Contestants in the 'All-England Summarise Proust Competition' are judged.

The All-England Summarize Proust Competition

Comedy

Contestants in the 'All-England Summarise Proust Competition' are judged in swimsuit and evening-gown categories, and an irate customer confronts his travel agent.

Monty Python's Flying Circus

"And now for something completely different" - the iconic sketch show

"And now for something completely different!" The iconic Monty Python satirical sketch show draws on everything absurd, laughing at British life, it’s professionals & its politics.

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Sketches include: 'It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart', Famous Deaths, Italian Lesson, and more.

Whither Canada?

The sketches in this episode include: 'It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart', Famous Deaths, Italian Lesson, Whizzo Butter, 'It's the Arts', Arthur "Two-Sheds" Jackson, Cycling Race, and The Funniest Joke in the World.

Sketches include: Flying Sheep, French Lecture on Sheep-Aircraft, and more.

Sex And Violence

The sketches in this episode include: Flying Sheep, French Lecture on Sheep-Aircraft, A Man With Three Buttocks, A Man With Two Noses, Musical Mice, Marriage Guidance Counselor, The Wacky Queen, Working-Class Playwright, and more.

Sketches include: Court Scene, The Larch, Bicycle Repair Man, and more.

How To Recognise Different Types Of Trees From Quite A Long Way Away

The sketches in this episode include: Court Scene, The Larch, Bicycle Repair Man, Children's Stories, Restaurant Sketch, Seduced Milkmen, Stolen News Reader, Children's Interview, and Nudge Nudge.

See as a change from street clothes to swim trunks turns into a burlesque act, and more!

Owl Stretching Time

A change from street clothes to swim trunks turns into a burlesque act; a karate class exercises defense tactics against fresh fruit; a man tries to buy a book about false teeth.

Sketches include: Confuse-a-Cat, The Smuggler, A Cat and a Lizard (Discussion), and more.

Man's Crisis Of Identity In The Latter Half Of The 20th Century

The sketches in this episode include: Confuse-a-Cat, The Smuggler, A Duck, A Cat and a Lizard (Discussion), Vox Pops on Smuggling, Police Raid, Letters on Vox Pops, Newsreader Arrested, Erotic Film, and more.

Behold a German composer with an extraordinarily long name, and more!

It's The Arts (Or: The BBC Entry To The Zinc Stoat Of Budapest)

A German composer with an extraordinarily long name; Crooks plan an elaborate scheme to buy a watch; a chocolate-company owner markets "Crunchy Frog."

Invaders from another galaxy turn Englishmen into Scotsmen. Also: a comedy about camels.

You're No Fun Anymore

Invaders from another galaxy turn Englishmen into Scotsmen. Also: a comedy about camels; a corporate board meeting, and more.

In this episode: a dead parrot, a senior gang, and a young disillusioned army officer.

Full Frontal Nudity

A pet-shop customer returns his dead parrot; a gang of female senior citizens attacks a town's young men; a young army officer who joined the service to water-ski tries to resign.

In this episode, a climbing exhibition, llama celebrations, a fearful barber, and more!

The Ant, An Introduction

A man with double vision organizes a mountain-climbing expedition; llamas are celebrated in a rousing Spanish song; a barber is afraid to cut hair; a couple's romantic evening is ruined by uncouth visitors.

Sketches include: Bank Robber in Lingerie Shop, It's a Tree, Ron Obvious, and more!

The sketches in this episode include: Bank Robber in Lingerie Shop, It's a Tree, Ron Obvious, Pet Conversations, Gorilla Librarian, Strangers in the Night.

Behold as a half-inch-tall man appears on TV, and a women's guild reenacts Pearl Harbour.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes To The Bathroom

A half-inch-tall man appears on a talk show; a town's women's guild reenacts Pearl Harbor; the entire Royal Philharmonic Orchestra retires to the restroom.

The 127th annual Twit of the Year Show, and two surprising tea party guests.

The Naked Ant

The 127th annual Twit of the Year Show. Also: Hitler and Himmler are guests for tea in a boarding house; a BBC broadcast is interrupted when a British minister falls into a fissure.

Among 'historical' impersonations are Cardinal Richelieu as Petula Clark... and more!

Intermission (Or: It's The Arts)

Among 'historical' impersonations are Cardinal Richelieu as Petula Clark and Julius Caesar as Eddie Waring. Also: a police fairy tale; a vegetarian restaurant's menu, featuring a naked man with an apple in his mouth.

