The Best Episodes Written By Michael Palin

Set in the frontier days of British education, when upper lips were stiff with cold and corporal punishment was an A-level. A savage, searing indictment of something or other.

Director: Terry Hughes

Writer: Michael Palin

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

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin

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

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin

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: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin

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: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin

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

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin

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: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin

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

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin

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

Writer: Michael Palin

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

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin

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

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin

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

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin

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

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin

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: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin

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

Writer: Michael Palin

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

Writer: Michael Palin

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

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin

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: Michael Palin

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

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin

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: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin

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: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin

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: Michael Palin

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: Michael Palin

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

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin

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

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Writer: Michael Palin