List of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes

List of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes

This is a list of all 45 episodes from the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus:
Series

Episodes

Originally aired
First in the series

Last in the series

5 October 1969

11 January 1970

13

13

13

19 October 1972

18 January 1973

31 October 1974

5 December 1974

15 September 1970 22 December 1970

The original air dates do not all apply to BBC Scotland, which took a different approach to airing the series.
Series 1 was broadcast at the same time, except for the last two episodes, which were not shown in January 1970
but were held over to series 2.
Series 2 was broadcast on Sundays from 17 September to 16 January 1971 (including the two episodes from
series 1).
Series 3 was broadcast at the same time.
Series 4 was NOT broadcast at the same time. It is unclear when it was aired in Scotland.

Series 1
It's...

1. Whither Canada?
(episode 1; aired 5 October 1969; recorded 7 September 1969)

It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Famous deaths
Italian lesson
Whizzo Butter
The word "Whizzo" would be used throughout the series as the title of various companies and products,
such as Whizzo's Finest Chocolates produced by the Whizzo Chocolate Company, for the Crunchy Frog
sketch of episode six.

"It's the Arts"

Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson
Picasso/Cycling Race
The Funniest Joke in the World

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2. Sex and Violence

(episode 2; aired 12 October 1969; recorded 30 August 1969)

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
The Wrestling Epilogue
Real professional wrestlers portrayed an Anglican monsignor and a college professor who debate the
existence of God by wrestling.

The Mouse Problem

3. How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away
(episode 3; aired 19 October 1969; recorded 14 September 1969) This episode had the longest title.

Court Scene with Cardinal Richelieu

The Larch
Bicycle Repair Man
Tirade Against Communists
Children's Stories
Restaurant Sketch
Seduced Milkmen
The woman is often said to be Carol Cleveland, but it is another woman who is not credited. Cleveland
does appear in a version of this sketch in the film And Now For Something Completely Different.

Stolen newsreader
The Horse Chestnut
Children's Interview
Nudge Nudge

4. Owl Stretching Time

(episode 4; aired 26 October 1969; recorded 21 September 1969)
Owl Stretching Time was a proposed name for the series itself.
BBC-1 began colour broadcasting officially on 15 November 1969. Since September 1969, however, they had been
broadcasting colour programmes "unofficially", so while the whole of the first series was broadcast in colour, this
episode was the first to be advertised as being in colour (source: Notes taken from BBC videotape operators and
transmission managers made at the time).

Song: "Jerusalem (And did those feet)"

Art Gallery
Art Critic
It's a Dog's Life in the Modern Army

Undressing in Public
Self Defence Against Fresh Fruit

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First appearance of the 16-Ton Weight.
Secret Service Dentists
Many sketches in this episode are ended prematurely by Graham Chapman's army character ("The Colonel"), who
protests rip offs of the British army's slogan, "It's a Man's Life in the Modern Army"

5. Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century

(episode 5; aired 16 November 1969; recorded 3 October 1969)

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 first appeared on How to Irritate People.

Careers Advisory Board

Burglar/Encyclopedia Salesman

6. It's the Arts (or: The BBC Entry to the Zinc Stoat of Budapest)
(episode 6; aired 23 November 1969; recorded 5 November 1969)

It's the Arts

Johann Gambolputty
Non-Illegal Robbery
Vox Pops
Crunchy Frog (Whizzo Chocolate Company)
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 Anymore

(episode 7; aired 30 November 1969; recorded 10 October 1969)

Camel Spotting
You're No Fun Any More
The Audit
Science Fiction Sketch
Man Turns Into Scotsman
Police station
Blancmanges Playing Tennis

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8. Full Frontal Nudity

(episode 8; aired 7 December 1969; recorded 25 November 1969)

Army Protection Racket

Vox Pops on Full Frontal Nudity
Art Critic The Place of the Nude
Buying a Bed
Hermits
Dead Parrot
The Flasher
Hell's Grannies
The theme song from the James Bond film Thunderball is heard.

This episode repeats a running gag from episode 4: a female cast member delivers a terrible joke, and upon protest
from fellow cast members wails "But it's my only line!"
Most sketches in this episode are ended prematurely by Graham Chapman's army character ("The Colonel") from the
first sketch, who protests that they are "too silly."

