📺 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' Sunday 05 October 1969 - BBC1: 22:55 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' is broadcast for the first time. Manic, unstructured, at times incomprehensible and often, most certainly in the worst possible taste, Monty Python became perhaps the biggest cult hit ever seen on television. By turns irreverent, surreal, chaotic and at times simply silly in a way which is uniquely and quintessentially British, its comedic influence echoing down the decades and in the process he

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