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.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
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Face the Press
Sep 15, 1970 · 30 min
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 · 30 min
Featuring the Spanish Inquisition, courtroom charades and a semaphore interpretation of Wuthering Heights.
Déjà Vu
Sep 29, 1970 · 30 min
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 · 30 min
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 · 29 min
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 · 29 min
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 · 27 min
Featuring the Attila the Hun Show, a rat catcher, a village idiot, some killer sheep and news for parrots.
Archaeology Today
Nov 17, 1970 · 29 min
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 · 30 min
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 · 29 min
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 · 29 min
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 · 30 min
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 · 30 min
Sketches in this episode include How to Feed a Goldfish, The Man Who Says Things in a Very Roundabout Way and Lifeboat.