- 8.6/10(1.3k votes)
#1 - Full Frontal Nudity
Loading...S1:E8Featuring 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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#2 - How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
Loading...S1:E3Featuring 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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#3 - The Ant, An Introduction
Loading...S1:E9Featuring 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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#4 - The Naked Ant
Loading...S1:E12Featuring 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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#5 - Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
Loading...S1:E5Featuring 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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#6 - Whither Canada?
Loading...S1:E1Featuring '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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#7 - Owl Stretching Time
Loading...S1:E4Featuring 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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#8 - It's the Arts
Loading...S1:E6Featuring 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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#9 - Intermission
Loading...S1:E13Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and Probe Around On Crime.
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#10 - Sex and Violence
Loading...S1:E2Featuring 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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#11 - Oh, You're No Fun Anymore
Loading...S1:E7Featuring 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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#12 - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
Loading...S1:E11The 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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#13 - Untitled
Loading...S1:E10Featuring 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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The Best Episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1
Genre:Comedy
Network:BBC One
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.
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Full Frontal Nudity" is the best rated episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" season 1. It scored 8.6/10 based on 1309 votes. Directed by Ian MacNaughton and written by Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, it aired on 12/7/1969. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away".