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Monty Python's Flying Circus : Season 3
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Air date: 19 Oct '72 - 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. Whicker's World
19 Oct '72Features gags and sketches such as Multiple Murderer Court Scene, Njorl's Saga and Whicker’s World.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
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2. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular
26 Oct '72Features Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow, The Fish Slapping Dance, SS Mother Goose, Trim-Jeans Theatre and some very famous guests.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
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3. The Money Programme
02 Nov '72Features The Money Programme, Erizabeth L, Dead Bishop, Jungle Restaurant and The Argument Skit.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
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4. Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
09 Nov '72Features gags and sketches such as Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror, The Man who Speaks in Anagrams and Pantomime Horses.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
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5. The All-England Summarize Proust Competition
16 Nov '72Featuring in this episode The All-England Summarize Proust Competition, Fire Brigade, Travel Agent and Party Hints with Veronica Smalls.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
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6. The War Against Pornography
23 Nov '72Sketches in this episode include Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign, Gumby Brain Specialist, Expedition to Lake Pahoe and The Silliest Interview We've Ever Had.
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7. Salad Days
30 Nov '72Features gags and sketches such as Biggles Dictates a Letter, Climbing the North Face of the Uxbridge Road, Lifeboat and The Cheese Shop.
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8. The Cycling Tour
07 Dec '72This episode tells the story of Mr Pither as he embarks on his Cycling Tour.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
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9. The Nude Organist
14 Dec '72Features 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.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
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10. E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease
21 Dec '72Sketches include The Tudor Jobs Agency, Elizabethan Pornography Smugglers, Thripshaw's Disease and The Man Who Says Words in the Wrong Order.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
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11. Dennis Moore
04 Jan '73Features the sketches Dennis Moore, What the Stars Foretell, The Ideal Loon Exhibition, Off-Licence and Prejudice.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
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12. A Book at Bedtime
11 Jan '73Features gags and sketches such as A Book at Bedtime, Kamikaze Scotsmen, No Time to Lose, Spot the Looney and Frontiers of Medicine-Penguins.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
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13. Grandstand
18 Jan '73Sketches 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.
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