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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 1 Episode 3 - How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
    8.0/10(21 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  2. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
    7.9/10(21 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  3. undefined Season 2 Episode 2 - The Spanish Inquisition
    7.9/10(18 votes)

    S2:E2

    Featuring the Spanish Inquisition, courtroom charades and a semaphore interpretation of Wuthering Heights.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  4. undefined Season 2 Episode 4 - The Buzz Aldrin Show
    7.9/10(14 votes)

    S2:E4

    More surreal humour from the Monty Python team. Sketches include The Architects, How to Recognise a Mason, Poets and the Chemist sketch.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  5. undefined Season 2 Episode 12 - Spam
    7.9/10(14 votes)

    S2:E12

    The sketches in this episode include Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook, World Forum-Communist Quiz, Hospital for Over-Actors and Spam.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  6. undefined Season 3 Episode 10 - E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease
    7.9/10(10 votes)

    S3:E10

    Sketches include The Tudor Jobs Agency, Elizabethan Pornography Smugglers, Thripshaw's Disease and The Man Who Says Words in the Wrong Order.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Whither Canada?
    7.8/10(26 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  8. undefined Season 2 Episode 1 - Face the Press
    7.8/10(17 votes)

    S2:E1

    Featuring Doug and Dinsdale Piranha, Face the Press and the Ministry of Silly Walks. Mrs G Pinnet buys a new gas cooker.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  9. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - Déjà Vu
    7.8/10(15 votes)

    S2:E3

    Featuring the work of the poet Euan McTeagle, a psychiatrist milkman and some exploding animals. A television presenter suffers from a severe case of deja vu.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 2 - Sex and Violence
    7.7/10(22 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  11. undefined Season 3 Episode 4 - Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    S3:E4

    Features gags and sketches such as Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror, The Man who Speaks in Anagrams and Pantomime Horses.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  12. undefined Season 3 Episode 12 - A Book at Bedtime
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    S3:E12

    Features gags and sketches such as A Book at Bedtime, Kamikaze Scotsmen, No Time to Lose, Spot the Looney and Frontiers of Medicine-Penguins.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  13. undefined Season 1 Episode 4 - Owl Stretching Time
    7.6/10(21 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  14. undefined Season 2 Episode 7 - The Attila the Hun Show
    7.6/10(14 votes)

    S2:E7

    Featuring the Attila the Hun Show, a rat catcher, a village idiot, some killer sheep and news for parrots.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  15. undefined Season 2 Episode 9 - How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body
    7.6/10(14 votes)

    S2:E9

    Featuring a guide on how to recognise parts of the body, a singing policeman, an interview with a plastic surgeon, a camp soldiers' drill and the Verrifast Plane Company.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  16. undefined Season 2 Episode 13 - Royal Episode 13
    7.6/10(13 votes)

    S2:E13

    Sketches in this episode include How to Feed a Goldfish, The Man Who Says Things in a Very Roundabout Way and Lifeboat.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  17. undefined Season 3 Episode 7 - Salad Days
    7.6/10(10 votes)

    S3:E7

    Features gags and sketches such as Biggles Dictates a Letter, Climbing the North Face of the Uxbridge Road, Lifeboat and The Cheese Shop.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  18. undefined Season 1 Episode 9 - The Ant, An Introduction
    7.5/10(20 votes)

    S1:E9

    Featuring Ken Buddha, a man with a tape-recorder up his nose and a hairdresser who always wanted to be a lumberjack.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  19. undefined Season 2 Episode 11 - How Not to Be Seen
    7.5/10(13 votes)

    S2:E11

    Features gags and sketches such as Job Hunter, Railway Timetables, How Not to be Seen and Interview in a Filing Cabinet.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  20. undefined Season 1 Episode 13 - Intermission
    7.4/10(18 votes)

    S1:E13

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  21. undefined Season 2 Episode 8 - Archaeology Today
    7.4/10(14 votes)

    S2:E8

    Featuring Mrs Beethoven, the Reverend Arthur Belling, some Australian Mosquito Hunters and a drink party with the Gits.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  22. undefined Season 3 Episode 6 - The War Against Pornography
    7.4/10(10 votes)

    S3:E6

    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:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  23. undefined Season 1 Episode 10 - Untitled
    7.3/10(19 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  24. undefined Season 1 Episode 8 - Full Frontal Nudity
    7.3/10(22 votes)

    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.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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  25. undefined Season 3 Episode 2 - Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular
    7.3/10(10 votes)

    S3:E2

    Features Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow, The Fish Slapping Dance, SS Mother Goose, Trim-Jeans Theatre and some very famous guests.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Eric Idle

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Eric Idle Ratings Summary

"How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away" is the best rated episode written by Eric Idle. It scored 8/10 based on 21 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 10/19/1969 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century".