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Monty Python's Flying Circus : Season 2
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Air date: 15 Sep '70 - 13 episodesMonty Python’s Flying Circus is a British sketch comedy series created by the comedy group Monty Python and broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974. The shows were composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines. It also featured animations by Terry Gilliam, often sequenced or merged with live action. The first episode was recorded on 7 September and broadcast on 5 October 1969 on BBC One, with 45 episodes airing over four series from 1969 to 1974, plus two episodes for German TV. The show often targets the idiosyncrasies of British life, especially that of professionals, and is at times politically charged. The members of Monty Python were highly educated. Terry Jones and Michael Palin are Oxford University graduates; Eric Idle, John Cleese, and Graham Chapman attended Cambridge University; and American-born member Terry Gilliam is an Occidental College graduate. Their comedy is often pointedly intellectual, with numerous...
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List of Episodes (13)
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Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
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1. Face the Press
15 Sep '70Featuring Doug and Dinsdale Piranha, Face the Press and the Ministry of Silly Walks. Mrs G Pinnet buys a new gas cooker.
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2. The Spanish Inquisition
22 Sep '70Featuring the Spanish Inquisition, courtroom charades and a semaphore interpretation of Wuthering Heights.
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3. Déjà Vu
29 Sep '70Featuring 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.
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4. The Buzz Aldrin Show
20 Oct '70More surreal humour from the Monty Python team. Sketches include The Architects, How to Recognise a Mason, Poets and the Chemist sketch.
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5. Live from the Grill-O-Mat
27 Oct '70Featuring gameshow Blackmail, The Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and boxer Ken Clean-Air System.
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6. It's a Living
03 Nov '70Featuring 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.
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7. The Attila the Hun Show
11 Nov '70Featuring the Attila the Hun Show, a rat catcher, a village idiot, some killer sheep and news for parrots.
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8. Archaeology Today
17 Nov '70Featuring Mrs Beethoven, the Reverend Arthur Belling, some Australian Mosquito Hunters and a drink party with the Gits.
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9. How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body
24 Nov '70Featuring 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.
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10. Scott of the Antarctic
01 Dec '70Featuring a special report into the shooting of Scott of the Antarctic, from Paignton. Also, a man tries to purchase a fish licence.
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11. How Not to Be Seen
08 Dec '70Features gags and sketches such as Job Hunter, Railway Timetables, How Not to be Seen and Interview in a Filing Cabinet.
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12. Spam
15 Dec '70The sketches in this episode include Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook, World Forum-Communist Quiz, Hospital for Over-Actors and Spam.
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13. Royal Episode 13
22 Dec '70Sketches in this episode include How to Feed a Goldfish, The Man Who Says Things in a Very Roundabout Way and Lifeboat.
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