full-episodes (13)

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  Whither Canada?

  S1 : E1 | TV-MA | 32 min | Aired: 10.02.69

  It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart', Famous Deaths, Italian Lesson, Whizzo Butter, 'It's the Arts', Arthur "Two-Sheds" Jackson, Cycling Race, and The Funniest Joke in the World.

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  Sex and Violence

  S1 : E2 | TV-MA | 34 min | Aired: 10.12.69

  Flying Sheep, French Lecture on Sheep-Aircraft, A Man With Three Buttocks, A Man With Two Noses, Musical Mice, Marriage Guidance Counselor, The Wacky Queen.

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  How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away

  S1 : E3 | TV-MA | 31 min | Aired: 10.19.69

  Court Scene, The Larch, Bicycle Repair Man, Children's Stories, Restaurant Sketch, Seduced Milkmen, Stolen News Reader, Children's Interview, and Nudge Nudge.

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  Owl-Stretching Time

  S1 : E4 | TV-MA | 30 min | Aired: 10.26.69

  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.

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  Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century

  S1 : E5 | TV-MA | 29 min | Aired: 11.16.69

  Confuse-a-Cat, The Smuggler, A Duck, a Cat and a Lizard (Discussion), Vox Pops on Smuggling, Police Raid, Letters on Vox Pops, Newsreader Arrested, Erotic Film.

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  The BBC Entry to the Zinc Stoat of Budapest

  S1 : E6 | TV-MA | 30 min | Aired: 11.23.69

  Sketches include: a German composer with an extraordinarily long name; crooks plan an elaborate scheme to buy a watch; a chocolate-company owner markets "Crunchy Frog."

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  You're No Fun Anymore

  S1 : E7 | TV-MA | 30 min | Aired: 11.30.69

  Invaders from another galaxy turn Englishmen into Scotsmen. Also: a comedy about camels; a corporate board meeting.

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  Full Frontal Nudity

  S1 : E8 | TV-MA | 29 min | Aired: 12.07.69

  A pet-shop customer returns his dead parrot; a gang of female senior citizens attacks a town's young men; a young army officer who joined the service to water-ski tries to resign.

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  The Ant: An Introduction

  S1 : E9 | TV-MA | 29 min | Aired: 12.14.69

  A man with double vision organizes a mountain-climbing expedition; llamas are celebrated in a rousing Spanish song; a barber is afraid to cut hair; a couple's evening is ruined.

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  Untitled

  S1 : E10 | TV-MA | 31 min | Aired: 12.21.69

  Sketches include: Bank Robber in Lingerie Shop, It's a Tree, Ron Obvious, Pet Conversations, Gorilla Librarian, Strangers in the Night.

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  The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

  S1 : E11 | TV-MA | 31 min | Aired: 12.28.69

  A half-inch-tall man appears on a talk show; a town's women's guild reenacts Pearl Harbor; the entire Royal Philharmonic Orchestra retires to the restroom.

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  The Naked Ant

  S1 : E12 | TV-MA | 32 min | Aired: 01.04.70

  The 127th annual Twit of the Year Show. Hitler and Himmler are guests for tea in a boarding house; a BBC broadcast is interrupted when a British minister falls into a fissure.

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  Intermission

  S1 : E13 | TV-MA | 30 min | Aired: 01.11.70

  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.

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  Dinsdale!

  S2 : E1 | TV-MA | 31 min | Aired: 09.15.70

  A sketch about the Ministry of Silly Walks. Also: a British minister-attired in a pink tulle dress-talks about housing; 30 gas-company men investigate the installation of a stove.

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  The Spanish Inquisition

  S2 : E2 | TV-MA | 31 min | Aired: 09.22.70

  An offbeat look at the Spanish Inquisition; an unconventional version of "Wuthering Heights." A jury plays charades while delivering its verdict.

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  Deja Vu

  S2 : E3 | TV-MA | 31 min | Aired: 09.29.70

  Sketches include: Flying Lessons, Hijacked Plane, Psychiatrist Milkman, Complaints, Déjà vu.

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  The Buzz Aldrin Show

  S2 : E4 | TV-MA | 30 min | Aired: 10.20.70

  A supersleuth bishop investigates a suspicious insurance business; an elderly couple construct a house that has no walls.

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  Live From the Grill-O-Mat Snack Bar

  S2 : E5 | TV-MA | 30 min | Aired: 10.27.70

  Contestants vie for incriminating photos in "The Blackmail Game"; a boxer spars with schoolgirls.

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  It's a Living

  S2 : E6 | TV-MA | 30 min | Aired: 11.03.70

  Sketches include: The time on BBC 1, School Prize Giving, Films by Mr. Dibley, Timmy Williams Interview, Election Night Special.

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  The Attila the Hun Show

  S2 : E7 | TV-MA | 28 min | Aired: 11.10.70

  "The Attila the Hun Show"; a burlesque performance by government ministers; a documentary study of village idiots. Also: political groupies pursue MPs.

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  Archaeology Today

  S2 : E8 | TV-MA | 30 min | Aired: 11.17.70

  A bridegroom tries to exchange his spouse; hunters pursue a mosquito; domestic problems interrupt the work of Beethoven, Shakespeare, Michelangelo and other creative geniuses.

