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| SYND | 5-Oct-1969 | Episode 1 | Season 1 Number 1 | Whither Canada? | It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart'; Famous deaths; Italian lesson; Whizzo butter; 'It's the Arts'; Arthur 'Two-Sheds' Jackson; Picasso/cycling race; The funniest joke in the world. |
| SYND | 12-Oct-1969 | Episode 2 | Season 1 Number 2 | Sex and Violence | Flying sheep; French lecture on sheep-aircraft; A man with three buttocks; A man with two noses; Musical mice; Marriage guidance counsellor; The wacky queen; Working-class playwright; A Scotsman on a horse; The wrestling epilogue; The mouse problem. |
| SYND | 19-Oct-1969 | Episode 3 | Season 1 Number 3 | How to Recognize Different Types of Tree from Quite a Long Way Away | Court scene (witness in coffin/Cardinal Richelieu); The larch; Bicycle repair man; Tirade against Communists; Children's stories; Restaurant sketch; Seduced milkmen; Stolen newsreader; The Horse Chestnut; Children's interview; Nudge nudge. |
| SYND | 26-Oct-1969 | Episode 4 | Season 1 Number 4 | Owl-stretching Time | Song: Jerusalem ("And did those feet"); Art gallery; Art critic; It's a man's life in the modern army; Undressing in public; Self-defence against fruit; Secret Service dentists. |
| SYND | 16-Nov-1969 | Episode 5 | Season 1 Number 5 | Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century | Confuse-a-Cat; The smuggler; Vox pops on smuggling; A duck, a cat and a lizard (discussion); Police raid; Letters and vox pops; Newsreader arrested; Romantic film; Silly job interview; Careers advisory board; Burglar/encyclopedia salesman. |
| SYND | 23-Nov-1969 | Episode 6 | Season 1 Number 6 | The BBC Entry to the Zinc Stoat of Budapest | "It's the Arts"; Johann Gombolputty... von Hautkopf of Ulm; Non-illegal robbery; Vox pops; Crunchy frog; The dull life of a City Stockbroker; Red Indian in theatre; Policemen make wonderful friends; A Scotsman on a horse; Twentieth-century vole. |
| SYND | 30-Nov-1969 | Episode 7 | Season 1 Number 7 | You're No Fun Any More | Camel spotting; You're no fun any more; The audit; Science fiction sketch; Man turns into Scotsman; Police station; Blancmanges playing tennis. |
| SYND | 7-Dec-1969 | Episode 8 | Season 1 Number 8 | Full Frontal Nudity | Army protection racket; Vox pops; Art critic - the place of the nude; Buying a bed; Hermits; Dead parrot; The flasher; Hell's Grannies. |
| SYND | 14-Dec-1969 | Episode 9 | Season 1 Number 9 | The Ant, an Introduction | Llamas; A man with a tape recorder up his nose; Kilimanjaro expedition; Homicidal barber; Lumberjack song; Gumby crooner; The refreshment room at Bletchley; Ken Buddha and his inflatable knees; Brian Islam and Lucy; Hunting film; The visitors |
| SYND | 21-Dec-1969 | Episode 10 | Season 1 Number 10 | Untitled | Walk-on part in sketch; Bank robber (lingerie shop); Trailer; Arthur Tree; Vocational Guidance Counsellor; The first man to jump the Channel; Pet conversions; Gorilla librarian; Letters to "Daily Mirror"; Strangers in the night. |
| SYND | 28-Dec-1969 | Episode 11 | Season 1 Number 11 | The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom | Letter; Interruptions; Inspector Tiger; Literary football discussion; Undertakers film; Interesting people; Eighteenth-century social legislation; The Battle of Trafalgar; Batley Townswomens' Guild presents the Battle of Pearl Harbor; Undertakers film. |
