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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 Money Programme
    8.2/10(915 votes)

    #1 - The Money Programme

    S3:E3

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

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  2. Background image for The Spanish Inquisition
    8.1/10(13 votes)

    #2 - The Spanish Inquisition

    S2:E2

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

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  3. Background image for Salad Days
    8.1/10(889 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Background image for The Cycling Tour
    8.1/10(952 votes)

    #4 - The Cycling Tour

    S3:E8

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

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  5. Background image for Dennis Moore
    8.1/10(880 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. Background image for Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
    8.0/10(890 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
    7.9/10(17 votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. Background image for Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular
    7.9/10(899 votes)

    #8 - 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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  10. Background image for E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease
    7.9/10(832 votes)

    #9 - E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease

    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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  11. Background image for A Book at Bedtime
    7.9/10(835 votes)

    #10 - A Book at Bedtime

    S3:E12

    Features gags and sketches such as A Book at Bedtime, Kamikaze Scotsmen, No Time to Lose, Spot the Looney and Frontiers of Medicine-Penguins.

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  12. Background image for Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
    7.8/10(17 votes)

    #11 - 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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  13. Background image for Déjà Vu
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #12 - 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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  14. Background image for The Buzz Aldrin Show
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #13 - 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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    7.8/10(13 votes)

    #14 - 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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  16. Background image for Whicker's World
    7.8/10(902 votes)

    #15 - Whicker's World

    S3:E1

    Features gags and sketches such as Multiple Murderer Court Scene, Njorl's Saga and Whicker’s World.

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  17. Background image for The War Against Pornography
    7.8/10(858 votes)

    #16 - The War Against Pornography

    S3:E6

    Sketches in this episode include Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign, Gumby Brain Specialist, Expedition to Lake Pahoe and The Silliest Interview We've Ever Had.

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  18. Background image for The Nude Organist
    7.8/10(854 votes)

    #17 - The Nude Organist

    S3:E9

    Features gags and sketches such as Bomb on Plane, Mortuary Hour, The Olympic Hide-and-Seek Final, The Cheap Laughs and Prices on the Planet Algon.

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  19. Background image for Whither Canada?
    7.7/10(21 votes)

    #18 - 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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  20. Background image for The All-England Summarise Proust Competition
    7.7/10(870 votes)

    #19 - The All-England Summarise Proust Competition

    S3:E5

    Featuring in this episode The All-England Summarise Proust Competition, Fire Brigade, Travel Agent and Party Hints with Veronica Smalls.

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  21. Background image for Sex and Violence
    7.6/10(18 votes)

    #20 - Sex and Violence

    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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  22. Background image for Face the Press
    7.6/10(14 votes)

    #21 - 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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  23. Background image for Royal Episode 13
    7.6/10(12 votes)

    #22 - 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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  24. Background image for Grandstand (or: The British Showbiz Awards)
    7.6/10(811 votes)

    #23 - Grandstand (or: The British Showbiz Awards)

    S3:E13

    Sketches include The Oscar Wilde Sketch, David Niven’s Fridge, Pasolini’s ‘The Third Test Match’, New Brain from Currys, Blood Donor and the Dirty Vicar Sketch.

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  25. Background image for Michael Ellis
    7.6/10(892 votes)

    #24 - Michael Ellis

    S4:E2

    Features the sketches Department Store, Buying an Ant, At Home with the Ant and Other Pets and Toupee Department.

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  26. Background image for Owl Stretching Time
    7.5/10(17 votes)

    #25 - 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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Best Episodes Summary

"The Money Programme" is the best rated episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus". It scored 8.2/10 based on 915 votes. Directed by Ian MacNaughton and written by Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, it aired on 11/2/1972. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Spanish Inquisition".