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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!

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.

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  1. 7.9/10(16 votes)

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

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    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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  2. 7.8/10(16 votes)

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

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    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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  3. 7.7/10(20 votes)

    #3 - Whither Canada?

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    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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  4. 7.6/10(17 votes)

    #4 - Sex and Violence

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    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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  5. 7.5/10(16 votes)

    #5 - Owl Stretching Time

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    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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  6. 7.5/10(17 votes)

    #6 - It's the Arts

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    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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  8. 7.5/10(16 votes)

    #7 - The Ant, An Introduction

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    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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  9. 7.4/10(17 votes)

    #8 - Full Frontal Nudity

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    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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  10. 7.4/10(16 votes)

    #9 - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

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    S1:E11

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

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  11. 7.3/10(15 votes)

    #10 - Untitled

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    S1:E10

    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.

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  12. 7.3/10(15 votes)

    #11 - The Naked Ant

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    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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  13. 7.3/10(14 votes)

    #12 - Intermission

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    S1:E13

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

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  14. 7.1/10(15 votes)

    #13 - Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

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    S1:E7

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

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away" is the best rated episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" season 1. It scored 7.9/10 based on 16 votes. Directed by John Howard Davies, Ian MacNaughton and written by Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, it aired on 10/19/1969. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century".