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"MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS"
First series
1/1 5-10-69 (2) (7-9-69)
"Whither Canada" : "It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" (famous
deaths) ; Italian lesson ; *Whizzo butter advert ; "It's the Arts" -
interview ('do you mind if I call you Edward') - Arthur 'Two-Sheds'
Jackson - Picasso riding a bicycle ; *'Sit Up!" ; The Funniest Joke
in the World.
1/2 12-10-69 (1) (30-8-69)
"Sex and Violence" : Flying sheep - French professors lecture
on sheep-aircraft ; A Man With Three Buttocks ; A Man With Two Noses
; Musical Mice ; Marriage Counsellor ; The Wacky Queen ; Working
Class Playwright ; A Scotsman on a Horse ; The Wrestling Epilogue ;
*Killer pram ; The Mouse Problem. ('The Wacky Queen' was cut from the
repeat of 25-8-70)
1/3 19-10-69 (3) (14-8-69)
"Owl Stretching Time" : "How To Recognize Different Types Of
Trees From Quite A Long Way Away" (Number 1, the Larch) ; Court scene
(witness in coffin - Cardinal Richelieu) ; The Larch ; 'Bicycle
Repair Man' ; Children's Stories ; Restaurant Sketch ; *Tired of that
dull life? ; Seduced Milkman ; Stolen Newsreader ; Children
identifying trees ; Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink.
1/4 26-10-69 (4) (21-9-69)
Song ; Art Gallery ; Art Critic ; It's a Man's Life in the Modern
Army ; * ; Self Defence ; * ; Bookshop - Dentist/Spy
1/5 16-11-69 (5) (3-10-69)
"Man's Crisis of Identitv in the Latter Half of the 20th
Century" : Confuse-a-Cat ; The Smuggler (watches) - discussion
with a duck, a cat and a lizard ; Vox Pops on smuggling ; Police raid
(certain substances) ; Letters - Vox Pops ; Newsreader arrested ;
Erotic Film ; *Body Building ; Silly interview ; Careers advisory
board - burglar/encyclopaedia salesman.
1/6 23-11-69 (7) (5-11-69)
*Signature ; "It's The Arts" - Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern
1/7 30-11-69 (6) (10-10-69)
Camel spotting ; 'You're no fun any more' ; The Audit ; "Science
Fiction Sketch" - man turns into Scotsman - Police station - Podgorny
- Science fiction
1/8 7-12-69 (8) (25-11-69)
"Full Frontal Nudity" : Army sketch - protection racket ; Vox
Pops ; Art Critic - the place of the Nude ; Buying a bed ; Silly ;
Hermits ; Dead Parrot ; The Flasher ; Hell's Grannies.
1/9 14-12-69 (10) (7-12-69)
"The Ant, an Introduction" ; Llama ; A Man with a Tape
Recorder up his Nose ; Kilimanjaro Expedition (double vision) ; A Man
with a Tape Recorder up his Brother's Nose ; The Barber ; Lumberjack
Song ; Crooner Gumby ; The Refreshment Room at Bletchley ; *Brian
Islam and Brucie ; Hunting Film ; The Unwelcome Visitors.
1/10 21-12-69 (9) (30-11-69)
Walk-on part in sketch ; Bank Robber in Lingerie Shop ; Trail ;
Arthur Tree ; Vocational Guidance Counsellor - Chartered Accountant ;
The First Man to Jump the Channel ; Tunnelling from Godalming to Java
; Pet Conversions ; Librarian-gorilla ; Letters to Daily Mirror ;
Strangers in the Night.
1/11 28-12-69 (11) (14-12-69)
Letter (lavatorial humour) ; * ; Interruptions ; Agatha Christie
Sketch ; Football discussed in literary terms ; Undertakers ;
Interesting People ; 18th Century Social Legislation ; Where was the
Battle of Trafalgar fought? ; Batley Townswomens Guild presents the
Battle of Pearl Harbour ; Undertakers.
1/12 4-1-70 (12) (21-12-69)
Falling from building ; *Magician ; "Spectrum" - talking about things
; Visitors from Coventry - Mr. Hilter - the Minehead By-election ;
Police station (silly voices) ; Upper Class Twit of the Year ;
Parental Consent ; Ministerial Broadcast (how far can a minister
fall?).
1/13 11-1-70 (13) (4-1-70)
Intermissions ; * ; Restaurant (abuse) - cannibalism ; Intermission -
advertisements ; Albatross ; Policeman ('come back to my place') ; Me
Doctor ; Historical Impersonations ; Quiz programme on 'wishes' ;
Probe-around looks at crime - Stonehenge ; Mr. Attila the Hun ;
Psychiatry - silly sketch ; Operating Theatre (squatters in patient's
stomach).