ONE
Recorded 07-06-69 , Aired 05-10-69 , Prod. #53346
Whither Canada?:
• 'It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart';
• Famous deaths;
• Italian lesson;
• Whizzo butter;
• 'It's the Arts';
• Arthur 'Two-Sheds' Jackson;
• Picasso/cycling race;
• The funniest joke in the world.
TWO
Recorded 30-08-69 , Aired 12-10-69 , Prod. #53440
Sex and violence:
• Flying sheep;
• French lecture on sheep-aircraft;
• A man with three buttocks;
• A man with two noses;
• Musical mice;
• Marriage guidance counsellor;
• The wacky queen;
• Working-class playwright;
• A Scotsman on a horse;
• The wrestling epilogue;
• The mouse problem.
THREE
Recorded 14-08-69 , Aired 19-10-69 , Prod. #53376
How To Recognize Different Types Of Tree From Quite A Long Way Away:
• Court scene (witness in coffin/Cardinal Richelieu);
• The larch;
• Bicycle repair man;
• Tirade against Communists;
• Children's stories;
• Restaurant sketch;
• Seduced milkmen;
• Stolen newsreader;
• The Horse Chestnut;
• Children's interview;
• Nudge nudge.
FOUR
Recorded 21-09-69 , Aired 26-10-69 , Prod. #53458
Owl-stretching Time:
• Song: Jerusalem ('And did those feet');
• Art gallery;
• Art critic;
• It's a man's life in the modern army;
• Undressing in public;
• Self-defence against fruit;
• Secret Service dentists.
FIVE
Recorded 03-10-69 , Aired 16-11-69 , Prod. #53947
Man's Crisis Of Identity In The Latter Half Of The Twentieth Century:
• Confuse-a-Cat;
• The smuggler;
• Vox pops on smuggling;
• A duck, a cat and a lizard (discussion);
• Police raid;
• Letters and vox pops;
• Newsreader arrested;
• Romantic film;
• Silly job interview;
• Careers advisory board;
• Burglar/encyclopedia salesman.
SIX
Recorded 05-11-69 , Aired 23-11-69 , Prod. #54772
The BBC Entry To The Zinc Stoat Of Budapest:
• 'It's the Arts';
• Johann Gombolputty... von Hautkopf of Ulm;
• Non-illegal robbery;
• Vox pops;
• Crunchy frog;
• The dull life of a City Stockbroker;
• Red Indian in theatre;
• Policemen make wonderful friends;
• A Scotsman on a horse;
• Twentieth-century vole.
SEVEN
Recorded 10-10-69 , Aired 30-11-69 , Prod. #54006
You're No Fun Any More:
• Camel spotting;
• You're no fun any more;
• The audit;
• Science fiction sketch;
• Man turns into Scotsman;
• Police station;
• Blancmanges playing tennis.
EIGHT
Recorded 25-11-69 , Aired 07-12-69 , Prod. #54698
Full Frontal Nudity:
• Army protection racket;
• Vox pops;
• Art critic - the place of the nude;
• Buying a bed;
• Hermits;
• Dead parrot;
• The flasher;
• Hell's Grannies.
NINE
Recorded 07-12-69 , Aired 14-12-69 , Prod. #55307
The Ant, An Introduction:
• Llamas;
• A man with a tape recorder up his nose;
• Kilimanjaro expedition (double vision);
• A man with a tape recorder up his brother's nose;
• Homicidal barber;
• Lumberjack song;
• Gumby crooner;
• The refreshment room at Bletchley;
• Ken Buddha and his inflatable knees;
• Brian Islam and Lucy;
• Hunting film;
• The visitors.
TEN
Recorded 30-11-69 , Aired 21-12-69 , Prod. #55176
Untitled:
• Walk-on part in sketch;
• Bank robber (lingerie shop);
• Trailer;
• Arthur Tree;
• Vocational Guidance Counsellor (chartered accountant);
• The first man to jump the Channel;
• Eating Chichester Cathedral;
• Tunnelling from Godalming to Java;
• Pet conversions;
• Gorilla librarian;
• Letters to 'Daily Mirror';
• Strangers in the night.