9. The Ant, an Introduction

(episode 9; aired 14 December 1969; recorded 7 December 1969)

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
The Lumberjack Song
Gumby Crooner
The Refreshment Room at Bletchley
Ken Buddha and His Inflatable Knees
Brian Islam and Brucie (animation)
The music is "Banjoreno" by the Dixieland Jug Blowers.

Hunting Film
The Visitors

10. Untitled
(episode 10; aired 21 December 1969; recorded 30 November 1969)

Walk-on Part in Sketch

Bank Robber in a Lingerie Shop
Trailer
It's A Tree
Vocational Guidance Counsellor
The larch from episode 3 reappears.

Ron Obvious
The First Man to Jump the Channel
Eating Chichester Cathedral
Tunnelling from Godalming to Java

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Splitting a railway carriage with his nose

Running to Mercury
Most time being Underground
Pet Conversions
Gorilla Librarian
Letters to Daily Mirror
Strangers in the night

This is the first episode not to show an episode title at the beginning of the closing credits.

11. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

(episode 11; aired 28 December 1969; recorded 14 December 1969)
Lavatorial Humour
The RPO performs the opening of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in the bathroom.
Interruptions
Agatha Christie (Inspector Tiger)
Literary Football Discussion

Interesting People
Undertakers Film
Eighteenth-Century Social Legislation
The Battle of Trafalgar
Batley Townswomans Guild Presents the Battle of Pearl Harbour
Undertakers Film

12. The Naked Ant

(episode 12; aired 4 January 1970; recorded 21 December 1969)

Falling From Building

Spectrum Talking About Things
Visitors From Coventry
Mr. Hilter and the Minehead by-election
Silly Voices at the Police station
Upper Class Twit of the Year
Ken Shabby
How Far Can a Minister Fall?

13. It's the Arts (or: Intermission)

(episode 13; aired 11 January 1970; recorded 4 January 1970)

Restaurant Abuse/Cannibalism
Advertisements
Albatross
Come Back to My Place
Me Doctor
Historical Impersonations
Quiz Programme: "Wishes"

Probe-Around on Crime
Stonehenge and Mr. Attila the Hun

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Psychiatry
Operating theatre

Series 2
And now for something completely different.

It's...

1. Face the Press (or: Dinsdale)

(episode 14; aired 15 September 1970; recorded 9 July 1970)

Face the Press

New Cooker Sketch
Tobacconist's (Prostitute Advert)
The Ministry of Silly Walks
La March Futile
Ethel the Frog/Piranha Brothers: introductory music: from Karelia Suite by Jean Sibelius

2. The Spanish Inquisition

(episode 15; aired 22 September 1970; recorded 2 July 1970)

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
Julius Caesar on an Aldis lamp
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Morse Code
Smoke signal Version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Court Charades

The Spanish Inquisitors (Palin, Jones, and Gilliam) appear 7 times throughout this episode.

3. Dj Vu (or: Show 5)
(episode 16; aired 29 September 1970; recorded 16 July 1970)

A Bishop Rehearsing
Flying Lessons
Hijacked Plane
The Poet McTeagle
Psychiatrist Milkman
Graham Chapman's character changes from Mrs. Ratbag to Mrs. Pim.

Complaints

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Dj Vu

4. The Buzz Aldrin Show (or: An Apology)

(episode 17; aired 20 October 1970; recorded 18 September 1970)

An apology
Gumby announcement
Architects Sketch
How to Recognize a Mason
An apology/Another Gumby announcement
Motor Insurance Sketch
The Bishop
The Peter Gunn Theme by Henry Mancini is prominent.

Living Room on Pavement

Poets
A Choice of Viewing
An Interview with a Nude Man

The Bishop...Again?!
An apology
Gumby Frog Curse/Another Another Gumby Announcement
Chemist Sketch
An Apology/Words Not to be Used Again
After-shave
Vox Pops
Police Constable Pan-Am
Another Apology
End Credits
Last Gumby announcement (The end)

Cardinal Ximnez makes a cameo appearance in this episode. Additionally, one character says "I didn't expect a
Spanish Inquisition", but, being played by Michael Palin (as is Cardinal Ximnez), is told to shut up.

5. Live from the Grill-O-Mat

(episode 18; aired 27 October 1970; recorded 10 September 1970)
Live From the Grill-o-Mat
The First Item...
Blackmail
Terry Gilliam replaces Terry Jones as the Nude Organist.

Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things

Escape from Film
The Next Item (or dish)...
Current Affairs
Continued from the Escape from Film
The Next Item (...Prawn Salad...?)...
Accidents Sketch (Prawn Salad Ltd.)

Interruption
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

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The Butcher Who is Alternately Rude and Polite

The Last Item (coffee)...
Ken Clean-Air System
On the Bus (end credits)

6. It's A Living (or: School Prizes)

(episode 19; aired 3 November 1970; recorded 10 September 1970)

"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)
The Foreign Secretary and Other News
Free Dung from the "Book of the Month" Club
Dead Indian
Timmy Williams interview

Raymond Luxury Yacht (Throat Wobbler Mangrove interview)

Marriage Registry office
Election Night Special

7. The Attila the Hun Show

(episode 20; aired 10 November 1970; recorded 2 October 1970)
"The Attila the Hun Show"
Parody of The Debbie Reynolds Show (1969), recreating the opening credits shot for shot and using a
knockoff of the theme "'With A Little Love by Mike LeRoy".
The opening sequence appears after this sketch.

Attila the Nun

Secretary of State Striptease
Vox Pops on Political Groupies
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 the Rural Society
Test Match Against Iceland
The Epsom Furniture Race
"Spot The Braincell"

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8. Archaeology Today
(episode 21; aired 17 November 1970; recorded 9 October 1970)

Trailer
"Archaeology Today"
Silly Vicar and Leapy Lee
Registrar (wife swap)
Silly doctor sketch (immediately abandoned)
Mr. and Mrs. Git
Roy and Hank Spim Mosquito hunters
Poofy Judges
Mrs. Thing and Mrs. Entity
Beethoven's Mynah Bird
Shakespeare
Michelangelo
Colin "Chopper" Mozart (ratcatcher)
Judges

9. How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body

(episode 22; aired 24 November 1970; recorded 25 September 1970)

"How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body"

Bruces sketch
Naughty Bits
The Man who Contradicts People
Cosmetic Surgery
Camp Square-Bashing
Killer Cars
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 the TV Set
There's Been a Murder
Sgt. Duckie's Song Police entry for Eurovision Song Contest
"Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bang" (song) contest winner from Monaco

10. Scott of the Antarctic

(episode 23; aired 1 December 1970; recorded 2 July 1970)
French Subtitled Film
Scott of the Antarctic
Scott of the Sahara
The opening sequence appears after this sketch, seventeen and a half minutes into the show (out of about
thirty).
Conrad Poohs and His Dancing Teeth
Fish Licence
Derby Council v. All Blacks Rugby Match

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Long John Silver Impersonators v. Bournemouth Gynaecologists

11. How Not to Be Seen

(episode 24; aired 8 December 1970; recorded 23 July 1970)

Conquistador Coffee Campaign

Repeating Groove
Ramsay MacDonald Striptease
Job Hunter
International Chinese Communist Conspiracy
Crelm Toothpaste / Shrill Petrol
Agatha Christie Sketch (railway timetables)
Mr Neville Shunte-Railroad Playwright
Gavin Millarrrrrrrrr Writes
Film Director/Dentist Martin Curry (teeth)
City Gents Vox Pops
Crackpot Religions Ltd
A scene at the end, with crosses that are actually telegraph poles, was cut out but can be seen at the end
of the episode when the whole show is repeated.

How Not to Be Seen

Crossing the Atlantic on a Tricycle
Interview in Filing Cabinet
"Yummy Yummy Yummy, I've Got Love In My Tummy"/Music Time
Monty Python's Flying Circus Again in Thirty Seconds
A recap of the episode.

"And now for something completely different" and the opening sequence has a repeating groove.
This episode featured many famous characters from different episodes including The Nudge Man (Nudge Nudge),
Cardinal Ximenez (The Spanish Inquisition), Ken Shabby, etc. Terry Gilliam also reprised his role as the nude
organist (Blackmail), a character usually played by Terry Jones.

12. Spam
(Episode 25; aired 15 December 1970; recorded 25 June 1970)

"The Black Eagle"

Opening credits
Dirty Hungarian phrasebook
Court (phrasebook)
Includes a reference to the UK game show Take Your Pick, where the prosecutor gongs Alexander Yalt
(Michael Palin) for answering "yes" during a series of questions.

