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.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 2.
- 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
Season 3 Progress Shield
Whicker's World
Oct 19, 1972 · 30 min
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 · 29 min
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 · 29 min
Features The Money Programme, Erizabeth L, Dead Bishop, Jungle Restaurant and The Argument Skit.
Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
Nov 9, 1972 · 30 min
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 · 30 min
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 · 28 min
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 · 28 min
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 · 30 min
This episode tells the story of Mr Pither as he embarks on his Cycling Tour.
The Nude Organist
Dec 14, 1972 · 30 min
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 · 27 min
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 · 31 min
Features the sketches Dennis Moore, What the Stars Foretell, The Ideal Loon Exhibition, Off-Licence and Prejudice.
A Book at Bedtime
Jan 11, 1973 · 24 min
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 · 26 min
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.