ELEVEN
Recorded 14-12-69 , Aired 28-12-69 , Prod. #55375
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes To The Bathroom:
• Letter (lavatorial humour);
• Interruptions;
• Agatha Christie sketch (Inspector Tiger);
• Literary football discussion;
• Undertakers film;
• Interesting people;
• Eighteenth-century social legislation;
• The Battle of Trafalgar;
• Batley Townswomens' Guild presents the Battle of Pearl Harbor;
• Undertakers film.
TWELVE
Recorded 21-12-69 , Aired 04-01-70 , Prod. #55628
The Naked Ant:
• Falling from building;
• 'Spectrum' - talking about things;
• Visitors from Coventry;
• Mr. Hilter;
• The Minehead by-election;
• Police station (silly voices);
• Upperclass Twit of the Year;
• Ken Shabby;
• How far can a minister fall?
THIRTEEN
Recorded 04-01-70 , Aired 11-01-70 , Prod. #55997
Intermission:
• Intermissions;
• Restaurant (abuse/cannibalism);
• Advertisements;
• Albatross;
• Come back to my place;
• Me Doctor;
• Historical impersonations;
• Quiz programme - 'Wishes';
• 'Probe-around' on crime; Stonehenge; (?)
• Mr Attila the Hun;
• Psychiatry - silly sketch;
• Operating theatre (squatters).
FOURTEEN
Recorded 09-07-70 , Aired 15-09-70 , Prod. #60530
Dinsdale:
• 'Face the Press';
• New cooker sketch;
• Tobacconists (prostitute advert);
• The Ministry of Silly Walks;
• The Piranha brothers.
FIFTEEN
Recorded 02-07-70 , Aired 22-09-70 , Prod. #60440
The Spanish Inquisition:
• Man-powered flight;
• The Spanish Inquisition;
• Jokes and novelties salesman;
• Tax on thingy;
• Vox pops;
• Photos of Uncle Ted (Spanish Inquisition);
• The semaphore version of 'Wuthering Heights';
• 'Julius Caesar' on an Aldis lamp;
• 'Gunfight at the OK Corral' in Morse Code;
• Smokesignal Version of 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes';
• Court scene (charades).
SIXTEEN
Recorded 16-07-70 , Aired 29-09-70 , Prod. #60531
Show 5:
• A bishop rehearsing;
• Flying lessons;
• Hijacked plane (to Luton);
• The Poet Ewan McTeagle;
• Psychiatrist milkman;
• Complaints;
• 'It's The Mind' - Deja vu.
SEVENTEEN
Recorded 18-08-70 , Aired 20-10-70 , Prod. #61964
The Buzz Aldrin Show:
• Architect sketch;
• How to give up being a Mason;
• Motor insurance sketch;
• 'The Bishop';
• Living room on pavement;
• Poets; A choice of viewing; (?)
• Chemist sketch;
• Words not to be used again;
• After-shave;
• Vox pops;
• Police Constable Pan-Am.
EIGHTEEN
Recorded 10-09-70 , Aired 27-10-70 , Prod. #61851
Live From the Grill-o-Mat Snack Bar:
• Live from the Grill-o-Mat snack bar, Paignton;
• 'Blackmail';
• Society for Putting Things on top of Other Things;
• Escape (from film);
• Current affairs;
• Accidents sketch;
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers;
• The butcher who is alternately rude and polite;
• Documentary on Ken Clean-Air System (Boxer).
NINETEEN
Recorded 10-09-70 , Aired 03-11-70 , Prod. #61852
School Prizes:
• 'It's a Living';
• The time on BBC 1;
• School prize-giving;
• 'if' - a film by Mr Dibley;
• 'Rear Window' - a film by Mr Dibley;
• 'Finian's Rainbow' (starring the man from the off-licence);
• Foreign Secretary;
• Free Dung from the 'Book of the Month' Club;
• Dead Indian;
• Timmy Williams interview;
• Raymond Luxury Yacht (Throatwobbler Mangrove) interview;
• Registry office;
• Election Night Special (Silly and Sensible Parties).
TWENTY
Recorded 02-10-70 , Aired 10-11-70 , Prod. #62572
The Attila The Hun Show:
• 'The Attila the Hun Show';
• Attila the Nun;
• Secretary of State striptease;
• Vox pops on political groupies;
• Ratcatcher;
• Wainscotting;
• Killer sheep;
• The news for parrots;
• The news for gibbons;
• Today in Parliament;
• The news for wombats;
• Attila the Bun;
• The Idiot in the rural society;
• Test match against Iceland;
• The Epsom furniture race;
• 'Spot the Brain Cell'
TWENTY-ONE
Recorded 09-10-70 , Aired 17-11-70 , Prod. #62576
Archeology Today:
• Trailer;
• 'Archeology Today';
• Silly vicar;
• Leapy Lee;
• Registrar (wife swap);
• Silly doctor sketch (immediately abandoned);
• Mr and Mrs Git;
• Ray and Hank Spim - Mosquito hunters;
• Poofy judges;
• Mrs Thing and Mrs Entity;
• Beethoven's mynah bird;
• Shakespeare;
• Michaelangelo;
• Colin "Chopper" Mozart (ratcatcher);
• Judges.
TWENTY-TWO
Recorded 25-09-70 , Aired 24-11-70 , Prod. #62027
How To Recoginize Different Parts Of The Body:
• 'How to recognize different parts of the body';
• Bruces;
• The Philosophers Song
• Naughty bits;
• The man who contradicts people;
• Cosmetic surgery;
• Camp square-bashing;
• Cut-price airline;
• Batley Townswomen's Guild presents the first heart transplant;
• The first underwater production of 'Measure for Measure';
• The death of Mary Queen of Scots;
• Exploding penguin on the TV set;
• There's been a murder;
• Police entry for Eurovision Song Contest;
• 'Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong' (song).
TWENTY-THREE
Recorded 02-07-70 , Aired 01-12-70 , Prod. #60439
Scott Of The Antarctic:
• French subtitled film;
• Scott of the Antarctic;
• Scott of the Sahara;
• Fish licence;
• Derby Council v. All Blacks rugby match; (?) (soccer <=> rugby);
• Long John Silver Impersonators v. Bournemouth Gynaecologists.
TWENTY-FOUR
Recorded 23-07-70 , Aired 08-12-70 , Prod. #60528
How Not To Be Seen:
• Conquistador coffee campaign;
• Repeating groove;
• Ramsey MacDonald striptease;
• Job hunter;
• International Chinese Communist Conspiracy;
• Crelm Toothpaste / Shrill petrol;
• Agatha Christie sketch (railway timetables);
• Mr Neville Shunte - railroad playwright;
• Gavin Millarrrrr writes;
• Film director/dentist Martin Curry (teeth);
• City gents vox pops;
• 'Crackpot Religions Ltd';
• 'How not to be seen';
• Crossing the Atlantic on a tricycle;
• Interview in filing cabinet;
• 'Yummy yummy';
• Monty Python's Flying Circus again in thirty seconds.
TWENTY-FIVE
Recorded 25-06-70 , Aired 15-12-70 , Prod. #60129
Spam:
• 'The Black Eagle';
• Dirty Hungarian phrasebook;
• Court (phrasebook);
• World Forum - Communist quiz;
• 'Ypres 1914' - abandoned;
• Art gallery strikes;
• 'Ypres 1914';
• Hospital for over-actors;
• Gumby flower arranging;
• Spam.
TWENTY-SIX
Recorded 16-10-70 , Aired 22-12-70 , Prod. #67550
Royal Episode 13:
• The Queen will be watching;
• Coal mine in Llandarogh Carmarthen (historical argument);
• The man who says things in a very roundabout way;
• The man who speaks only the ends of words;
• The man who speaks only the beginnings of words;
• The man who speaks only the middles of words;
• Commercials;
• How to feed a goldfish;
• The man who collects birdwatcher's eggs;
• Insurance sketch;
• Hospital run by RSM;
• Mountaineer;
• Exploding version of 'The Blue Danube';
• Girls boarding school;
• Submarine;
• Lifeboat (cannibalism);
• Undertaker's sketch.
TWENTY-SEVEN
Recorded 14-01-71 , Aired 19-10-72 , Prod. #75749
Whicker's World:
• Court scene - multiple murderer;
• Njorl's Saga;
• Court scene (Viking);
• Stock Exchange report;
• Mrs Premise and Mrs Conclusion visit Jean-Paul Sartre;
• Whicker Island.
