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MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS

Episode 101 101 Pigs are featured throughout this episode, along with the usual unusual variety of sketches.
  • Original4/7/2006
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MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS

Episode 102 The program begins with a flock of sheep who think they're birds.
  • Original4/14/2006
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Episode 103 This episode's theme is "How to Recognize Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away."
  • Original4/21/2006
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MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS

Episode 104 Starting with a gentle, guitar-strumming singer, the scene quickly changes to an art gallery, where the quality of masterpiece paintings is judged by how they taste.
  • Original4/28/2006
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Episode 105 Highlights of this program include "Confuse-a-Cat," a remedial service for a cat that has lost all interest in life and a customs official on the lookout for potential smugglers.
  • Original5/5/2006
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Episode 106 "It's the Arts" focuses on a composer with the longest name imaginable, a legal robbery plot is carefully organized and more.
  • Original5/12/2006
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Episode 107 "You're no fun anymore" is a recurring statement throughout this episode.
  • Original5/19/2006
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Episode 108 Although this episode's theme is "Full Frontal Nudity," the first scene takes place on a military base, where a young soldier wants to leave the army because it's too dangerous.
  • Original5/26/2006
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Episode 109 Beginning with a rousing Spanish song about llamas, the show features a man with a tape recorder up his nose and much more.
  • Original6/2/2006
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Episode 110 Highlights of this program include a bank robber who mistakenly holds up a lingerie shop and the "It's a Tree" talk show with talking tree host Arthur Tree.
  • Original6/9/2006
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Episode 111 This program opens with bathroom humor as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the lavatory.
  • Original6/16/2006
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Episode 112 Two office workers watch as fellow employees fall past their window and more.
  • Original6/23/2006
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Episode 113 A series of historical impersonations, such as Cardinal Richelieu imitating Petula Clark and more.
  • Original6/30/2006
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Episode #114 The now-famous Ministry of Silly Walks.
  • Original7/7/2006
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Episode #115 The totally unexpected Spanish Inquisition. 
  • Original7/14/2006
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Episode #116 "It's the Mind," a TV look at the phenomenon of déjàvu .
  • Original7/21/2006
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Episode #117 One candidate for a job has come up with a design for an abattoir to be used as a block of apartments.
  • Original7/28/2006
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Episode #118 The show's host, a man sitting in the Grill-o-Mat Snack Bar, provides links between the various sketches, including "Blackmail" - a quiz show that gives viewers a chance to pay vast amounts of money to save their reputations; a meeting of the Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things; a man who's especially accident-prone; the staging of a low-budget school production of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; and a portrait of a moronic boxer training for his championship fight against a schoolgirl. (TRT: 30:42)
  • Original8/4/2006
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Episode #119 "It's a Living," a quiz show, kicks off this episode.  Following that are a school prize-giving ceremony that becomes a complete shambles; an interview with a film director of dubious distinction; a quiet dinner party interrupted by some quite unexpected and rather undesirable deliveries; mass confusion over proposals in a marriage registry office; and "Election Night Special," featuring candidates from varying degrees of silliness parties. (TRT: 30:39)
  • Original8/11/2006
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Episode #120 "The Attila the Hun Show" begins with a visit to Mr. Hun and his family at home.
  • Original8/18/2006
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Episode #121 A trailer for the new fall television shows leads off the episode, followed by the madness of the "Archeology Today" program and more.
  • Original8/25/2006
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Episode #122 The show opens with identification of different parts of the body and includes a visit to the philosophy department at an Australian university where all the professors are called "Bruce"and much more.
  • Original9/1/2006
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Episode #123 A film clip from "Rubbish Days" opens the episode; a visit to the set of "Scott of the Antarctic" follows.  Also featured are a man trying to buy a license for his pet fish and a soccer match between Long John Silver impersonators and a team of gynecologists. (TRT: 30:36)
  • Original9/8/2006
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Episode #124 This show begins with a look at an advertising agency's disastrous campaign for Conquistador Coffee.  Other sketches feature a job hunter who applies for work at the "Exchange and Mart" magazine; an Agatha Christie-style murder mystery in which railway timetables are heavily featured; descriptions of bizarre religious sects; and an educational government film, "How Not to Be Seen," shown as a public service. (TRT: 29:55)
  • Original9/15/2006
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Episode #125 The opening credits clearly state that viewers are watching "The Black Eagle."
