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   3 !title Monty Python's Flying Circus (sketches)
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   8 !season 1
   9
  10 2 Whither Canada?
  11         ‘It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’; Famous deaths
  12         Italian Lesson
  13         Whizzo butter
  14         ‘It's the Arts’ – Sir Edward Ross
  15         Arthur ‘Two-Sheds’ Jackson
  16         Picasso/cycling race
  17         The funniest joke in the world
  18
  19 4 Sex and Violence
  20         Flying sheep
  21         French lecture on sheep-aircraft
  22         Pepperpots discuss French philosophers
  23         Cartoon – The Thinker
  24         A man with three buttocks
  25         A man with two noses
  26         Musical mice
  27         Marriage guidance counsellor
  28         The wacky queen
  29         Working-class playwright
  30         A Scotsman on a horse
  31         Cartoon – Flying sheep
  32         The wrestling epilogue
  33         Cartoon – Cowboys, baby carriage and the musical statue
  34         The mouse problem
  35
  36 5 How to Recognize Different Types of Tree from Quite a Long Way Away
  37         Court scene (witness in coffin/Cardinal Richelieu)
  38         The larch
  39         Bicycle Repair Man
  40         Children's stories
  41         Cartoon – Animals and clergy
  42         Donkey rides
  43         Restaurant sketch (dirty fork)
  44         Cartoon – ‘Purchase a Past’ commercial
  45         Seduced milkmen
  46         Stolen newsreader
  47         Children's interview
  48         Nudge nudge
  49
  50 6 Owl-Stretching Time
  51         Live from the Cardiff Rooms, Libya/Song (‘And Did Those Feet’)
  52         Art gallery
  53         Art critic
  54         It's a man's life in the modern army
  55         Undressing in public (changing on the beach)
  56         Self-defence against fresh fruit
  57         Cartoon – Changing on the beach
  58         Rustic monologue
  59         Secret Service dentists
  60
  61 7 Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century
  62         Confuse-a-Cat
  63         The smuggler
  64         A duck, a cat and a lizard (discussion)
  65         Vox pops on smuggling
  66         Police raid
  67         Letters and vox pops
  68         Newsreader arrested
  69         Erotic film
  70         Cartoon – Charles Fatless
  71         Silly job interview
  72         Careers advisory board
  73         Burglar/encyclopædia salesman
  74
  75 8 It's the Arts
  76         Caption costs
  77         Cartoon – Autograph/Introduction to ‘It's the Arts’
  78         Johann Gombolputty… von Hauptkopf of Ulm
  79         Cartoon – Censored
  80         Non-illegal robbery
  81         Vox pops
  82         Crunchy frog
  83         The dull life of a City stockbroker
  84         Cartoon – Superhero
  85         Red Indian in theatre
  86         Policemen make wonderful friends
  87         A Scotsman on a horse/Young Lochinvar
  88         Cartoon – Vicious baby carriage
  89         Twentieth-Century Vole (Irving C. Saltzberg)
  90
  91 16 You're No Fun Any More
  92         Camel spotting
  93         Cartoon – Band concert
  94         You're no fun any more
  95         The audit
  96         Science fiction sketch: Man turns into Scotsman
  97         Police station
  98         Blancmanges playing tennis
  99
 100 2 Full Frontal Nudity
 101         Vox pops on nudity and the permissive society
 102         Army protection racket
 103         Cartoon – Full frontal nudity
 104         More vox pops
 105         Art critic – the place of the nude
 106         Buying a bed
 107         Too silly
 108         Hermits
 109         Cartoon – Meat grinder
 110         Dead parrot
 111         The flasher
 112         Hell's Grannies
 113
 114 4 The Ant, an Introduction
 115         Llamas
 116         A man with a tape recorder up his nose
 117         Kilimanjaro expedition/Sir George Head (double vision)
 118         A man with a tape recorder up his brother's nose
 119         Cartoon – Clergyman selling encyclopædias
 120         Homicidal barber
 121         Lumberjack song
 122         Gumby crooner
 123         The refreshment room at Bletchley (Kenny Lust introduction)
 124         Hunting film
 125         The visitors
 126
 127 5 Untitled
 128         Walk-on part in sketch
 129         Bank robber (lingerie shop)
 130         Trailer (Tonight's programmes with Henry Unction)
 131         Arthur Tree
 132         Cartoon – Wooden impressions
 133         Vocational guidance counsellor (chartered accountant)
 134         David Unction link
 135         The first man to jump the Channel (Ron Obvious)
 136         Tunnelling from Godalming to Java
 137         Pet conversions
 138         Gorilla librarian
 139         Letters to ‘Daily Mirror’
 140         Strangers in the night
