Episodes

Episode 2: Sex and Violence

Flying sheep
French lecture on sheep-aircraft
A man with three buttocks
A man with two noses
Musical mice
Marriage guidance counsellor
The wacky queen
Working-class playwright
A Scotsman on a horse
The wrestling epilogue
The mouse problem

Episode 3: How to Recognize Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away

Court scene (witness in coffin/Cardinal Richelieu)
The larch
Bicycle repair man
Children's stories
Restaurant sketch
Seduced milkmen
Stolen newsreader
Children's interview
Nudge nudge

Episode 4: Owl-Stretching Time Song ("And did those feet")

Art gallery
Art critic
It's a man's life in the modern army
Undressing in public
Self-defence
Secret Service dentists

Episode 5: Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century

Confuse-a-Cat
The smuggler
A duck, a cat and a lizard (discussion)
Vox pops on smuggling
Police raid
Letters and vox pops
Newsreader arrested
Erotic film
Silly job interview
Careers advisory board
Burglar/encyclopaedia salesman

Episode 6: It's the Arts Johann GombolputtyŠvon Hautkopf of Ulm

Non-illegal robbery
Vox pops
Crunchy frog
The dull life of a City stockbroker
Red indian in theatre
Policemen make wonderful friends
A Scotsman on a horse
Twentieth-century vole

Episode 7: You're No Fun Any More

Camel spotting
You're no fun any more
The audit
Science fiction sketch
Man turns into Scotsman
Police station
Blancmanges playing tennis

Episode 8: Full Frontal Nudity

Army protection racket
Vox pops
Art critic - the place of the nude
Buying a bed
Hermits
Dead parrot
The flasher
Hell's Grannies

Episode 9: The Ant, An Introduction

Llamas
A man with a tape recorder up his nose
Kilimanjaro expedition (double vision)
A man with a tape recorder up his brother's nose
Homicidal barber
Lumberjack song
Gumby crooner
The refreshment room at Bletchley
Hunting film
The visitors

Episode 10: Untitled

Walk-on part in sketch
Bank robber (lingerie shop)
Trailer
Arthur Tree
Vocational Guidance Counseller
The first man to jump the Channel
Tunnelling from Godalming to Java
Pet conversions
Gorilla librarian
Letters to "Daily Mirror"
Strangers in the night

Episode 11: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom Letter (lavatorial humour)

Interruptions
Agatha Christie sketch
Literary football discussion
Undertakers film
Interesting people
Eighteenth-century social legislation
The Battle of Trafalgar
Batley Townswomens' Guild presents the Battle of Pearl Harbour
Undertakers film

Episode 12: The Naked Ant

Falling from building
"Spectrum" - talking about things
Visitors from Coventry
Mr Hitler
The Minehead by-election
Police station (silly voices)
Upperclass Twit of the Year
Ken Shabby
How far can a minister fall?

Episode 13: Intermission Intermissions

Restaurant (abuse/cannibalism)
Advertisements
Albatross
Come back to my place
Me Doctor
Historical Impersonations
Quiz programme - "Wishes"
"Probe-around" on crime
Stonehenge
Mr. Attila the Hun
Psychiatry - silly sketch
Operating theatre (squatters)

Episode 14: Face the Press

Face the Press
New cooker sketch
Tobacconists (prostitute advert)
The Ministry of Silly Walks (this was favorite sketch of the head of the BBC at the time)
The Piranha brothers

Episode 15: The Spanish Inquisition

Man-powered flight
The Spanish Inquisition
Jokes and novelties salesman
Tax on thingy
Vox pops
Photos of Uncle Ted (warning: this sketch may be a ruse of the Spanish Inquisition)
The semaphore version of "Wuthering Heights"
"Julius Caesar" on an Aldis lamp
Court scene (charades)

Episode 16: Déjà vu

A bishop rehearsing
Flying lessons
Hijacked plane (to Luton)
The Poet McTeagle
Psychiatrist milkman
Complaints
Déjà vu

Episode 17: The Buzz Aldrin Show

Architect sketch
How to give up being a Mason
Motor insurance sketch
"The Bishop"
Living room on pavement
Poets
A choice of viewing
Chemist sketch
Words not to be used again
After-shave
Vox pops
Police Constable
Pan-Am

Episode 18: Live from the Grill-o-mat

Live from the Grill-o-Mat snack bar
Paignton
"Blackmail"
Society for Putting Things on top of Other Things
Escape (from film)
Current affairs
Accidents sketch
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The man who is alternately rude and polite
Documentary on boxer

