Monty Python's Flying Circus

The Best Episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus

Genre:Comedy
Network:BBC One

Every episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus!

A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.
Episodes
45
Avg. Rating
7.6
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  1. 8.9/10(1.3k votes)

    #1 - The Spanish Inquisition

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    S2:E2

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

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  2. 8.6/10(1.3k votes)

    #2 - Full Frontal Nudity

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    S1:E8

    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.

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  3. 8.6/10(995 votes)

    #3 - Spam

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    S2:E12

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

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  4. 8.5/10(1.5k votes)

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

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    S1:E3

    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.

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  5. 8.5/10(1.1k votes)

    #5 - Face the Press

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    S2:E1

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

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  6. 8.3/10(1.2k votes)

    #6 - The Ant, An Introduction

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    S1:E9

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

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  8. 8.3/10(1.1k votes)

    #7 - The Naked Ant

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    S1:E12

    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.

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  9. 8.3/10(953 votes)

    #8 - How Not to Be Seen

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    S2:E11

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

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  10. 8.1/10(1.3k votes)

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

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    S1:E5

    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.

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  11. 8.1/10(1.0k votes)

    #10 - Déjà Vu

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    S2:E3

    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.

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  12. 8.1/10(998 votes)

    #11 - The Buzz Aldrin Show

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    S2:E4

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

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  13. 8.1/10(916 votes)

    #12 - Royal Episode 13

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    S2:E13

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

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  14. 8.0/10(949 votes)

    #13 - How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body

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    S2:E9

    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.

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  15. 8.0/10(8 votes)

    #14 - E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease

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    S3:E10

    Sketches include The Tudor Jobs Agency, Elizabethan Pornography Smugglers, Thripshaw's Disease and The Man Who Says Words in the Wrong Order.

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  16. 7.9/10(1.8k votes)

    #15 - Whither Canada?

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    S1:E1

    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.

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  17. 7.9/10(1.3k votes)

    #16 - Owl Stretching Time

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    S1:E4

    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.

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  18. 7.9/10(1.2k votes)

    #17 - It's the Arts

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    S1:E6

    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.

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  19. 7.9/10(1.1k votes)

    #18 - Intermission

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    S1:E13

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

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  20. 7.9/10(966 votes)

    #19 - Live from the Grill-O-Mat

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    S2:E5

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

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  21. 7.9/10(939 votes)

    #20 - Archaeology Today

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    S2:E8

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

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  22. 7.8/10(8 votes)

    #21 - Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror

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    S3:E4

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

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  23. 7.7/10(1.5k votes)

    #22 - Sex and Violence

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    S1:E2

    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.

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  24. 7.7/10(1.3k votes)

    #23 - Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

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    S1:E7

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

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  25. 7.7/10(1.1k votes)

    #24 - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

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    S1:E11

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

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  26. 7.7/10(950 votes)

    #25 - It's a Living

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    S2:E6

    Featuring It's a Living and a school prize-giving. Timmy Williams presents a new chat show and the fate of the Silly Party hangs in the balance in an Election Night Special.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Spanish Inquisition" is the best rated episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus". It scored 8.9/10 based on 1337 votes. Directed by Ian MacNaughton and written by Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, it aired on 9/22/1970. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Full Frontal Nudity".