Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Complete Index of Shows
Compiled by Sir DarkWolf
Series One: October 5, 1969 - January 11, 1970
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
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
3) How to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away
Court scene (witness in coffin/Cardinal Richelieu)
The larch
Bicycle repair man
Children's stories
Restaurant sketch
Seduced milkmen
Stolen newsreader
Children's interview
Nudge nudge
4) Owl-stretching time
Song ("And did those feet")
Art gallery
Art critic
It's a man's life in the modern army
Undressing in public
Self-defence
Secret Service dentists
5) Man's crisis of identity in the latter half of the twentieth century
Confuse-a-Cat
The smuggler
A duck, a cat and a lizard (discussion)
Vox pops on smuggling
Police raid
Letters and vox pops
Newsreader arrested
Erotic film
Silly job interview
Careers advisory board
Burglar/encyclopaedia salesman
6) 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
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
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
9) The ant, an introduction
Llamas
A man with a tape recorder up his nose
Kilimanjaro expedition (double vision)
A man with a tape recorder up his brother's nose
Homicidal barber
Lumberjack song
Gumby crooner
The refreshment room at Bletchley
Hunting film
The visitors
10) Untitled
Walk-on-part in sketch
Bank robber (lingerie shop)
Trailer
Arthur Tree
Vocational Guidance Counsellor (chartered accountant)
The first man to jump the Channel
Tunnelling from Godalming to Java
Pet conversions
Gorilla librarian
Letters to "Daily Mirror"
Strangers in the night
11) The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom
Letter (lavatorial humour)
Interruptions
Agatha Christie sketch
Literary football discussion
Undertakers film
Interesting people
Eighteenth-century social legislation
The Battle of Trafalgar
Batley Townswomens' Guild presents the Battle of Pearl Harbour
Undertakers film
12) The Naked Ant
Falling from building
"Spectrum" - talking about things
Visitors from Coventry
Mr Hitler
The Minehead by-election
Police station (silly voices)
Upperclass Twit of the Year
Ken Shabby
How far can a minister fall
13) Intermission
Intermissions
Restaurant (abuse/cannibalism)
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 (squatters)
Series Two: September 15, 1970 - December 22, 1970
1) Dinsdale
"Face the Press"
New cooker sketch
Tobacconists (prostitute advert)
The Ministry of Silly Walks
The Piranha brothers
2) The Spannish Inquisition
Man-powered flight
The Spanish Inquisition
Jokes and novelties salesman
Tax on thingy
Vox pops
Photos of Uncle Ted (Spanish Inquisition)
The semaphore version of "Wuthering Heights"
"Julius Caesar" on an Aldis lamp
Court scene (charades)
3) Untitled
A bishop rehearsing
Flying lessons
Hijacked plane (to Luton)
The Poet McTeagle
Psychiatrist milkman
Complaints
Deja vu
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
5) Live from the Grillomat
Live from the Frill-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
The man who is alternately rude and polite
Documentary on boxer
6) School Prizes
"It's a Living"
The time on BBC 1
School prize-giving
"if" - a film by Mr Dibley
"Rear Window" - a film by Mr Dibley
"Finian's Rainbow" (starring the man from the off-licence)
Foreign Secretary
Dung
Dead Indian
Timmy Williams interview
Raymond Luxury Yacht interview
Registry office
Election Night Special (Silly and Sensible Parties)
7) The Attila the Hun Show
"The Attila the Hun Show"
Attila the Nun
Secretary of State striptease
Vox pops on politicians
Ratcatcher
Wainscotting
Killer sheep
The news for parrots
The news for gibbons
Today in Parliament
The news for wombats
Attila the Bun
The Idiot in Society
Test match
The Epsom furniture race
"Take Your Pick"
8) Archaeology Today
Trailer
"Archaeology Today"
Silly vicar
Leapy Lee
Registrar (wife swap)
Silly doctor sketch (immediately abandoned)
Mr and Mrs Git
Mosquito hunters
Poofy judges
Mrs Thing and Mrs Entity
Beethoven's mynah bird
Shakespeare
Michaelangelo
Colin Mozert (ratcatcher)
Judges
9) How to recognize different parts of the body
"How to recognize different parts of the body"
Bruces
Naughty bits
The man who contradicts people
Cosmetic surgery
Camp square-bashing
Cut-price airline
Batley Townswomen's Guild presents the first heart transplant
The first underwater production of "Measure for Measure"
