	The audit
	Science fiction sketch: Man turns into Scotsman
	Police station
	Blancmanges playing tennis

2 Full Frontal Nudity
	Vox pops on nudity and the permissive society
	Army protection racket
	Cartoon – Full frontal nudity
	More vox pops
	Art critic – the place of the nude
	Buying a bed
	Too silly
	Hermits
	Cartoon – Meat grinder
	Dead parrot
	The flasher
	Hell's Grannies

4 The Ant, an Introduction
	Llamas
	A man with a tape recorder up his nose
	Kilimanjaro expedition/Sir George Head (double vision)
	A man with a tape recorder up his brother's nose
	Cartoon – Clergyman selling encyclopædias
	Homicidal barber
	Lumberjack song
	Gumby crooner
	The refreshment room at Bletchley (Kenny Lust introduction)
	Hunting film
	The visitors

5 Untitled
	Walk-on part in sketch
	Bank robber (lingerie shop)
	Trailer (Tonight's programmes with Henry Unction)
	Arthur Tree
	Cartoon – Wooden impressions
	Vocational guidance counsellor (chartered accountant)
	David Unction link
	The first man to jump the Channel (Ron Obvious)
	Tunnelling from Godalming to Java
	Pet conversions
	Gorilla librarian
	Letters to ‘Daily Mirror’
	Strangers in the night
	Cartoon – Animals eating

6 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
	The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
	Letter (lavatorial humour); Cartoon – More lavatorial humour
	Interruptions (‘The World of History’)
	Agatha Christie sketch
	Undertakers film
	Literary football discussion (Jimmy Buzzard interview)
	Undertakers film (undertakers and naked ladies)
	Interesting people
	Tired undertakers
	Cartoon – Coffins
	Eighteenth century social legislation (‘The World of History’)
	The Battle of Trafalgar
	Batley Townswomen's Guild presents the Battle of Pearl Harbour
	Undertakers film

7 The Naked Ant
	A signal box somewhere near Hove
	Falling from building
	Cartoon – Falling people, magician, opening titles
	‘Spectrum’ – talking about things
	Visitors from Coventry
	Mr Hilter
	The Minehead by-election
	Police station (silly voices)
	Upperclass Twit of the Year
	Cartoon – Smoking a pipe
	Ken Shabby
	How far can a minister fall?  (Party political broadcast by the Woody Party)

8 Intermission
	Cartoon – Intermission
	Restaurant (abuse/cannibalism)
	Advertisements (pearls for swine)
	Albatross
	Comeback to my place
	Me Doctor
	Historical impersonations
	Cartoon – Historical impersonations
	Quiz programme – ‘Wishes’
	Police fairy stories
	‘Probe-around’ on crime
	Stonehenge
	Mr Attila the Hun
	Psychiatry – silly sketch
	Operating theatre (squatters)

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!season 2

2 ‘Face the Press’
	‘Face the Press’
	New cooker sketch
	Cartoon – Flying European monarchs, shaving; Tobacconists (prostitute advert)
	The Ministry of Silly Walks
	The Piranha brothers (Ethel the Frog)

4 The Spanish Inquisition
	Man-powered flight
	The Spanish Inquisition
	Jokes and novelties salesman
	Cartoon – Suddenly animated head
	Tax on thingy
	Vox pops
	Photos of Uncle Ted (Spanish Inquisition)
	The semaphore version of ‘Wuthering Heights’
	‘Julius Cæsar’ on an Aldis lamp
	Court scene (charades)
	The Spanish Inquisition on a bus

5 Déjà Vu
	A bishop rehearsing
	Flying lessons
	Hijacked plane (to Luton)
	The Poet McTeagle
	Psychiatrist milkman
	Complaints
	Déjà vu

6 The Buzz Aldrin Show
	Cartoon – Metamorphosis
	Architect sketch
	How to give up being a Mason
	Cartoon – Anti-Masonic therapy
	Motor insurance sketch
	‘The bishop’
	Living room on pavement
	East Midland Poet Board
	A choice of viewing (nude man)
	Cartoon – The five frog curse
	Chemist sketch
	Words not to be used again
	After-shave (less naughty chemist)
	Vox pops
	Police Constable Pan-Am

7 Live from the Grill-o-mat
	Live from the Grill-o-mat snack bar, Paignton
	‘Blackmail’
	Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things
	Escape (from film)
	Cartoon – Escape
	Current affairs
	Cartoon – Escape continues
	Accidents sketch
	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
	Cartoon – Piggy bank hunting
	The man who is alternately rude and polite
	Documentary on boxer (Ken Clean-Air System)
	Host on a bus

