NUMBER OF EPISODES: 
YEAR OF PRODUCTION:
COMPANY:
CREATED BY: 
46
1969-1974
BBC TELEVISION
GRAHAM CHAPMAN, JOHN CLEESE, ERIC IDLE,
TERRY JONES, MICHEAL PALIN

 
BACKGROUND

It is a late parrot!

Monty Python's Flying Circus was the totally meaningless name coined for the innovative
English comedy troupe comprised of John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones,
Terry Gilliam, and the late Graham Chapman. Embraced by the critics and public alike, the
team enriched airwaves with their distinctive brand of irreverent and often surreal sketch
comedy and satire on BBC1 from 1969 through 1973 and on BBC-2, without Cleese, for the
last few months of 1974.

The show offered savage broadsides against the pomposity and repression of the British
establishment, outlandish spoofs of European history, knowing satires of leading intellectual
and cultural figures, and lots of men in dresses.


 
CAST

Graham Chapman 
John Cleese 
Eric Idle 
Terry Jones 
Michael Palin 
Terry Gilliam 

 

 
EPISODE GUIDE
SEASON 1 SEASON 2

Whither Canada?
Sex and Violence
How To Recognise Different Types Of Trees From Quite A Long
Owl-Stretching Time
Man's Crisis Of Identity In The Second Half Of The Twentieth
The BBC Entry For The Zinc Stoat Of Budapest
You're No Fun Anymore
Episode 128 : Full Frontal Nudity
The Ant, An Introduction : Part 2 - The Llama
"The First Man To Jump The Channel"
Episode Two's : The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes To The
Episode 17-26 : The Naked Ant
"Intermissions" 

The Ministry Of Silly Walks
The Spanish Inquisition
Flying Lessons
How To Give Up Being A Mason
Live From The Grill-o-mat Snack Bar
It's A Living
The Atilla The Hun Show
Archaeology Today
How To Recognise Different Parts Of
the Body
Scott Of The Antarctic
How Not To Be Seen
Spam, Spam, Spam
Special Royal Episode
SEASON 3 SEASON 4

Whicker's World 
Emigration From Surbiton To Hounslow
The Money Programme
Tony M Nyphot's Flying Riscu 
The All-England Summarise Proust Competition 
Gumby, Brain Specialist
Biggles Dictates A Letter
Mr Pither
A Naked Man
E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease
Boxing Tonight - Jack Bodel Versus Sir Kenneth Clark
A Book At Bedtime
Grandstand 

The Golden Age Of Ballooning
The Ant As A Domestic Pet
The Light Entertainment War
Bogus Psychiatrists
Conjuring Today
A Party Political Broadcast On Behalf Of
The Liberal Party 
SPECIAL MOVIES

The Montreux Special (16 Apr 71) 

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETLY DIFFERENT (1972) 
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) 
MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (1979) 
MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE (1983)