World Forum Communist Quiz

"Ypres 1914" (abandoned)
Art Gallery Strikes
"Ypres 1914"
Hospital for Over-Actors
Includes a Richard III Ward, due in part to many exaggerations on the character over the years.

Gumby Flower Arranging

Spam

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13. Royal Episode 13 (or: The Queen Will Be Watching)

(episode 26; aired 22 December 1970; recorded 16 October 1970)
The Queen Will Be Watching
In honor of Her Majesty the Queen, a shortened opening sequence plays "Pomp and Circumstance
March No. 1" in place of "The Liberty Bell".

Coal Mine in Llandarogh Carmarthen

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
A Man with a Stoat Through His Head
Lifeboat (cannibalism)
Undertaker's sketch

At one point a scrolling subtitle reports that the Queen is still watching The Virginian.

Series 3
And now,

It's...

In this season (only), the opening sequence begins with a nude organist, John Cleese saying "and now," and the "It's"
Man.

1. Whicker's World (or: Njorl's Saga)

(episode 27; aired 19 October 1972; recorded 14 January 1972)

Njorl's Saga/Opening Credits

Multiple Murderer Court Scene
Investigating the body
Njorl's Saga part II
A Terrible Mess
Njorl's Saga part II: North Malden?

Starting Over
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Phone conversation about the word "Malden" in the saga

Eric Njorl Court Scene (Njorl's Saga part III)
Stock Exchange Report
Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion at the Launderette
Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion at North Malden
Back to the saga...
Njorl's Saga part IV: Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion visit Sartre in Paris
Whicker's World

2. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular

(episode 28; aired 26 October 1972; recorded 28 January 1972)
Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow
The opening sequence follows this sketch.
Schoolboys' Life Assurance Company
How to Do It
Mrs. Niggerbaiter Explodes

Vicar/Salesman
Farming Club
"Life of Tschaikowsky"
Trim-Jeans Theatre
The Fish-Slapping Dance
World War Two (Animation)
Titanic Sinking
The BBC is Short of Money
SS Mother Goose
It's Man Show
Shown after the closing credits. Lulu and Ringo Starr appear as themselves. This is one of the few times
you can hear the man say something besides "It's".

3. The Money Programme

(episode 29; aired 2 November 1972; recorded 4 December 1971)

The Money Programme

Money Song
Erizabeth L
Fraud Film Director Squad[1]
Hands Up (Animation)
Dead Bishop, AKA Church Police or 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
The Argument Skit

Hitting on the Head Lessons

Inspector Flying Fox of the Yard
One More Minute of Monty Python's Flying Circus

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4. Blood, Devastation, Death, War, and Horror

(episode 30; aired 9 November 1972; recorded 11 December 1971)
Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
The Man Who Speaks in Anagrams
The opening sequence follows this sketch.

Anagram Quiz
Merchant Banker
Pantomime Horses
Life and Death Struggles
Househunters
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
Anagrams appear throughout this episode: "Tony M. Nyphot's Flying Risccu" for Monty Python's Flying Circus;
"Chamran Knebt" for Merchant Bank, "Mary Recruitment Office" for Army Recruitment Office. The end credits are
all in anagrams.
Richard Baker has also done gestures to indicate pauses in the news.

5. The All-England Summarize Proust Competition

(episode 31; aired 16 November 1972; recorded 24 April 1972
Summarize Proust Competition
The end credits appear here.

Hairdressers Climb Up Mount Everest

Fire Brigade
Our Eamonn
"Party Hints" with Veronica Smalls
Language Laboratory
Travel Agent
Watney's Red Barrel
Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses

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6. The War Against Pornography

(episode 32; aired 23 November 1972; recorded 21 January 1972)

Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign

Gumby Brain Specialist
Molluscs "Live" TV Documentary
Report on the Minister reports
Tuesday Documentary
Children's Story
Match of the Day
An Apology
Expedition to Lake Pahoe
The Silliest Interview We've Ever Had
The Silliest Sketch We've Ever Done

7. Salad Days
(episode 33; aired 30 November 1972; recorded 7 January 1972)
Biggles Dictates a Letter
In some video editions, a technical glitch cut some of the dialogue; but the complete original does exist.