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 (Book of the Month Club)
	Dead Indian
	Timmy Williams interview
	Raymond Luxury-Yacht interview
	Cartoon – Sexual athletes
	Registry office (marriage)
	Cartoon – The prince and the black spot
	Election Night Special (Silly and Sensible parties)

16 The Attila the Hun Show
	‘The Attila the Hun Show’
	Attila the Nun
	Secretary of State striptease
	Vox pops on politicians
	Ratcatcher
	Wainscotting
	Cartoon – Killer sheep
	The news for parrots
	The news for gibbons
	Today in Parliament
	The news for wombats
	Cartoon – Attila the Bun
	The Idiot in Society
	Test match
	The Epsom furniture race
	‘Take Your Pick’ (‘Spot the Brain Cell’)

2 Archæology Today
	Trailer (BBC autumn shows)
	Cartoon – Archæology
	‘Archæology Today’ (flaming star)
	Silly vicar (appeal for sanity)
	Leapy Lee
	Registrar (wife swap)
	Silly doctor sketch (immediately abandoned)
	Cartoon – Soccer, eggs diamond, book ad
	Mr and Mrs Git
	Mosquito hunters
	Poofy judges
	Mrs Thing and Mrs Entity
	Beethoven's mynah bird
	Shakespeare
	Michelangelo
	Colin Mozart (ratcatcher)
	Judges again

4 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 (Raymond Luxury-Yacht)
	Camp square-bashing
	Cartoon – Killer cars
	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)

5 Scott of the Antarctic
	French subtitled film (‘La Fromage Grande’)
	Scott of the Antarctic
	Scott of the Sahara
	Cartoon – Conrad Poohs and his dancing teeth
	Fish licence
	Derby Council v. All Blacks rugby match
	Long John Silver Impersonators v. Bournemouth Gynæcologists

6 How Not to Be Seen
	Conquistador coffee campaign
	Repeating groove
	Ramsay MacDonald striptease
	Job hunter
	Cartoon – Chinese communist conspiracy, Crelm toothpaste, Shrill petrol
	Agatha Christie sketch (railway timetables)
	Mr Neville Shunt
	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

7 Spam
	‘The Black Eagle’
	Dirty Hungarian phrasebook
	Court (phrasebook)
	Cartoon – Student demonstration, World Forum opening titles
	Communist quiz (World Forum)
	‘Ypres 1914’ – abandoned
	Art gallery strike
	Cartoon – Art gallery strike
	‘Ypres 1914’
	Hospital for over-actors
	Cartoon – Hamlet linking Gumby flowers
	Gumby flower arranging
	Spam

8 Royal Episode 13
	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 words
	The man who speaks only the beginnings of words
	The man who speaks only the middles of words
	Cartoon – Crelm toothpaste
	Commercials
	How to feed a goldfish (fish club)
	The man who collects birdwatchers' eggs
	Cartoon – Spiny Norman, ‘Insurance sketch’ titles
	Insurance sketch
	Queen tunes in
	Hospital run by RSM
	Mountaineer; Exploding version of ‘The Blue Danube’
	Girls' boarding school
	Submarine
	Lifeboat (cannibalism)
	Undertaker's sketch

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!season 3

2 Whicker's World
	Court scene – multiple murderer
	Cartoon – Detectives examine prisoner
	Icelandic saga (‘Njorl's Saga’)
	Court scene (Viking)
	Stock Exchange report
	Mrs Premise and Mrs Conclusion visit Jean-Paul Sartre
	Whicker Island

4 Mr. and 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
	Cartoon – Anatomy chart
	Farming Club: ‘Life of Tschaikowsky’
	Trim-Jeans Theatre
	Cartoon – Compère
	Fish-slapping dance
	Cartoon – Nationalistic fish
	World War One (abandon ship)
	The BBC is short of money
	Puss in Boots
	‘It's’ (chat show)

5 The Money Programme
	‘The Money Programme’
	‘There is nothing quite so wonderful as money’ (song)
	Erizabeth L
	Fraud film squad
	Cartoon – Police hunt for Visconti impersonator
	Salvation fuzz/church police
	Cartoon – Heaven/women in jungle
	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 Yard
	One more minute of Monty Python's Flying Circus

6 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
	Cartoon – The househunters
	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 (‘The Bols Story’)
	Neurotic announcers
	The news with Richard Baker (vision only)
	‘The Pantomime Hose is a Secret Agent Film’

