Storyline

A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.

First Aired

1969-10-05
Last Aired

1974-12-05
Creator

Ian MacNaughton
Genre

Comedy
Seasons

4
Episodes

45
Status

Ended
Language

English
Network

BBC One

Keywords:

surreal satire sketch comedy

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1. Whither Canada?

Featuring 'It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart', an Italian lesson, Whizzo Butter, 'It's the Arts', Arthur 'T...More

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.Less

31mins 1969-10-05

2. Sex and Violence

Featuring some flying sheep, a man with three buttocks, a man with two noses, musical mice, a marriage...More

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.Less

33mins 1969-10-12

3. How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away

Featuring a court scene, the larch, Bicycle Repair Man, children's stories, a restaurant sketch, some ...More

Featuring a court scene, the larch, Bicycle Repair Man, children's stories, a restaurant sketch, some seduced milkmen, an interview with some children and a stolen newsreader.Less

31mins 1969-10-19

4. Owl Stretching Time

Featuring fresh fruit as self-defence, some folk-singing, an art gallery sketch and Lemming of the BDA...More

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.Less

29mins 1969-10-26

5. Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century

Featuring Confuse-a-Cat, discussion programme A Duck, a Cat and a Lizard, the arrest of a newsreader, ...More

Featuring Confuse-a-Cat, discussion programme A Duck, a Cat and a Lizard, the arrest of a newsreader, an erotic film, a silly job interview and a burglar/encyclopaedia salesman.Less

29mins 1969-11-16

6. It's the Arts

Featuring a gang of legal burglars, the Whizzo Quality Assortment, a Scottish wedding and a day in the...More

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.Less

30mins 1969-11-23

7. Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

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

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

30mins 1969-11-30

8. Full Frontal Nudity

Featuring an art critic, some hermits, Hell's Grannies and the dead parrot sketch. Some newlyweds atte...More

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.Less

29mins 1969-12-07

9. The Ant, An Introduction

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

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

29mins 1969-12-14

10. Untitled

Featuring a bank robber in a lingerie shop, It's A Tree (with Arthur Tree), a vocational guidance coun...More

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.Less

30mins 1969-12-21

11. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom, a footballer is interviewed and Batley Townswom...More

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom, a footballer is interviewed and Batley Townswomen's Guild re-enact the invasion of Pearl Harbour.Less

31mins 1969-12-28

12. The Naked Ant

Featuring the North Minehead by-election, the Upper Class Twit of the Year competition, Ken Shabby and...More

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.Less

31mins 1970-01-04

13. Intermission

Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and...More

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

29mins 1970-01-11

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A Review by drystyx 8

Written by drystyx on 2023-04-03

Monty Python is funny. The Flying Circus is a motley group of short skits, and often they have weird segues into each other (I hope I spell... read more

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A Review by drystyx

Monty Python is funny. The Flying Circus is a motley group of short skits, and often they have weird segues into each other (I hope I spelled "segue" correctly). Many of the bits have become iconic standards. The funny walks, which isn't...