Monty Python's Flying Circus (UK)
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]
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- 04x06 Party Polit… (Dec. 05, 1974)
- 04x05 Mr. Neutron (Nov. 28, 1974)
- 04x04 Hamlet (Nov. 21, 1974)
- 04x03 The Light E… (Nov. 14, 1974)
- 04x02 Michael Ellis (Nov. 07, 1974)
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Show's Cast / Crew
Directors
- Ian MacNaughton (46 episodes)
- John Howard Davies (5 episodes)
Writers
- Graham Chapman (47 episodes)
- Eric Idle (47 episodes)
- Terry Jones (47 episodes)
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- The theme music is the concluding portion of John Philip Sousa's "Liberty Bell March". Reportedly, one of the chief reasons the song was used is that it was in the public domain and no…
[show]The theme music is the concluding portion of John Philip Sousa's "Liberty Bell March". Reportedly, one of the chief reasons the song was used is that it was in the public domain and no royalties would have to be paid (the opening part of the march makes an appearance in the James Bond film Octopussy).
[hide] - The Pythons did almost all of their own stunts, including Graham Chapman (a qualified mountaineer) reading a sketch while hanging upside-down on a rope, and Michael Palin plummeting 15 feet…
[show]The Pythons did almost all of their own stunts, including Graham Chapman (a qualified mountaineer) reading a sketch while hanging upside-down on a rope, and Michael Palin plummeting 15 feet into a canal in "The Fish-Slapping Dance" after John Cleese smacks him in the head with a trout.
[hide] - The usual casting process for a sketch was that the lead role would be given to the member who came up with the idea. Michael Palin has said that if he'd known the abuse he would have to…
[show]The usual casting process for a sketch was that the lead role would be given to the member who came up with the idea. Michael Palin has said that if he'd known the abuse he would have to tolerate as the "It's..." man, he never would have suggested the idea.
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