Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Complete Series 1-4
Just finished watching "Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Complete Series 1-4," released by Universal.
This was the first time that I actually watched the entire run of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" from start of the very first episode that originally aired on the BBC back in 1969 to the very last episode that aired back in 1974.
I do recall watching the first two seasons when they aired late night on the PBS station back in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, but they had been edited to leave out the partial female frontal nudity and gay scenes where it was implied that there was naked men in bed with each other, along with other gay references. Remember, this was the late 1970s and early 1980s and American standards were quite different from British standards back then.
This is an unedited collection, so I was pleasantly surprised at some of the sequences because they made better sense than when I first viewed them.
The fourth season, which consists of just six episodes, is not the greatest. I think they were trying out longer format sketches in preparation for the various Monty Python movies that were released, though "The Golden Age of Ballooning" is perhaps the best full length episode from this season.
My personal favorite is still "The Spanish Inquisition."
While the BBC did put more money into the show and the quality of the production values improved dramatically in Season 3, including the animations done by Terry Gilman, the last two seasons were more misses than hits with the various sketches. Monty Python did help pave the way for modern classic absurdist comedy, it also marked the last hurrah of Comedy's Golden Age where anything was on the table and fair game.
Strongly Recommended as a comedy classic.
Four Stars because the last two seasons are just not as good as the first two seasons of the show.
https://www.amazon.com/Monty-Pythons-...
This was the first time that I actually watched the entire run of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" from start of the very first episode that originally aired on the BBC back in 1969 to the very last episode that aired back in 1974.
I do recall watching the first two seasons when they aired late night on the PBS station back in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, but they had been edited to leave out the partial female frontal nudity and gay scenes where it was implied that there was naked men in bed with each other, along with other gay references. Remember, this was the late 1970s and early 1980s and American standards were quite different from British standards back then.
This is an unedited collection, so I was pleasantly surprised at some of the sequences because they made better sense than when I first viewed them.
The fourth season, which consists of just six episodes, is not the greatest. I think they were trying out longer format sketches in preparation for the various Monty Python movies that were released, though "The Golden Age of Ballooning" is perhaps the best full length episode from this season.
My personal favorite is still "The Spanish Inquisition."
While the BBC did put more money into the show and the quality of the production values improved dramatically in Season 3, including the animations done by Terry Gilman, the last two seasons were more misses than hits with the various sketches. Monty Python did help pave the way for modern classic absurdist comedy, it also marked the last hurrah of Comedy's Golden Age where anything was on the table and fair game.
Strongly Recommended as a comedy classic.
Four Stars because the last two seasons are just not as good as the first two seasons of the show.
https://www.amazon.com/Monty-Pythons-...
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