The death of Mary Queen of Scots
Exploding penguin on TV set
There's been a murder
Europolice Song contest
"Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong" (song)
10) Scott of the Antarctic
French subtitled film
Scott of the Antarctic
Scott of the Sahara
Fish licnece
Derby Council v. All Blacks rugby match
Long John Silver Impersonators v. Bournemouth Gynaecologists
11) How not to be seen
Conquistador coffee campaign
Repeating groove
Ramsay MacDonald striptease
Job hunter
Agatha Christie sketch (railway timetables)
Mr Neville Shunte
Film director (teeth)
City gents vox pops
"Crackpot Religions Ltd"
"How not to be seen"
Crossing the Atlantic on a tricycle
Interview in filing cabinet
"Yummy yummy"
Monty Python's Flying Circus again in thirty seconds
12) Spam
"The Black Eagle"
Dirty Hungarian phrasebook
Court (phrasebook)
Communist quiz
"Ypres 1914" - abandoned
Art gallery strike
"Ypres 1914"
Hospital for over-actors
Gumby flower arranging
Spam
13) Royal Episode 13
The Queen will be watching
Coal mine (historical argument)
The man who says things in a very roundabout way
The man who speaks only the ends of words
The man who speaks only the beginnings of words
The man who speaks only the middles of words
Commercials
How to feed a goldfish
The man who collects birdwatcher's eggs
Insurance sketch
Hospital run by RSM
Mountaineer
Exploding version of "The Blue Danube"
Girls' Boarding school
Submarine
Lifeboat (cannibalism)
Undertaker's sketch
Series Three: October 19, 1972 - January 18, 1973
1) Whicker's World
Cdourt scene - multiple murderer
Icelandic saga
Court scene (Viking)
Stock Exchange report
Mrs Premise and Mrs Conclusion visit Jean-Paul Sartre
Whicker Island
2) Mr and Mrs Brian Norris' Ford Popular
Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow
Schoolboys' Life Assurance Company
How to rid the world of all known diseases
Mrs Niggerbaiter explodes
Vicar/salesman
Farming Club
"Life of Tschaikovsky"
Trim-Jeans Theatre
Fish-slapping dance
World War One
The BBC is short of money
Puss in boots
3) The Money Programme
"The Money Programme"
"There is nothing quite so wonderful as money" (song)
Erizabeth L
Fraud film squad
Salvation fuzz
Jungle restaurant
Apology for violence and nudity
Ken Russell's "Gardening Club"
The Lost World of Roiurama
Six more minutes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
Argument Clinic
Hitting on the head lessons
Inspector Flying Fox of the Yard
One more minute of Monty Python's Flying Circus
4) Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
"Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror"
The man who speaks in anagrams
Anagram quiz
Merchant banker
Pantomime horses
Life and death struggles
Mary recruitment office
Bus conductor sketch
The man who makes people laugh uncontrollably
Army captain as clown
Gestures to indicate pauses in a televised talk
Neurotic announcers
The news with Richard Baker (vision only)
"The Pantomime Horse is a Secret Agent film"
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
Watney's Red Barrle
Theory on Brontosauruses by Anne Elk (Miss)
6) The war against pornography
Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign
Gumby brain specialist
Molluscs - "live" TV documentary
The Minister for not listening to people
Tuesday documentary/children's story/party political broadcast
Apology (politicians)
Expedition to Lake Pahoe
The silliest interview we've ever had
The silliest sketch we've ever done
7) Salad Days
Biggles dictates a letter
Climbing the north face of the Uxbridge Road
Lifeboat
Old lady snoopers
"Storage jars"
The show so far
Cheese shop
Philip Jenkinson on Cheese Westerns
Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days"
Apology
The news with Richard Baker
Seashore interlude film
8) The Cycling Tour
Mr Pither
Clodagh Rogers
Trotsky
Smolensk
Bingo-crazed Chinese
"Jack in a Box"
9) The nude man
Bomb on plane
A naked man
Ten seconds of sex
Housing project built by characters from
nineteenth-century English Literature
M1 interchange built by characters from "Paradise Lost"
Mustico and Janet - flats built by hypnosis
"Mortuary Hour"
The Olympic hide-and-seek final
The Cheap-Laughs
Bull-fighting
The British Well-Basically Club
Prices on the planet Algon
10) Henry Thripshaw's Disease
Tudor jobs agency
Pornographic bookshop
Elizabethan pornography smugglers
Silly disturbances (the Rev. Arthur Belling)
The free repetition of doubtful words sketch, by an underrated author
"Is there?"...life after death?
