List of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes

This is a list of all 45 episodes from the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus:

The original air dates do not all apply to BBC Scotland, which took a different approach to airing the series.

(episode 1; aired 5 October 1969; recorded 7 September 1969)

(episode 2; aired 12 October 1969; recorded 30 August 1969)

(episode 3; aired 19 October 1969; recorded 14 September 1969) This episode had the longest title.

(episode 4; aired 26 October 1969; recorded 21 September 1969)

Owl Stretching Time was a proposed name for the series itself.

BBC-1 began colour broadcasting officially on 15 November 1969. Since September 1969, however, they had been broadcasting colour programmes "unofficially", so while the whole of the first series was broadcast in colour, this episode was the first to be advertised as being in colour (source: Notes taken from BBC videotape operators and transmission managers made at the time).

Many sketches in this episode are ended prematurely by Graham Chapman's army character ("The Colonel"), who protests rip offs of the British Army's slogan, "It's a Man's Life in the Modern Army"

Although the previous episodes had been made in colour, this was the first episode to be transmitted in colour, after BBC1 began colour broadcasting on 15 November 1969.

(episode 5; aired 16 November 1969; recorded 3 October 1969)

(episode 6; aired 23 November 1969; recorded 5 November 1969)

(episode 7; aired 30 November 1969; recorded 10 October 1969)

(episode 8; aired 7 December 1969; recorded 25 November 1969)

This episode repeats a running gag from episode 4: a female cast member delivers a terrible joke, and upon protest from fellow cast members wails "But it's my only line!"

Most sketches in this episode are ended prematurely by Graham Chapman's army character ("The Colonel") from the first sketch, who protests that they are "too silly."

(episode 9; aired 14 December 1969; recorded 7 December 1969)

(episode 10; aired 21 December 1969; recorded 30 November 1969)

This is the first episode not to show an episode title at the beginning of the closing credits.

(episode 11; aired 28 December 1969; recorded 14 December 1969)

(episode 12; aired 4 January 1970; recorded 21 December 1969)

(episode 13; aired 11 January 1970; recorded 4 January 1970)

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