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MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS

1969 - 1974
47 Episodes


Here is the complete episode list for Monty Python's Flying Circus. It includes original air dates, episode numbers, episode titles, and brief episode descriptions. (This information is currently incomplete. Please e-mail us if you have additional information!: gdtvd@mailcity.com)

The first column of this table indicates the episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus we currently have in our archive. (All episodes were recorded in standard play on VHS tapes.) The entries for this column are defined as follows:
[blank] Episode not currently in archive
SYND Episode was recorded from a syndicated rerun shown on PBS, probably uncut.

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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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