Country of Origin: |
United Kingdom |
Production year: |
1969 |
Directors: |
Ian McNaughton, John Howard Davies |
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UPC [Locale]: |
733961-701746
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Running time: |
24:39 (1479 Min.) |
Casetype: |
Slip Case |
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Color, 1.33:1, Full Frame |
DVD-Format: |
Single-Sided, Single-Layered |
Released: |
October 31, 2000 |
Collection type: |
Owned (#140) |
Status: |
Available |
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Purchase date: |
May 18, 2005 |
Purchase price: |
Hidden |
Review (movie): |
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Overview |
Monty's Python's chief weapon is surprise. And silliness. Their two weapons are surprise and silliness. And men in drag. Their three weapons are surprise, silliness and men in drag. And bizarre animation. Their FOUR chief weapons... Oh, bloody hell.
As young men, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin showed tremendous promise as gifted comic artists. Then they created Monty Python's Flying Circus - very possibly the most tragic waste of Oxbridge education ever broadcast. If your television ever produces the sight or sound of rich drama or accomplished acting, there is most assuredly something drastically wrong with your set.
But it is clear: no programme in the history of television has brought such enlightenment to the common man. Monty Python's Flying Circus provides a veritable university education in cultural literacy - tailored, of course, to suit those not quite done with evolution.
The world will never forget Monthy Python's Flying Circus. But perhaps, someday, we'll forgive.
Episode List:
Disc 1 - Whither Canada
Sex & Violence
How to Recognize Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
Disc 2 - Owl-Stretching Time
Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century
It's the Arts
Disc 3 - You're No Fun Anymore
Full Frontal Nudity
The Ant, an Introduction
Disc 4 - "Untitled"
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
The Naked Ant
Intermission
Disc 5 - Face the Press
The Spanish Inquisition
Déjà vu
Disc 6 - The Buzz Aldrin Show
Live from the Grill-O-Mat
It's a Living
Disc 7 - The Attila the Hun Show
Archaeology Today
How to Recognize Different Parts of the Body
Disc 8 - Scott of the Antarctic
How Not to Be Seen
Spam
Royal Episode 13
Disc 9 - Whicker's World
Mr. And Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular
The Money Programme
Disc 10 - Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
The All-England Summarize Proust Competition
The War Against Pornography
Disc 11 - Salad Days
The Cycling Tour
The Nude Organist
Disc 12 - E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease
Dennis Moore
A Book at Bedtime
Grandstand
Disc 13 - The Golden Age of Ballooning
Michael Ellis
The Light Entertainment War
Disc 14 - Hamlet
Mr. Neutron
Party Political Broadcast |
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