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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.

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Created by Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies

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Season 1.

Whither Canada?

1969-10-05 · 31m7.8

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.

Sex and Violence

1969-10-12 · 33m7.7

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.

How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away

1969-10-19 · 31m8.0

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.

Owl Stretching Time

1969-10-26 · 29m7.6

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.

Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century

1969-11-16 · 29m7.9

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.

It's the Arts

1969-11-23 · 30m7.1

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.

Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

1969-11-30 · 30m7.2

Featuring camel-spotting, an embezzler at a board-meeting and a science fiction tale about a Scotsman and a tennis-playing blancmange.

Full Frontal Nudity

1969-12-07 · 29m7.3

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.

The Ant, An Introduction

1969-12-14 · 29m7.5

Featuring Ken Buddha, a man with a tape-recorder up his nose and a hairdresser who always wanted to be a lumberjack.

Untitled

1969-12-21 · 30m7.3

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.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

1969-12-28 · 31m7.1

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom, a footballer is interviewed and Batley Townswomen's Guild re-enact the invasion of Pearl Harbour.

The Naked Ant

1970-01-04 · 31m7.2

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.

Intermission

1970-01-11 · 29m7.4

Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and Probe Around On Crime.

Cast.

Graham Chapman

Graham Chapman

Various

Michael Palin

Michael Palin

Various / "It's" man

Terry Jones

Terry Jones

Various

Eric Idle

Eric Idle

Various

Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam

Various

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