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The Best Episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus

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!

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.

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  1. Background image for The Spanish Inquisition
    8.9/10(1.4k votes)

    #1 - The Spanish Inquisition

    S2:E2

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

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  2. Background image for Full Frontal Nudity
    8.6/10(1.3k votes)

    #2 - Full Frontal Nudity

    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. Background image for Spam
    8.6/10(1.0k votes)

    #3 - Spam

    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. Background image for Face the Press
    8.5/10(1.2k votes)

    #4 - Face the Press

    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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  5. Background image for How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
    8.4/10(1.5k votes)

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

    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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  6. Background image for The Ant, An Introduction
    8.3/10(1.2k votes)

    #6 - The Ant, An Introduction

    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. Background image for The Naked Ant
    8.3/10(1.2k votes)

    #7 - The Naked Ant

    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. Background image for How Not to Be Seen
    8.3/10(975 votes)

    #8 - How Not to Be Seen

    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. Background image for The Money Programme
    8.2/10(920 votes)

    #9 - The Money Programme

    S3:E3

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

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  11. Background image for Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
    8.1/10(1.3k votes)

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

    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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  12. Background image for Déjà Vu
    8.1/10(1.0k votes)

    #11 - Déjà Vu

    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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  13. Background image for The Buzz Aldrin Show
    8.1/10(1.0k votes)

    #12 - The Buzz Aldrin Show

    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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  14. Background image for Royal Episode 13
    8.1/10(939 votes)

    #13 - Royal Episode 13

    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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  15. Background image for Salad Days
    8.1/10(895 votes)

    #14 - Salad Days

    S3:E7

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

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  16. Background image for The Cycling Tour
    8.1/10(958 votes)

    #15 - The Cycling Tour

    S3:E8

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

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  17. Background image for Dennis Moore
    8.1/10(886 votes)

    #16 - Dennis Moore

    S3:E11

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

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  18. Background image for How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body
    8.0/10(974 votes)

    #17 - How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body

    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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  19. Background image for Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
    8.0/10(895 votes)

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

    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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  20. Background image for Whither Canada?
    7.9/10(1.8k votes)

    #19 - Whither Canada?

    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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  21. Background image for Owl Stretching Time
    7.9/10(1.3k votes)

    #20 - Owl Stretching Time

    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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  22. Background image for It's the Arts
    7.9/10(1.3k votes)

    #21 - It's the Arts

    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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  23. Background image for Intermission
    7.9/10(1.1k votes)

    #22 - Intermission

    S1:E13

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

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  24. Background image for Live from the Grill-O-Mat
    7.9/10(990 votes)

    #23 - Live from the Grill-O-Mat

    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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  25. Background image for Archaeology Today
    7.9/10(965 votes)

    #24 - Archaeology Today

    S2:E8

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

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  26. Background image for Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular
    7.9/10(904 votes)

    #25 - Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular

    S3:E2

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

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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 1371 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".