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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 Spam
    8.6/10(1.0k votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Background image for Face the Press
    8.5/10(1.1k votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Background image for How Not to Be Seen
    8.3/10(963 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Background image for Déjà Vu
    8.1/10(1.0k votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. Background image for The Buzz Aldrin Show
    8.1/10(1.0k votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for Royal Episode 13
    8.1/10(924 votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. Background image for How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body
    8.0/10(959 votes)

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

    #9 - 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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  11. Background image for Live from the Grill-O-Mat
    7.9/10(976 votes)

    #10 - 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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  12. Background image for Archaeology Today
    7.9/10(951 votes)

    #11 - 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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  13. Background image for E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease
    7.9/10(9 votes)

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

    #13 - 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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  15. Background image for The Attila the Hun Show
    7.8/10(957 votes)

    #14 - The Attila the Hun Show

    S2:E7

    Featuring the Attila the Hun Show, a rat catcher, a village idiot, some killer sheep and news for parrots.

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

    #15 - 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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  17. Background image for It's a Living
    7.7/10(962 votes)

    #16 - It's a Living

    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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  18. Background image for Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
    7.7/10(9 votes)

    #17 - 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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  19. Background image for A Book at Bedtime
    7.7/10(9 votes)

    #18 - 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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  20. Background image for Sex and Violence
    7.6/10(18 votes)

    #19 - 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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  21. Background image for Scott of the Antarctic
    7.6/10(962 votes)

    #20 - Scott of the Antarctic

    S2:E10

    Featuring a special report into the shooting of Scott of the Antarctic, from Paignton. Also, a man tries to purchase a fish licence.

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  22. Background image for Salad Days
    7.6/10(9 votes)

    #21 - 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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  23. Background image for Owl Stretching Time
    7.5/10(17 votes)

    #22 - 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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  24. Background image for It's the Arts
    7.4/10(18 votes)

    #23 - 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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  25. Background image for Full Frontal Nudity
    7.4/10(18 votes)

    #24 - 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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  26. Background image for The Ant, An Introduction
    7.4/10(17 votes)

    #25 - 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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Best Episodes Summary

"The Spanish Inquisition" is the best rated episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus". It scored 8.9/10 based on 1350 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, "Spam".