On 5th December it'll have been 50 years since the last episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was first aired on the BBC, and yet, the show continues to captivate audiences around the world. Despite ...

This article is part of Yahoo's 'On This Day' series. The final episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus aired on BBC 1 this day 18 January, 1973, marking the end of an era for the most influential ...

On Sunday 5 October 1969 at 11pm (after most respectable people had gone to bed) the BBC broadcast the first episode of a show that changed the course of British comedy. Monty Python’s Flying Circus ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It began with a shaggy, Ancient Mariner figure dragging himself along a seashore. Its jaunty credit sequence intertwined cartoon ...

The Python catalogue, repackaged and remastered. Lovely plumage... Given their strong group identity, and their friendship with George Harrison, it’s not hard to see how the Monty Python has come to ...

Rare photographs of Monty Python’s Flying Circus have been released on the day of the show’s 50 th anniversary. The programme, which first aired on October 5 1969, was a surreal sketch series by the ...

Monty Python’s Flying Circus is returning to UK terrestrial television for the first time in almost 35 years. The cult comedy sketch series was created by the comedy group Monty Python, consisting of ...

My first Walkman was a fairly chunky, banana-yellow box attached to the world’s least comfortable headphones. I had a bundle of tapes, but there’s only one I really remember listening to on loop: ...

Eric Idle, a founding member of the iconic comedy group Monty Python’s Flying Circus, often contemplates whether extraterrestrial life possesses a sense of humour. "I think the answer must be yes, ...