  • Original9/22/2006
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Episode #126 Everyone is alerted that the Queen may tune into this program; therefore a more dignified tone is set.  It quickly deteriorates, however, with coalminers brawling over historical facts; interviews with people who speak strangely; an insurance sketch with odd policy requirements; hospital patients serving the doctors as part of the Active Recuperation Technique; a lifeboat where cannibalism becomes the order of the day; and the notorious Undertaker Sketch, which finally causes rebellion in the studio audience. (TRT: 30:59)
  • Original9/29/2006
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Episode #127 Njorl's Icelandic Saga of 1126 is the episode's recurring theme. The trial of a multiple murderer proves that courtesy pays off; a discussion about how to dispose of family pets (especially budgies) before going on holiday somehow leads to an expedition to Paris to visit Jean-Paul Sartre; and on Alan Whicker Island, so many Whicker-type interviewers are present that they can only find each other to interview.
  • Original10/6/2006
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Episode #128 Beginning with a discussion on the historic emigration of people from Surbiton to the (nearby) London district of Hounslow, this show includes "How to Do It," a program that teaches children how to cure the world of all known diseases; the Minister of Overseas Development being treated as an infant by his mother and her friend; "Farming Club," which takes a close look at the life of Tchaikovsky; the legendary Fish Slapping Dance; and official denial of the BBC's rumored financial problems.
  • Original10/13/2006
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Episode #129 "The Money Programme," with a rousing song in praise of money, opens this episode. Following are some suspicious film claims rightly interrupted by the Fraud Film Squad; "Salvation Fuzz" - in which the mystery of dead bishops on the landing calls for investigation by the Church Police; an authentic Jungle Restaurant, complete with invading wild animals; Explorers' Club members saved by film crews; and the justifiably famous Argument Clinic.
  • Original10/20/2006
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Episode #130 Starting with an edition of "Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror" (tonight featuring a guest who speaks only in anagrams), this episode's other sketches include a merchant banker who can't handle the concept of giving money away to charity; the plight of pantomime horses; a businessman who makes people laugh whenever he says anything; a look at some neurotic television announcers; and a James Bond-style intro to a special film, "The Pantomime Horse Is a Secret Agent."
  • Original10/27/2006
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Episode #131 This program gets underway with the finale of the "Summarize Proust Competition" and goes on to the story of the International Hairdressers' Expedition to Mount Everest; a look at a highly inefficient Fire Brigade; the legendary Travel Agent sketch, in which a client goes into an astonishing monologue about his gripes with package holidays; and Miss Anne Elk's theory about brontosauri.
  • Original11/3/2006
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Episode #132 The episode begins with a newsreel report of the Tory housewives' campaign to clean up smut. Also highlighted are a Gumby brain operation; a "live" TV special about (among other things) the sex life of a mollusk; "Today in Parliament," a report about political activities that takes some strange turns; an expedition to the mysterious Lake Pahoe, headed by Admiral Sir Jane Russell; and the latest news about the Magna Carta.
  • Original11/10/2006
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Episode #133 "The Adventures of Biggles" - a further look at the famous flying ace as he dictates a letter - opens the show.  Other features include a British climbing expedition tackling a well-known hazardous stretch of roadway; an urban household kitchen turned into a lifeboat; a special report on storage jars and their uses; the famed visit to a cheese shop that stocks no cheese; and a film critic who shows a clip from the Sam Peckinpah version of "Salad Days." (MFLY #133, , 2200-2230)
  • Original11/17/2006
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Episode #134 This program is the continuous story of "The Cycling Tour," in which Mr. Pither keeps biking around Cornwall in spite of a series of misadventures. He somehow winds up in Moscow and Smolensk (with stops in the south of France), where he faces even more trouble - including arrest, refuge in a British Embassy run by bingo-crazed Chinese and facing a firing squad. (MFLY #134, , 2200-2230)
  • Original11/24/2006
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Episode #135 After a Scotsman tries to get a Scottish Airways pilot to submit to blackmail, the show continues with a look at a new housing project built by characters from 19th-century English literature; the final match in the Men's Hide and Seek event of the Olympics; "Probe," which reports on the controversial sport of bullfighting; and news from the planet Algon, revealing that inflation is rampant there.
