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 ...

LONDON—It was demented from the very first minute. It began with a blast of American military band patriotism, John Philip Sousa’s The Liberty Bell, playing to a graphic montage of bizarre images ...

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 ...

The writers and performers of Monty Python were assembled by Barry Took. Graham Chapman and John Cleese had previously worked together on At Last the 1948 Show. Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin ...

Spam was at the center of a classic Monty Python sketch, and their association with the forcemeat had an even longer shelf life than the product itself. You know, rarely has there been a closer ...

The comedy series was last repeated on the BBC in 1988. Repeats of Monty Python’s Flying Circus will be aired regularly on That’s TV (Python (Monty) (Pictures Limited/BBC/PA) Monty Python’s Flying ...

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 ...