 141         Cartoon – Animals eating
 142
 143 6 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
 144         The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
 145         Letter (lavatorial humour); Cartoon – More lavatorial humour
 146         Interruptions (‘The World of History’)
 147         Agatha Christie sketch
 148         Undertakers film
 149         Literary football discussion (Jimmy Buzzard interview)
 150         Undertakers film (undertakers and naked ladies)
 151         Interesting people
 152         Tired undertakers
 153         Cartoon – Coffins
 154         Eighteenth century social legislation (‘The World of History’)
 155         The Battle of Trafalgar
 156         Batley Townswomen's Guild presents the Battle of Pearl Harbour
 157         Undertakers film
 158
 159 7 The Naked Ant
 160         A signal box somewhere near Hove
 161         Falling from building
 162         Cartoon – Falling people, magician, opening titles
 163         ‘Spectrum’ – talking about things
 164         Visitors from Coventry
 165         Mr Hilter
 166         The Minehead by-election
 167         Police station (silly voices)
 168         Upperclass Twit of the Year
 169         Cartoon – Smoking a pipe
 170         Ken Shabby
 171         How far can a minister fall?  (Party political broadcast by the Woody Party)
 172
 173 8 Intermission
 174         Cartoon – Intermission
 175         Restaurant (abuse/cannibalism)
 176         Advertisements (pearls for swine)
 177         Albatross
 178         Comeback to my place
 179         Me Doctor
 180         Historical impersonations
 181         Cartoon – Historical impersonations
 182         Quiz programme – ‘Wishes’
 183         Police fairy stories
 184         ‘Probe-around’ on crime
 185         Stonehenge
 186         Mr Attila the Hun
 187         Psychiatry – silly sketch
 188         Operating theatre (squatters)
 189
 190 ;;;--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 191 !season 2
 192
 193 2 ‘Face the Press’
 194         ‘Face the Press’
 195         New cooker sketch
 196         Cartoon – Flying European monarchs, shaving; Tobacconists (prostitute advert)
 197         The Ministry of Silly Walks
 198         The Piranha brothers (Ethel the Frog)
 199
 200 4 The Spanish Inquisition
 201         Man-powered flight
 202         The Spanish Inquisition
 203         Jokes and novelties salesman
 204         Cartoon – Suddenly animated head
 205         Tax on thingy
 206         Vox pops
 207         Photos of Uncle Ted (Spanish Inquisition)
 208         The semaphore version of ‘Wuthering Heights’
 209         ‘Julius Cæsar’ on an Aldis lamp
 210         Court scene (charades)
 211         The Spanish Inquisition on a bus
 212
 213 5 Déjà Vu
 214         A bishop rehearsing
 215         Flying lessons
 216         Hijacked plane (to Luton)
 217         The Poet McTeagle
 218         Psychiatrist milkman
 219         Complaints
 220         Déjà vu
 221
 222 6 The Buzz Aldrin Show
 223         Cartoon – Metamorphosis
 224         Architect sketch
 225         How to give up being a Mason
 226         Cartoon – Anti-Masonic therapy
 227         Motor insurance sketch
 228         ‘The bishop’
 229         Living room on pavement
 230         East Midland Poet Board
 231         A choice of viewing (nude man)
 232         Cartoon – The five frog curse
 233         Chemist sketch
 234         Words not to be used again
 235         After-shave (less naughty chemist)
 236         Vox pops
 237         Police Constable Pan-Am
 238
 239 7 Live from the Grill-o-mat
 240         Live from the Grill-o-mat snack bar, Paignton
 241         ‘Blackmail’
 242         Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things
 243         Escape (from film)
 244         Cartoon – Escape
 245         Current affairs
 246         Cartoon – Escape continues
 247         Accidents sketch
 248         Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
 249         Cartoon – Piggy bank hunting
 250         The man who is alternately rude and polite
 251         Documentary on boxer (Ken Clean-Air System)
 252         Host on a bus
 253
 254 8 It's a Living
 255         ‘It's a Living’
 256         The time on BBC 1
 257         School prize-giving
 258         ‘if’ – a film by Mr Dibley
 259         ‘Rear Window’ – a film by Mr Dibley
 260         ‘Finian's Rainbow’ (starring the man from the off-licence)
 261         Foreign Secretary
 262         Dung (Book of the Month Club)
 263         Dead Indian
 264         Timmy Williams interview
 265         Raymond Luxury-Yacht interview
 266         Cartoon – Sexual athletes
 267         Registry office (marriage)
 268         Cartoon – The prince and the black spot
 269         Election Night Special (Silly and Sensible parties)
 270
 271 16 The Attila the Hun Show
