7.9/101,751 votes#1 - 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: Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
7.7/101,449 votes#2 - 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: Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
8.5/101,496 votes#3 - 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: Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
7.9/101,280 votes#4 - 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: Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
8.1/101,274 votes#5 - 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: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman
7.9/101,216 votes#6 - 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: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
7.7/101,238 votes#7 - 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: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
8.6/101,295 votes#8 - 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: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
8.3/101,191 votes#9 - 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: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
7.6/101,113 votes#10 - 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: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
7.7/101,108 votes#11 - 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: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
8.3/101,125 votes#12 - 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: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
7.9/101,064 votes#13 - 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: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
The Best Episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1
Every episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1!
A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.
Genre:Comedy
Network:BBC One
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Whither Canada?" is the best rated episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" season 1. It scored 7.9/10 based on 1751 votes. Directed by Ian MacNaughton, John Howard Davies and written by Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, it aired on 10/5/1969. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Sex and Violence".