Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Complete Index of Shows
 
Compiled by Sir DarkWolf and edited by Linus the Llama.

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Series One: October 5, 1969 - January 11, 1970 

1) Whither Canada 
   [Paramount Volume 13]
      Famous deaths
      Italian lesson
      Whizzo butter
     "It's the Arts" (Sir Edward Ross)
      Arthur "Two-Sheds" Jackson
      Picasso/cycling race
      The funniest joke in the world

2) Sex and Violence
   [Paramount Volume 16]
      Flying sheep
      French lecture on sheep-aircraft
      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

3) How to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away
   [Paramount Volume ?]
      Court scene (witness in coffin/Cardinal Richelieu)
      The larch
      Bicycle repair man
      Children's stories
      Restaurant sketch
      Seduced milkmen
      Stolen newsreader
      Children's interview
      Nudge nudge

4) Owl-stretching time 
   [Paramount Volume ?] 
      Song ("And did those feet") 
      Art gallery 
      Art critic 
      It's a man's life in the modern army 
      Undressing in public 
      Self-defence 
      Secret Service dentists 

5) Man's crisis of identity in the latter half of the twentieth century 
   [Paramount Volume 14] 
      Confuse-a-Cat 
      The smuggler 
      A duck, a cat and a lizard (discussion) 
      Vox pops on smuggling 
      Police raid 
      Letters and vox pops 
      Newsreader arrested 
      Erotic film 
      Silly job interview 
      Careers advisory board 
      Burglar/encyclopaedia salesman 

6) It's the Arts 
   [Paramount Volume ?]  
      Johann Gombolputty.... von Hautkopf of Ulm 
      Non-illegal robbery 
      Vox pops 
      Crunchy frog 
      The dull life of a City stockbroker 
      Red Indian in theatre 
      Policemen make wonderful friends 
      A Scotsman on a horse 
      Twentieth-century vole 

7) You're no fun any more 
   [Paramount Volume 15] 
      Camel Spotting 
      You're no fun any more 
      The audit 
      Science fiction sketch 
      Man turns into Scotsman 
      Police station 
      Blancmanges playing tennis 

8) Full frontal nudity 
   [Paramount Volume 15] 
      Army protection racket 
      Vox pops 
      Art critic - the place of the nude 
      Buying a bed 
      Hermits 
      Dead parrot 
      The flasher 
      Hell's Grannies 

9) The ant, an introduction 
   [Paramount Volume 13] 
      Llamas 
      A man with a tape recorder up his nose 
      Kilimanjaro expedition (double vision) 
      A man with a tape recorder up his brother's nose 
      Homicidal barber 
      Lumberjack song 
      Gumby crooner 
      The refreshment room at Bletchley 
      Hunting film 
      The visitors 

10) Untitled 
    [Paramount Volume ?] 
      Walk-on-part in sketch 
      Bank robber (lingerie shop) 
      Trailer 
      Arthur Tree 
      Vocational Guidance Counsellor (chartered accountant) 
      The first man to jump the Channel 
      Tunnelling from Godalming to Java 
      Pet conversions 
      Gorilla librarian 
      Letters to "Daily Mirror" 
      Strangers in the night 

11) The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom 
    [Paramount Volume ?] 
      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 presents the Battle of Pearl Harbour 
      Undertakers film 

12) The Naked Ant 
    [Paramount Volume 17] 
      Falling from building 
     "Spectrum" -  talking about things 
      Visitors from Coventry 
      Mr Hitler 
      The Minehead by-election 
      Police station (silly voices) 
      Upperclass Twit of the Year 
      Ken Shabby 
      How far can a minister fall 

13) Intermission 
    [Paramount Volume 17] 
      Intermissions 
      Restaurant (abuse/cannibalism) 
      Advertisements 
      Albatross 
      Come back to my place 
      Me Doctor 
      Historical impersonations 
      Quiz programme - "Wishes" 
     "Probe-around" on crime 
      Stonehenge 
      Mr Attila the Hun 
      Psychiatry - silly sketch 
      Operating theatre (squatters)


