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"MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS"
Fourth series now simply titled "MONTY PYTHON". Without
Cleese.
4/1 31-10-74 (1) (12-10-74)
"The Golden Age Of Ballooning" : a continuous story involving
the Montgolfier Brothers and George III.
4/2 7-11-74 (2) (19-10-74)
"Michael Ellis" : Opening titles ; Closing titles ; Department
store - Buying an ant ; At home with the ant, and other pets ; TV
programme on ants ; Department store - poetry reading - toupée
- different endings.
4/3 14-11-74 (3) (26-10-74)
"Light Entertainment War" : "Up Your Pavement" (Steptoe skit)
; Biographical introductions - R.A.F. Station 1944 (banter not
understood) - trivialising the war ; Court Martial (Basingstoke in
Westphalia) - song 'Anything Goes In' ; Film trailer ; Opening titles
; The public are idiots - the last five miles of the M1 - Programme
titles conference ; *'What a horrible day' ; Woody and tinny words ;
Programme title showjumping ; Newsflash (Germans) ; Song 'When Does A
Dream Begin'.
4/4 21-11-74 (4) (2-11-74)
"Hamlet" : Bogus psychiatrists ; 'Nationwide' ; Police helmets
; Father-in-law ; Opening titles ; Hamlet ; * ; After boxing match ;
Shopping (Mrs. Gorilla) ; A room in Polonius's house (sports results)
; Dentists - race from Epsom - European Cup.
4/5 28-11-74 (5) (9-11-74)
"Mr. Neutron" : an approximately continuous story involving
the official opening of a post - box (in English and French), Mr.
Neutron' and C.I.A. Agent Teddy Salad, who is disguised as a dog.
4/6 5-12-74 (6) (16-11-74)
"Party Political Broadcast" : "The Most Awful Family in
Britain" ; Icelandic Honey Week ; Opening titles ; A Doctor whose
patients are stabbed by his nurse ; Brigadier and Bishop ; * ; Appeal
on behalf of extremely rich people ; The man who finishes other
people's sentences ; The Walking Tree of Dahomey - the Batsmen of the
Kalahari ; Credit titles ; BBC News (handovers).