"Monty Python"

Fourth Series

Episodes 40 to 45

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 Forty: The Golden Age of Ballooning

Montgolfier brothers; Louis XIV; George III; Zeppelin

Episode Forty-one: Michael Ellis

Department store; Buying an ant; At home with the ant and other pets; Documentary on ants; Ant communication; Poetry reading (ants); Toupee; Different endings

Episode Forty-two: Light Entertainment War

'Up Your Pavement;' RAF banter; Trivializing the war; Courtmartial; Basingstoke in Westphalia; 'Anything Goes In' (song); Film trailer; The public are idiots; Programme titles conference; The last five miles of the M2; Woody and tinny words; Show-jumping (musical); Newsflash (Germans); 'When Does a Dream Begin?' (song)

Episode Forty-three: Hamlet

Bogus psychiatrists; 'Nationwide;' Police helmets; Father-in-Law; Hamlet and Ophelia; Boxing match aftermath; Boxing commentary; Piston engine (a bargain); A room in Polonius' house; Dentists; Live from Epsom; Queen Victoria Handicap

Episode Forty-four: Mr Neutron

Post box ceremony; Teddy Salad (CIA agent); 'Conjuring Today'

Episode Forty-five: Party Political Broadcast

'Most Awful Family in Britain;' Icelandic Honey Week; Doctor (I've just been stabbed by your nurse);Brigadier and Bishop; Appeal on behalf of extremely rich people; The man who finishes other people's sentences; David Attenborough; The walking tree of Dahomey; The batsmen of the Kalahari; Cricket match (assegais); BBC News (handovers)

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