Series Two:  September 15, 1970 - December 22, 1970 

1) Dinsdale 
   [Paramount Volume 1] 
     "Face the Press" 
      New cooker sketch 
      Tobacconists (prostitute advert) 
      The Ministry of Silly Walks 
      The Piranha brothers 

2) The Spannish Inquisition 
   [Paramount Volume 2] 
      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 an Aldis lamp 
      Court scene (charades) 

3) Untitled 
   [Paramount Volume ?] 
      A bishop rehearsing 
      Flying lessons 
      Hijacked plane (to Luton) 
      The Poet McTeagle 
      Psychiatrist milkman 
      Complaints 
      Deja vu 

4) The Buzz Aldrin Show 
   [Paramount Volume 1] 
      Architect sketch 
      How to give up being a Mason 
      Motor insurance sketch 
     "The Bishop" 
      Living room on pavement 
      Poets 
      A choice of viewing 
      chemist sketch 
      Words not to be used again 
      After-shave 
      Vox pops 
      Police Constable Pan-Am 

5) Live from the Grillomat 
   [Paramount Volume 7] 
      Live from the Frill-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 
      Documentary on boxer 

6) School Prizes 
   [Paramount Volume 9] 
     "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 the off-licence) 
      Foreign Secretary 
      Dung 
      Dead Indian 
      Timmy Williams interview 
      Raymond Luxury Yacht interview 
      Registry office 
      Election Night Special (Silly and Sensible Parties) 

7) The Attila the Hun Show 
   [Paramount Volume 3] 
     "The Attila the Hun Show" 
      Attila the Nun 
      Secretary of State striptease 
      Vox pops on politicians 
      Ratcatcher 
      Wainscotting 
      Killer sheep 
      The news for parrots 
      The news for gibbons 
      Today in Parliament 
      The news for wombats 
      Attila the Bun 
      The Idiot in Society 
      Test match 
      The Epsom furniture race 
     "Take Your Pick" 

8) Archaeology Today 
   [Paramount Volume 11] 
      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 Mozert (ratcatcher) 
      Judges 

9) How to recognize different parts of the body 
   [Paramount Volume 4] 
     "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 Townswomen's 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) 

10) Scott of the Antarctic 
    [Paramount Volume ?] 
      French subtitled film 
      Scott of the Antarctic 
      Scott of the Sahara 
      Fish licnece 
      Derby Council v. All Blacks rugby match 
      Long John Silver Impersonators v. Bournemouth Gynaecologists 

11) How not to be seen 
    [Paramount Volume 6] 
      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 

12) Spam 
    [Paramount Volume 5] 
     "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 

13) Royal Episode 13 
    [Paramount Volume 8] 
      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 the middles 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


Series Three: October 19, 1972 - January 18, 1973

1) Whicker's World
   [Paramount Volume ?]
      Cdourt scene - multiple murderer
      Icelandic saga
      Court scene (Viking)
      Stock Exchange report
      Mrs Premise and Mrs Conclusion visit Jean-Paul Sartre
      Whicker Island

2) Mr and Mrs Brian Norris' Ford Popular
   [Paramount Volume 4]
      Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow
      Schoolboys' Life Assurance Company
      How to rid the world of all known diseases
      Mrs Niggerbaiter explodes
      Vicar/salesman
      Farming Club
     "Life of Tschaikovsky"
      Trim-Jeans Theatre
      Fish-slapping dance
      World War One
      The BBC is short of money
      Puss in boots

3) The Money Programme
   [Paramount Volume 2]
     "The Money Programme"
     "There is nothing quite so wonderful as money" (song)
      Erizabeth L
      Fraud film squad
      Salvation fuzz
      Jungle restaurant
      Apology for violence and nudity
      Ken Russell's "Gardening Club"
      The Lost World of Roiurama
      Six more minutes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
      Argument Clinic
      Hitting on the head lessons
      Inspector Flying Fox of the Yard
      One more minute of Monty Python's Flying Circus

4) Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
   [Paramount Volume 10]
     "Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror"
      The man who speaks in anagrams
      Anagram quiz
      Merchant banker
      Pantomime horses
      Life and death struggles
      Mary recruitment office
      Bus conductor sketch
      The man who makes people laugh uncontrollably
      Army captain as clown
      Gestures to indicate pauses in a televised talk
      Neurotic announcers
      The news with Richard Baker (vision only)
     "The Pantomime Horse is a Secret Agent film"

5) The All-England Summarize Proust Competition
   [Paramount Volume 3]
     "Summarize Proust Competition"
      Everest climbed by hairdressers
      Fire brigade
      Our Eamonn
     "Party Hints" with Veronica Smalls
      Language laboratory
      Travel agent
      Watney's Red Barrle
      Theory on Brontosauruses by Anne Elk (Miss)

6) The war against pornography
   [Paramount Volume 5]
      Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign
      Gumby brain specialist
      Molluscs - "live" TV documentary
      The Minister for not listening to people
      Tuesday documentary/children's story/party political broadcast
      Apology (politicians)
      Expedition to Lake Pahoe
      The silliest interview we've ever had
      The silliest sketch we've ever done

7) Salad Days
   [Paramount Volume 6]
      Biggles dictates a letter
      Climbing the north face of the Uxbridge Road
      Lifeboat
      Old lady snoopers
     "Storage jars"
      The show so far
      Cheese shop
      Philip Jenkinson on Cheese Westerns
      Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days"
      Apology
      The news with Richard Baker
      Seashore interlude film

8) The Cycling Tour
   [Paramount Volume ?]
      Mr Pither
      Clodagh Rogers
      Trotsky
      Smolensk
      Bingo-crazed Chinese
     "Jack in a Box"

9) The nude man
   [Paramount Volume 7]
      Bomb on plane
      A naked man
      Ten seconds of sex
      Housing project built by characters from 
         nineteenth-century English Literature
      M1 interchange built by characters from "Paradise Lost"
      Mustico and Janet - flats built by hypnosis
     "Mortuary Hour"
      The Olympic hide-and-seek final
      The Cheap-Laughs
      Bull-fighting
      The British Well-Basically Club
      Prices on the planet Algon

10) Henry Thripshaw's Disease
    [Paramount Volume 8]
      Tudor jobs agency
      Pornographic bookshop
      Elizabethan pornography smugglers
      Silly disturbances (the Rev. Arthur Belling)
      The free repetition of doubtful words sketch, by an underrated author
     "Is there?"...life after death?
      The man who says words in the wrong order
      Thripshaw's disease
      Silly noises
      Sherry-drinking vicar

11) Dennis Moore
    [Paramount Volume 12]
     "Boxing Tonight" - Jack Bodel v. Sir Kenneth Clark
      Dennis Moore
      Lupins
      What the stars foretell
      Doctor
     "TV4 or not TV4" discussion
      Ideal Loon Exhibition
      Off-Licence
     "Prejudice"

12) A Book at Bedtime
    [Paramount Volume 12]
      Party Political Broadcast (choreographed)
     "A Book at Bedtime"
     "Redgauntlet"
      Kamikaze Scotsmen
      No time to lose
      Penguins
      BBC programme planners
      Unexploded Scotsmen
     "Spot the Loony"
      Rival documentaries
     "Dad's Doctors" (trail)
     "Dad's Pooves" (trail)

13) Grandstand
    [Paramount Volume ?]
      Thames TV introduction
     "Light Entertainment Awards"
      Dickie Attenborough
      The Oscar Wilde sketch
      David Niven's fridge
      Pasolini's film "The Third Test Match"
      New brain from Curry's
      Blood donor
      International Wife-swapping
      Credits of the Year
      The dirty vicar sketch


Series Four:  October 31, 1974 - December 5, 1974

1) The Golden Age of Ballooning
   [Paramount Volume ?]
      Montgolfier Brothers
      Louis XIV
      George III
      Zeppelin

