The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus

Icelandic sagas; polite serial killer; visiting Sartre in Paris.

A couple investigate the cultural similarities between two London districts, seven miles apart; schoolboys' extracurricular activities are examined; a TV farming club comments on Tchaikovsky.

Money; jungle restaurant; argument clinic.

Anagram man; pantomime horses; neurotic announcer.

Summarize Proust competition; hairdressers on Mount Everest; fire brigade.

Surgical tools applied to a mildly anesthetized patient include a power drill and a mallet; a TV program features a lecture on gastropods, highlighted by the visit of a whelk.

Cheese shop; Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days."

The travels of "Mr. Gulliver," a chameleonic Cornish gentleman who assumes such varied identities as Leon Trotsky and Eartha Kitt. Other segments include bingo at the Chinese British Consul.

The Olympiad of men's hide-and-seek.

Tudor Job Agency; life after death.

A highwayman steals "lupins" from the rich and tries to give them to the poor. Also: the first episode in a tatty, tedious 18th-century serial is brought to a screeching halt; peasants clamor for Titian paintings and Venetian glass.

Penguin intelligence; Spot the Looney.

Oscar Wilde's residence; ordering a new brain; international wife-swapping.