CONTENTS ONE Whither Canada?: 'It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart'; Famous deaths; Italian lesson; Whizzo butter; 'It's the Arts'; Arthur 'Two-Sheds' Jackson; Picasso/cycling race; The funniest joke in the world. TWO Sex and violence: Flying sheep; French lecture on sheep-aircraft; A man with three buttocks; A man with two noses; Musical mice; Marriage guidance counsellor; The wacky queen; Working-class playwright; A Scotsman on a horse; The wrestling epilogue; The mouse problem. THREE How to recognize different types of tree from quite a long way away: Court scene (witness in coffin/Cardinal Richelieu); The larch; Bicycle repair man; Children's stories; Restaurant sketch; Seduced milkmen; Stolen newsreader; Children's interview; Nudge nudge. FOUR Owl-stretching time: Song ('And did those feet'); Art gallery; Art critic; It's a man's life in the modern army; Undressing in public; Self-defence; Secret Service dentists. FIVE Man's crisis of identity in the latter half of the twentieth century: Confuse-a-Cat; The smuggler; A duck, a cat and a lizard (discussion); Vox pops on smuggling; Police raid; Letters and vox pops; Newsreader arrested; Erotic film; Silly job interview; Careers advisory board; Burglar/encyclopedia salesman. SIX 'It's the Arts'; Johann Gombolputty... von Hautkopf of Ulm; Non-illegal robbery; Vox pops; Crunchy frog; The dull life of a City stockbroker; Red Indian in theatre; Policemen make wonderful friends; A Scotsman on a horse; Twentieth-century vole. SEVEN You're no fun any more: Camel spotting; You're no fun any more; The audit; Science fiction sketch; Man turns into Scotsman; Police station; Blancmanges playing tennis. EIGHT Full frontal nudity: Army protection racket; Vox pops; Art critic - the place of the nude; Buying a bed; Hermits; Dead parrot; The flasher; Hell's Grannies. NINE The ant, an introduction: Llamas; A man with a tape recorder up his nose; Kilimanjaro expedition (double vision); A man with a tape recorder up his brother's nose; Homicidal barber; Lumberjack song; Gumby crooner; The refreshment room at Bletchley; Hunting film; The visitors. TEN Walk-on part in sketch; Bank robber (lingerie shop); Trailer; Arthur Tree; Vocational Guidance Counsellor (chartered accountant); The first man to jump the Channel; Tunnelling from Godalming to Java; Pet conversions; Gorilla librarian; Letters to 'Daily Mirror'; Strangers in the night. ELEVEN Letter (lavatorial humour); Interruptions; Agatha Christie sketch; Literary football discussion; Undertakers film; Interesting people; Eighteenth-century social legislation; The Battle of Trafalgar; Batley Townswomens' Guild presents the Battle of Pearl Harbor; Undertakers film. TWELVE Falling from building; 'Spectrum' - talking about things; Visitors from Coventry; Mr. Hilter; The Minehead by-election; Police station (silly voices); Upperclass Twit of the Year; Ken Shabby; How far can a minister fall? THIRTEEN Intermissions; Restaurant (abuse/cannibalism); Advertisements; Albatross; Come back to my place; Me Doctor; Historical impersonations; Quiz programme - 'Wishes'; 'Probe-around' on crime; Stonehenge; Mr Attila the Hun; Psychiatry - silly sketch; Operating theatre (squatters). FOURTEEN 'Face the Press'; New cooker sketch; Tobacconists (prostitute advert); The Ministry of Silly Walks; The Piranha brothers. FIFTEEN Man-powered flight; The Spanish Inquisition; Jokes and novelties salesman; Tax on thingy; Vox pops; Photos of Uncle Ted (Spanish Inquisition); The semaphore version of 'Wuthering Heights'; 'Julius Caesar' on an Aldis lamp; Court scene (charades). SIXTEEN A bishop rehearsing; Flying lessons; Hijacked plane (to Luton); The