The man who says words in the wrong order
Thripshaw's disease
Silly noises
Sherry-drinking vicar
11) Dennis Moore
"Boxing Tonight" - Jack Bodel v. Sir Kenneth Clark
Dennis Moore
Lupins
What the stars foretell
Doctor
"TV4 or not TV4" discussion
Ideal Loon Exhibition
Off-Licence
"Prejudice"
12) A Book at Bedtime
Party Political Broadcast (choreographed)
"A Book at Bedtime"
"Redgauntlet"
Kamikaze Scotsmen
No time to lose
Penguins
BBC programme planners
Unexploded Scotsmen
"Spot the Loony"
Rival documentaries
"Dad's Doctors" (trail)
"Dad's Pooves" (trail)
13) Grandstand
Thames TV introduction
"Light Entertainment Awards"
Dickie Attenborough
The Oscar Wilde sketch
David Niven's fridge
Pasolini's film "The Third Test Match"
New brain from Curry's
Blood donor
International Wife-swapping
Credits of the Year
The dirty vicar sketch
Series Four: October 31, 1974 - December 5, 1974
1) The Golden Age of Ballooning
Montgolfier Brothers
Louis XIV
George III
Zeppelin
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
3) The Light Entertainment War
"Up Your Pavement"
RAF banter
Trivializing the war
Courtmartial
Basingstoke in Westphalia
"Anything Goes In" (song)
Film trailer
The public are idiots
Programme titles conference
The last five miles of the M2
Woody and tinny words
Show-jumping (musical)
Newsflash (Germans)
"When Does A Dream Begin?" (song)
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's house
Dentists
Live from Epsom
Queen Victoria Handicap
5) Mr Neutron
Post box ceremony
Teddy Salad (CIA agent)
"Conjuring Today"
6) Party Political Broadcast
"Most Awful Family in Britain"
Icelandic Honey Week
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
David Attenborough
The walking tree of Dahomey
The batsmen of the Kalahare
Cricket match (assegais)
BBC News (handovers)
Transmission Details
Series Transmission Recording Number as
/number date date recorded
1/1 Oct 05, 1969 Sep 07, 1969 2
1/2 Oct 12, 1969 Aug 30, 1969 1
1/3 Oct 19, 1969 Aug 14, 1969 3
1/4 Oct 26, 1969 Sep 21, 1969 4
1/5 Nov 16, 1969 Oct 03, 1969 5
1/6 Nov 23, 1969 Nov 11, 1969 7
1/7 Nov 30, 1969 Oct 10, 1969 6
1/8 Dec 07, 1969 Nov 25, 1969 8
1/9 Dec 14, 1969 Dec 07, 1969 10
1/10 Dec 21, 1969 Nov 30, 1969 9
1/11 Dec 28, 1969 Dec 14, 1969 11
1/12 Jan 04, 1970 Dec 21, 1969 12
1/13 Jan 11, 1970 Jan 04, 1970 13
2/1 Sep 15, 1970 Jul 09, 1970 4
2/2 Sep 22, 1970 Jul 02, 1970 3
2/3 Sep 29, 1970 Jul 16, 1970 5
2/4 Oct 20, 1970 Sep 18, 1970 9
2/5 Oct 27, 1970 Sep 10, 1970 7
2/6 Nov 03, 1970 Sep 10, 1970 8
2/7 Nov 10, 1970 Oct 02, 1970 11
2/8 Nov 17, 1970 Oct 09, 1970 12
2/9 Nov 24, 1970 Sep 25, 1970 10
2/10 Dec 01, 1970 Jul 02, 1970 2
2/11 Dec 08, 1970 Jul 23, 1970 6
2/12 Dec 15, 1970 Jun 25, 1970 1
2/13 Dec 22, 1970 Oct 16, 1970 13
3/1 Oct 19, 1972 Jan 14, 1972 5
3/2 Oct 26, 1972 Jan 28, 1972 7
3/3 Nov 02, 1972 Dec 04, 1971 1
3/4 Nov 09, 1972 Dec 11, 1971 2
3/5 Nov 16, 1972 Apr 24, 1972 9
3/6 Nov 23, 1972 Jan 21, 1972 6
3/7 Nov 30, 1972 Jan 07, 1972 4
3/8 Dec 07, 1972 May 04, 1972 10
3/9 Dec 14, 1972 May 11, 1072 11
3/10 Dec 21, 1972 May 25, 1972 13
3/11 Jan 04, 1973 Apr 17, 1972 8
3/12 Jan 11, 1973 Dec 18, 1971 3
3/13 Jan 18, 1973 May 18, 1972 12
4/1 Oct 31, 1974 Oct 12, 1974 1
4/2 Nov 11, 1974 Oct 19, 1974 2
4/3 Nov 14, 1974 Oct 26, 1974 3
4/4 Nov 21, 1974 Nov 02, 1974 4
4/5 Nov 28, 1974 Nov 09, 1974 5
4/6 Dec 05, 1974 Nov 16, 1974 6
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