7.2/10879 votesLoading...#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
7.2/10790 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10791 votesLoading...#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
7.3/10784 votesLoading...#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
7.5/10814 votesLoading...#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
7.6/101,111 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10939 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10784 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10859 votesLoading...#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
7.7/101,445 votesLoading...#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
7.7/101,234 votesLoading...#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
7.7/101,103 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10938 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10933 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10839 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10874 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10828 votesLoading...#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
7.8/10827 votesLoading...#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
7.9/101,747 votesLoading...#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
7.9/101,275 votesLoading...#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
7.9/101,212 votesLoading...#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
7.9/101,060 votesLoading...#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
7.9/10954 votesLoading...#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
7.9/10922 votesLoading...#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
7.9/10870 votesLoading...#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
The Worst Episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
Every episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus!
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
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 879 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".