Monty Python's Flying Circus - Set 6 (Epi. 33-39)

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Contains the following Season 3 episodes:#33 Salad Days ; #34 The Cycling Tour ; #35 The Nude Organist ; #36 E. Henry Thripshaw s Disease ; #37 Dennis Moore ; #38 A Book at Bedtime ; #39 Grandstand Do not adjust your set. It just doesn t get any better than this. The silly noises and cheap laughs you hear emanating from your expensive stereo speakers are intentional. The jerky, sometimes spastic movements of the characters on your television screen are actually an advanced form of the comedic arts, developed by the British virtuosos of Monty Python s Flying Circus. In fact, this is how television was intended to look and sound. 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. Pop one of these discs into your DVD player immediately to avoid further degradation of your telly.With:GRAHAM CHAPMAN as Mrs. TrepidatiusJOHN CLEESE as DorisTERRY GILLIAM as The Swiss MountaineerERIC IDLE as Mr. Customer ManTERRY JONES as Mr. Cheap Laughand MICHAEL PALIN as Mr. Very BigliarConceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. Animations by Terry Gilliam. Produced and directed by Ian MacNaughton.

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Six more opportunities to "Spot the Looney." This boxed set contains the final six episodes from the third and last full season of Monty Python's Flying Circus. More discriminating Monty Python fans are directed to episodes from seasons 1 and 2, also available on VHS and DVD. But completists can fast-forward or click through clunkers such as Prices on the Planet Algon or the rather obvious game-show sketch Prejudice to such beloved sketches from the Python pantheon as The Cheese Shop, a fermented curd variation on the famed Parrot Sketch, in which John Cleese is unable to get any "cheesy comestibles" from woefully understocked proprietor Michael Palin; the extended epic Cycling Tour, perhaps Palin's finest half-hour; the increasingly surreal Tudor Jobs Agency, in which an intrepid smut confiscator (Palin again) finds himself seemingly transported back to Elizabethan times, where he turns "the tide of Spanish porn"; Cleese's lupin-stealing highwayman Dennis Moore; the Oscar Wilde Sketch, in which Wilde (Graham Chapman), Whistler (Cleese), and Shaw (Palin) match wits in an escalatingly profane game of verbal oneupsmanship ("Your Highness is like a stream of bat's piss....") and the self-explanatory Dirty Vicar Sketch. --Donald Liebenson

Customer Reviews:

Heartbreaking transfer to DVD.......2003-11-03

Monty Python is a sacred institution that needs to be treated respectfully. What a shame that A&E didn't see things that way.

There are many of us for whom these classic sketches are basically burned into our brains from having seen them countless times. This is because they stand up so well to repeated viewings. How, then, did A&E figure they could, so criminally, do the following, without some of us noticing:

- completely chop out the "Dad's Pooves" sketch
- completely chop out the "Choreographed Party Political Broadcast" sketch (right before the Book at Bedtime sketch at the start of the show)
- put in a horrific blip in the middle of "Biggles Dictates a Letter" in which a few seconds of dialogue are completely ruined

As has already been mentioned, the transfer is also poor in places. My efforts to point these matters out to A&E were shrugged off when I reported them, which leads me to believe there is no plan to fix these offensive errors. Buyers beware! At present it appears there is no way for the completionist to actually obtain the complete works of Monty Python in DVD format due to these omissions.

DVD should be treated better.......2002-04-01

It is Monty Python, and as such it is good per se. However, whoever took care of DVD edition, did not pay much attention. Together with the usually arcane and mostly impractical title/chapter navigation found on all MPFS discs, the Set 6 DVD's show some serious image problems. While most of it is in line with the age of the masters, there are some obvious artefacts related to MPEG2 coding schemes - such as awfully shimmering endcredits in some episodes (in obvious contrast with the same credits when not in motion - and they are part of the show), and occasional swimming wall textures and auras surrounding some of the actors etc. It wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't possible to avoid this with better quality control.

Funny!!!!.......2001-02-02

Okay, we all know that Monty Pythons Flying Circus is the funniest show ever. And that all there movies are great. But this collection is by far the funniest stuff i've ever seen. Spend an afternoon with Dennis moore or Mr. Pither. If you are a fan of the Kids in the Hall or Saturday Night Live this is a must have. The only complaint is WHY DON"T THEY GO ON TOUR AGAIN!

Hight Lights: Salad Days, Cheese shop, Cycling store (Full Half Hour) Dirty vicar, penguins, Dennis Moore (Lupins) and Life Boat.

P.S: Michael Palins the man!

