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#1 - The Golden Age of Ballooning
Season 4 Episode 1
Aired 10/31/1974
Features gags and sketches such as The Golden Age of Ballooning, Louis XVI, The Court of George III and a Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Norwegian Party.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
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#2 - Hamlet
Season 4 Episode 4
Aired 11/21/1974
Sketches in this episode include Hamlet and Ophelia, Bogus Psychiatrists, Police Helmets, Boxing Match Aftermath and The Queen Victoria Handicap.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
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#3 - Mr. Neutron
Season 4 Episode 5
Aired 11/28/1974
Featuring the story of Mr. Neutron and sketches including Post-Box Ceremony and Teddy Salad.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
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#4 - Party Political Broadcast
Season 4 Episode 6
Aired 12/5/1974
Sketches in this final episode include The Most Awful Family in Britain, Patient Abuse, Brigadier and Bishop and The Man Who Finishes Other People's Sentences.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Douglas Adams
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#5 - The Light Entertainment War
Season 4 Episode 3
Aired 11/14/1974
More surreal gags and sketches including Up Your Pavement, RAF Banter, Court Martial, The Public Are Idiots and Woody and Tinny Words.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
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#6 - 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
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#7 - Scott of the Antarctic
Season 2 Episode 10
Aired 12/1/1970
Featuring a special report into the shooting of Scott of the Antarctic, from Paignton. Also, a man tries to purchase a fish licence.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
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#8 - Grandstand (or: The British Showbiz Awards)
Season 3 Episode 13
Aired 1/18/1973
Sketches include The Oscar Wilde Sketch, David Niven’s Fridge, Pasolini’s ‘The Third Test Match’, New Brain from Currys, Blood Donor and the Dirty Vicar Sketch.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
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#9 - Michael Ellis
Season 4 Episode 2
Aired 11/7/1974
Features the sketches Department Store, Buying an Ant, At Home with the Ant and Other Pets and Toupee Department.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
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#10 - 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
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#11 - 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
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#12 - 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
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#13 - It's a Living
Season 2 Episode 6
Aired 11/3/1970
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.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
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#14 - The Attila the Hun Show
Season 2 Episode 7
Aired 11/11/1970
Featuring the Attila the Hun Show, a rat catcher, a village idiot, some killer sheep and news for parrots.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
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#15 - The All-England Summarise Proust Competition
Season 3 Episode 5
Aired 11/16/1972
Featuring in this episode The All-England Summarise Proust Competition, Fire Brigade, Travel Agent and Party Hints with Veronica Smalls.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
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#16 - Whicker's World
Season 3 Episode 1
Aired 10/19/1972
Features gags and sketches such as Multiple Murderer Court Scene, Njorl's Saga and Whicker’s World.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
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#17 - The War Against Pornography
Season 3 Episode 6
Aired 11/23/1972
Sketches in this episode include Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign, Gumby Brain Specialist, Expedition to Lake Pahoe and The Silliest Interview We've Ever Had.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
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#18 - The Nude Organist
Season 3 Episode 9
Aired 12/14/1972
Features gags and sketches such as Bomb on Plane, Mortuary Hour, The Olympic Hide-and-Seek Final, The Cheap Laughs and Prices on the Planet Algon.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
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#19 - 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
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#20 - 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
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#21 - 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
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#22 - 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
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#23 - Live from the Grill-O-Mat
Season 2 Episode 5
Aired 10/27/1970
Featuring gameshow Blackmail, The Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and boxer Ken Clean-Air System.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
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#24 - Archaeology Today
Season 2 Episode 8
Aired 11/17/1970
Featuring Mrs Beethoven, the Reverend Arthur Belling, some Australian Mosquito Hunters and a drink party with the Gits.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
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#25 - Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular
Season 3 Episode 2
Aired 10/26/1972
Features Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow, The Fish Slapping Dance, SS Mother Goose, Trim-Jeans Theatre and some very famous guests.
Director: Ian MacNaughton
Writer: Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
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Worst Episodes Summary
"The Golden Age of Ballooning" is the worst rated episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus". It scored 7.2/10 based on 886 votes. Directed by Ian MacNaughton and written by Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, it aired on 10/31/1974. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Hamlet".