| SYND | 4-Jan-1970 | Episode 12 | Season 1 Number 12 | The Naked Ant | Falling from building; "Spectrum" - talking about things; Visitors from Coventry; Mr. Hilter; The Minehead by-election; Police station (silly voices); Upperclass Twit of the Year; Ken Shabby; How far can a minister fall? |
| SYND | 11-Jan-1970 | Episode 13 | Season 1 Number 13 | Intermission | Intermissions; Restaurant abuse; Advertisements; Albatross; Come back to my place; Me Doctor; Historical impersonations; Quiz programme - "Wishes"; "Probe-around" on crime; Stonehenge; (?) Mr Attila the Hun; Psychiatry - silly sketch; Operating theatre. |
| SYND | 15-Sep-1970 | Episode 14 | Season 2 Number 1 | Dinsdale | "Face the Press"; New cooker sketch; Tobacconists (prostitute advert); The Ministry of Silly Walks; The Piranha brothers. |
| SYND | 22-Sep-1970 | Episode 15 | Season 2 Number 2 | The Spanish Inquisition | Man-powered flight; The Spanish Inquisition; Jokes and novelties salesman; Tax on thingy; Vox pops; Photos of Uncle Ted; The semaphore version of 'Wuthering Heights'; Court scene (charades). |
| SYND | 29-Sep-1970 | Episode 16 | Season 2 Number 3 | Show 5 | A bishop rehearsing; Flying lessons; Hijacked plane (to Luton); The Poet Ewan McTeagle; Psychiatrist milkman; Complaints; "It's The Mind" - Deja vu. |
| SYND | 20-Oct-1970 | Episode 17 | Season 2 Number 4 | The Buzz Aldrin Show | Architect sketch; How to give up being a Mason; Motor insurance sketch; "The Bishop"; Living room on pavement; Poets; A choice of viewing; (?) Chemist sketch; Words not to be used again; After-shave; Vox pops; Police Constable Pan-Am. |
| SYND | 27-Oct-1970 | Episode 18 | Season 2 Number 5 | Live from the Grill-o-Mat Snack Bar | Live from the Grill-o-Mat snack bar, Paignton; 'Blackmail'; Society for Putting Things on top of Other Things; Escape (from film); Current affairs; Accidents sketch; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Alternately rude and polite; Ken Clean-Air System. |
| SYND | 3-Nov-1970 | Episode 19 | Season 2 Number 6 | School Prizes | "It's a Living"; The time on BBC 1; School prize-giving; "If"; "Rear Window"; "Finian's Rainbow"; Foreign Secretary; "Book of the Month" Club; Dead Indian; Timmy Williams interview; Raymond Luxury Yacht interview; Registry office; Election Night Special. |
| SYND | 10-Nov-1970 | Episode 20 | Season 2 Number 7 | The Attila the Hun Show | "The Atilla the Hun Show"; Secretary of State striptease; Vox pops; Ratcatcher; Wainscotting; Killer sheep; The news for parrots; The Idiot in the rural society; Test match against Iceland; The Epsom furniture race; "Spot the Brain Cell". |
| SYND | 17-Nov-1970 | Episode 21 | Season 2 Number 8 | Archeology Today | Trailer; "Archeology Today"; Silly vicar; Leapy Lee; Registrar; Silly doctor sketch; Mr and Mrs Git; Mosquito hunters; Poofy judges; Mrs Thing and Mrs Entity; Beethoven's mynah bird; Shakespeare; Michaelangelo; Colin "Chopper" Mozart; Judges. |
| SYND | 24-Nov-1970 | Episode 22 | Season 2 Number 9 | How to Recognize Different Parts of the Body | Bruces; Naughty bits; Contradictor; Cosmetic surgery; Camp square-bashing; Cut-price airline; Batley Townswomen's Guild: The first heart transplant; "Measure for Measure"; Mary Queen of Scots; Exploding penguin; There's been a murder; Eurovision Contest. |
