"Monty Python's Flying Circus"
First Series
Episodes 1 to 13
The details of this page are extracted from "The Complete 'Monty Python's Flying Circus:' All the Words" Volumes One and Two by Pantheon
Books. Now enough of this gay banter.
Episode One: Whither Canada?
'It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart'; Famous Deaths; Learning Italian; Whizzo butter; 'It's the Arts'; Arthur 'Two-Sheds' Jackson; Picasso/cycling
race; The funniest joke in the world
Episode Two: Sex and violence
Flying Sheep; French lecture on sheep aviation; A man with three buttocks; A man with two noses; Musical mice; Marriage guidance counsellor;
The wacky queen; Working-class playwright; A Scotsman on a horse; The wrestling epilogue; The mouse problem
Episode Three: How to recognise different types of tree from quite a long way away
Court scene (deceased witness, Cardinal Richelieu); The larch; Bicycle repair man; Storytime; Dirty fork sketch; Seducing milkmen; Stolen
newsreader; Interview with children; Nudge, nudge
Episode Four: Owl-stretching time
Song ('And did those feet'); Art gallery; Art critic; It's a man's life in the modern army; Undressing in public; Self-defence against fresh fruit;
Lemming of the BDA
Episode Five: Man's crisis of identity in the latter half of the twentieth century
Confuse-a-Cat; Smuggling Watches; A duck, a cat, and a lizard (a discussion); Vox pops on smuggling; Police raid; Letters and vox pops;
Newsreader arrested; Erotic film; Silly job interview; Careers advisory board; Encyclopaedia salesman
Episode Six
'It's the Arts'; Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern schplenden schlitter crasscrenbo fried digger dingle dangle dongle dungle burstein von knacker
thrasher apple banger horowitz ticolensic grander knotty spelltinkle grandlich grumblemeyer spelterwasser kurstlich himbleeisen bahnwagen
gutenabend bitte ein nürnburger bratwustle gerspurten mitz weimache luber hundsfut gumberaber shönendanker kalbsfleisch mittler aucher von
Hautkopft of Ulm; Non-illegal robbery; Vox pops; Whizzo chocolate company; The dull life of a City stockbroker; Red Indian in theater;
Policemen make wonderful friends; A Scotsman on a horse; Twentieth-century vole
Episode Seven: You're no fun anymore
Camel spotting; You're no fun any more; The audit; Science fiction sketch; Man turns into Scotsman; Police station; Blancmanges playing tennis;
Scotsman wins Wimbledon
Episode Eight: Full frontal nudity
Army protection racket; Vox pops; Art critic; Buying a bed (dog kennel); Hermit society; Parrot Sketch; The flasher; Hell's Grannies
Episode Nine: The ant, an introduction
The llama; A man with a tape recorder up his nose; Expeditions to the Kilimanjaros; A man with a tape recorder up his brother's nose; Homicidal
barber; Lumberjack song; Gumby crooner; The refreshment room at Bletchley; Klutzy hunters; Mr. and Mrs. Equator
Episode Ten
Walk-on part in sketch; Bank robber in the lingerie shop; Trailer; Arthur Tree; Vocational Guidance Counsellor; Jumping the Channel;
Tunnelling to Java; Pet conversions; Gorilla librarian; Letters to 'Daily Mirror'; Strangers in the night
Episode Eleven
Letter (Lavatorial humour); Interruptions; Agatha Christie sketch; Literary football discussion; Undertakers film; Interesting people;
Eighteenth-century social legislation; The Battle of Trafalgar; Batley Townswomens' Guild (Pearl Harbour); Undertakers film
Episode Twelve
Falling from building; 'Spectrum'; Visitors from Coventry; Mr. Hilter; The Minehead by-election; Police station (silly voices); Upper-class Twit of
the Year; Ken Shabby; How far can a minister fall?
Episode Thirteen
Intermissions; Restaurant (Don't touch the Vicar); Advertisements; Albatross; Policeman (come back to my place); Me Doctor; Historical
impersinations; Quiz programme-'Wishes'; 'Probe-around' on crime; Stonehenge; Mr. Attila the Hun; Psychiatry-silly sketch; Operating theatre
(squatters)
And now for Something Completely Different compiles remakes of the very best of the first season.
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