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 - Face the Press
Release Date: 1970-09-15Featuring Doug and Dinsdale Piranha, Face the Press and the Ministry of Silly Walks. Mrs G Pinnet buys a new gas cooker.
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Episode 2 - The Spanish Inquisition
Release Date: 1970-09-22Featuring the Spanish Inquisition, courtroom charades and a semaphore interpretation of Wuthering Heights.
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Episode 3 - Déjà Vu
Release Date: 1970-09-29Featuring the work of the poet Euan McTeagle, a psychiatrist milkman and some exploding animals. A television presenter suffers from a severe case of deja vu.
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Episode 4 - The Buzz Aldrin Show
Release Date: 1970-10-20More surreal humour from the Monty Python team. Sketches include The Architects, How to Recognise a Mason, Poets and the Chemist sketch.
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Episode 5 - Live from the Grill-O-Mat
Release Date: 1970-10-27Featuring gameshow Blackmail, The Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and boxer Ken Clean-Air System.
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Episode 6 - It's a Living
Release Date: 1970-11-03Featuring It's a Living and a school prize-giving. Timmy Williams presents a new chat show and the fate of the Silly Party hangs in the balance in an Election Night Special.
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Episode 7 - The Attila the Hun Show
Release Date: 1970-11-11Featuring the Attila the Hun Show, a rat catcher, a village idiot, some killer sheep and news for parrots.
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Episode 8 - Archaeology Today
Release Date: 1970-11-17Featuring Mrs Beethoven, the Reverend Arthur Belling, some Australian Mosquito Hunters and a drink party with the Gits.
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Episode 9 - How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body
Release Date: 1970-11-24Featuring a guide on how to recognise parts of the body, a singing policeman, an interview with a plastic surgeon, a camp soldiers' drill and the Verrifast Plane Company.
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Episode 10 - Scott of the Antarctic
Release Date: 1970-12-01Featuring a special report into the shooting of Scott of the Antarctic, from Paignton. Also, a man tries to purchase a fish licence.
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Episode 11 - How Not to Be Seen
Release Date: 1970-12-08Features gags and sketches such as Job Hunter, Railway Timetables, How Not to be Seen and Interview in a Filing Cabinet.
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Episode 12 - Spam
Release Date: 1970-12-15The sketches in this episode include Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook, World Forum-Communist Quiz, Hospital for Over-Actors and Spam.
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Episode 13 - Royal Episode 13
Release Date: 1970-12-22Sketches in this episode include How to Feed a Goldfish, The Man Who Says Things in a Very Roundabout Way and Lifeboat.