| SYND | 1-Dec-1970 | Episode 23 | Season 2 Number 10 | Scott of the Antarctic | French subtitled film; Scott of the Antarctic; Scott of the Sahara; Fish licence; Derby Council v. All Blacks rugby match; (?) (soccer <=> rugby); Long John Silver Impersonators v. Bournemouth Gynaecologists. |
| SYND | 8-Dec-1970 | Episode 24 | Season 2 Number 11 | How Not to Be Seen | Conquistador Coffee; Repeating groove; Ramsey MacDonald; Job hunter; International Chinese Conspiracy; Crelm; Railway timetables; Director/Dentist; "Crackpot Religions Ltd"; Crossing the Atlantic on a tricycle; Filing cabinet interview; "Yummy Yummy". |
| SYND | 15-Dec-1970 | Episode 25 | Season 2 Number 12 | Spam | "The Black Eagle"; Dirty Hungarian phrasebook; Court (phrasebook); World Forum - Communist quiz; 'Ypres 1914' - abandoned; Art gallery strikes; 'Ypres 1914'; Hospital for over-actors; Gumby flower arranging; Spam. |
| SYND | 22-Dec-1970 | Episode 26 | Season 2 Number 13 | Royal Episode 13 | The Queen will be watching; Coal mine; Commercials; How to feed a goldfish; The man who collects birdwatcher's eggs; Insurance sketch; Hospital run by RSM; Mountaineer; "The Blue Danube"; Girls boarding school; Submarine; Lifeboat; Undertaker's sketch. |
| SYND | 19-Oct-1972 | Episode 27 | Season 3 Number 1 | Whicker's World | Court scene - multiple murderer; Njorl's Saga; Court scene (Viking); Stock Exchange report; Mrs Premise and Mrs Conclusion visit Jean-Paul Sartre; Whicker Island. |
| SYND | 26-Oct-1972 | Episode 28 | Season 3 Number 2 | Mr. & Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular | Surbiton to Hounslow; Schoolboys' Life Assurance Company; Mrs Nigger-Baiter explodes; Vicar/salesman; Farming Club; "Life of Tschaikowsky"; Trim-Jeans Theatre; Fish-slapping dance; World War Two; The BBC is short of money; Puss in Boots. |
| SYND | 2-Nov-1972 | Episode 29 | Season 3 Number 3 | The Money Programme | Erizabeth L; Fraud film squad; Salvation fuzz - Church Police; Jungle restaurant; Apology for violence and nudity; Ken Russell's "Gardening Club"; The Lost World of Roiurama; The British Exploreres Club; Argument clinic; Inspector Flying Fox of the Yard. |
| SYND | 9-Nov-1972 | Episode 30 | Season 3 Number 4 | Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror | Anagram quiz; Merchant banker; Pantomime horses; Life and death struggles; Househunters; Mary recruitment office; Bus conductor sketch; Army captain as clown; Pauses; Neurotic announcers; The news with Richard Baker; "The Pantomime Horse". |
| 16-Nov-1972 | Episode 31 | Season 3 Number 5 | The All-England Summarize Proust Competition | "Summarize Proust Competition"; Everest climbed by hairdressers; Fire brigade; Our Eamonn; "Party Hints" with Veronica Smalls; Language laboratory; Travel agent; Theory on Brontosauruses by Anne Elk (Miss). | |
| SYND | 23-Nov-1972 | Episode 32 | Season 3 Number 6 | The War Against Pornography | Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign; Gumby brain specialist; Molluscs; The Minister for not listening to people; Tuesday documentary/children's story/party political broadcast; Politicans - An Apology; Lake Pahoe; The silliest interview we've ever had. |
| SYND | 30-Nov-1972 | Episode 33 | Season 3 Number 7 | Salad Days | Biggles dictates a letter; The north face of the Uxbridge road; Lifeboat; Old lady snoopers; "Storage jars"; Cheese shop; Philip Jenkinson on Cheese Westerns; Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days"; Apology; The news with Richard Baker; Seashore interlude film. |
