"Monty Python's Flying Circus"

Second Series

Episodes 14 to 26

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 Fourteen

'Face the Press;' New cooker sketch; Tobacconists (prostitute advert); Ministry of Silly Walks; The Piranha brothers

Episode Fifteen

Man-powered flight; The Spanish Inquisition; Jokes and novelties salesman; Tax on thingy; Vox pops; Photos of Uncle Ted (Spanish Inquisition); The semaphore version of 'Wuthering Heights;' 'Julius Caesar' on Aldis lamp; Court scene (charades)

Episode Sixteen

A bishop rehearsing; Flying lessons; Hijacked plane (to Luton); The Poet McTeagle; Psychiatrist milkman; Complaints; Déjà vu;

Episode Seventeen

Architect sketch; How to spot a Mason; Motor insurance sketch; 'the Bishop;' Outdoors living room; Poets; A choice of viewing; Chemist sketch; Words not to be used again; After-shave; Vox pops; Police Constable Pan-Am

Episode Eighteen

Live from the Grill-o-Mat snack bar; Paignton; 'Blackmail;' Society for putting things on top of other things; Escape from film; Current affairs; Accidents sketch; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; The man who is alternately rude and polite; Ken Clean-air Systems

Episode Nineteen

'It's a Living;' The time on BBC 1; School prize-giving; 'if' - a film by Mr Dibley; 'Rear Window' - a film by Mr Dibley; 'Finian's Rainbow' (starring the man from off-licence); Foreign secretary; Dung; Dead Indian; Timmy Williams; Raymond Luxury-Yacht; Registry office; Election Night Special

Episode Twenty

'The Attila the Hun Show;' Attila the Nun; Secretary of State striptease; Vox pops on politicians; Ratchatcher; Wainscotting; Killer sheep; The news for parrots; The news for gibbons; Today in Parliament; The news for Wombats; Attila the Bun; The Village Idiot in Society; Test match; The Epsom furniture race; 'Take your Pick'

Episode Twenty-one

Trailer; 'Archaeology Today;' Silly Vicar; Leapy Lee; Registrar (wife swap); Silly doctor sketch (immediately abandoned); Mr and Mrs Git; Mosquito hunters; Poofy judges; Mrs Thing and Mrs Entity; Beethoven's mynah bird; Shakespeare; Michaelangelo; Colin Mozart (ratcatcher); Judges

Episode Twenty-two

'How to recognize different parts of the body;' Bruces; Naughty bits; The man who contradicts people; Cosmetic surgery; Camp square-bashing; Cut-price airline; Batley Townswomens Guild presents the first heart transplant; The first underwater production of 'Measure for Measure;' The death of Mary Queen of Scots; Exploding penguin on TV set; There's been a murder; Europolice Song Contest; 'Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong' (song)

Episode Twenty-three

French subtitled film; Scott of the Antarctic; Scott of the Sahara; Fish licence; Derby Council vs. All Blacks rugby match; Long John Silver Impersinators vs. Bournemouth Gynaecologists

Episode Twenty-four

Conquistador coffee campaign; Repeating groove; Ramsay MacDonald striptease; Job hunter;Agatha Christie sketch (Railway timetables); Mr Neville Shunte; Film director (teeth); City gents vox pops; 'Crackpot Religions Ltd'; 'How not to be seen;' Crossing the Atlantic on a tricycle; interview in filing cabinet; 'Yummy yummy;' Monty Python's Flying Circus again in thirty seconds

Episode Twenty-five

'The Black Eagle;' Dirty Hungarian phrasebook; Court (phrasebook); Communist quiz; 'Ypres 1914' - Abandoned; Art gallery strike; 'Ypres 1914;' Hospital for over-actors; Gumby flower arranging; Spam

Episode Twenty-six

The Queen will be watching; Coal mine (historical argument); The man who says things in a very roundabout way; The man who speaks only the ends of words; The man who speaks only the beginnings of words; The man who speaks only themiddles of words; Commercials; How to feed a goldfish; The man who collects birdwatcher's eggs; Insurance sketch; Hospital run by RSM; Mountaineer; Exploding version of 'The Blue Danube;' Girls' boarding school; Submarine;Lifeboat (cannibalism); Undertaker's sketch

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