Monty Python's Flying Circus: Season 3
Season 3 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 2.
- 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
Season 3 Progress Shield
Whicker's World
Oct 19, 1972
Features gags and sketches such as Multiple Murderer Court Scene, Njorl's Saga and Whicker’s World.
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular
Oct 26, 1972
Features Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow, The Fish Slapping Dance, SS Mother Goose, Trim-Jeans Theatre and some very famous guests.
The Money Programme
Nov 2, 1972
Features The Money Programme, Erizabeth L, Dead Bishop, Jungle Restaurant and The Argument Skit.
Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
Nov 9, 1972
Features gags and sketches such as Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror, The Man who Speaks in Anagrams and Pantomime Horses.
The All-England Summarise Proust Competition
Nov 16, 1972
Featuring in this episode The All-England Summarise Proust Competition, Fire Brigade, Travel Agent and Party Hints with Veronica Smalls.
The War Against Pornography
Nov 23, 1972
Sketches in this episode include Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign, Gumby Brain Specialist, Expedition to Lake Pahoe and The Silliest Interview We've Ever Had.
Salad Days
Nov 30, 1972
Features gags and sketches such as Biggles Dictates a Letter, Climbing the North Face of the Uxbridge Road, Lifeboat and The Cheese Shop.
The Cycling Tour
Dec 7, 1972
This episode tells the story of Mr Pither as he embarks on his Cycling Tour.
The Nude Organist
Dec 14, 1972
Features gags and sketches such as Bomb on Plane, Mortuary Hour, The Olympic Hide-and-Seek Final, The Cheap Laughs and Prices on the Planet Algon.
E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease
Dec 21, 1972
Sketches include The Tudor Jobs Agency, Elizabethan Pornography Smugglers, Thripshaw's Disease and The Man Who Says Words in the Wrong Order.
Dennis Moore
Jan 4, 1973
Features the sketches Dennis Moore, What the Stars Foretell, The Ideal Loon Exhibition, Off-Licence and Prejudice.
A Book at Bedtime
Jan 11, 1973
Features gags and sketches such as A Book at Bedtime, Kamikaze Scotsmen, No Time to Lose, Spot the Looney and Frontiers of Medicine-Penguins.
Grandstand (or: The British Showbiz Awards)
Jan 18, 1973
Sketches include The Oscar Wilde Sketch, David Niven’s Fridge, Pasolini’s ‘The Third Test Match’, New Brain from Currys, Blood Donor and the Dirty Vicar Sketch.