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  How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body

  S2 : E9 | TV-MA | 30 min | Aired: 11.24.70

  A University of Woolamaloo philosophy-department meeting---the members of which are all named Bruce; an exploding penguin; a radio version of "The Death of Mary Queen of Scots."

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  Scott of the Antarctic

  S2 : E10 | TV-MA | 30 min | Aired: 12.01.70

  Foam-rubber snow and a stuffed lion are featured in a scene from "Scott of the Antarctic"; a football match is waged between gynecologists and Long John Silver impersonators.

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  How Not to Be Seen

  S2 : E11 | TV-MA | 30 min | Aired: 12.08.70

  Conquistador coffee campaign; Repeating groove; Ramsey MacDonald striptease; Job hunter; International Chinese Communist Conspiracy; Crelm Toothpaste/Shrill petrol.

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  Spam

  S2 : E12 | TV-MA | 31 min | Aired: 12.15.70

  World revolutionaries are quizzed about football scores; figures from works of art go on strike throughout galleries in England; the search continues for a cure for over-acting.

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  Royal Episode 13

  S2 : E13 | TV-MA | 31 min | Aired: 12.22.70

  Miners brawl over historical facts; hospital patients serve the doctors; five shipwrecked mariners decide whom they will have for dinner.

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  Whicker's World

  S3 : E1 | TV-MA | 31 min | Aired: 10.19.72

  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.

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  Mr and Mrs Brian Norris' Ford Popular

  S3 : E2 | TV-MA | 30 min | Aired: 10.26.72

  A couple investigate the cultural similarities between two London districts, seven miles apart; schoolboys' extracurricular activities are examined.

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  The Money Program

  S3 : E3 | TV-MA | 29 min | Aired: 11.02.72

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

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  Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror

  S3 : E4 | TV-MA | 30 min | Aired: 11.09.72

  A program called "Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror," featuring a man who speaks exclusively in anagrams; a timorous TV announcer.

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  The All-England Summarize Proust Competition

  S3 : E5 | TV-MA | 31 min | Aired: 11.16.72

  Contestants in "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition" are judged in swimsuit and evening-gown categories; an irate customer confronts his travel agent.

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  The War Against Pornography

  S3 : E6 | TV-MA | 29 min | Aired: 11.23.72

  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.

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  Salad Days

  S3 : E7 | TV-MA | 29 min | Aired: 11.30.72

  A climbing expedition negotiates a hazardous London road; an attempt is made to determine whether an urban dwelling is a house or a lifeboat.

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  The Cycling Tour

  S3 : E8 | TV-MA | 31 min | Aired: 12.07.72

  Mr Pither; Clodagh Rogers; Trotsky; Smolensk; Bingo-crazed Chinese (British Ambassador); 'Jack in a Box'.

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  The Nude Man

  S3 : E9 | TV-MA | 32 min | Aired: 12.14.72

  A housing project induced by hypnosis stands---as long as the tenants believe in it.

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  E Henry Tripshaw's Disease

  S3 : E10 | TV-MA | 28 min | Aired: 12.21.72

  A police investigator is mistaken for Sir Philip Sidney in a Tudor-period job agency, which actually deals in pornography

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  Dennis Moore

  S3 : E11 | TV-MA | 32 min | Aired: 01.04.73

  A highwayman steals "lupins" from the rich and tries to give them to the poor. Also: the first episode in a tatty

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  A Book at Bedtime

  S3 : E12 | TV-MA | 29 min | Aired: 01.11.73

  A Book at Bedtime'; 'Red Gauntlet'; Kamikaze Highlanders; No time to lose; Penguins; BBC pro-gramme planners

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  Grandstand

  S3 : E13 | TV-MA | 27 min | Aired: 01.18.73

  Oscar Wilde, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, George Bernard Shaw and the future Edward VII exchange epigrams at an evening party

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  The Golden Age of Ballooning

  S4 : E1 | TV-MA | 29 min | Aired: 10.31.74

  The Montgolfier brothers prepare for the first balloon flight.

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  Michael Ellis

  S4 : E2 | TV-MA | 29 min | Aired: 11.07.74

  In this episode, Chris Quinn enters a department store and demands to buy an ant named Marcus.

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  Light Entertainment War

  S4 : E3 | TV-MA | 33 min | Aired: 11.14.74

  A parody of war includes the invasion of Norway by tutu-clad commandos and a plea to the public to treat the war seriously.

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  Hamlet

  S4 : E4 | TV-MA | 28 min | Aired: 11.21.74

  Hamlet undergoes psychoanalysis; eight Queen Victorias compete in the Queen Victoria handicap race; a boxing contender gets his head knocked off.

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  Mr Neutron

  S4 : E5 | TV-MA | 31 min | Aired: 11.28.74

  The search for Mr. Neutron, who plans to dominate the world, stretches from a London suburb to the Yukon, and results in the destruction of earthly civilization.

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  Party Political Broadcast

  S4 : E6 | TV-MA | 29 min | Aired: 12.05.74

  A spoof of British political-party broadcasts includes the finals of "the worst family in Britain" contest, a violent cricket match and a housewife who revolutionized beekeeping.