Monty Python's Flying Circus
Episode Table

If you've enjoyed Monty Python's films such as And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, and are interested in their original television shows, it can be a bit daunting since there are 22 VHS videocassette volumes with 45 half-hour episodes. That's 22.5 hours of viewing! And they're all out of print anyway, so you may be limited to various video rental stores' partial collections. You might be interested in seeing them in the order in which they were made, to get a feel for their development. But the episode numbers do not reflect the order in which they were made (instead, they reflect the order in which they were originally aired), and anyway the VHS volume numbers reflect neither the order in which they were made nor the episode numbers. The VHS episodes put the 2nd and 3rd years, generally considered the best, ahead of the 1st and 4th years, but they do so without regard for exceptions: relatively dull 2nd & 3rd year episodes are placed ahead of better 1st & 4th year episodes. The very popular sketch Nudge Nudge doesn't appear until VHS volume 19.

Here's a table that helps facilitate viewing the episodes in the order in which they were made:

 

Sequence     VHS   Sequence Sequence
As Date Episode Videocassette LaserDisc on on
Recorded Recorded Number Volume Volume VHS LaserDisc
1 Aug 14, '69 3 19 NRLD* 1 NRLD*
2 Aug 30, '69 2 16 11 1 1
3 Sep 7, '69 1 13 8 2 2
4 Sep 21, '69 4 18 NRLD* 1 NRLD*
5 Oct 3, '69 5 14 9 1 1
6 Oct 10, '69 7 15 10 2 2
7 Nov 5, '69 6 14 9 2 2
8 Nov 25, '69 8 15 10 1 1
9 Nov 30, '69 10 20 NRLD* 1 NRLD*
10 Dec 7, '69 9 13 8 1 1
11 Dec 14, '69 11 16 11 2 2
12 Dec 21, '69 12 17 12 1 1
13 Jan 4, '70 13 17 12 2 2
14 Jun 25, '70 25 5 3 1 3
15 Jul 2, '70 15 2 2 2 1
16 Jul 2, '70 23 21 NRLD* 1 NRLD*
17 Jul 9, '70 14 1 1 2 2
18 Jul 16, '70 16 10 5 2 2
19 Jul 23, '70 24 6 4 1 2
20 Sep 10, '70 18 7 NRLD* 1 NRLD*
21 Sep 10, '70 19 9 13 1 1
22 Sep 18, '70 17 1 1 1 1
23 Sep 25, '70 22 4 3 1 1
24 Oct 2, '70 20 3 2 1 2
25 Oct 9, '70 21 11 6 2 2
26 Oct 16, '70 26 8 NRLD* 1 NRLD*
First German episode (the one in German with English subtitles) (NRLD*)
27 Dec 4, '71 29 2 1 1 3
28 Dec 11, '71 30 10 5 1 1
29 Dec 18, '71 38 12 7 1 1
30 Jan 7, '72 33 6 4 2 3
31 Jan 14, '72 27 9 13 2 2
32 Jan 21, '72 32 5 4 2 1
33 Jan 28, '72 28 4 3 2 2
34 Apr 17, '72 37 12 7 2 2
35 Apr 24, '72 31 3 2 2 3
36 May 4, '72 34 22 NRLD* 3 NRLD*
37 May 11, '72 35 7 NRLD* 2 NRLD*
38 May 18, '72 39 11 6 1 1
39 May 25, '72 36 8 NRLD* 2 NRLD*
Second German episode (the one in English) (NRLD*)
40 Oct 12, '74 40 22 NRLD* 1 NRLD*
41 Oct 19, '74 41 20 NRLD* 2 NRLD*
42 Oct 26, '74 42 21 NRLD* 2 NRLD*
43 Nov 2, '74 43 19 NRLD* 2 NRLD*
44 Nov 9, '74 44 22 NRLD* 2 NRLD*
45 Nov 16, '74 45 18 NRLD* 2 NRLD*

*NRLD: Never Released on LaserDisc.

 

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