Monty Python's Flying Circus: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
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Face the Press
Sep 15, 1970
Featuring Doug and Dinsdale Piranha, Face the Press and the Ministry of Silly Walks. Mrs G Pinnet buys a new gas cooker.
The Spanish Inquisition
Sep 22, 1970
Featuring the Spanish Inquisition, courtroom charades and a semaphore interpretation of Wuthering Heights.
Déjà Vu
Sep 29, 1970
Featuring the work of the poet Euan McTeagle, a psychiatrist milkman and some exploding animals. A television presenter suffers from a severe case of deja vu.
The Buzz Aldrin Show
Oct 20, 1970
More surreal humour from the Monty Python team. Sketches include The Architects, How to Recognise a Mason, Poets and the Chemist sketch.
Live from the Grill-O-Mat
Oct 27, 1970
Featuring gameshow Blackmail, The Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and boxer Ken Clean-Air System.
It's a Living
Nov 3, 1970
Featuring It's a Living and a school prize-giving. Timmy Williams presents a new chat show and the fate of the Silly Party hangs in the balance in an Election Night Special.
The Attila the Hun Show
Nov 11, 1970
Featuring the Attila the Hun Show, a rat catcher, a village idiot, some killer sheep and news for parrots.
Archaeology Today
Nov 17, 1970
Featuring Mrs Beethoven, the Reverend Arthur Belling, some Australian Mosquito Hunters and a drink party with the Gits.
How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body
Nov 24, 1970
Featuring a guide on how to recognise parts of the body, a singing policeman, an interview with a plastic surgeon, a camp soldiers' drill and the Verrifast Plane Company.
Scott of the Antarctic
Dec 1, 1970
Featuring a special report into the shooting of Scott of the Antarctic, from Paignton. Also, a man tries to purchase a fish licence.
How Not to Be Seen
Dec 8, 1970
Features gags and sketches such as Job Hunter, Railway Timetables, How Not to be Seen and Interview in a Filing Cabinet.
Spam
Dec 15, 1970
The sketches in this episode include Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook, World Forum-Communist Quiz, Hospital for Over-Actors and Spam.
Royal Episode 13
Dec 22, 1970
Sketches in this episode include How to Feed a Goldfish, The Man Who Says Things in a Very Roundabout Way and Lifeboat.