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Monty Python's Flying Circus: Season 1

13 episodes Premiered Oct 5, 1969 Updated Jul 22, 2026
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Episodes

S1·E1

Whither Canada?

Oct 5, 1969 · 31 min

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.

S1·E2

Sex and Violence

Oct 12, 1969 · 33 min

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.

S1·E4

Owl Stretching Time

Oct 26, 1969 · 29 min

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.

S1·E6

It's the Arts

Nov 23, 1969 · 30 min

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.

S1·E7

Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

Nov 30, 1969 · 30 min

Featuring camel-spotting, an embezzler at a board-meeting and a science fiction tale about a Scotsman and a tennis-playing blancmange.

S1·E8

Full Frontal Nudity

Dec 7, 1969 · 29 min

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.

S1·E9

The Ant, An Introduction

Dec 14, 1969 · 29 min

Featuring Ken Buddha, a man with a tape-recorder up his nose and a hairdresser who always wanted to be a lumberjack.

S1·E10

Untitled

Dec 21, 1969 · 30 min

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.

S1·E12

The Naked Ant

Jan 4, 1970 · 31 min

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.

S1·E13

Intermission

Jan 11, 1970 · 29 min

Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and Probe Around On Crime.