2) Michael Ellis
   [Paramount Volume ?]
      Department Store
      Buying an ant
      At home with the ant and other pets
      Documentary on ants
      Ant communication
      Poetry reading (ants)
      Toupee
      Different endings

3) The Light Entertainment War
   [Paramount Volume ?]
     "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)

4) Hamlet
   [Paramount Volume ?]
      Bogus psychiatrists
     "Nationwide"
      Police helmets
      Father-in-law
      Hamlet and Ophelia
      Boxing match aftermath
      Boxing commentary
      Piston engine (a bargain)
      A room in Polonius's house
      Dentists
      Live from Epsom
      Queen Victoria Handicap

5) Mr Neutron
   [Paramount Volume ?]
      Post box ceremony
      Teddy Salad (CIA agent)
     "Conjuring Today"

6) Party Political Broadcast
   [Paramount Volume ?]
     "Most Awful Family in Britain"
      Icelandic Honey Week
      A doctor whose patients are stabbed by his 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 Kalahare
      Cricket match (assegais)
      BBC News (handovers)


Transmission Details Series/   Transmission     Recording  Number as number        date            date    recorded 1/1           Oct 05, 1969         Sep 07, 1969       2 1/2           Oct 12, 1969         Aug 30, 1969       1 1/3           Oct 19, 1969         Aug 14, 1969       3 1/4           Oct 26, 1969         Sep 21, 1969       4 1/5           Nov 16, 1969         Oct 03, 1969       5 1/6           Nov 23, 1969         Nov 11, 1969       7 1/7           Nov 30, 1969         Oct 10, 1969       6 1/8           Dec 07, 1969         Nov 25, 1969       8  1/9           Dec 14, 1969         Dec 07, 1969       10 1/10          Dec 21, 1969         Nov 30, 1969       9  1/11          Dec 28, 1969         Dec 14, 1969       11  1/12          Jan 04, 1970         Dec 21, 1969       12  1/13          Jan 11, 1970         Jan 04, 1970       13 2/1           Sep 15, 1970         Jul 09, 1970       4 2/2           Sep 22, 1970         Jul 02, 1970       3 2/3           Sep 29, 1970         Jul 16, 1970       5 2/4           Oct 20, 1970         Sep 18, 1970       9 2/5           Oct 27, 1970         Sep 10, 1970       7 2/6           Nov 03, 1970         Sep 10, 1970       8  2/7           Nov 10, 1970         Oct 02, 1970       11  2/8           Nov 17, 1970         Oct 09, 1970       12  2/9           Nov 24, 1970         Sep 25, 1970       10 2/10          Dec 01, 1970         Jul 02, 1970       2 2/11          Dec 08, 1970         Jul 23, 1970       6 2/12          Dec 15, 1970         Jun 25, 1970       1  2/13          Dec 22, 1970         Oct 16, 1970       13 3/1           Oct 19, 1972         Jan 14, 1972       5 3/2           Oct 26, 1972         Jan 28, 1972       7 3/3           Nov 02, 1972         Dec 04, 1971       1 3/4           Nov 09, 1972         Dec 11, 1971       2 3/5           Nov 16, 1972         Apr 24, 1972       9 3/6           Nov 23, 1972         Jan 21, 1972       6 3/7           Nov 30, 1972         Jan 07, 1972       4  3/8           Dec 07, 1972         May 04, 1972       10  3/9           Dec 14, 1972         May 11, 1072       11  3/10          Dec 21, 1972         May 25, 1972       13 3/11          Jan 04, 1973         Apr 17, 1972       8 3/12          Jan 11, 1973         Dec 18, 1971       3  3/13          Jan 18, 1973         May 18, 1972       12 4/1           Oct 31, 1974         Oct 12, 1974       1 4/2           Nov 11, 1974         Oct 19, 1974       2 4/3           Nov 14, 1974         Oct 26, 1974       3 4/4           Nov 21, 1974         Nov 02, 1974       4 4/5           Nov 28, 1974         Nov 09, 1974       5 4/6           Dec 05, 1974         Nov 16, 1974       6

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