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All Episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus

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A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.

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Season 1

8.6/101,366 votes
Full Frontal Nudity
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/7/1969
Featuring an art critic, some hermits, Hell's Grannies and the dead parrot sketch. Some newlyweds attempt to buy a bed and the mafia offer protecting to the army.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle
8.5/101,568 votes
How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/1969
Featuring a court scene, the larch, Bicycle Repair Man, children's stories, a restaurant sketch, some seduced milkmen, an interview with some children and a stolen newsreader.
Director: John Howard Davies, Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle
8.3/101,258 votes
The Ant, An Introduction
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/14/1969
Featuring Ken Buddha, a man with a tape-recorder up his nose and a hairdresser who always wanted to be a lumberjack.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle
8.3/101,185 votes
The Naked Ant
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/4/1970
Featuring the North Minehead by-election, the Upper Class Twit of the Year competition, Ken Shabby and a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Wood Party.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle
8.1/101,340 votes
Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/16/1969
Featuring Confuse-a-Cat, discussion programme A Duck, a Cat and a Lizard, the arrest of a newsreader, an erotic film, a silly job interview and a burglar/encyclopaedia salesman.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle
7.9/101,843 votes
Whither Canada?
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/1969
Featuring 'It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart', an Italian lesson, Whizzo Butter, 'It's the Arts', Arthur 'Two-Sheds' Jackson, a cycling race, and The Funniest Joke in the World.
Director: John Howard Davies, Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle
7.9/101,350 votes
Owl Stretching Time
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1969
Featuring fresh fruit as self-defence, some folk-singing, an art gallery sketch and Lemming of the BDA. An Edwardian man struggles to undress on the beach.
Director: John Howard Davies, Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle
7.9/101,282 votes
It's the Arts
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/23/1969
Featuring a gang of legal burglars, the Whizzo Quality Assortment, a Scottish wedding and a day in the life of a city stockbroker. Some film moguls try to impress their boss.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle
7.9/101,122 votes
Intermission
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/1970
Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and Probe Around On Crime.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle
7.7/101,528 votes
Sex and Violence
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/1969
Featuring some flying sheep, a man with three buttocks, a man with two noses, musical mice, a marriage guidance counsellor, a working-class playwright and The Wrestling Epilogue.
Director: John Howard Davies, Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle
7.7/101,299 votes
Oh, You're No Fun Anymore
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/30/1969
Featuring camel-spotting, an embezzler at a board-meeting and a science fiction tale about a Scotsman and a tennis-playing blancmange.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle
7.7/101,165 votes
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/28/1969
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom, a footballer is interviewed and Batley Townswomen's Guild re-enact the invasion of Pearl Harbour.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle
7.6/101,169 votes
Untitled
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/21/1969
Featuring a bank robber in a lingerie shop, It's A Tree (with Arthur Tree), a vocational guidance counsellor, Ron Obvious and a gorilla librarian.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle