Monty Python's Flying Circus
- TV sketch show
- BBC Two / BBC One
- 1969 - 1974
- 45 episodes (4 series)
Highly influential off-the-wall 1970s sketch series, starring John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman and Terry Jones. Also features Terry Gilliam and Carol Cleveland.
Streaming rank this week: 1,914
Press clippings Page 14
And now for something completely familiar...
The Independent talks to the predictably anarchic Pythons in Manhattan.
David Usborne, The Independent, 17th October 2009Monty Python and the cardboard cut-out
Their waistlines have expanded along with the alimony payments, but 40 years after their television debut, the surviving members of the Monty Python crew were reunited on stage.
Adam Sherwin, The Times, 16th October 2009Pythons reunite for Bafta award
The five surviving members of Monty Python have been joined on stage in New York by a cardboard cut-out of the late Graham Chapman for a 40th reunion.
BBC News, 16th October 2009Cleverness is no more. This is a dumb Britain
Forty years ago, my dad came into my bedroom and made me get up.
I was nine and sleepy. I was snuggly and warm. I wanted to stay under the covers. But he was insistent. "There is something on television you need to see," he said. And I remember the next bit vividly: "It's going to be important."
So downstairs I went and there, in black and white, were some men talking, while nearby, various sheep fell out of trees. I laughed so much, my teddy bear's arm came off. And so it was that at the age of nine, I became Monty Python's first and youngest fan.
Jeremy Clarkson, The Sunday Times, 11th October 2009In praise of... Monty Python's Flying Circus
"I'll give you 13 shows, but that's all," said the BBC's head of light entertainment in 1969, and Monty Python's Flying Circus aired to a perplexed, but eventually grateful, British audience on Monday 5 October that same year.
The Guardian, 5th October 2009Is Monty Python's Flying Circus dead as a parrot?
The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast 40 years ago today. John Walsh dusts off the tapes to see if the old ones really are the best.
John Walsh, The Independent, 5th October 2009Bafta honour for Monty Python stars
The Monty Python stars are to be honoured with a special award from the British Academy of Film and Television (Bafta) to mark their contribution to comedy over 40 years, it emerged today.
Damon Wake, Press Association, The Independent, 18th August 2009Monty Python theme tune: music to madness
How music contributed to Monty Python's demented humour.
Marc Lee, The Telegraph, 17th July 2009Monty Python almost pulled during first series
Monty Python's Flying Circus was almost taken off the air for its "disgusting and nihilistic" humour, according to newly-released files.
Ben Leach, The Telegraph, 1st June 2009