Climbing the North Face of the Uxbridge Road

Lifeboat
Old lady snoopers
Storage Jars
The Show so Far
Cheese Shop sketch
Philip Jenkinson on Cheese Westerns
Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days"
Apology
The News with Richard Baker
Seashore Interlude Film

8. The Cycling Tour

(episode 34; aired 7 December 1972; recorded 4 May 1972)

Mr. Pither
Mr. Gulliver and Clodagh Rogers
Trotsky
Smolensk
Bingo-Crazed Chinese
Not Secret Police
Trotsky / Eartha Kitt
Firing Squad
Eartha Kitt / Edward Heath

This episode is the first episode of Flying Circus to feature a full length story.
This is the first episode that doesn't have a formal opening sequence; instead, a simple caption "The Cycling Tour"
appears at the beginning of the episode.
John Tomiczek, Graham Chapman's adopted son, makes a brief non-speaking appearance as an autograph seeker.

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The entire episode was written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones; they each play exactly one character throughout
the whole show.
The music to which Mr. Pither cycles is the Waltz from Act II of Faust by Charles Gounod.

9. The Nude Organist (or: The Nude Man)

(episode 35; aired 14 December 1972; recorded 11 May 1972)

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'
Mystico 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

Mr. Badger Reads the Credits

10. E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease

(episode 36; aired 21 December 1972; recorded 25 May 1972)

Tudor Jobs Agency

Pornographic Bookshop
Elizabethan Pornography Smugglers
Silly Disturbances
The Free Repetition of Doubtful Words Sketch
'Is There?'... Life after Death?
The Man Who Says Words in the Wrong Order
Thripshaw's Disease
The footage representing the movie version of Thripshaw's Disease was taken from a 1960 Polish movie
Knights of the Teutonic Order.

Silly Noises
Sherry-drinking Vicar
The BBC censored this episode probably more than any other, cutting three sketches (Big Nosed Sculptor, Revolting
Cocktails, Wee-Wee Wine Cellar) as well as much of Gilliam's animation.

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11. Dennis Moore

(episode 37; aired 4 January 1973; recorded 17 April 1972)

"Boxing Tonight" Jack Bodell v. Sir Kenneth Clark

Dennis Moore
What the Stars Foretell
Doctor
TV4 or Not TV4 Discussion
Lupins
Ideal Loon Exhibition
Off-Licence
Dennis Moore Rides Again
Prejudice
Redistribution of Wealth

12. A Book at Bedtime

(episode 38; aired 11 January 1973; recorded 18 December 1971)

Party Political Broadcast (Choreographed)

A Book at Bedtime "Redgauntlet"
Kamikaze Scotsmen
No Time to Lose
Frontiers of Medicine Penguins
BBC programme planners
Unexploded Scotsmen
Spot the Looney
Rival Documentaries
Dad's Doctors, Dad's Pooves and Other Interesting Stories

"Party Political Broadcast (Choreographed)" and "Dad's Doctors, Dad's Pooves and Other Interesting Stories" have
been cut out in many versions of this episode. A clip of "Party Political Broadcast (Choreographed)" has surfaced on
YouTube, stated to have been found in Canada by David Morgan. It originates from WNED in Buffalo, New York;
an identification card is seen at the beginning of the clip, and a "Support Channel 17" phone number shows up at the
bottom of the screen.[2] There is also a clip of the last sketch originating from German network WDR with German
subtitles.[3] "Dad's Doctors" has been restored to the iTunes version of the show as well as added to the Netflix
streaming video version of the series.

13. Grandstand (or: The British Showbiz Awards)

(episode 39; aired 18 January 1973; recorded 18 May 1972)
This is the second episode without a formal opening sequence.

Thames TV Introduction
"Light Entertainment Awards" with Dickie Attenborough
Dickie Attenborough
The Oscar Wilde Sketch
Charwoman
David Niven's Fridge

Pasolini's Film "The Third Test Match"

New Brain from Curry's

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Blood Donor
International Wife-Swapping
Credits of the Year
The moment when the two men are discovered in bed together is John Cleese's last appearance in the
series.
The Dirty Vicar Sketch

Series 4
On screen the final series was titled simply Monty Python although the full title, Monty Python's Flying Circus, is
displayed at the beginning of the opening sequence. John Cleese is not in this series, except in the first episode
uncredited. He also helped write all the episodes.

