This year is the 50th anniversary of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a show that at first seemed so peculiarly British that it couldn’t possibly be understood outside these shores let alone ...

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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, ...

They were, and have remained, something completely different. Thirty years ago this week, “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” was first unleashed on unsuspecting audiences — at least in England ...

Despite the show’s blindspots, much of Flying Circus remains timelessly funny. Most of what made the show so popular in 1969 — its frustration with bureaucracy, its distrust of authority ...

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The conference held in the fall in Poland had originally been intended to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, but in pragmatic acknowledgment of having missed that ...

Its 40 years since Monty Python's Flying Circus first amused, confused and outraged British audiences for the first time.

But it’s in those margins that readers will likely find the most gold, as Dempsey’s running commentary covers everything from expected Python minutiae, gaffes, and in-jokes, to British history ...

Barry Took, the British stand-up comedian and comedy writer who helped produce such zany shows as "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and lent his talents to the much-loved American television classic ...

After 24 years, Monty Python is back on telly Vintage TV channel That's TV has bought the rights to all four series of Monty Python's Flying Circus, which it will air uncut every weeknight at 9pm from ...