Poet McTeagle; Psychiatrist milkman; Complaints; Deja vu. SEVENTEEN Architect sketch; How to give up being a Mason; Motor insurance sketch; 'The Bishop'; Living room on pavement; Poets; A choice of viewing; Chemist sketch; Words not to be used again; After-shave; Vox pops; Police Constable Pan-Am. EIGHTEEN Live from the Grill-o-Mat snack bar, Paignton; 'Blackmail'; Society for Putting Things on top of Other Things; Escape (from film); Current affairs; Accidents sketch; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; The man who is alternately rude and polite; Documentary on boxer. NINETEEN 'It's a Living'; The time on BBC 1; School prize-giving; 'if' - a film by Mr Dibley; 'Rear Window' - a film by Mr Dibley; 'Finian's Rainbow' (starring the man from the off-licence); Foreign Secretary; Dung; Dead Indian; Timmy Williams interview; Raymond Luxury Yacht interview; Registry office; Election Night Special (Silly and Sensible Parties). TWENTY 'The Attila the Hun Show'; Attila the Nun; Secretary of State striptease; Vox pops on politicians; Ratcatcher; Wainscotting; Killer sheep; The news for parrots; The news for gibbons; Today in Parliament; The news for wombats; Attila the Bun; The Idiot in Society; Test match; The Epsom furniture race; 'Take Your Pick'. TWENTY-ONE Trailer; 'Archeology Today'; Silly vicar; Leapy Lee; Registrar (wife swap); Silly doctor sketch (immediately abandoned); Mr and Mrs Git; Mosquito hunters; Poofy judges; Mrs Thing and Mrs Entity; Beethoven's mynah bird; Shakespeare; Michaelangelo; Colin Mozart (ratcatcher); Judges. TWENTY-TWO 'How to recognize different parts of the body'; Bruces; Naughty bits; The man who contradicts people; Cosmetic surgery; Camp square-bashing; Cut-price airline; Batley Townswomen's Guild presents the first heart transplant; The first underwater production of 'Measure for Measure'; The death of Mary Queen of Scots; Exploding penguin on the TV set; There's been a murder; Europolice Song Contest; 'Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong' (song). TWENTY-THREE French subtitled film; Scott of the Antarctic; Scott of the Sahara; Fish licence; Derby Council v. All Blacks rugby match; Long John Silver Impersonators v. Bournemouth Gynaecologists. TWENTY-FOUR Conquistador coffee campaign; Repeating groove; Ramsey MacDonald striptease; Job hunter; Agatha Christie sketch (railway timetables); Mr Neville Shunte; Film director (teeth); City gents vox pops; 'Crackpot Religions Ltd'; 'How not to be seen'; Crossing the Atlantic on a tricycle; Interview in filing cabinet; 'Yummy yummy'; Monty Python's Flying Circus again in thirty seconds. TWENTY-FIVE 'The Black Eagle'; Dirty Hungarian phrasebook; Court (phrasebook); Communist quiz; 'Ypres 1914' - abandoned; Art gallery strikes; 'Ypres 1914'; Hospital for over-actors; Gumby flower arranging; Spam. TWENTY-SIX The Queen will be watching; Coal mine (historical argument); The man who says things in a very roundabout way; The man who speaks only the ends of words; The man who speaks only the beginnings of words; The man who speaks only the middles of words; Commercials; How to feed a goldfish; The man who collects birdwatcher's eggs; Insurance sketch; Hospital run by RSM; Mountaineer; Exploding version of 'The Blue Danube'; Girls boarding school; Submarine; Lifeboat (cannibalism; Undertaker's sketch. TWENTY-SEVEN Whicker's World: Court scene - multiple murderer; Icelandic saga; Court scene (Viking); Stock Exchange report; Mrs Premise and Mrs Conclusion visit Jean-Paul Sartre; Whicker Island. TWENTY-EIGHT Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow; Schoolboys' Life Assurance Company; How to rid the world of all known