Season 1

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  8.6/101,362 votes

  Full Frontal Nudity

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/7/1969

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

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  8.5/101,563 votes

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

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/1969

  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: John Howard Davies, Ian MacNaughton

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

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  8.3/101,256 votes

  The Ant, An Introduction

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/14/1969

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

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  8.3/101,183 votes

  The Naked Ant

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/4/1970

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

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  8.1/101,335 votes

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

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/16/1969

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

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  7.9/101,838 votes

  Whither Canada?

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/1969

  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: John Howard Davies, Ian MacNaughton

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

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  7.9/101,345 votes

  Owl Stretching Time

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1969

  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: John Howard Davies, Ian MacNaughton

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

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  7.9/101,277 votes

  It's the Arts

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/23/1969

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

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  7.9/101,120 votes

  Intermission

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/1970

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

  Director: Ian MacNaughton

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

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  7.8/101,522 votes

  Sex and Violence

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/1969

  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.

  Director: John Howard Davies, Ian MacNaughton

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

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  7.7/101,295 votes

  Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/30/1969

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

  Director: Ian MacNaughton

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

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  7.7/101,163 votes

  The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/28/1969

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

  Director: Ian MacNaughton

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

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  7.6/101,167 votes

  Untitled

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/21/1969

  Featuring a bank robber in a lingerie shop, It's A Tree (with Arthur Tree), a vocational guidance counsellor, Ron Obvious and a gorilla librarian.

  Director: Ian MacNaughton

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