Monty Python\' S Flying Circus

Monty Python' S Flying Circus is a British Televised series in 45 30 minutes episodes, created by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, and diffused between the October 5th 1969 and the December 5th 1974 on the network BBC1. In France, the series was diffused starting from the 1991 on FR3 and was repeated between the October 10th 1992 and the September 11th 1993 on Arte.

Synopsis

This mythical series is an anthology of sketches, parodies of television programs and reports improbable. She denounces them through British company and attacks herself with a humor nonsense with the political world, the sex, the religion, the army, the civils servant…

Distribution

Although there are only few recurring characters and that the six members of the troop played of many different roles, each one of them chose a certain number of roles in which it excelled.

Graham Chapman : famous for its roles of men to the strict face, often of the symbols of the authority (military, police or doctor) which can, at any time, to become completely insane, then to return to the normal as so of nothing was not.

John Cleese: Terry Gilliam claims that it was most comic of the Monty Python in drag-queen , not needing practically to disguise itself to have the funny air. It is also known for its roles of insane very intimidating (see the sketch Coil-Defense Against Fresh Fruit ). He interprets also on several occasions Eric Praline, a fastidious customer (see the sketches Dead Parrot and Fish License ).

Terry Gilliam : it is the author of animations, often joinings mild nutters, which connect the sketches between them. If it appears in person, it plays the characters of which nobody of other wanted, because of an uncomfortable costume.

Eric Idle: it is perhaps the character the best known one for his roles of playboy taquin and a little pervert or of very clever salesman or very aggravating. It is also known like the best singer of the troop.

Terry Jones: although all the members of the troop played of the roles of women, Terry Jones is that which interpreted best that of the British housewife (Mrs. Lydia in the sketch Mr. Neutron ).

Michael Palin: Palin is that of the troop which has the greatest extent of different roles. He often interprets roles of men resulting from the working class (see the sketch The Funniest Joke in the World ) or from the weak roles of men. One of its most memorable roles remains that of the tradesman who tries by all the means of selling useless goods, located at once by the customer (in the sketches Dead Parrot or Cheese Shop ). But he plays also the Ximenez Cardinal the untiring chief of the Spanish enquiry. He is also known to play of the roles of men with a funny voice or a ridiculous speech impediment. With Cleese, he often plays of the French or the Germans, who keep a strong accent while speaking English.

Episodes

First season (1969-1970)

1 (1- 1) : French unknown ( Whither Canada titrates? )
2 (1- 2) : Titrate French unknown ( Sex and Violence )
3 (1- 3) : Titrate French unknown ( How to Recognize Different Standards off Trees From Quite has Long Way Away )
4 (1- 4) : Titrate French unknown ( Owl.Stretching Time )
5 (1- 5) : Titrate French unknown ( Man' S Crisis off Identity in the Latter Half off the Twentieth Century )
6 (1- 6) : Titrate French unknown ( The BBC Entry For the Zinc Stoat off Budapest )
7 (1- 7) : Titrate French unknown ( Oh, You' Re No Fun Anymore )
8 (1- 8) : Titrate French unknown ( Full Frontal Nudity )
9 (1- 9) : Titrate French unknown ( The Ant, year Introduction )
10 (1-10) : Titrate French unknown ( No Title )
11 (1-11) : Titrate French unknown ( The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom )
12 (1-12) : Titrate French unknown ( The Naked Ant )
13 (1-13) : Titrate French unknown ( Intermission )

Second season (1970)

14 (2- 1) : Titrate French unknown ( Dinsdale )
15 (2- 2) : Titrate French unknown ( The Spanish Inquisition )
16 (2- 3) : Titrate French unknown ( Show 5 )
17 (2- 4) : Titrate French unknown ( The Buzz Aldrin Show )
18 (2- 5) : Titrate French unknown ( Live from the Grillomat )
19 (2- 6) : Titrate French unknown ( School Prizes )
20 (2- 7) : Titrate French unknown ( The Atilla the Hun Show )
21 (2- 8) : Titrate French unknown ( Archeology Today )
22 (2- 9) : Titrate French unknown ( How to Recognize Different Shares off the Body )
23 (2-10) : Titrate French unknown ( Scott off the Antarctic )
24 (2-11) : Titrate French unknown ( How Not to Be Seen )
25 (2-12) : Titrate French unknown ( Spam )
26 (2-13) : Titrate French unknown ( Royal Episode 13 )

Third season (1972-1973)

27 (3- 1) : Titrate French unknown ( Njorl' S Saga )
28 (3- 2) : Titrate French unknown ( Mr. & Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular )
29 (3- 3) : Titrate French unknown ( The Money Programme )
30 (3- 4) : Titrate French unknown ( Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror )
31 (3- 5) : Titrate French unknown ( The All-England Summarize Proust Competition )
32 (3- 6) : Titrate French unknown ( The War Against Pornography )
33 (3- 7) : Titrate French unknown ( Salad Days )
34 (3- 8) : Titrate French unknown ( The Cycling Tour )
35 (3- 9) : Titrate French unknown ( The Nude Man )
36 (3-10) : Titrate French unknown ( E. Henry Thripshaw' S Disease )
37 (3-11) : Titrate French unknown ( Dennis Moore )
38 (3-12) : Titrate French unknown ( has Book At Bedtime )
39 (3-13) : Titrate French unknown ( The British Royal Awards Programme )

Fourth season (1974)

40 (4- 1) : Titrate French unknown ( The Golden Old off Ballooning )
41 (4- 2) : Titrate French unknown ( Michael Ellis )
42 (4- 3) : Titrate French unknown ( Anything Goes, The Light Entertainment War )
43 (4- 4) : Titrate French unknown ( Hamlet )
44 (4- 5) : Titrate French unknown ( Mr. Neutron )
45 (4- 6) : Titrate French unknown ( has off Party Political Broadcast one Behalf the Liberal Party )

Comments

This series marked the birth of the troop of the Monty Python.

Many references to philosophy or the literature (Lewis Carroll, Jonathan Swift, Thomas de Quincey…) are present in this series, undoubtedly because of the fact that all the members of the troop were graduate universities of Cambridge or of Oxford.

During its first diffusion in France, the show passed in first part of evening. The week according to, it passed to more 23:00!

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