The Best Episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus

Featuring the Spanish Inquisition, courtroom charades and a semaphore interpretation of Wuthering Heights.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

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.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

The sketches in this episode include Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook, World Forum-Communist Quiz, Hospital for Over-Actors and Spam.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

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.

Director: Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

Featuring Doug and Dinsdale Piranha, Face the Press and the Ministry of Silly Walks. Mrs G Pinnet buys a new gas cooker.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

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

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

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.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

Features gags and sketches such as Job Hunter, Railway Timetables, How Not to be Seen and Interview in a Filing Cabinet.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

Features The Money Programme, Erizabeth L, Dead Bishop, Jungle Restaurant and The Argument Skit.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

This episode tells the story of Mr Pither as he embarks on his Cycling Tour.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

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.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman

Featuring the work of the poet Euan McTeagle, a psychiatrist milkman and some exploding animals. A television presenter suffers from a severe case of deja vu.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

More surreal humour from the Monty Python team. Sketches include The Architects, How to Recognise a Mason, Poets and the Chemist sketch.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

Sketches in this episode include How to Feed a Goldfish, The Man Who Says Things in a Very Roundabout Way and Lifeboat.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

Features gags and sketches such as Biggles Dictates a Letter, Climbing the North Face of the Uxbridge Road, Lifeboat and The Cheese Shop.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

Features the sketches Dennis Moore, What the Stars Foretell, The Ideal Loon Exhibition, Off-Licence and Prejudice.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

Featuring a guide on how to recognise parts of the body, a singing policeman, an interview with a plastic surgeon, a camp soldiers' drill and the Verrifast Plane Company.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

Features gags and sketches such as Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror, The Man who Speaks in Anagrams and Pantomime Horses.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

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.

Director: Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman

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.

Director: Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

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.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

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

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

Featuring gameshow Blackmail, The Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and boxer Ken Clean-Air System.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

Featuring Mrs Beethoven, the Reverend Arthur Belling, some Australian Mosquito Hunters and a drink party with the Gits.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

Features Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow, The Fish Slapping Dance, SS Mother Goose, Trim-Jeans Theatre and some very famous guests.

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam