

A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.
TV-14 • Comedy • Series • 1969 • 4 seasons
Starring: Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones
Created by: Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies

S1 E1 - Whither Canada?
Featuring 'It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart', an Italian lesson, Whizzo Butter, 'It's the Arts', Arthur 'Two-Sheds' Jackson, a cycling race, and The Funniest Joke in the World.
Oct 5, 1969 • 31m

S1 E2 - Sex and Violence
Featuring some flying sheep, a man with three buttocks, a man with two noses, musical mice, a marriage guidance counsellor, a working-class playwright and The Wrestling Epilogue.
Oct 12, 1969 • 33m

S1 E3 - How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
Featuring a court scene, the larch, Bicycle Repair Man, children's stories, a restaurant sketch, some seduced milkmen, an interview with some children and a stolen newsreader.
Oct 19, 1969 • 31m

S1 E4 - Owl Stretching Time
Featuring fresh fruit as self-defence, some folk-singing, an art gallery sketch and Lemming of the BDA. An Edwardian man struggles to undress on the beach.
Oct 26, 1969 • 29m

S1 E5 - Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
Featuring Confuse-a-Cat, discussion programme A Duck, a Cat and a Lizard, the arrest of a newsreader, an erotic film, a silly job interview and a burglar/encyclopaedia salesman.
Nov 16, 1969 • 29m

S1 E6 - It's the Arts
Featuring a gang of legal burglars, the Whizzo Quality Assortment, a Scottish wedding and a day in the life of a city stockbroker. Some film moguls try to impress their boss.
Nov 23, 1969 • 30m

S1 E7 - Oh, You're No Fun Anymore
Featuring camel-spotting, an embezzler at a board-meeting and a science fiction tale about a Scotsman and a tennis-playing blancmange.
Nov 30, 1969 • 30m

S1 E8 - Full Frontal Nudity
Featuring an art critic, some hermits, Hell's Grannies and the dead parrot sketch. Some newlyweds attempt to buy a bed and the mafia offer protecting to the army.
Dec 7, 1969 • 29m

S1 E9 - The Ant, An Introduction
Featuring Ken Buddha, a man with a tape-recorder up his nose and a hairdresser who always wanted to be a lumberjack.
Dec 14, 1969 • 29m

S1 E10 - Untitled
Featuring a bank robber in a lingerie shop, It's A Tree (with Arthur Tree), a vocational guidance counsellor, Ron Obvious and a gorilla librarian.
Dec 21, 1969 • 30m

S1 E11 - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom, a footballer is interviewed and Batley Townswomen's Guild re-enact the invasion of Pearl Harbour.
Dec 28, 1969 • 31m

S1 E12 - The Naked Ant
Featuring the North Minehead by-election, the Upper Class Twit of the Year competition, Ken Shabby and a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Wood Party.
Jan 4, 1970 • 31m

S1 E13 - Intermission
Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and Probe Around On Crime.
Jan 11, 1970 • 29m
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A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.
TV-14 • Comedy • TV Series • 1969