Hermit on meathook; credits; BBC sends letter to plumber asking him to be in a sketch, robber in lingerie shop waits for plumber; David Unction introduces `It's a Tree' with Arthur Tree, a piece of laminated plastic and a block of wood; animation- Chippendale does impersonations, announcer introduces =andgt; the vocational guidance counselor sketch- accountant wants to be lion tamer; David Unction and a viking; Ron Obvious tries to jump the English channel, eat a cathedral, tunnel to Java, split a railway car with his nose and run to Mercury; pet conversion sketch; comments on sketch predictability; gorilla wants to be a librarian; letters; lover visits lady in the night and encounters a crowd; animation- comments on last sketch predictability by animals; Hermit; credits.
s01e01 - Whither Canada?
s01e02 - Sex and Violence
s01e03 - How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away
s01e04 - Owl-Stretching Time
s01e05 - Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century
s01e06 - It's the Arts
s01e07 - Oh, You're No Fun Anymore
s01e08 - Full Frontal Nudity
s01e09 - The Ant, an Introduction
s01e10 - Untitled
s01e11 - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
s01e12 - The Naked Ant
s01e13 - Intermission
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.