In this episode: the Ministry of Silly Walks, a pink-clad British minister, and more.

Face The Press (Or: Dinsdale)

A sketch about the Ministry of Silly Walks. Also: a British minister - attired in a pink tulle dress - talks about housing; 30 gas-company men investigate the installation of a stove; a giant hedgehog wanders London.

There is something nobody expects... Also, a jury plays charades and a man seeks pleasure.

The Spanish Inquisition

An offbeat look at the Spanish Inquisition; an unconventional version of 'Wuthering Heights.' Also: a jury plays charades while delivering its verdict; a man attempts to find one nontaxable pleasure.

Sketches include: Flying Lessons, Hijacked Plane, Psychiatrist Milkman, Déjà Vu, and more.

Déjà Vu (Or: Show 5)

The sketches in this episode include: Flying Lessons, Hijacked Plane, Psychiatrist Milkman, Complaints, Déjà vu.

A bishop investigates an insurance business; a couple construct a house without walls.

The Buzz Aldrin Show (Or: An Apology)

A supersleuth bishop investigates a suspicious insurance business; an elderly couple construct a house that has no walls.

Contestants vie for photos in 'The Blackmail Game'; a boxer spars with schoolgirls.

Live From The Grill-O-Mat

Contestants vie for incriminating photos in 'The Blackmail Game'; a boxer spars with schoolgirls.

Sketches include: The time on BBC 1, School Prize Giving, Films by Mr. Dibley, and more.

It's A Living (Or: School Prizes)

The sketches in this episode include: The time on BBC 1, School Prize Giving, Films by Mr. Dibley, Timmy Williams Interview, Election Night Special.

Feast your eyes on 'The Attila the Hun Show' and a burlesque performance by ministers.

The Attila The Hun Show

'The Attila the Hun Show'; a burlesque performance by government ministers; a documentary study of village idiots. Also: political groupies pursue MPs.

In this episode: a dissatisfied groom, a hunted mosquito, and a look at creative genius.

Archaeology Today

A dissatisfied bridegroom tries to exchange his spouse; hunters pursue a terrifying mosquito; domestic problems interrupt the work of Beethoven, Shakespeare, Michelangelo and other creative geniuses.

In this episode: a philosophical meeting, an exploding penguin, surgeon advice, and more.

How To Recognise Different Parts Of The Body

A University of Woolamaloo philosophy-department meeting - the members of which are all named Bruce; an exploding penguin; a radio version of 'The Death of Mary Queen of Scots.' Also: advice on how to pick up a cosmetic surgeon.

In this episode: a recreation of a movie scene, an intimate football match, and more.

Scott Of The Antarctic

Foam-rubber snow and a stuffed lion are featured in a scene from 'Scott of the Antarctic'; a football match is waged between gynecologists and Long John Silver impersonators.

Sketches include: Conquistador coffee campaign; Ramsey MacDonald striptease, and more!

How Not To Be Seen

This sketches in this episode include: Conquistador coffee campaign; Repeating groove; Ramsey MacDonald striptease; Job hunter; International Chinese Communist Conspiracy; Crelm Toothpaste/Shrill petrol, and more!

In this episode: a football quiz, art goes on strike, Viking marauders, and more.

Spam

World revolutionaries are quizzed about football scores; figures from works of art go on strike throughout galleries in England; the search continues for a cure for over-acting; Viking marauders kidnap Englishmen who ask for canned ham.

In this episode: a miner brawl, hospital role reversal, and an unfortunate shipwreck.

Royal Episode 13 (Or: The Queen Will Be Watching)

Miners brawl over historical facts; hospital patients serve the doctors; five shipwrecked mariners decide whom they will have for dinner.

A courteous murderer wins a suspended sentence by virtue of his charm.

Whicker's World (Or: Njorl's Saga)

A courteous murderer wins a suspended sentence by virtue of his charm; a search for Paris by way of Iceland is interrupted by a plane crash and a shipwreck. 

A couple investigate the cultural similarities between two London districts.

Mr. And Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular

A couple investigate the cultural similarities between two London districts, seven miles apart; schoolboys' extracurricular activities are examined; a TV farming club comments on Tchaikovsky.

Someone pays for an argument and a film director gets accused of impersonating Visconti.

