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Episodes

  • 1. Whither Canada?

    7.8

    1969-10-05 · 31m

    Featuring 'It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart', an Italian lesson, Whizzo Butter, 'It's the Arts', Arthur 'Two-Sheds' Jackson, a cycling race, and The Funniest Joke in the World.

  • 2. Sex and Violence

    7.7

    1969-10-12 · 33m

    Featuring some flying sheep, a man with three buttocks, a man with two noses, musical mice, a marriage guidance counsellor, a working-class playwright and The Wrestling Epilogue.

  • 3. How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away

    8.0

    1969-10-19 · 31m

    Featuring a court scene, the larch, Bicycle Repair Man, children's stories, a restaurant sketch, some seduced milkmen, an interview with some children and a stolen newsreader.

  • 4. Owl Stretching Time

    7.6

    1969-10-26 · 29m

    Featuring fresh fruit as self-defence, some folk-singing, an art gallery sketch and Lemming of the BDA. An Edwardian man struggles to undress on the beach.

  • 5. Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century

    7.9

    1969-11-16 · 29m

    Featuring Confuse-a-Cat, discussion programme A Duck, a Cat and a Lizard, the arrest of a newsreader, an erotic film, a silly job interview and a burglar/encyclopaedia salesman.

  • 6. It's the Arts

    7.1

    1969-11-23 · 30m

    Featuring a gang of legal burglars, the Whizzo Quality Assortment, a Scottish wedding and a day in the life of a city stockbroker. Some film moguls try to impress their boss.

  • 7. Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

    7.2

    1969-11-30 · 30m

    Featuring camel-spotting, an embezzler at a board-meeting and a science fiction tale about a Scotsman and a tennis-playing blancmange.

  • 8. Full Frontal Nudity

    7.3

    1969-12-07 · 29m

    Featuring an art critic, some hermits, Hell's Grannies and the dead parrot sketch. Some newlyweds attempt to buy a bed and the mafia offer protecting to the army.

  • 9. The Ant, An Introduction

    7.5

    1969-12-14 · 29m

    Featuring Ken Buddha, a man with a tape-recorder up his nose and a hairdresser who always wanted to be a lumberjack.

  • 10. Untitled

    7.3

    1969-12-21 · 30m

    Featuring a bank robber in a lingerie shop, It's A Tree (with Arthur Tree), a vocational guidance counsellor, Ron Obvious and a gorilla librarian.

  • 11. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

    7.1

    1969-12-28 · 31m

    The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom, a footballer is interviewed and Batley Townswomen's Guild re-enact the invasion of Pearl Harbour.

  • 12. The Naked Ant

    7.2

    1970-01-04 · 31m

    Featuring the North Minehead by-election, the Upper Class Twit of the Year competition, Ken Shabby and a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Wood Party.

  • 13. Intermission

    7.4

    1970-01-11 · 29m

    Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and Probe Around On Crime.

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Cast

  • Graham Chapman

    Graham Chapman

    Various

  • Michael Palin

    Michael Palin

    Various / "It's" man

  • Terry Jones

    Terry Jones

    Various

  • Eric Idle

    Eric Idle

    Various

  • Terry Gilliam

    Terry Gilliam

    Various

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