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Monty Python's Flying Circus: Season 1

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python's Flying Circus: Season 1

Sony Pictures (1969)
DVD
15
TV Series | Comedy | Documentary
UK | English | Color | 03:12

And now for something completely different: Monty Python's Flying Circus was simply the most influential comedy program television has ever seen. Five Englishmen, all working under the constraints of conventional TV shows such as The Frost Report (for which the five Englishmen wrote), gathered together with an expatriate American in the spring of 1969 to break the rules. The result, first airing on BBC-1 on October 5, 1969, has influenced countless future men and women in the media and comedy since.


Episodes View details

1 Whither Canada? 32 min | Oct 02, 2018

'It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart', Famous Deaths, Italian Lesson, Whizzo Butter, 'It's the Arts', Arthur "Two-Sheds" Jackson, Cycling Race, and The Funniest Joke in the World.

2 Sex and Violence 34 min | Oct 12, 1969

Flying Sheep, French Lecture on Sheep-Aircraft, A Man With Three Buttocks, A Man With Two Noses, Musical Mice, Marriage Guidance Counselor, The Wacky Queen, Working-Class Playwright, A Scotsman on a Horse, The Wrestling Epilogue, and The Mouse Problem.

3 How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away 32 min | Oct 19, 1969

Court Scene, The Larch, Bicycle Repair Man, Children's Stories, Restaurant Sketch, Seduced Milkmen, Stolen News Reader, Children's Interview, and Nudge Nudge.

4 Owl Stretching Time 30 min | Oct 26, 1969

A change from street clothes to swim trunks turns into a burlesque act; a karate class exercises defense tactics against fresh fruit; a man tries to buy a book about false teeth.

5 Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century 30 min | Nov 16, 1969

Confuse-a-Cat, The Smuggler, A Duck, a Cat and a Lizard (Discussion), Vox Pops on Smuggling, Police Raid, Letters on Vox Pops, Newsreader Arrested, Erotic Film, Cartoon - Charles Fatless, Silly Job Interview, Careers Advisory Board, Burglar/Encyclopaedia Salesman

6 The BBC Entry for the Zinc Stoat of Budapest (or, It's the Arts) 30 min | Nov 23, 1969

Sketches include: a German composer with an extraordinarily long name; crooks plan an elaborate scheme to buy a watch; a chocolate-company owner markets "Crunchy Frog."

7 You're No Fun Any More 30 min | Nov 30, 1969

Invaders from another galaxy turn Englishmen into Scotsmen. Also: a comedy about camels; a corporate board meeting.

8 Full Frontal Nudity 29 min | Dec 07, 1969

A pet-shop customer returns his dead parrot; a gang of female senior citizens attacks a town's young men; a young army officer who joined the service to water-ski tries to resign.

9 The Ant: An Introduction 29 min | Dec 14, 1969

A man with double vision organizes a mountain-climbing expedition; llamas are celebrated in a rousing Spanish song; a barber is afraid to cut hair; a couple's romantic evening is ruined by uncouth visitors.

10 Untitled 31 min | Dec 21, 1969

Sketches include: Bank Robber in Lingerie Shop, It's a Tree, Ron Obvious, Pet Conversations, Gorilla Librarian, Strangers in the Night

11 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom 32 min | Dec 28, 1969

A half-inch-tall man appears on a talk show; a town's women's guild reenacts Pearl Harbor; the entire Royal Philharmonic Orchestra retires to the restroom.

12 The Naked Ant 32 min | Jan 04, 1970

The 127th annual Twit of the Year Show. Also: Hitler and Himmler are guests for tea in a boarding house; a BBC broadcast is interrupted when a British minister falls into a fissure.

13 Intermission 30 min | Jan 11, 1970

Among "historical" impersonations are Cardinal Richelieu as Petula Clark and Julius Caesar as Eddie Waring. Also: a police fairy tale; a vegetarian restaurant's menu, featuring a naked man with an apple in his mouth.

Cast View all

John Cleese Voice Over #1
Eric Idle Assistant
Michael Palin It's Man
Terry Gilliam Animated Chippendale Writing Desk
Terry Jones Frank's Wife
Graham Chapman David Unction
Carol Cleveland Bride
Ian Davidson Herman Rodriguez
Donna Reading Girl in Bikini with Its Man
Maureen Flanagan Coatcheck Girl
Connie Booth Best Girl
Katya Wyeth Elsie
Sheila Sands Topless Newsagent
Arthur Sandifer Diner
Rita Davies Distraught Wife
Adolf Hitler Self
Cy Town 'Confuse-A-Cat' Worker
Richard Nixon Self
The Fred Tomlinson Singers Mounties Choir
David Ballantyne Prologue
Neville Chamberlain Self (with Munich Accord)
Barry Cryer Algy Braithwaite
Artur Axmann Self
Beulah Hughes Nurse
Dick Vosburgh Van der Berg

Edition details

Nr Discs 1
Layers Single side, Single layer

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