The Money Programme

Someone pays for an argument, a film director gets accused of impersonating Visconti and there's a song of praise.

A man speaks exclusively in anagrams and then there's the employment of pantomime horses.

Blood, Devastation, Death, War And Horror

A man speaks exclusively in anagrams; a timorous TV announcer, before and after he undergoes psychiatric treatment; the employment of 'pantomime horses.'

Surgical tools applied to a patient include a power drill and a mallet.

The War Against Pornography

Surgical tools applied to a patient include a power drill and a mallet, and a TV program features a lecture on gastropods, highlighted by the visit of a whelk.

A climbing expedition negotiates a hazardous London road.

Salad Days

A climbing expedition negotiates a hazardous London road, and an attempt is made to determine whether an urban dwelling is a house or a lifeboat. 

Mr. Pither goes for a cycling tour around Cornwall and ends up in another country.

The Cycling Tour

Mr. Pither goes for a cycling tour around Cornwall and ends up in a completely different place, and a man thinks he's Clodagh Rogers.

A housing project induced by hypnosis stands... as long as the tenants believe in it.

The Nude Organist (Or: The Nude Man)

A housing project induced by hypnosis stands... as long as the tenants believe in it. Also, enjoy highlights of the Olympic Hide-and-Seek finals.

A police investigator is mistaken for Sir Philip Sidney in a Tudor-period job agency.

E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease

A police investigator is mistaken for Sir Philip Sidney in a Tudor-period job agency, which actually deals in pornography; King Solomon judges the case of a stray bee.

A highwayman steals 'lupins' from the rich and tries to give them to the poor.

Dennis Moore

A highwayman steals 'lupins' from the rich and tries to give them to the poor, while peasants clamour for Titian paintings and Venetian glass.

Penguins get compared to BBC programme planners.

A Book At Bedtime

A man considers using the phrase "No time to lose", while Scottish soldiers train to be kamikazes, and penguins get compared to BBC programme planners.

Oscar Wilde and the future Edward VII exchange epigrams at an evening party.

Grandstand (Or: The British Showbiz Awards)

Oscar Wilde, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, George Bernard Shaw and the future Edward VII exchange epigrams at an evening party; mechanical brain surgery fails to dramatically affect a woman's mentality.

The Montgolfier brothers prepare for the first balloon flight.

The Golden Age Of Ballooning

In this episode, Chris Quinn enters a store and demands to buy an ant named Marcus.

Michael Ellis

In this episode, Chris Quinn enters a department store and demands to buy an ant named Marcus.

A parody of war includes the invasion of Norway by tutu-clad commandos.

The Light Entertainment War

A parody of war includes the invasion of Norway by tutu-clad commandos and a plea to the public to treat the war seriously.

In this episode: psychoanalysis of Hamlet, a Queen Victoria handicap race, and more.

Hamlet

Hamlet undergoes psychoanalysis; eight Queen Victorias compete in the Queen Victoria handicap race; a boxing contender gets his head knocked off.

In this episode: a search for Mr. Neutron, who plans to dominate the world.

Mr. Neutron

The search for Mr. Neutron, who plans to dominate the world, stretches from a London suburb to the Yukon, and results in the destruction of earthly civilization.

In this episode: a spoof of British political-party broadcasts.

Party Political Broadcast

A spoof of British political-party broadcasts includes the finals of 'the worst family in Britain' contest, a violent cricket match and a housewife who revolutionized beekeeping.

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Series 3

1. Whicker's World (Or: Njorl's Saga)

1. Whicker's World (Or: Njorl's Saga)

2. Mr. And Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular

2. Mr. And Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular

3. The Money Programme

3. The Money Programme

4. Blood, Devastation, Death, War And Horror

4. Blood, Devastation, Death, War And Horror

5. The All-England Summarize Proust Competition

5. The All-England Summarize Proust Competition

6. The War Against Pornography

6. The War Against Pornography

7. Salad Days

7. Salad Days

8. The Cycling Tour

8. The Cycling Tour

9. The Nude Organist (Or: The Nude Man)

9. The Nude Organist (Or: The Nude Man)

10. E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease

10. E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease

11. Dennis Moore

11. Dennis Moore

12. A Book At Bedtime

12. A Book At Bedtime

13. Grandstand (Or: The British Showbiz Awards)

13. Grandstand (Or: The British Showbiz Awards)