Still making us laugh after all these years............2000-11-17

Another wonderful collection of MP episodes. The only disappointments here were the editing of the Bus Conductor Sketch and the ommission of Dad's Doctors/Dad's Pooves sketch. Otherwise, a great collection and I can't give enough praise for Monty Python's Flying Circus. Eric is my favorite by the way! :)

The Avangardists Of Modern Humour.......2000-09-26

To this day, Monty Python remains THE idol and source of inspiration to humourists all around. »Monty Python's Flying Circus« made the group famous, and it is the best ever to come out, not only from Monty Python, not only from Britain... but humour in general!

Highlights on this tape: »Cheese Shop«, »Mr Pither«, »Olympic Hide And Seek«, »Silly Disturbances (The Rev. Arthur Belling)«, »What The Stars Foretell« and »Penguins«.

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Contains episodes 1-6 from Season 1 of Monty Python s Flying CircusVery possiby the most tragic waste of Oxbridge educations ever broadcast. The programme that made all of America sit up and say: what? That put Spam back in the national pantry, launched crossdressing as a national craze, and made Rene Descartes a household name. Now it s back in its original order--the first six episodes of the premiere season-- as if that had any empirical value whatsoever.

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In 1969, five overeducated British comics and an American illustrator invaded the homes of unsuspecting BBC viewers with a brand of comedy that was, at the very least, odd. "Absurd," "bizarre," and "incomprehensible" are other descriptions that jump to mind. Nonetheless, this wacky sextet inaugurated an absurd tradition that continued through three and a half seasons of half-hour TV episodes, a series of live performances, a handful of movies, and a legacy of dead parrots and upper-class twits. Monty Python's Flying Circus, Set 1 features the first episodes foisted on a still-reeling public, introducing running gags ("And now for something completely different") and recurring characters (an armor-clad Terry Gilliam wielding a rubber chicken, Graham Chapman's pompous Colonel intruding on sketches he deems simply too silly, and of course Michael Palin's "It's a Man" wandered through the entire season). Among the sketch highlights in the first three shows are Nudge Nudge, the Funniest Joke in the World, How to Defend Yourself from a Man Attacking You with Fresh Fruit, Confuse a Cat, and The Dull Life of a City Stockbroker, all interspersed with various and sundry cut-out animation sequences by Terry Gilliam. These early episodes may lack the consistency and stream-of-consciousness flow of their later, more assured work, but they're packed with some of the most memorable moments of the group's brief but brilliant history. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews:

Upperclass Twit of the year.......2007-03-03

To the person who asked about this skit. It's on this DVD set. It's the funniest I've seen.

information please!.......2006-12-24

can anyone advise me as to which dvd set has the 'upper class twit of the year contest' on it? thank you kindly!

But It's My Only Line!.......2006-08-16

OK, now that the DVD versions are out, and the Personal Bests, and the Entire Series', it's unlikely you will want to purchase a puny little set of VHS' of the first season of Tony M. Nythop's Flying Ricsu. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought we were doing anagrams. I meant Monty Python's Flying Circus. But it's all I have! So I'm reviewing it.

I love the Flying Circus series. Aside from Life of Brian, and bits of The Holy Grail, I would pit the series against any of the Python movies. I think Terry and Michael, and John and Graham, and Eric (the three teams who wrote together or solo as the case may be) were most brilliant doing sketch comedy, and this particular packet shows that they arrived from The Frost Report, Do Not Adjust Your Set, and Doctor In the House hitting the ground running. It's amazing to realize that such time honored skits as Dead Parrot, Nudge Nudge, and Confuse-a-Cat are all here--in the first season!

One could argue that these Oxbridge thespians were "to the manor born", having all been products of either the Cambridge Footlights or the Fringe Festivals. And that would be true. However, rather than rest on their laurels and serve up a formulaic comic television show, the Pythons deliberately focused on a stream-of-conciousness style, taking cues from heroes like Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook. Although there were many TV shows at the time that were tending towards the absurd, there weren't any that didn't have punch lines at the end of skits, and this caused some apparent discombobulation with audiences at first. Thankfully, however, Python remained popular enough to remain on the BBC for another 5 seasons and in American hearts for over twenty years.

Do yourself a favor. Even if you have seen all the Monty Python films, even if you have heard some of their records....buy this or another VHS or DVD collection of the best showcase of their patchwork, tangential comedy---Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Not as concise as the movies, but still just plain awesome.......2006-03-17

I have seen a lot of the Monty Python movies, and until now, I didn't really put two and two together that all of the miscellaneous sketches were part of a TV show. A TV show that gave them the chance to do the movies. I got these with expectations that they would be like the movies. They are much more random and not a "cult classic" as I would have figured except for certain sketches that most people know. But I still loved watching these and getting a sense where they started and where a lot of sketch comedy got their ideas today. If you are a die hard fan I would get these, I probably won't use my own money to get the rest, but I would love to get them as gifts, and I will probably be the oddball here. Everyone I know would buy the whole set outright.

And Now For Something Completely Different.......2006-02-17

*Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more, say no more!*

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