Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.
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Episode 1 - Whither Canada?
Release Date: 1969-10-05Featuring '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.
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Episode 2 - Sex and Violence
Release Date: 1969-10-12Featuring 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.
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Episode 3 - How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
Release Date: 1969-10-19Featuring 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.
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Episode 4 - Owl Stretching Time
Release Date: 1969-10-26Featuring 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.
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Episode 5 - Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
Release Date: 1969-11-16Featuring 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.
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Episode 6 - It's the Arts
Release Date: 1969-11-23Featuring 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.
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Episode 7 - Oh, You're No Fun Anymore
Release Date: 1969-11-30Featuring camel-spotting, an embezzler at a board-meeting and a science fiction tale about a Scotsman and a tennis-playing blancmange.
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Episode 8 - Full Frontal Nudity
Release Date: 1969-12-07Featuring 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.
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Episode 9 - The Ant, An Introduction
Release Date: 1969-12-14Featuring Ken Buddha, a man with a tape-recorder up his nose and a hairdresser who always wanted to be a lumberjack.
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Episode 10 - Untitled
Release Date: 1969-12-21Featuring a bank robber in a lingerie shop, It's A Tree (with Arthur Tree), a vocational guidance counsellor, Ron Obvious and a gorilla librarian.
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Episode 11 - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
Release Date: 1969-12-28The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom, a footballer is interviewed and Batley Townswomen's Guild re-enact the invasion of Pearl Harbour.
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Episode 12 - The Naked Ant
Release Date: 1970-01-04Featuring 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.
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Episode 13 - Intermission
Release Date: 1970-01-11Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and Probe Around On Crime.