| SYND | 7-Dec-1972 | Episode 34 | Season 3 Number 8 | The Cycling Tour | Mr Pither; Clodagh Rogers; Trotsky; Smolensk; Bingo-crazed Chinese (British Ambassador); "Jack in a Box". |
| SYND | 14-Dec-1972 | Episode 35 | Season 3 Number 9 | The Nude Man | Bomb on plane; A naked man; Ten seconds of sex; Housing project built by characters from 19th-century English literature; Flats built by hypnosis; "Mortuary Hour"; The Olympic hide-and-seek final; The Cheap-Laughs; Bull-fighting; Planet Algon. |
| SYND | 21-Dec-1972 | Episode 36 | Season 3 Number 10 | E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease | Tudor jobs agency; Porno bookshop; Silly disturbances (the Rev. Arthur Belling); The free repetition of doubtful words sketch; "Is there?"; The man who says words in the wrong order; E. Henry Thripshaw's disease; Silly noises; Sherry-drinking vicar. |
| SYND | 4-Jan-1973 | Episode 37 | Season 3 Number 11 | Dennis Moore | "Boxing Tonight" - Jack Bodell v. Sir Kenneth Clarke; Dennis Moore; Lupins; What the stars foretell; Doctor; TV4 or not TV4 discussion; "Gathering Storm"; Ideal Loon Exhibition; Off-Licence; "Prejudice". |
| SYND | 11-Jan-1973 | Episode 38 | Season 3 Number 12 | A Book at Bedtime | "A Book at Bedtime"; "Red Gauntlet"; Kamikaze Highlanders; No time to lose; Penguins; BBC programme planners; Unexploded Scotsmen; "Spot the Looney"; Rival documentaries; "Dad's Doctors"; "Dad's Pooves". |
| SYND | 18-Jan-1973 | Episode 39 | Season 3 Number 13 | Grandstand | Thames TV introduction; 'Light Entertainment Awards'; Dickie Attenborough; Oscar Wilde; David Niven's fridge; Pasolini's film 'The Third Test Match'; New brain; Blood donor; International Wife-Swapping; Credits of the Year; The dirty vicar sketch. |
| 31-Oct-1974 | Episode 40 | Season 4 Number 1 | The Golden Age Of Ballooning | Montgolfier Brothers; Louis XIV; George III; Zeppelin. | |
| SYND | 7-Nov-1974 | Episode 41 | Season 4 Number 2 | Michael Ellis | Department store; Buying an ant; At home with the ant and other pets; Documentary on ants; Ant communication; Poetry reading (ants); Toupee; Different endings. |
| SYND | 14-Nov-1974 | Episode 42 | Season 4 Number 3 | Light Entertainment War | "Up Your Pavement"; RAF banter; Trivializing the war; Basingstoke in Westphalia; "Anything Goes"; Film trailer; The public are idiots; Programme titles; Last five miles of the M4; Woody and tinny words; Show-jumping; Newsflash; "When Does a Dream Begin?" |
| SYND | 21-Nov-1974 | Episode 43 | Season 4 Number 4 | Hamlet | Bogus psychiatrists; "Nationwide"; Police helmets; Father-in-law; Hamlet and Ophelia; Boxing match aftermath; Boxing commentary; Piston engine (a bargain); A room in Polonius' house; Dentists; Live from Epsom; Queen Victoria Handicap. |
| SYND | 28-Nov-1974 | Episode 44 | Season 4 Number 5 | Mr. Neutron | Post box ceremony; Teddy Salad (CIA agent); "Conjuring Today". |
| SYND | 5-Dec-1974 | Episode 45 | Season 4 Number 6 | Party Political Broadcast | "Most Awful Family in Britain"; Icelandic Honey Week; Nurse stabs doctor's patients; Brigadier and Bishop; Extremely rich people appeal; Man who finishes other people's sentences; Richard Attenborough; Walking trees of Dahomey; Cricket match; BBC News. |
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| SYND | Episode | Season Number | Monty Python's Fliegende Zirkus 2 | Contact lenses; hearing aids; singing king; impossible tasks. |