TWENTY-EIGHT
Recorded 18-01-71 , Aired 26-10-72 , Prod. #76672
Mr. & Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular:
• Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow;
• Schoolboys' Life Assurance Company;
• How to rid the world of all known diseases;
• Mrs Nigger-Baiter explodes;
• Vicar/salesman;
• Farming Club;
• 'Life of Tschaikowsky';
• Trim-Jeans Theatre;
• Fish-slapping dance;
• World War Two;
• Titanic sinking;
• The BBC is short of money;
• Puss in Boots.
TWENTY-NINE
Recorded 04-12-71 , Aired 02-11-72 , Prod. #75516
The Monney Programme:
• 'The Money Programme';
• 'There is nothing quite so wonderful as money' (song);
• Erizabeth L - Episode Thlee - The Almada;
• Fraud film squad;
• Salvation fuzz - Church Police;
• Jungle restaurant;
• Apology for violence and nudity;
• Ken Russell's 'Gardening Club';
• The Lost World of Roiurama;
• The British Exploreres Club;
• Six more minutes of Monty Python's Flying Circus;
• Argument clinic;
• Hitting on the head lessons;
• Inspector Flying Fox of the Yard;
• One more minute of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
THIRTY
Recorded 11-12-71 , Aired 09-11-72 , Prod. #75517
Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror:
• 'Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror';
• The man who speaks in anagrams;
• Anagram quiz;
• Merchant banker;
• Pantomime horses;
• Life and death struggles;
• Househunters;
• Mary recruitment office;
• Bus conductor sketch;
• The an who makes people laugh uncontrollably;
• Army captain as clown;
• Gestures to indicate pauses in a televised talk;
• Neurotic announcers;
• The news with Richard Baker (vision only);
• 'The Pantomime Horse is a Secret Agent film'.
THIRTY-ONE
Recorded 24-04-72 , Aired 16-11-72 , Prod. #78491
The All-England Summarize Proust Competition:
• 'Summarize Proust Competition';
• Everest climbed by hairdressers;
• Fire brigade;
• Our Eamonn;
• 'Party Hints' with Veronica Smalls;
• Language laboratory;
• Travel agent;
• Theory on Brontosauruses by Anne Elk (Miss).
THIRTY-TWO
Recorded 21-01-72 , Aired 23-11-72 , Prod. #76570
The War Against Pornography:
• Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign;
• Gumby brain specialist;
• Molluscs - 'live' TV documentary;
• The Minister for not listening to people;
• Tuesday documentary/children's story/party political broadcast;
• Politicans - An Apology;
• Expedition to Lake Pahoe;
• The silliest interview we've ever had;
• The silliest sketch we've ever done.
THIRTY-THREE
Recorded 07-01-72 , Aired 30-11-72 , Prod. #75606
Salad Days:
• Biggles dictates a letter;
• Climbing the north face of the Uxbridge road;
• Lifeboat;
• Old lady snoopers;
• 'Storage jars';
• The show so far;
• Cheese shop;
• Philip Jenkinson on Cheese Westerns;
• Sam Peckinpah's 'Salad Days';
• Apology;
• The news with Richard Baker;
• Seashore interlude film.
THIRTY-FOUR
Recorded 04-05-72 , Aired 07-12-72 , Prod. #78642
The Cycling Tour:
• Mr Pither;
• Clodagh Rogers;
• Trotsky;
• Smolensk;
• Bingo-crazed Chinese (British Ambassador);
• 'Jack in a Box'.
THIRTY-FIVE
Recorded 11-05-72 , Aired 14-12-72 , Prod. #78735
The Nude Man:
• Bomb on plane;
• A naked man;
• Ten seconds of sex;
• Housing project built by characters from 19th-century English literature;
• M1 interchange built by characters from 'Paradise Lost';
• Mystico and Janet - flats built by hypnosis;
• 'Mortuary Hour';
• The Olympic hide-and-seek final;
• The Cheap-Laughs;
• Bull-fighting; The British Well-Basically Club; (?)
• Prices on the planet Algon.
