Box set: Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Complete Series 1-4
Barcode 191329153178
Release Date 11/24/2020

Monty Python's Flying Circus: Season 3
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (1972)
TV Series  /  Comedy
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IMDB   8.8
387 mins UK / English
Blu-ray    US - TV-14
John Cleese The Announcer
Eric Idle Hamrag Yatlerot
Michael Palin Interviewer
Terry Gilliam Animation Voices
Terry Jones The Nude Organist
Graham Chapman RSM
Carol Cleveland Joe-jums
Frank Lester Nun
The Fred Tomlinson Singers Dennis Moore Singers
Monty Python Themselves
John Hughman Priest
Lyn Ashley Algon Girl
Richard Baker Self - BBC News Anchor
Peter Kodak
Rita Davies Argument Secretary
Peter Kodak The Late Sir Brian Hardaker
Director
Ian MacNaughton
Producer Ian MacNaughton
Writer Graham Chapman
John Cleese
Eric Idle
Terry Jones
Cinematography Alan Featherstone

And now for something completely different: Monty Python's Flying Circus was simply the most influential comedy program television has ever seen. Five Englishmen, all working under the constraints of conventional TV shows such as The Frost Report (for which the five Englishmen wrote), gathered together with an expatriate American in the spring of 1969 to break the rules. The result, first airing on BBC-1 on October 5, 1969, has influenced countless future men and women in the media and comedy since.
Episodes
 31 mins    10/19/1972  1.  Whicker's World
A courteous murderer wins a suspended sentence by virtue of his charm; a search for Paris by way of Iceland is interrupted by a plane crash and a shipwreck. Also: how to dispose of pets before going on vacation.
 30 mins    10/26/1972  2.  Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular
A couple investigate the cultural similarities between two London districts, seven miles apart; schoolboys' extracurricular activities are examined; a TV farming club comments on Tchaikovsky.
 29 mins    11/2/1972  3.  The Money Programme
"The Money Program" features a Swiss banker, a city accountant and a song of praise.
 31 mins    11/9/1972  4.  Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
A program called "Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror," featuring a man who speaks exclusively in anagrams; a timorous TV announcer, before and after he undergoes psychiatric treatment; the employment of "pantomime horses."
 31 mins    11/16/1972  5.  The All England Summarise Proust Competition
Contestants in "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition" are judged in swimsuit and evening-gown categories; an irate customer confronts his travel agent. Also: an expedition to Mount Everest, made by an international group of hairstylists.
 29 mins    11/23/1972  6.  The War Against Pornography
Surgical tools applied to a mildly anesthetized patient include a power drill and a mallet; a TV program features a lecture on gastropods, highlighted by the visit of a whelk.
 29 mins    11/30/1972  7.  Salad Days
A climbing expedition negotiates a hazardous London road; an attempt is made to determine whether an urban dwelling is a house or a lifeboat. Also: a mouse's quest for cheese, which leads to the production of a Western called "Rogue Cheddar."
 32 mins    12/7/1972  8.  The Cycling Tour
Mr Pither; Clodagh Rogers; Trotsky; Smolensk; Bingo-crazed Chinese (British Ambassador); 'Jack in a Box'.
 31 mins    12/14/1972  9.  The Nude Man
A housing project induced by hypnosis stands---as long as the tenants believe in it. Also: highlights of the Olympic Hide-and-Seek finals; suggestions for improving bullfighting, such as the use of radar.
 28 mins    12/21/1972  10.  E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease
A police investigator is mistaken for Sir Philip Sidney in a Tudor-period job agency, which actually deals in pornography; King Solomon judges the case of a stray bee; a panel of dead people debates the question "Is There a Life After Death?"
 32 mins    1/4/1973  11.  Dennis Moore
A highwayman steals "lupins" from the rich and tries to give them to the poor. Also: the first episode in a tatty, tedious 18th-century serial is brought to a screeching halt; peasants clamor for Titian paintings and Venetian glass.
 27 mins    1/11/1973  12.  A Book at Bedtime
'A Book at Bedtime'; 'Red Gauntlet'; Kamikaze Highlanders; No time to lose; Penguins; BBC pro-gramme planners; Unexploded Scotsmen; 'Spot the Looney'; Rival documentaries; 'Dad's Doctors'; Dad's Pooves'.
 27 mins    1/18/1973  13.  Grandstand
Oscar Wilde, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, George Bernard Shaw and the future Edward VII exchange epigrams at an evening party; mechanical brain surgery fails to dramatically affect a woman's mentality.
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Series Monty Python's Flying Circus
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