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    TV Series

    Monty Python's Flying Circus

    "And now for something completely different..."

    IMDb8.8/10
    1969 - 1974
    Ended
    Seasons: 4
    Episodes: 45

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

    Created by: Ian MacNaughton
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    Seasons & Episodes

    Whither Canada?

    1. Whither Canada?

    7.8

    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.

    10/5/196931 min
    Sex and Violence

    2. Sex and Violence

    7.7

    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.

    10/12/196933 min
    How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away

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

    8

    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.

    10/19/196931 min
    Owl Stretching Time

    4. Owl Stretching Time

    7.6

    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.

    10/26/196929 min
    Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century

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

    7.9

    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.

    11/16/196929 min
    It's the Arts

    6. It's the Arts

    7.1

    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.

    11/23/196930 min
    Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

    7. Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

    7.2

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

    11/30/196930 min
    Full Frontal Nudity

    8. Full Frontal Nudity

    7.3

    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.

    12/7/196929 min
    The Ant, An Introduction

    9. The Ant, An Introduction

    7.5

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

    12/14/196929 min
    Untitled

    10. Untitled

    7.3

    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.

    12/21/196930 min
    The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

    11. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

    7.1

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

    12/28/196931 min
    The Naked Ant

    12. The Naked Ant

    7.2

    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.

    1/4/197031 min
    Intermission

    13. Intermission

    7.4

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

    1/11/197029 min

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