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Monty Python's Flying Circus  (also known as simply  Monty Python ) is a 50- year old (as of 2024) British  surreal   sketch comedy  series created by and starring  Graham Chapman ,  John Cleese ,  Eric Idle ,  Terry Jones ,  Michael Palin , and  Terry Gilliam , who became known collectively as " Monty Python ", or the "Pythons". The first episode was recorded at the  BBC  on 7 September 1969 and premiered on 5 October on  BBC1 , with 45 episodes airing over four series from 1969 to 1974, plus two episodes for German TV. A feature film adaptation of several sketches,  And Now for Something Completely Different , was released in 1971. The series stands out for its use of  absurd situations , mixed with risqué and innuendo-laden humour,  sight gags , and observational sketches without  punchlines . Live-action segments were broken up with animations by Gilliam, often merging with the live action to form  segues . The overall format used for the series followed and elaborated upon the style used by  Spike Milligan  in his groundbreaking series  Q... , rather than the traditional sketch show format. The Pythons play the majority of the series's characters themselves, along with supporting cast members including  Carol Cleveland  (referred to by the team as the unofficial "Seventh Python"),  Connie Booth  (Cleese's first wife), series producer  Ian MacNaughton ,  Ian Davidson , musician  Neil Innes , and  Fred Tomlinson  and the Fred Tomlinson Singers for musical numbers. [1] [2] The programme came about as the six Pythons, having met each other through university and in various radio and television programmes in the 1960s, sought to make a new sketch comedy show unlike anything else on British television at the time. Much of the humour in the series' various episodes and sketches targets the idiosyncrasies of  British life , especially that of professionals, as well as aspects of politics. Their comedy is often pointedly  intellectual , with numerous erudite references to philosophers and literary figures and their works. The team intended their humour to be impossible to categorise, and succeeded so completely that the adjective " Pythonesque " was invented to define it and, later, similar material. However, their humour was not always seen as appropriate for television by the BBC, leading to some censorship during the third series. Cleese left the show following that series, and the remaining Pythons completed a final, shortened fourth series before ending the show. The show became very popular in the United Kingdom, and after initially failing to draw an audience in the United States, gained American popularity after  PBS  member stations began airing it in 1974. The programme's success on both sides of the Atlantic led to the Pythons going on live tours and creating three additional films, while the individual Pythons flourished in solo careers.  Monty Python's Flying Circus  has become an influential work on comedy as well as in popular culture. The programming language  Python  was named by  Guido van Rossum  after the show, and the word  spam , for junk email, took its name from a word used in  a Monty Python sketch . Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus  ( Monty Python's Flying Circus ) are a pair of 45-minute  Monty Python   German television comedy  specials produced by  WDR  for West German television. The two episodes were respectively first broadcast in January and December 1972 and were shot entirely on film and mostly on location in  Bavaria , with the first episode recorded in German and the second recorded in English and then dubbed into German. The expression "Fliegender Zirkus"/"Flying Circus" is Originally German - it refers to the Air Squadron of German Ace  Manfred von Richthofen , which always had to move back and forth like a circus with trucks to compensate for the numerically superior Allied squadrons due to insufficient numbers of own aircraft.

Enclosed is Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969-1974), a 4-series TV show run by a wonderful surreal-British humor comedy troupe called Monty Python! Here is the complete 12 Disc NTSC DVD set, remuxed with MakeMKV.! All 45 episodes are enclosed, along with extras. Enjoy!