Episode 19: It's a Living

"It's a Living"
The time on BBC 1
School prize-giving
"if" - a film by Mr Dibley
"Rear Window" - a film by Mr Dibley
"Finian's Rainbow" (starring the man from the off-icence)
Foreign Secretary
Dung
Dead Indian
Timmy Williams interview
Raymond Luxury Yacht interview
Registry office
Election Night Special (Silly and Sensible Parties)

Episode 20: The Attila the Hun Show

"The Attila the Hun Show"
Attila the Nun
Secretary of State striptease
Vox pops on politicians
Ratcatcher
Wainscotting
Killer sheep
The news for parrots
The news for gibbons
Today in Parliament
The news for wombats
Attila the Bun
The Idiot in Society
Test match
The Epson furniture race
"Take Your Pick"

Episode 21: Archaeology Today

Trailer "Archaeology Today"
Silly vicar
Leapy Lee
Registrar (wife swap)
Silly doctor sketch (immediately abandoned)
Mr and Mrs Git
Mosquito hunters
Poofy judges
Mrs Thing and Mrs Entity
Beethoven's mynah bird
Shakespeare
Michaelangelo
Colin Mozart (ratcatcher)
Judges

Episode 22: How to Recognize Different Parts of the Body

"How to recognize different parts of the body"
Bruces
Naughty bits
The man who contradicts people
Cosmetic surgery
Camp square-bashing
Cut-price airline
Batley Townswomen's Guild presents the first heart transplant
The first underwater production of "Measure for Measure"
The death of Mary Queen of Scots
Exploding penguin on TV set
There's been a murder
Europolice Song Contest
"Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong" (song)

Episode 23: Scott of the Antarctic

French subtitled film
Scott of the Antarctic
Scott of the Sahara
Fish licence
Derby Council v. All Blacks rugby match
Long John Silver Impersonators v. Bournemouth
Gynaecologists

Episode 24: How Not to Be Seen

Conquistador coffee campaign
Repeating groove
Ramsay MacDonald striptease
Job hunter
Agatha Christie sketch (railway timetables)
Mr Neville Shunte
Film director (teeth)
City gents vox pops
"Crackpot Religions Ltd"
"How not to be seen"
Crossing the Atlantic on a tricycle
Interview in filing cabinet
"Yummy yummy"
Monty Python's Flying Circus again in thirty seconds

Episode 25: Spam

"The Black Eagle"
Dirty Hungarian phrasebook (this premise was "borrowed" for the first sketch of the 1st episode of Saturday Night Live: the Wolverines sketch)
Court (phrasebook)
Communist quiz
"Ypres 1914" -- abandoned
Art gallery strike
"Ypres 1914" -- abandoned
Hospital for over-actors
Gumby flower arranging
Spam

Episode 26: "Royal Episode 13 The Queen will be watching"
Coal mine (historical argument)
The man who says things in a very roundabout way
The man who speaks only the ends of words
The man who speaks only the beginnings of words
The man who speaks only the middles of words
Commercials
How to feed a goldfish
The man who collects birdwatcher's eggs (preferably boiled)
Insurance sketch
Hospital run by RSM
Mountaineer
Exploding version of "The Blue Danube"
Girls' boarding school
Submarine
Lifeboat (cannibalism)
Undertaker's sketch

Episode 27 Court scene -- multiple murderer

Icelandic saga
Court scene (Viking)
Stock exchange report
Mrs Premise and Mrs Conclusion
Whicker Island

Episode 28 Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow

Schoolboys' Life Assurance Company
How to rid the world of all known diseases
Mrs Niggerbaiter explodes
Vicar/salesman
Farming Club
"Life of Tschaikowsky"
Trim-Jeans Theatre
Fish-slapping dance
World War One
The BBC is short of money
Puss in Boots

Episode 29 "The Money Programme"

"There is nothing quite so wonderful as money" (song)
Erizabeth L
Fraud film squad
Salvation fuzz
Jungle restaurant
Apology for violence and nudity
Ken Russell's "Gardening Club"
The Lost World of Roiurama
Six more minutes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
Argument clinic
Hitting on the head lessons
Inspector Flying Fox of the Yard
One more minute of Monty Python's Flying Circus

Episode 30 "Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror"

