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Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)

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Monty Python's Flying Circus

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Alternate-language version of

    • Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (TV Mini Series 1972)

Edited into

    • Monty Python's and Now for Something Completely Different (1971)

    • Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)

    • Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python (TV Special 1989)

    • Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time (Video Game 1994)

    • From Spam to Sperm (TV Movie 2000)

Featured in

    • "Aquarius" Monty Python Newscaster of the Year Awards/Cambridge Union Debate: Pornography (TV Episode 1971)

      A brief section of the opening title sequence is shown.
    • The Pythons (TV Movie 1979)

    • Monty Python's the Meaning of Life (1983)

    • "Television" Comedy (TV Episode 1988)

      A clip is shown.
    • John Cleese's First Farewell Performance (Video 1988)

      Scenes from the series are shown here.

Followed by

    • Monty Python's and Now for Something Completely Different (1971)

    • Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (TV Mini Series 1972)

    • Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

    • Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

    • Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)

Referenced in

    • "Jokers Wild" Episode #2.9 (TV Episode 1970)

      Barry Cryer describes a snakeskin-wearing Ray Martine as "Mini Python's Flying Circus".
    • "Steptoe and Son" Come Dancing (TV Episode 1970)

      Harold references the series as shorthand for The Beehive pub's clientele.
    • The Ruling Class (1972)

      Jokes about tall Watusis in both films
    • "The Goodies" Invasion of the Moon Creatures (TV Episode 1973)

      MPFC opening credits appear on the TV Graham is watching
    • "The Goodies" The Goodies and the Beanstalk (TV Episode 1973)

Remade as

    • "Joey & Dad" Episode #1.1 (TV Episode 1975)

      Performs the Dead Parrot Sketch

Spin-off

    • Monty Python's and Now for Something Completely Different (1971)

    • Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

    • Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

    • Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)

    • Monty Python's the Meaning of Life (1983)

Spoofed in

    • "Danger Mouse" Custard (TV Episode 1982)

      DM and Penfold end up in the "potty part of the universe" populated with odd paper cut-out characters rendered in the style of Terry Gilliam's animated sequences from Monty Python.
    • "The Young Ones" Time (TV Episode 1984)

      Brief sketch involving Alexei Sayle doing a silly walk and asking if he was in a cheese shop.
    • "Spitting Image" Episode #1.11 (TV Episode 1984)

      Spoofed as Erik Olfanson's Flying Circus
    • Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers (Short 1992)

    • VeggieTales: Tales from the Crisper (Video 1993)

      Some of the self aware humour reflects the same kind from the show. Including a musical number being interrupted for being "too silly".

Version of

    • Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)

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