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Monty Python's Flight Circus, Series two

"Monty Python'southward Flying Circus, Series 2"
Manager/Producer: Ian MacNaughton
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In the show's second serial the Pythons were even more than confident and daring than in their first, as evident in both the tightness of the editing and the breadth of their material – thus avoiding the "sophomore jinx."Series Highlights [Notation: None of the shows had official episode titles]

Episode 14 (Original air date: 15 Sept. 1970) – Confront the Press; New Cooker Sketch; Tobacconist Adverts; The Ministry of Silly Walks; The Piranha Brothers

Episode 15

(Original air date: 22 Sept. 1970) – Man-Powered Flight; The Castilian Inquisition; Novelties Salesman; A Tax on "Thingy"; The Semaphore Version of "Wuthering Heights"; Court Charades

Episode xvi

(Original air date: 29 Sept. 1970) – Exploding Stuffed Animals; The Rehearsing Bishop; Flying Lessons; Hijacked Aeroplane; Poet Ewen McTeagle; Psychiatrist Milkmen; Deja Vu

Episode 17

(Original air date: twenty October. 1970) – Gumbys; Architect Sketch; How to Surrender Being a Mason; The Bishop; Home on the Pavement; Poet Reader; Chemist Sketch; Police Constable Pan-Am

Episode 18

(Original air date: 27 Oct. 1970) – Live From the Grill-O-Mat Snack Bar, Paignton; "Bribery"; Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things; A Room That Destroys Itself; A School Production of "Vii Brides for Seven Brothers"; A Man Alternately Rude and Police; Boxer Ken Clean-Air Systems

Episode xix

(Original air date: three Nov. 1970) – "It's a Living"; Eric Dibley's "If"; Dung; Timmy Wilson'southward Coffee Time; Raymond Luxury Yacht; Registry Office; Fairy Tayle Animation (With the Black Spot); Election Nighttime Special (Featuring the Silly and Sensible Parties)

Episode twenty

(Original air date: x Nov. 1970) – "The Attila the Hun Testify"; Secretary of Land Striptease; Killer Sheep; The News for Parrots; Village Idiots; Test Match; Michael Miles Quiz Bear witness

Episode 21

(Original air date: 17 Nov. 1970) – Archaeology Today; Dizzy Vicar; Married woman Swap; Mr. and Mrs. Git; Mosquito Hunters; Judges' Cloakroom; Ms. Matter and Mrs. Entity; Beethoven'south Mynah Bird

Episode 22

(Original air engagement: 24 Nov. 1970) – How to Recognize Different Parts of the Body; Bruces; The Man Who Contradicts People; Plastic Surgeon; Military Swanning About; Woman Trips Bus Animation; Killer Cars Animation; Verrifast Plaine Company Ltd.; The Batley Townswomen's Order's Re-enactment of the Starting time Heart Transplant; The Death of Mary Queen of Scots; Penguin on the Television; Inspector Muffin; "Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong!"

Episode 23

(Original air date: one December. 1970) – French Film; Scott of the Antarctic; Conrad Poohs and His Dancing Teeth; Fish License; Rugby Matches

Episode 24

(Original air date: 8 Dec. 1970) – Conquistidor Instant Java Advertising Campaign; Prime number Minister Striptease; Chore Interview; "It All Happened on the 11:20 From Hainault &c"; Mr. Neville Shunte; Toothy Pic Director; Crackpot Religions; How Not to Be Seen; Crossing the Atlantic on a Tricycle; "Yummy Yummy Yummy"; "Monty Python's Flying Circus" repeated in 30 seconds

Episode 25

(Original air date: 15 Dec. 1970) – The Blackness Eagle; Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook; World Forum Communist Quiz Show; Ypres 1914 Sketch; Art Gallery Figures on Strike; Hospital for Over-Acting; Gumby Flower Arrangement; Spam

Episode 26

(Original air engagement: 22 Dec. 1970) – Regal Episode thirteen; Coal Mine Disputes; The Man Who Says Things in a Very Roundabout Mode; Krelm Toothpaste Commercial Animation; How to Feed a Goldfish; The Man Who Collects Birdwatcher's Eggs; Insurance Sketch; Exploding Version of "The Blue Danube"; Lifeboat; Cannibalism Blitheness; Undertaker SketchThe Making of

Michael Palin said, "I think there was always a witting desire to practice something which was alee of or tested the audition'southward gustation, or tested the limits of what we can or cannot say. I think it's probably strongest in John and Graham's writing; they enjoyed beingness able to shock (whereas Terry and I enjoyed surprise more daze). … The two of them would put together things like the 'Undertaker Sketch,' purely because they knew it was outrageous, and even so they did information technology in a way none of the other Pythons would have washed, so it was quite refreshing.

Reception

Unlike Serial i, which went out late Sunday evenings, Series 2 was broadcast Tuesdays on BBC1. There were withal regional channels that did non pick upward the show, however, stirring much protest in the letters pages of the Radio Times.

On repeats, some sketches fell to the pair of scissors of the BBC'due south censors. "Fairy Tale," Terry Gilliam'southward cartoon featuring a prince who discovers a blackness spot on his face ("Foolishly he ignored information technology, and three years later he died of cancer"), was edited to replace the word "cancer" with "gangrene." A Gilliam cartoon in which Christ is crucified on a telephone pole was also cut.

The notorious "Undertaker Sketch," in which John Cleese brings his expressionless mother in a sack to a funeral domicile, simply to be offered the choice of having her for dinner ("Tell you what, we'll eat her, if you lot feel a fleck guilty about information technology afterward, we can dig a grave and y'all tin throw up in it"), was cut on a repeat, and lost. A re-create of an NTSC recording from North America was the source for reinserting the sketch back into the episode for syndication in the 1980s.

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