diseases; Mrs Niggerbaiter explodes; Vicar/salesman; Farming Club; 'Life of Tschaikowsky'; Trim-Jeans Theatre; Fish-slapping dance; World War One; The BBC is short of money; Puss in Boots. TWENTY-NINE 'The Money Programme'; 'There is nothing quite so wonderful as money' (song); Erizabeth L; Fraud film squad; Salvation fuzz; Jungle restaurant; Apology for violence and nudity; Ken Russell's 'Gardening Club'; The Lost World of Roiurama; Six more minutes of Monty Python's Flying Circus; Argument clinic; Hitting on the head lessons; Inspector Flying Fox of the Yard; One more minute of Monty Python's Flying Circus. THIRTY 'Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror'; The man who speaks in anagrams; Anagram quiz; Merchant banker; Pantomime horses; Life and death struggles; Mary recruitment office; Bus conductor sketch; The man who makes people laugh uncontrollably; Army captain as clown; Gestures to indicate pauses in a televised talk; Neurotic announcers; The news with Richard Baker (vision only); 'The Pantomime Horse is a Secret Agent film'. THIRTY-ONE The All-England Summarize Proust Competition: 'Summarize Proust Competition'; Everest climbed by hairdressers; Fire brigade; Our Eamonn; 'Party Hints' with Veronica Smalls; Language laboratory; Travel agent; Watney's Red Barrel; Theory on Brontosauruses by Anne Elk (Miss). THIRTY-TWO Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign; Gumby brain specialist; Molluscs - 'live' TV documentary; The Minister for not listening to people; Tuesday documentary/children's story/party political broadcast; Apology (politicians); Expedition to Lake Pahoe; The silliest interview we've ever had; The silliest sketch we've ever done. THIRTY-THREE Biggles dictates a letter; Climbing the north face of the Uxbridge road; Lifeboat; Old lady snoopers; 'Storage jars'; The show so far; Cheese shop; Philip Jenkinson on Cheese Westerns; Sam Peckinpah's 'Salad Days'; Apology; The news with Richard Baker; Seashore interlude film. THIRTY-FOUR The cycling tour: Mr Pither; Clodagh Rogers; Trotsky; Smolensk; Bingo-crazed Chinese; 'Jack in a Box'. THIRTY-FIVE Bomb on plane; A naked man; Ten seconds of sex; Housing project built by characters from nineteenth-century English literature; M1 interchange built by characters from 'Paradise Lost'; Mystico and Janet - flats built by hypnosis; 'Mortuary Hour'; The Olympic hide-and-seek final; The Cheap-Laughs; Bull-fighting; The British Well-Basically Club; Prices on the planet Algon. THIRTY-SIX Tudor jobs agency; Pornographic bookshop; Elizabethan pornography smugglers; Silly disturbances (the Rev. Arthur Belling); The free repetition of doubtful words sketch, by an underrated author; 'Is there?'... life after death?; The man who says words in the wrong order; Thripshaw's disease; Silly noises; Sherry-drinking vicar. THIRTY-SEVEN 'Boxing Tonight' - Jack Bodell v. Sir Kenneth Clark; Dennis Moore; Lupins; What the stars foretell; Doctor; TV4 or not TV4' discussion; Ideal Loon Exhibition; Off-Licence; 'Prejudice'. THIRTY-EIGHT Party Political Broadcast (choreographed); 'A Book at Bedtime'; 'Redgauntlet'; Kamikaze Scotsmen; No time to lose; Penguins; BBC programme planners; Unexploded Scotsmen; 'Spot the Looney'; Rival documentaries; 'Dad's Doctors' (trail); Dad's Pooves' (trail). THIRTY-NINE Grandstand: Thames TV introduction; 'Light Entertainment Awards'; Dickie Attenborough; The Oscar Wilde sketch; David Niven's fridge; Pasolini's film 'The Third Test Match'; New brain from Curry's; Blood donor; International Wife-Swapping; Credits of the Year; The dirty vicar sketch. FORTY The golden age of ballooning: Montgolfier Brothers; Louis XIV; George