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Monty Python's Flying Circus (UK)
TV Series (1969 - 1974)
The television series, broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974, was conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. The irreverent Monty Python comedy troupe present a series of skits which are often surreal, baudy, uncompromising, tasteless, but inevitably hilarious.
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04x06 Party Political Broadcast Aired: Dec. 05, 1974The Sketches: Most Awful Family in Britain Icelandic Honey Week Patient abuse Brigadier and Bishop Appeal on behalf of extremely rich … [continue reading]
Series Info
Type:
Scripted
Premiered:
Oct. 05, 1969
Status:
Canceled/Ended
Runtime:
30 min.
Network
Genre
- comedy
Series Fun Facts
- After three seasons of 13 episodes each, John Cleese refused to return for a fourth because he believed the show was becoming repetitious and had run out of ideas. The rest of the cast only…
[show]After three seasons of 13 episodes each, John Cleese refused to return for a fourth because he believed the show was becoming repetitious and had run out of ideas. The rest of the cast only managed to produce a final fourth season of just six episodes without him. Despite this, Cleese had a writer's credit on most of the final six, because of sketches used that he had contributed to before leaving. He also had a cameo in one episode, and has continued to collaborate with the other Pythons in various combinations over the years.
[hide] - Frequent targets for Python sketches were pillars of society such as doctors, lawyers, politicians, academics, and policemen. Graham Chapman was a qualified (but never licensed) physician,
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[hide] - Although it would later become John Cleese's famous line, 'Eric idle' was in fact the first Python ever to say "and now for something completely different."
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