7 The All-England Summarize Proust Competition
	Summarize Proust Competition
	Everest climbed by hairdressers
	Cartoon – ‘A magnificent festering’
	Fire brigade
	Our Eamonn
	‘Party Hints’ with Veronica Smalls
	Cartoon – Communist revolutions
	Language laboratory
	Travel agent; Watney's Red Barrel
	Theory on Brontosauruses by Anne Elk (Miss)

8 The War Against Pornography
	Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign
	Gumby brain specialist
	Cartoon – Art appreciation
	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

16 Salad Days
	Biggles dictates a letter
	Cartoon – Flying sheep, traffic accidents
	Climbing the north face of the Uxbridge Road
	Lifeboat
	Old lady snoopers
	‘Storage jars’
	Cartoon – Television is bad for your eyes
	The show so far
	Cheese shop
	Philip Jenkinson on Cheese Westerns
	Sam Peckinpah's ‘Salad Days’
	Apology
	The news with Richard Baker
	Seashore interlude film

2 The Cycling Tour
	Mr Pither
	Clodagh Rogers
	Trotsky
	Smolensk
	Bingo-crazed Chinese
	Cartoon – ‘Jack in a Box’

4 The Nude Organist
	Bomb on plane
	A naked man
	Ten seconds of sex
	Housing project built by characters from nineteenth-century English literature
	M1 interchange built by characters from ‘Paradise Lost’
	Mystico and Janet – flats built by hypnosis
	‘Mortuary Hour’
	Cartoon – Animator, flying saucers
	The Olympic hide-and-seek final
	Donkey rides
	The Cheap-Laughs
	Bull-fighting
	The British Well-Basically Club
	Cartoon – Algon opening
	Prices on the planet Algon

5 E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease
	Tudor jobs agency
	Pornographic bookshop
	Elizabethan pornography smugglers (Sir Philip Sydney)
	Cartoon – ‘Gay boys in bondage’
	Silly disturbances (the Rev Arthur Belling)
	Cartoon – Shooting gallery
	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

6 Dennis Moore
	‘Boxing Tonight’ – Jack Bodell v. Sir Kenneth Clark
	Dennis Moore; Lupins
	What the stars foretell
	Doctor
	Cartoon – Ambulance chasers
	‘TV4 or not TV4’ discussion
	More Dennis Moore
	Ideal Loon Exhibition
	Cartoon – Plan 38A
	Off-Licence
	Still More Dennis Moore
	‘Prejudice’

7 A Book at Bedtime
	‘A Book at Bedtime’: ‘Redgauntlet’
	McKamikaze Scotsmen
	No Time to Lose
	Cartoon – No time Toulouse
	More McKamikaze Scotsmen
	Cartoon – 2001
	Penguins; BBC programme planners
	Unexploded Scotsman
	‘Spot the Looney’
	Rival documentaries
	‘Dad's Doctors’ (trail)
	‘Dad's Pooves’ (trail)

8 Grandstand
	Thames TV introduction
	‘Light Entertainment Awards’: Dickie Attenborough
	The Oscar Wilde sketch
	Cartoon – Charwoman
	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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!season 4

2 The Golden Age of Ballooning
	Montgolfier Brothers
	Cartoon – Montgolfier brothers wash each other
	Louis XIV
	George III
	Zeppelin

4 Michael Ellis
	Department store; Buying an ant
	At home with the ant and other pets; Documentary on ants
	Ant communication
	Cartoon – Ants
	Poetry reading (ants)
	Toupée
	Different endings

5 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
	The last five miles of the M2; Programme titles conference
	Cartoon – Television centre
	Woody and tinny words
	Show-jumping (musical)
	Newsflash (Germans)
	‘When Does a Dream Begin?’ (song)

6 Hamlet
	Bogus psychiatrists
	‘Nationwide’: police helmets
	Father-in-law
	Hamlet and Ophelia
	Cartoon – Paratroopers
	Boxing match aftermath
	Boxing commentary
	Piston engine (a bargain)
	A room in Polonius's house
	Dentists, live from Epsom
	Queen Victoria Handicap
	Match of the Day results

7 Mr Neutron
	Post box ceremony
	Mr Neutron arrives
	F.E.A.R. (or) Mr Neutron Is Missing
	Teddy Salad (CIA agent)
	Bombings
	Mrs S.C.U.M.
	‘Conjuring Today’

8 Party Political Broadcast
	‘Most Awful Family in Britain’
	Icelandic Honey Week
	A doctor whose patients are stabbed by his nurse
	Brigadier and bishop
	Cartoon – Opera Singer
	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)