  • Original12/1/2006
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Episode #136 The episode begins with a visit to the Tudor Job Agency, where more profits seem to come from dirty book sales than from job placement. Also included are other raids and arrests in attempts to stem the flow of pornography; a silly vicar who completely changes the lives of a married couple; a discussion of life after death conducted with three corpses; an enterprising doctor who makes the most of a patient's unique disease; and a visit to another vicar who is far more interested in drinking his sherry than in other matters.
  • Original12/8/2006
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Episode #137 Dennis Moore, the legendary highwayman who steals (especially lupins) for the poor, reappears throughout this program. Other highlights include a doctor whose only concern is his patient's money; "The Great Debate" over whether there should be a fourth TV channel; a lot of pointless behavior demonstrated at the Ideal Loon Exhibition; and "Prejudice," a program on which the host manages to insult just about everyone.
  • Original12/15/2006
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Episode #138 Starting out with a choreographed Party Political Broadcast, this program also features "A Book at Bedtime," with struggling readers; a look at a Scottish Kamikaze Regiment; an analysis of the intelligence of penguins compared to BBC program planners; the Unexploded Scotsman Disposal Squad called in for an emergency; "Spot the Looney," a nice little TV panel show; and documentary makers who vie with one another.
  • Original12/22/2006
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Episode #139 This episode features the British Royal Awards Program, in the presence of Her Dummy Royal Highness. Highlights include a visit to the residence of Oscar Wilde in London, 1895; the problems involved when trying to order a new brain; confusion at the blood donor's center; coverage of the International Wife-Swapping Races; and a special award presented to an all-time favorite, the Dirty Vicar Sketch.
  • Original12/29/2006
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Episode #140 This program tells one continuous (more or less) story, "The Golden Age of Ballooning," the adventures of the Montgolfier Brothers - Jacques and Joseph - in the 18th century.
  • Original1/5/2007
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Episode #141 "Michael Ellis" seems to be the mysterious key figure in this episode, but ants also figure prominently. Action begins in a large department store, where the most bizarre events take place; a pet ant is purchased and taken home to join a host of other strange pets; a poetry club meeting is honored by several famous poets reading works about ants, until disrupted by the entrance of Queen Victoria and her late husband; and the Complaint Department of the above-mentioned store is completely disrupted and destroyed.
  • Original1/12/2007
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Episode #142 This episode starts with two jolly ragmen in "Up Your Pavement" and continues with a sketch about an RAF Station in 1944, where the officers banter unintelligibly; a court martial scene in which the judge sings a silly song and makes everyone wear party hats; TV programmers making decisions based on the idiocy of the viewing public; and a quiet family discussion on "woody" and "tinny" sounding words.
  • Original1/19/2007
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Episode #143 Although the opening titles are for Hamlet, it's actually bogus psychiatry that is the show's first subject. Following are "Nationwide," featuring sitting in a comfortable chair; a groom learning that his father-in-law will be sharing the marriage bed; the boxer who literally loses his head in matches; and sports results heard from a room in Polonius' house.
  • Original1/26/2007
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Episode #144 This program is an approximately continuous story about the most dangerous and deadly man in the world - "Mr. Neutron" - and the international panic he creates.
  • Original2/2/2007
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Episode #145 After a special Party Political Broadcast, the finals of the "Most Awful Family in Britain" are shown. Also included are a sketch about a stabbing victim trying to fill out the hospital forms before he can be treated; an appeal on behalf of extremely rich people; a quest to find the Walking Trees of Dahomey - or else the Batsmen of the Kalahari; and a report on a Surrey housewife who revolutionized British beekeeping in the 1930s.
  • Original2/9/2007
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Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (Part One) The "Zircus" consists of two programs made in Bavaria for German television in 1971 and 1972.
  • Original2/16/2007
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MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS

Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (Part Two) The "Zircus" consists of two programs made in Bavaria for German television in 1971 and 1972.
  • Original2/23/2007
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