III; Zeppelin. FORTY-ONE Michael Ellis: Department store; Buying an ant; At home with the ant and other pets; Documentary on ants; Ant communication; Poetry reading (ants); Toupee; Different endings. FORTY-TWO Light entertainment war: 'Up your Pavement'; RAF banter; Trivializing the war; Courtmartial; Basingstoke in Westphalia; 'Anything goes In' (song); Film trailer; The public are idiots; Programme titles conference; The last five miles of the M2; Woody and tinny words; Show-jumping (musical); Newsflash (Germans); 'When Does A Dream Begin?' (song). FORTY-THREE Hamlet: Bogus psychiatrists; 'Nationwide'; Police helmets; Father-in-law; Hamlet and Ophelia; Boxing match aftermath; Boxing commentary; Piston engine (a bargain); A room in Polonius' house; Dentists; Live from Epsom; Queen Victoria Handicap. FORTY-FOUR Mr Neutron: Post box ceremony; Teddy Salad (CIA agent); 'Conjuring Today'. FORTY-FIVE Party Political Broadcast: 'Most Awful Family in Britain'; Icelandic Honey Week; A doctor whose patients are stabbed by his nurse; Brigadier and Bishop; Appeal on behalf of extremely rich people; The man who finishes other people's sentences; David Attenborough; The walking tree of Dahomey; The batsmen of the Kalahari; Cricket match (assegais); BBC News (handovers). APPENDIX: Transmission details. 1 Whither Canada? 5-10-69 2 Sex and Violence 12-10-69 3 How to recognize different types of tree from quite a long way away 19-10-69 4 Owl-stretching time 26-10-69 5 Man's crisis of identity in the latter half of the twentieth century 16-11-69 6 (no title--begins with 'Its the Arts') 23-11-69 7 You're no fun any more 30-11-69 8 Full frontal nudity 7-12-69 9 The ant, an introduction 14-12-69 10 (no title-- 'Walk-on part of sketch') 21-12-69 11 (no title-- 'Letter (lavatorial humour') 28-12-69 12 (no title-- 'Falling from building') 4-1-70 13 (no title-- 'Intermissions') 11-1-70 14 (no title-- 'Face the Press') 15-9-70 15 (no title-- 'Man-powered flight') 22-9-70 16 (no title-- 'A bishop rehearsing') 29-9-70 17 (no title-- 'Architect sketch') 20-10-70 18 (no title-- 'Live from the Grill-o-Mat snack bar') 27-10-70 19 (no title-- 'It's a Living') 3-11-70 20 (no title-- 'The Attila the Hun Show') 10-11-70 21 (no title-- 'Trailer') 17-11-70 22 (no title-- 'How to recognize different parts of the body') 24-11-70 23 (no title-- 'French subtitled film') 1-12-70 24 (no title-- 'Conquistador coffee campaign') 8-12-70 25 (no title-- 'The Black Eagle') 15-12-70 26 (no title-- 'The Queen will be watching') 22-12-70 27 7 Whicker's World 19-10-72 28 (no title-- 'Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow') 26-10-72 29 (no title-- 'The Money Programme') 2-11-72 30 (no title-- 'Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror') 9-11-72 31 1 The All-England Summarize Proust Competition 16-11-72 32 (no title-- 'Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign') 23-11-72 33 (no title-- 'Biggles dictates a letter') 30-11-72 34 The cycling tour 7-12-72 35 (no title-- 'Bomb on plane') 14-12-72 36 (no title-- 'Tudor jobs agency') 21-12-72 37 (no title-- 'Boxing tonight--Jack Bodell vs Sir Kenneth Clark') 4-1-73 38 (no title-- 'Party Political Broadcast (choreographed)') 11-1-73 39 Grandstand 18-1-73 40 The golden age of ballooning 31-10-74 41 Michael Ellis 7-11-74 42 Light entertainment war 14-11-74 43 Hamlet 21-11-74 44 Mr. Neutron 28-11-74 45 Party Political Broadcast 5-12-74 And that's all of them. The series are broken up as follows: Series one: 1-13 Series two: 14-26 Series three: 27-39 Series four: 40-45 Where there was no episode title, I put in the name of the first sketch. Transcribed by Jason R. Heimbaugh (jasonh@joker.aiss.uiuc.edu)