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 ...

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 ...

TV sketch show BBC Two / BBC One 1969 - 1974 45 episodes (4 series) Biblical movie satire focusing on the life of Brian Cohen, a man born into Roman-occupied Judea who reluctantly finds himself ...

It is 40 years since Monty Python's Flying Circus amused, confused and outraged British audiences for the first time. To mark the anniversary of the first BBC broadcast of the hugely influential ...

Mid-way through my interview with Mark Forstater, producer of the 1975 cult comedy film Monty Python And The Holy Grail, I glance up and notice a photograph looming over us. The portrait — one of many ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Idle sometime gazes up into the heavens and wonders about something if we ever make contact with aliens: Will they have a sense of humor? “I think the answer must be yes, because ...

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 ...

It has become a classic in the pantheon of British comedy. But Monty Python's Flying Circus was almost axed after one episode. Audience ratings for the first show were so low that BBC chiefs ...

The 1960s satire boom opened up the way for a fresh, inventive generation of young comedy writer-performers to flourish on TV and to take comedy in a new and exciting direction. Among them were five ...

Michael Palin's Super 8mm film from 1971, when the Pythons were filming sketches for the 3rd series of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" in Jersey. With new commentary from Michael Palin himself ...

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 ...