Monty Python's Flying Circus

Sketches include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart taking a look at famous deaths, and an American professor performing Italian lessons.

A shepherd muses about sheep nesting in trees; the commercial viability of ovine aviation; profiles of men who lead double lives as mice; a playwright clashes with his coal-miner son; a wrestling match over the existence of God.

A look at how to recognise different trees, a society filled with Supermen, children's stories, and a courtroom plea for leniency.

A change from street clothes to swim trunks turns into a burlesque act; a karate class exercises defense tactics against fresh fruit; a man tries to buy a book about false teeth.

A customs official is on the lookout for potential smugglers, confuse-a-cat, how to describe a robbery suspect, and a raid on an actor's apartment.

Features, Non-Illegal Robbery, Crunchy Frog, Red Indian In Theatre, A Scotsman On A Horse and Twentieth Century Vole.

A surreptitious species of extra-terrestrial puddings are turning the nation into Scots, in an audacious plot to win the Wimbledon championships. It's Monty Python, after all.

Features, Army Protection Racket, Art Critic, Buying A Bed, Hermits, The Dead Parrot Sketch, The Flasher and Hell's Grannies.

Features Llamas, A Man with a Tape Recorder up his Nose, Homicidal Barber, the Lumberjack Song and The Gumby Crooner.

A bank robber accidentally holds up a lingerie shop, a vocational guidance counsellor, and a pet store that can transform terriers into any kind of pet.

A talk show with strange guests, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom, and 18th-century legislation.

Office employees watch as their colleague falls past their window, Mr Hitler, and the 127th Annual Upper Class Twit of the Year contest.

Among "historical" impersonations are Cardinal Richelieu as Petula Clark and Julius Caesar as Eddie Waring. Also: a police fairy tale; a vegetarian restaurant's menu, featuring a naked man with an apple in his mouth.