1. The Golden Age of Ballooning

(episode 40; aired 31 October 1974; recorded 12 October 1974)
This episode has no opening sequence.
The Montgolfier Brothers
Montgolfier Brothers in Love
Louis XVI
The Court of George III
The end credits appear here.
Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Norwegian Party (subtitled)
Zeppelin
The Golden Age of Colonic Irrigation

2. Michael Ellis
(episode 41; aired 7 November 1974; recorded 19 October 1974)
This is the second episode to feature a full length story.
The end credits appear immediately after the opening sequence.

Department Store
Buying an Ant
At Home with the Ant and Other Pets
Documentary on Ants
Ant Complaints
Ant Poetry Reading
Toupee Department
Different Endings

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3. The Light Entertainment War

(episode 42; aired 14 November 1974; recorded 26 October 1974)
The Nude Organist and the It's Man appear for the last time, in footage taken from the Dennis Moore episode. Most
of the sketches of the episode have a shared theme (World War II) yet no apparent narrative.
Up Your Pavement
Theme music is a variant of "When Does A Dream Begin?" and based very much on the theme tune to
Steptoe and Son, a popular BBC sitcom of the time. A little later in this sequence, the Blue Peter theme
tune can be heard very briefly.
RAF Banter
Sketch opens with Terry Jones climbing out of Hawker Hurricane Mk. I, L1592, now on display at the
Science Museum, London.

Trivializing the War

Courtmartial
Basingstoke in Westphalia
"Anything Goes" (song)
Film Trailer
Opening titles appear here.

The Public Are Idiots

Programme Titles Conference
The Last Five Miles (8 km) of the M4
Woody and Tinny Words
Show-Jumping
Features Olympic silver medal-winning showjumper Marion Mould (see also Stroller (horse)).

Newsflash
"When Does a Dream Begin?" (song)
Written and performed by Neil Innes, singing to Maggie Weston, the Python make-up girl, and future
wife of Terry Gilliam.
Douglas Adams made a brief appearance as a doctor treating a man suffering from lumbago.

4. Hamlet
(episode 43; aired 21 November 1974; recorded 2 November 1974)

Bogus Psychiatrists
Nationwide
Police helmets
Father-in-Law
Opening titles appear here.

Hamlet and Ophelia

Boxing Match Aftermath
Boxing Commentary
Piston Engine (a Bargain)
A Room in Polonius's House

Dentists
Live from Epsom Jockey Interviews
Queen Victoria Handicap

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5. Mr. Neutron
(episode 44; aired 28 November 1974; recorded 9 November 1974)
This is the third episode to feature a full length story ("Cycling Tour" and "Michael Ellis" being the earlier two).

Post-box Ceremony
Mr. Neutron
F.E.A.R. / Mr. Neutron is Missing!
Teddy Salad
Secretary of State and Prime Minister
Bombing
Mrs. Scum
Teddy Salad Explodes
Mr. Neutron Escapes
Conjuring Today

With the exception of "Post-box Ceremony," nearly the entire episode was co-written by Michael Palin and Terry
Jones.

6. Party Political Broadcast

(episode 45; aired 5 December 1974; recorded 16 November 1974)
Most Awful Family in Britain (co-written by Neil Innes)
Icelandic Honey Week
Opening sequence appears here.

Patient Abuse (co-written by Douglas Adams)

Brigadier and Bishop
Appeal on Behalf of Extremely Rich People
The Man Who Finishes Other People's Sentences
David Attenborough
The Walking Trees of Dahomey
Batsmen of the Kalahari
Cricket Match (assegais)
End credits appear here.

BBC News (handovers)

Announcements related to the party political broadcast on behalf of the Liberal Party.

References
[1] Chapman, Graham; Cleese, John; Gilliam, Terry; Idle, Eric; Jones, Terry; Palin, Michael (1990) [1989]. "Twenty-nine". Monty Python's
Flying Circus: Just the Words. Volume Two. London: Mandarin. p.78. ISBN0-7493-0226-7. "I am Inspector Leopard of Scotland Yard,
Special Fraud Film Director Squad."
[2] "Political Choreography" on Youtube (http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=_8Ija4Dec7o& NR=1)
[3] "Dad's Pooves" on Youtube (http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=FAscN993Sqg)

External links
"The complete unexpurgated scripts of the original TV series" at www.ibras.dk (http://www.ibras.dk/
montypython/justthewords.htm)

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