This article is part of Yahoo's 'On This Day' series. The final episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus aired on BBC 1 this day 18 January, 1973, marking the end of an era for the most influential ...

It's been 50 years of lumberjacks, dead parrots, and Spam. Watching Flying Circus 50 years later is an odd experience: As an audience member, you can see the bones that would go on to inspire modern ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It began with a shaggy, Ancient Mariner figure dragging himself along a seashore. Its jaunty credit sequence intertwined cartoon ...

Monty Python’s Flying Circus is returning to UK terrestrial television for the first time in almost 35 years. The cult comedy sketch series was created by the comedy group Monty Python, consisting of ...

The comedy series was last repeated on the BBC in 1988. Repeats of Monty Python’s Flying Circus will be aired regularly on That’s TV (Python (Monty) (Pictures Limited/BBC/PA) Monty Python’s Flying ...

Many of Monty Python's sublimely irreverent sketches and songs — The Dead Parrot; Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink; The Lumberjack Song; The Ministry Of Silly Walks — have entered into Britain’s comic ...

Monty Python is not a man. Monty Python is six men. Consisting of British actors Graham Chapman John Cleese Eric Idle Terry Jones Michael Palin and American Terry Gilliam the hugely influential comedy ...

Its 40 years since Monty Python's Flying Circus first amused, confused and outraged British audiences for the first time. Want all the latest Showbiz news direct to your inbox? Share your email for ...

He was a joyful actor who played both the argumentative mother of the man who was not Jesus Christ, and an obscenely obese man who explodes after eating just a little too much. British writer, ...

If you spy this DVD on a store shelf, I'm sure you'll wonder the same thing I did: how can Graham Chapman pick his "personal best" when, well, he's dead. Turns out his Python buddies have stepped in ...