 272         ‘The Attila the Hun Show’
 273         Attila the Nun
 274         Secretary of State striptease
 275         Vox pops on politicians
 276         Ratcatcher
 277         Wainscotting
 278         Cartoon – Killer sheep
 279         The news for parrots
 280         The news for gibbons
 281         Today in Parliament
 282         The news for wombats
 283         Cartoon – Attila the Bun
 284         The Idiot in Society
 285         Test match
 286         The Epsom furniture race
 287         ‘Take Your Pick’ (‘Spot the Brain Cell’)
 288
 289 2 Archæology Today
 290         Trailer (BBC autumn shows)
 291         Cartoon – Archæology
 292         ‘Archæology Today’ (flaming star)
 293         Silly vicar (appeal for sanity)
 294         Leapy Lee
 295         Registrar (wife swap)
 296         Silly doctor sketch (immediately abandoned)
 297         Cartoon – Soccer, eggs diamond, book ad
 298         Mr and Mrs Git
 299         Mosquito hunters
 300         Poofy judges
 301         Mrs Thing and Mrs Entity
 302         Beethoven's mynah bird
 303         Shakespeare
 304         Michelangelo
 305         Colin Mozart (ratcatcher)
 306         Judges again
 307
 308 4 How to Recognize Different Parts of the Body
 309         ‘How to Recognize Different Parts of the Body’
 310         Bruces
 311         Naughty bits
 312         The man who contradicts people
 313         Cosmetic surgery (Raymond Luxury-Yacht)
 314         Camp square-bashing
 315         Cartoon – Killer cars
 316         Cut-price airline
 317         Batley Townswomen's Guild presents the first heart transplant
 318         The first underwater production of ‘Measure for Measure’
 319         The Death of Mary Queen of Scots
 320         Exploding penguin on TV set
 321         There's been a murder
 322         Europolice Song Contest
 323         ‘Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong’ (song)
 324
 325 5 Scott of the Antarctic
 326         French subtitled film (‘La Fromage Grande’)
 327         Scott of the Antarctic
 328         Scott of the Sahara
 329         Cartoon – Conrad Poohs and his dancing teeth
 330         Fish licence
 331         Derby Council v. All Blacks rugby match
 332         Long John Silver Impersonators v. Bournemouth Gynæcologists
 333
 334 6 How Not to Be Seen
 335         Conquistador coffee campaign
 336         Repeating groove
 337         Ramsay MacDonald striptease
 338         Job hunter
 339         Cartoon – Chinese communist conspiracy, Crelm toothpaste, Shrill petrol
 340         Agatha Christie sketch (railway timetables)
 341         Mr Neville Shunt
 342         Film director (teeth)
 343         City gents vox pops
 344         ‘Crackpot Religions Ltd’
 345         ‘How not to be seen’
 346         Crossing the Atlantic on a tricycle
 347         Interview in filing cabinet
 348         ‘Yummy yummy’
 349         Monty Python's Flying Circus again in thirty seconds
 350
 351 7 Spam
 352         ‘The Black Eagle’
 353         Dirty Hungarian phrasebook
 354         Court (phrasebook)
 355         Cartoon – Student demonstration, World Forum opening titles
 356         Communist quiz (World Forum)
 357         ‘Ypres 1914’ – abandoned
 358         Art gallery strike
 359         Cartoon – Art gallery strike
 360         ‘Ypres 1914’
 361         Hospital for over-actors
 362         Cartoon – Hamlet linking Gumby flowers
 363         Gumby flower arranging
 364         Spam
 365
 366 8 Royal Episode 13
 367         The queen will be watching
 368         Coal mine (historical argument)
 369         The man who says things in a very roundabout way
 370         The man who speaks only the ends of words
 371         The man who speaks only the beginnings of words
 372         The man who speaks only the middles of words
 373         Cartoon – Crelm toothpaste
 374         Commercials
 375         How to feed a goldfish (fish club)
 376         The man who collects birdwatchers' eggs
 377         Cartoon – Spiny Norman, ‘Insurance sketch’ titles
 378         Insurance sketch
 379         Queen tunes in
 380         Hospital run by RSM
 381         Mountaineer; Exploding version of ‘The Blue Danube’
 382         Girls' boarding school
 383         Submarine
 384         Lifeboat (cannibalism)
 385         Undertaker's sketch
 386
 387 ;;;--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 388 !season 3
 389
 390 2 Whicker's World
 391         Court scene – multiple murderer
 392         Cartoon – Detectives examine prisoner
 393         Icelandic saga (‘Njorl's Saga’)
 394         Court scene (Viking)
 395         Stock Exchange report
 396         Mrs Premise and Mrs Conclusion visit Jean-Paul Sartre
 397         Whicker Island
 398
 399 4 Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular
 400         Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow
