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"MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING
CIRCUS"
Second series
2/1 15-9-70 (4) (9-7-70)
"Face The Press" ; Gas Cooker sketch ; * ; Tobacconists - prostitute
advert. ; The Ministry of Silly Walks ; "Ethel the Frog" - the story
of Dinsdale Pirhana.
2/2 22-9-70 (3) (2-7-70)
Man-powered flight ; Trouble at t'mill - the Spanish Inquisition ;
Film link ; Jokes and novelties salesman - missing punch line ; * ;
Tax on Thingy ; Vox Pops ; Photos of Uncle Ted - the Spanish
Inquisition ; *'I Confess' ; The Semaphore Version of Wuthering
Heights - Julius Caesar on an Aldis Lamp ; Court Scene
(charades).
2/3 29-9-70 (5) (16-7-70)
A Bishop rehearsing - flying lessons ; Plane hi-jack to Luton ; The
Poet McTeagle ('Lend Us A Quid Till The End Of The Week') ; * ;
Milkman/Psychiatrists ; Complaints ; "Deja Vu".
2/4 20-10-70 (9) (18-9-70)
*Butterfly ; Architect sketch ; How to give up being a Mason ; Motor
insurance sketch ; "The Bishop" ; Living room on pavement - Poet in
the bath ; A Choice of Viewing ; Poets ; * ; Chemist sketch ; Apology
; Words not to be used again ; After-shave ; Vox Pops ; Police
Constable Pan-Am.
2/5 27-10-70 (7) (10-9-70)
Live from the Grill-O-Mat Snack Bar, Paignton ; "Blackmail" ; Royal Society for putting Things on top of Other Things ; P.O.W.
escape - * ; Current Affairs ; * ; Accidents sketch ; Seven Brides
for Seven Brothers ; *Piggy-bank hunting ; The Man whose first answer
is always a rude one ; Tea or Coffee link ; Boxer documentary ;
Closing live from on top of bus.
2/6 3-11-70 (8) (10-9-70)
"It's A Living" ; The Time on BBC-1 - opening titles ; School
prize-giving ; Mr. Dibley's films of "If", "Rear Window" etc. ;
Foreign Secretary ; Dung - dead Indian - Police prizes ; * ;
Interview with Timmy Williams (David Frost skit) ; Mr. Luxury Yacht
(silly interview) ; * ; Registry Office ; *"The Spot" ; Election
Night special (Silly Party).
2/7 10-11-70 (11 ) (2-10-70)
"The Attila the Hun Show" ; Attila the Nun ; Secretary of State
(striptease) ; Vox Pops on politicians ; Ratcatcher - sheep in the
wainscotting - Killer Sheep * ; The News for Parrots-- The News for
Gibbons &emdash; Today in Parliament - The News for Wombats ; *Attila
the Bun ; The Idiot in Society ; The Test Match - cricket played by
furniture - the Epsom Furniture Race ; "Take Your Pick". ("Take
Your Pick" was replaced by the 'Agatha Christie Sketch' from 2/11 for
the repeat Of 23-8-71 owing to the recent death of Michael
Miles)
2/8 17-11-70 (12) (9-10-70)
Trailer ; * ; "Archeology Today" ; Arthur Belling, the silly vicar ;
Leapy Lee ; Registrar (wife change) ; Silly Doctor sketch
(immediately abandoned) ; *Book advert. ; Mr. & Mrs. Git ;
Mosquito hunters ; Poofy Judges ; Mrs. Thing & Mrs. Entity ;
Beethoven and his mynah bird - Shakespeare - Michelangelo - Colin
Mozart (the ratcatcher) ; Judges.
2/9 24-11-70 (10) (25-9-70)
"How to recognize different parts of the body" ; Bruces ; More parts
of the body ; Norman St. John Polevaulter, the man who contradicts
people ; More parts of the body ; Mr. Luxury Yacht - cosmetic surgery
; Square-bashing ('Squad - camp it - up!') ; *Killer cars ; Cut-price
airline ; Batley Townswomens Guild presents the first heart
transplant ; The first underwater production of "Measure for Measure"
; More parts of the body ; The Death of Mary Queen of Scots ;
Exploding penguin on TV set ; More Parts of the body ; 'There's been
a murder' ; Europolice Song Contest - song: 'Bing Tiddle Tiddle
Bong'.
2/10 1-12-70 (2) (2-7-70)
French subtitled film ; Shooting the film of "Scott of the Antarctic"
; "Scott of the Sahara" ; Opening titles ; *Dancing Teeth ; Fish
Licence ; Council ; Football match - Long John Silver Impersonators
v. Bournemouth Gynaecologists.
2/11 8-12-70 (6) (23-7-70)
Conquistador Coffee campaign ; Repeating groove - opening titles ;
Ramsay MacDonald Striptease ; Job hunter ; *Advert for American
Defence and Krelm Toothpaste ; Agatha Christie sketch (railway
timetables) ; Mr. Neville Shunte, the author - review of timetable ;
Film director with large front teeth ; City Gents Vox Pops ;
"Crackpot Religions Ltd." ; * ; "How Not To Be Seen" ; Man who
crossed the Atlantic on a tricycle ; Goalkeeper in filing cabinet ;
*”Yummy Yummy" ; Speeded-up repeat of entire show.
2/12 15-12-70 (1 ) (25-6-70)
"The Black Eagle" ; Dirty Hungarian phrase-book - Court ; * ; "World
Forum" - Communist quiz ; "Ypres 1914" ; Art Gallery (the man from
"The Hay Wain" etc. ) ; "Ypres 1914" ; Hospital for over-actors (King
Rat, Richard III, etc.) ; Flower arrangement ; Vikings in transport
cafe - Spam.
2/13 22-12-70 (13) (16-10-70)
'The Queen will be watching' ; Royal opening titles ; Coalminers'
historical argument ; A Man who says things in a very roundabout way
- a man who speaks only the ends of words - a man who speaks only the
beginnings of words &emdash; a man who speaks only the middles of
words ; Commercials ; How to feed a goldfish ; The man who collects
birdwatchers' eggs ; The Insurance Sketch - 'The Queen is now
watching' - Hospital ward run by RSM ; Mountaineer - exploding
version of "The Blue Danube" ; Girls' boarding school ; Submarine ;
Lifeboat ; Undertakers sketch.
MONTREUX ENTRY 16-4-71 (part compilation) Trailer ; The Time
on BBC&emdash;1 ; "Face The Press" ; Gas Cooker sketch ; *Dancing
Teeth ; ''It's the Arts" - The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights
; *Fig Leaf ; Newsagent ; The Ministry of Silly Walks ; *Butterfly ;
"Blackmail" ; * ; Newsreader arrested ; Erotic movie ; Batley
Townswomens Guild presents the Battle of Pearl Harbour ; Credit
titles ~ Ramsay MacDonald striptease.