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- StarsDavid FrostRonnie BarkerRonnie CorbettA comedy show written and staring various comedy pioneers including comedians who would go on to form the Two Ronnies and Monty Python.
- StarsDenise CoffeyEric IdleDavid JasonShort comedy sketches performed by an ensemble cast accompanied by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, an eccentric English group featuring Neil Innes and fronted by Vivian Stanshall.
- StarsJohn CleeseGraham ChapmanTim Brooke-TaylorWritten by and starring The Goodies' Tim Brooke-Taylor, Monty Python's Graham Chapman and John Cleese, and comedy legend Marty Feldman, "At Last the 1948 Show" is a groundbreaking, splendidly silly and surreal sketch comedy series.
- StarsMichael PalinTerry JonesWallas EatonA forerunner to 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', this sketch show looked at famous events in British history from a quirky perspective. Only one series was made, by the commercial channel London Weekend Television.
- DirectorIan FordyceStarsJohn CleeseTim Brooke-TaylorGraham ChapmanIn this mock-documentary, John Cleese narrates a series of sketches on irritation -- types and techniques. Included are parents irritating their children, old ladies irritating movie-goers in a theater, an overly subservient waiter, a car repairman denying obvious car trouble, a party guest hinting for a ride, airplane pilots playing practical jokes on their passengers, and a talk show host who doesn't stop talking.
- CreatorGraham ChapmanEric IdleTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseTerry GilliamThe original surreal sketch comedy showcase for the Monty Python troupe.
- DirectorKevin BillingtonStarsAnn BeachDesmond Walter-EllisPeter CookFresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics, and in the mini-skirted, flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain, he starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
- DirectorIan MacNaughtonStarsJohn CleeseMichael PalinGraham ChapmanAn anthology of the best sketches from the first and second seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
- DirectorRobert YoungStarsConnie BoothJohn CleeseGraham CrowdenA bassist shows up early for the betrothal ball of a beautiful princess, and whiles away the time having a dip in the river. The princess is doing the same, unbeknownst to the bass player, but when someone steals their clothes, the bass player helps the princess to preserve her dignity by transporting her back to the castle in his bass case, and along the way they discover they have feelings for each other. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.
- StarsJohn CleesePrunella ScalesAndrew SachsHotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.
- DirectorTerry GilliamTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseEric IdleKing Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
- StarsMichael PalinCharles McKeownBarbara NewThis show is a collection of tales that make for "ripping good" television. Sir Michael Palin played a different lead character in each yarn.
- DirectorJoseph McGrathStarsJohn CleeseArthur LoweRon MoodyThe grandson of the world's first and foremost consulting detective and his bumbling, bionic sidekick attempt to catch the only living descendant of Professor Moriarty.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsMichael PalinHarry H. CorbettJohn Le MesurierA young peasant with no interest in adventure or fortune is mistaken for the kingdom's only hope when a horrible monster threatens the countryside.
- DirectorPeter MedakStarsGraham ChapmanDavid JasonDiana QuickArthur Harris is a happily-married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife Fiona is leaving him. Devastated, he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few setbacks, he is trying to electrocute himself with a lamp when the doorbell rings. An odd man in a leather coat asks if there are any odd jobs that he can perform. Arthur hires the man to kill him. The next day his wife returns, but the man he hired is still trying to kill him.
- DirectorJohn CleeseClare TaylorStarsJohn CleeseThe narrator of a travelogue film slowly goes mad from boredom.
- DirectorTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseMichael PalinBorn on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
- DirectorMicky DolenzStarsTerry JonesAndrew LodgeCharles McKeownA politician's stunt involving a box goes wrong. He finds that he is not alone in the box.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsSean ConneryShelley DuvallJohn CleeseA young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.
- DirectorTerry HughesIan MacNaughtonStarsJohn CleeseMichael PalinEric IdleThe Monty Python troupe perform a combination of classic sketches and new material at the Hollywood Bowl.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsSydney ArnoldGuy BertrandAndrew BicknellA group of down-and-out accountants mutiny against their bosses and sail their office building onto the high seas in search of a pirate's life.
- DirectorTerry JonesStarsJohn CleeseTerry GilliamEric IdleThe comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.
- DirectorMel DamskiStarsGraham ChapmanPeter BoyleCheech MarinAfter serving two decades in prison, Yellowbeard (Graham Chapman) breaks out determined to recover the treasure that he buried so long ago, alongside his son, old crew, and the British Navy.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJonathan PryceKim GreistRobert De NiroA bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.
- DirectorChristopher MorahanStarsJohn CleesePenny LeatherbarrowHoward Lloyd-LewisAn obsessively punctual comprehensive school headmaster sets out to give an important speech at the annual Headmasters' Conference.
- DirectorTerry JonesStarsJulie WaltersAlec McCowenShirley StelfoxThe story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne.
- DirectorCharles CrichtonJohn CleeseStarsJohn CleeseJamie Lee CurtisKevin KlineIn London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool a very proper barrister.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJohn NevilleEric IdleSarah PolleyAn account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.
- DirectorIan MacNaughtonStarsSteve MartinGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseSketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
- DirectorTerry JonesStarsTim RobbinsJohn CleeseMickey RooneyErik the Viking and his men travel across the sea to find Valhalla to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnarok.
- 20121h 25mR5.8 (1.8K)45MetascoreDirectorBill JonesJeff SimpsonBen TimlettStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseTerry JonesAn animated, factually incorrect biography of Graham Arthur Chapman, one of the founding members of the comedy group Monty Python.
- DirectorEric IdleAubrey PowellStarsJohn CleeseTerry GilliamEric IdleThe reunion of the Monty Python team on stage for the first time in over 30 years, and for the very last time ever.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsTerry GilliamA short comedy animation about human endeavors in flight.