 401         Schoolboys' Life Assurance Company
 402         How to rid the world of all known diseases
 403         Mrs Niggerbaiter explodes
 404         Vicar/salesman
 405         Cartoon – Anatomy chart
 406         Farming Club: ‘Life of Tschaikowsky’
 407         Trim-Jeans Theatre
 408         Cartoon – Compère
 409         Fish-slapping dance
 410         Cartoon – Nationalistic fish
 411         World War One (abandon ship)
 412         The BBC is short of money
 413         Puss in Boots
 414         ‘It's’ (chat show)
 415
 416 5 The Money Programme
 417         ‘The Money Programme’
 418         ‘There is nothing quite so wonderful as money’ (song)
 419         Erizabeth L
 420         Fraud film squad
 421         Cartoon – Police hunt for Visconti impersonator
 422         Salvation fuzz/church police
 423         Cartoon – Heaven/women in jungle
 424         Jungle restaurant
 425         Apology for violence and nudity
 426         Ken Russell's ‘Gardening Club’
 427         The lost World of Roiurama
 428         Six more minutes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
 429         Argument clinic
 430         Hitting on the head lessons
 431         Inspector Flying Fox of the Yard
 432         One more minute of Monty Python's Flying Circus
 433
 434 6 Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
 435         ‘Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror’
 436         The man who speaks in anagrams
 437         Anagram quiz
 438         Merchant banker
 439         Pantomime horses
 440         Life and death struggles
 441         Cartoon – The househunters
 442         Mary recruitment office
 443         Bus conductor sketch
 444         The man who makes people laugh uncontrollably
 445         Army captain as clown
 446         Gestures to indicate pauses in a televised talk (‘The Bols Story’)
 447         Neurotic announcers
 448         The news with Richard Baker (vision only)
 449         ‘The Pantomime Hose is a Secret Agent Film’
 450
 451 7 The All-England Summarize Proust Competition
 452         Summarize Proust Competition
 453         Everest climbed by hairdressers
 454         Cartoon – ‘A magnificent festering’
 455         Fire brigade
 456         Our Eamonn
 457         ‘Party Hints’ with Veronica Smalls
 458         Cartoon – Communist revolutions
 459         Language laboratory
 460         Travel agent; Watney's Red Barrel
 461         Theory on Brontosauruses by Anne Elk (Miss)
 462
 463 8 The War Against Pornography
 464         Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign
 465         Gumby brain specialist
 466         Cartoon – Art appreciation
 467         Molluscs – ‘live’ TV documentary
 468         The Minister for Not Listening to People
 469         Tuesday documentary/children's story/party political broadcast
 470         Apology (politicians)
 471         Expedition to Lake Pahoe
 472         The silliest interview we've ever had
 473         The silliest sketch we've ever done
 474
 475 16 Salad Days
 476         Biggles dictates a letter
 477         Cartoon – Flying sheep, traffic accidents
 478         Climbing the north face of the Uxbridge Road
 479         Lifeboat
 480         Old lady snoopers
 481         ‘Storage jars’
 482         Cartoon – Television is bad for your eyes
 483         The show so far
 484         Cheese shop
 485         Philip Jenkinson on Cheese Westerns
 486         Sam Peckinpah's ‘Salad Days’
 487         Apology
 488         The news with Richard Baker
 489         Seashore interlude film
 490
 491 2 The Cycling Tour
 492         Mr Pither
 493         Clodagh Rogers
 494         Trotsky
 495         Smolensk
 496         Bingo-crazed Chinese
 497         Cartoon – ‘Jack in a Box’
 498
 499 4 The Nude Organist
 500         Bomb on plane
 501         A naked man
 502         Ten seconds of sex
 503         Housing project built by characters from nineteenth-century English literature
 504         M1 interchange built by characters from ‘Paradise Lost’
 505         Mystico and Janet – flats built by hypnosis
 506         ‘Mortuary Hour’
 507         Cartoon – Animator, flying saucers
 508         The Olympic hide-and-seek final
 509         Donkey rides
 510         The Cheap-Laughs
 511         Bull-fighting
 512         The British Well-Basically Club
 513         Cartoon – Algon opening
 514         Prices on the planet Algon
 515
 516 5 E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease
 517         Tudor jobs agency
 518         Pornographic bookshop
 519         Elizabethan pornography smugglers (Sir Philip Sydney)
 520         Cartoon – ‘Gay boys in bondage’
 521         Silly disturbances (the Rev Arthur Belling)
 522         Cartoon – Shooting gallery
 523         The free repetition of doubtful words sketch, by an underrated author
 524         ‘Is there?’… life after death?