THIRTY-SIX
Recorded 25-05-72 , Aired 21-12-72 , Prod. #78968
E. Henry Tripshaw's Disease:
• Tudor jobs agency;
• Pornographic bookshop;
• Elizabethan pornography smugglers;
• Silly disturbances (the Rev. Arthur Belling);
• The free repetition of doubtful words sketch, by a very underrated writer;
• 'Is there?'... life after death?;
• The man who says words in the wrong order;
• E. Henry Thripshaw's disease;
• Silly noises;
• Sherry-drinking vicar.
THIRTY-SEVEN
Recorded 17-04-72 , Aired 04-01-73 , Prod. #78413
Dennis Moore:
• 'Boxing Tonight' - Jack Bodell v. Sir Kenneth Clarke;
• Dennis Moore;
• Lupins;
• What the stars foretell;
• Doctor;
• TV4 or not TV4' discussion; 'Gathering Storm'
• Ideal Loon Exhibition;
• Off-Licence;
• 'Prejudice'.
THIRTY-EIGHT
Recorded 18-12-71 , Aired 11-01-73 , Prod. #75554
A Book at Bedtime:
• 'A Book at Bedtime';
• 'Red Gauntlet';
• Kamikaze Highlanders;
• No time to lose;
• Penguins;
• BBC programme planners;
• Unexploded Scotsmen;
• 'Spot the Looney';
• Rival documentaries;
• 'Dad's Doctors' (trail);
• Dad's Pooves' (trail).
THIRTY-NINE
Recorded 18-05-72 , Aired 18-01-73 , Prod. #78817
Grandstand:
• Thames TV introduction;
• 'Light Entertainment Awards';
• Dickie Attenborough;
• The Oscar Wilde sketch;
• David Niven's fridge;
• Pasolini's film 'The Third Test Match';
• New brain from Curry's;
• Blood donor;
• International Wife-Swapping;
• Credits of the Year;
• The dirty vicar sketch.
FORTY
Recorded 12-10-74 , Aired 31-10-74 , Prod. #95141
The Golden Age Of Ballooning:
• Montgolfier Brothers;
• Louis XIV;
• George III;
• Zeppelin.
FORTY-ONE
Recorded 19-10-74 , Aired 07-11-74 , Prod. #91562
Michael Ellis:
• Department store;
• Buying an ant;
• At home with the ant and other pets;
• Documentary on ants;
• Ant communication;
• Poetry reading (ants);
• Toupee;
• Different endings.
FORTY-TWO
Recorded 26-10-74 , Aired 14-11-74 , Prod. #95279
Light Entertainment War:
• 'Up your Pavement';
• RAF banter;
• Trivializing the war;
• Courtmartial;
• Basingstoke in Westphalia;
• 'Anything goes' (song);
• Film trailer;
• The public are idiots;
• Programme titles conference;
• The last five miles of the M4;
• Woody and tinny words;
• Show-jumping (musical);
• Newsflash (Germans);
• 'When Does A Dream Begin?' (song).
FORTY-THREE
Recorded 02-11-74 , Aired 21-11-74 , Prod. #95474
Hamlet:
• Bogus psychiatrists;
• 'Nationwide';
• Police helmets;
• Father-in-law;
• Hamlet and Ophelia;
• Boxing match aftermath;
• Boxing commentary;
• Piston engine (a bargain);
• A room in Polonius' house;
• Dentists;
• Live from Epsom;
• Queen Victoria Handicap.
FORTY-FOUR
Recorded 09-11-74 , Aired 28-11-74 , Prod. #95563
Mr Neutron:
• Post box ceremony;
• Teddy Salad (CIA agent);
• 'Conjuring Today'.
FORTY-FIVE
Recorded 16-11-74 , Aired 05-12-74 , Prod. #95623
Party Political Broadcast:
• 'Most Awful Family in Britain';
• Icelandic Honey Week;
• A doctor whose patients are stabbed by his nurse;
• Brigadier and Bishop;
• Appeal on behalf of extremely rich people;
• The man who finishes other people's sentences;
• Richard Attenborough;
• The walking trees of Dahomey;
• The batsmen of the Kalahari;
• Cricket match (assegais);
• BBC News (handovers).