The man who speaks in anagrams
Anagram quiz
Merchant banker
Pantomime horses
Life and death struggles
Mary recruitment office
Bus conductor sketch
The man who makes people laugh uncontrollably
Army captain as clown
Gestures to indicate pauses in a televised talk
Neurotic announcers
The news with Richard Baker
"The Pantomime Horse is a Secret Agent film"

Episode 31 "Summarize Proust Competition"

Everest climbed by hairdressers
Fire brigade
Our Eamonn
"Party Hints" with Veronica Smalls
Language laboratory
Travel agent
Watney's Red Barrel
Theory on Brontosauruses by Anne Elk (Miss)

Episode 32 Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign

Gumby brain specialist
Molluscs -- "live" TV documentary
The Minister for not listening to people
Tuesday documentary/children's story/party political broadcast
Apology (politicians)
Expedition to Lake Pahoe
The silliest interview we've ever had
The silliest sketch we've ever done

Episode 33 Biggles dictates a letter

Climbing the north face of the Uxbridge Road
Lifeboat
Old Lady snoopers
"Storage jars"
The show so far
Cheese shop
Philip Jenkinson on Cheese Westerns
Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days" (this one inspired the Julia Child sketch on Saturday Night Live)
Apology
The news with Richard Baker
Seashore interlude film

Episode 34 Mr Pither

Clodagh Rogers
Trotsky
Smolensk
Bingo-crazed Chinese
"Jack in a Box"

Episode 35 Bomb on plane

A naked man
Ten seconds of sex (audio only)
Housing project built by characters from nineteenth-century English literature
MI interchange built by characters from "Paradise Lost"
Mystico and Janet -- flats built by hypnosis
"Mortuary Hour"
The Olympic hide-and-seek final
The Cheap-Laughs
Bull-fighting
The British Well-Basically Club
Prices on the planet Algon

Episode 36 Tudor jobs agency

Pornographic bookshop
Elizabethan pornography smugglers
Silly disturbances (the Rev. Arthur Belling)
The free repetition of doubtful words sketch, by an underrated author
"Is there?"Šlife after death?
The man who says words in the wrong order
Thripshaw's disease
Silly noises
Sherry-drinking vicar

Episode 37 "Boxing Tonight" -- Jack Bodell v. Sir Kenneth Clark

Dennis Moore
Lupins
What the stars foretell
Doctor
"TV4 or not TV4" discussion
Ideal Loon Exhibition
Off-License
"Prejudice"

Episode 38 Party Political Broadcast (choreographed)

"A Book at Bedtime"
"Redgauntlet"
Kamikaze Scotsmen
No time to lose
Penguins
BBC programme planners
Unexploded Scotsman
"Spot the Loony"
Rival documentaries
"Dad's Doctors" (trail)
"Dad's Pooves" (trail)

Episode 39 Thames TV introduction

"Light Entertainment Awards"
Dickie Attenborough
Oscar Wilde sketch
David Niven's fridge
Pasolini's film "The Third Test match"
New brain from Curry's
Blood donor
International Wife-Swapping
Credits of the Year
The dirty vicar sketch

Episode 40 Montgolfier Brothers

Louis XIV
George III
Zeppelin

Episode 41 Department store

Buying an ant
At home with the ant and other pets
Documentary on ants
Ant communication
Poetry reading (ants)
Toupee
Different endings

Episode 42 "Up Your Pavement"

RAF banter
Trivializing the war
Courtmartial
Basingstoke in Westphalia
"Anything Goes In" (song)
Film trailer
The public are idiots
Programme titles conference
The last five miles of the M2
Woody and tinny words
Show-jumping (musical)
Newsflash (Germans)
"When Does A Dream Begin?" (song)

Episode 43 Bogus psychiatrists

"Nationwide"
Police helmets
Father-in-law
Hamlet and Ophelia
Boxing match aftermath
Boxing commentary
Piston engine (a bargain)
A room in Polonius's house
Dentists
Live from Epsom
Queen Victoria Handicap

Episode 44 Post box ceremony

Teddy Salad (CIA agent)
"Conjuring Today"

Episode 45 Most Awful Family in Britain

Icelandic Honey Week
A doctor whose patients are stabbed by his nurse
Brigadier and Bishop
Appeal on behalf of extremely rich people
The man who finishes other people's sentences
David Attenborough
The walking tree of Dahomey
The Batsmen of the Kalahari
Cricket match (assegais)
BBC News (handovers)

By the way, I hope you are enjoying the audio version of The Batley Townswomen's Guild version of the American Civil War

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