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 ...

In the third series, though, Palin says, the BBC started making some "fairly ridiculous censorship decisions". A battle over one particular sketch saw all six Pythons in a heated argument with the ...

It took the bedraggled castaway 52 seconds to wade out of the sea, collapse on the sand, crawl towards the camera and say: “It’s…” before the opening credits rolled. So began the iconoclastic ...

For a classic – potentially all-time greatest – comedy troupe who refuses to reunite for one last stage-show or film before they each go off into the sweet hereafter, Monty Python is seldom, if ever, ...

Describing Monty Python in one article is like summarising Shakespeare in a media-friendly soundbite, or spending three days in the lap of the gods then writing a letter about it to the Reader's ...

The first episode of seminal comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus, subtitled 'Whither Canada?', was broadcast just before 11pm on Sunday 5 October 1969. The Radio Times celebrated the launch ...

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Monty Python is not a man. Monty Python is six men. Consisting of British actors Graham Chapman John Cleese Eric Idle Terry Jones Michael Palin and American Terry Gilliam the hugely influential comedy ...