Monty Python's Flying Circus

A courteous murderer wins a suspended sentence by virtue of his charm, a search for Paris by way of Iceland is interrupted by a plane crash and a shipwreck. Also: how to dispose of pets before going on vacation.

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.

The Money Program features a Swiss banker, a city accountant and a song of praise.

A program called "Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror," featuring a man who speaks exclusively in anagrams, a timorous TV announcer, before and after he undergoes psychiatric treatment, the employment of "pantomime horses."

Contestants in "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition" are judged in swimsuit and evening-gown categories, an irate customer confronts his travel agent. Also: an expedition to Mount Everest, made by an international group of hairstylists.

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.

A climbing expedition negotiates a hazardous London road, an attempt is made to determine whether an urban dwelling is a house or a lifeboat. Also: a mouse's quest for cheese, which leads to the production of a Western called "Rogue Cheddar."

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.

A housing project induced by hypnosis stands---as long as the tenants believe in it. Also: highlights of the Olympic Hide-and-Seek finals, suggestions for improving bullfighting, such as the use of radar.

A police investigator is mistaken for Sir Philip Sidney in a Tudor-period job agency, which actually deals in pornography, King Solomon judges the case of a stray bee, a panel of dead people debates the question "Is There a 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.

A Book at Bedtime', 'Red Gauntlet', Kamikaze Highlanders, No time to lose, Penguins, BBC pro-gramme planners, Unexploded Scotsmen, 'Spot the Looney', Rival documentaries, 'Dad's Doctors', Dad's Pooves'.

Oscar Wilde, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, George Bernard Shaw and the future Edward VII exchange epigrams at an evening party, mechanical brain surgery fails to dramatically affect a woman's mentality.