 525         The man who says words in the wrong order
 526         Thripshaw's disease
 527         Silly noises
 528         Sherry-drinking vicar
 529
 530 6 Dennis Moore
 531         ‘Boxing Tonight’ – Jack Bodell v. Sir Kenneth Clark
 532         Dennis Moore; Lupins
 533         What the stars foretell
 534         Doctor
 535         Cartoon – Ambulance chasers
 536         ‘TV4 or not TV4’ discussion
 537         More Dennis Moore
 538         Ideal Loon Exhibition
 539         Cartoon – Plan 38A
 540         Off-Licence
 541         Still More Dennis Moore
 542         ‘Prejudice’
 543
 544 7,l=26:41 A Book at Bedtime
 545         ‘A Book at Bedtime’: ‘Redgauntlet’
 546         McKamikaze Scotsmen
 547         No Time to Lose
 548         Cartoon – No time Toulouse
 549         More McKamikaze Scotsmen
 550         Cartoon – 2001
 551         Penguins; BBC programme planners
 552         Unexploded Scotsman
 553         ‘Spot the Looney’
 554         Rival documentaries
 555         ‘Dad's Doctors’ (trail)
 556         ‘Dad's Pooves’ (trail)
 557
 558 8,l=26:30 Grandstand
 559         Thames TV introduction
 560         ‘Light Entertainment Awards’: Dickie Attenborough
 561         The Oscar Wilde sketch
 562         Cartoon – Charwoman
 563         David Niven's fridge
 564         Pasolini's film ‘The Third Test Match’
 565         New brain from Curry's
 566         Blood donor
 567         International Wife-Swapping
 568         Credits of the Year
 569         The dirty vicar sketch
 570
 571 ;;;--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 572 !season 4
 573
 574 2 The Golden Age of Ballooning
 575         Montgolfier Brothers
 576         Cartoon – Montgolfier brothers wash each other
 577         Louis XIV
 578         George III
 579         Zeppelin
 580
 581 4 Michael Ellis
 582         Department store; Buying an ant
 583         At home with the ant and other pets; Documentary on ants
 584         Ant communication
 585         Cartoon – Ants
 586         Poetry reading (ants)
 587         Toupée
 588         Different endings
 589
 590 5 Light Entertainment War
 591         ‘Up Your Pavement’
 592         RAF banter
 593         Trivializing the war
 594         Courtmartial
 595         Basingstoke in Westphalia; ‘Anything Goes In’ (song)
 596         Film trailer
 597         The public are idiots
 598         The last five miles of the M2; Programme titles conference
 599         Cartoon – Television centre
 600         Woody and tinny words
 601         Show-jumping (musical)
 602         Newsflash (Germans)
 603         ‘When Does a Dream Begin?’ (song)
 604
 605 6 Hamlet
 606         Bogus psychiatrists
 607         ‘Nationwide’: police helmets
 608         Father-in-law
 609         Hamlet and Ophelia
 610         Cartoon – Paratroopers
 611         Boxing match aftermath
 612         Boxing commentary
 613         Piston engine (a bargain)
 614         A room in Polonius's house
 615         Dentists, live from Epsom
 616         Queen Victoria Handicap
 617         Match of the Day results
 618
 619 7 Mr Neutron
 620         Post box ceremony
 621         Mr Neutron arrives
 622         F.E.A.R. (or) Mr Neutron Is Missing
 623         Teddy Salad (CIA agent)
 624         Bombings
 625         Mrs S.C.U.M.
 626         ‘Conjuring Today’
 627
 628 8 Party Political Broadcast
 629         ‘Most Awful Family in Britain’
 630         Icelandic Honey Week
 631         A doctor whose patients are stabbed by his nurse
 632         Brigadier and bishop
 633         Cartoon – Opera Singer
 634         Appeal on behalf of extremely rich people
 635         The man who finishes other people's sentences
 636         David Attenborough: the walking tree of Dahomey
 637         The batsmen of the Kalahari: cricket match (assegais)
 638         BBC News (handovers)