Index of Sketches
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Z
A
Accidents involving food
Episode 34
Accidents sketch
Episode 18
Advertisements
Episode 13
After-shave
Episode 17
Agatha Christie sketch
Episode 11
Agatha Christie Sketch (Railway Timetables)
Episode 24
Albatross
Episode 13
Anagram quiz
Episode 30
Ant communication
Episode 41
'Anything Goes In' (song)
Episode 42
Apology
Episode 33
Apology (politicians)
Episode 32
Apology for violence and nudity
Episode 29
Appeal on behalf of extremely rich people
Episode 45
'Archaeology Today'
Episode 21
Architect sketch
Episode 17
Argument clinic
Episode 29
Army captain as clown
Episode 30
Army protection racket
Episode 8
Art critic
Episode 4
Art critic - the place of the nude
Episode 8
Art gallery
Episode 4
Art gallery strike
Episode 25
Arthur 'Two-Sheds' Jackson
Episode 1
Arthur Tree
Episode 10
At home with the ant and other pets
Episode 41
Attila the Bun
Episode 20
'The Attila the Hun Show'
Episode 20
Attila the Nun
Episode 20
The audit
Episode 7
B
Bank robber (lingerie shop)
Episode 10
Basingstoke in Westphalia
Episode 42
Batley Townswomen's Guild presents the first heart transplant
Episode 22
Batley Townswomens' Guild presents the Battle of Pearl Harbour
Episode 11
The batsmen of the Kalahari
Episode 45
The Battle of Trafalgar
Episode 11
The BBC is short of money
Episode 28
BBC News (handovers)
Episode 45
BBC programme planners
Episode 38
Beethoven's mynah bird
Episode 21
Bicycle repair man
Episode 3
Biggles dictates a letter
Episode 33
'Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong' (song)
Episode 22
Bingo-crazed Chinese
Episode 34
A bishop rehearsing
Episode 16
'The Bishop'
Episode 17
'The Black Eagle'
Episode 25
'Blackmail'
Episode 18
Blancmanges playing tennis
Episode 7
Blood donor
Episode 39
'Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror'
Episode 30
Bogus psychiatrists
Episode 43
Bomb on plane
Episode 35
'A Book at Bedtime'
Episode 38
Boxing commentary
Episode 43
Boxing match aftermath
Episode 43
'Boxing tonight' - Jack Bodell v. Kenneth Clark
Episode 37
Brigadier and Bishop
Episode 45
The British Well-Basically Club
Episode 35
Bruces
Episode 22
Bull-fighting
Episode 35
Burglar/encyclopedia salesman
Episode 5
Bus conductor sketch
Episode 30
Buying a bed
Episode 8
Buying an ant
Episode 41
C
Camel spotting
Episode 7
Camp square-bashing
Episode 22
Careers advisory board
Episode 5
The Cheap-Laughs
Episode 35
Cheese shop
Episode 33
Chemist sketch
Episode 17
Children's interview
Episode 3
Children's stories
Episode 3
A choice of viewing
Episode 17
City gents vox pops
Episode 24
Climbing the north face of the Uxbridge Road
Episode 33
Clodagh Rodgers
Episode 34
Coal mine (historical argument)
Episode 26
Colin Mozart (ratcatcher)
Episode 21
Come back to my place
Episode 13
Commercials
Episode 26
Communist quiz
Episode 25
Complaining about ant
Episode 41
Complaints
Episode 16
Complaints office
Episode 41
Confuse-a-Cat
Episode 5
'Conjuring Today'
Episode 44
Conquistador Coffee Campaign
Episode 24
Cosmetic surgery
Episode 22
Court (phrasebook)
Episode 25
Court scene (charades)
Episode 15
Court scene (Viking)
Episode 27
Court scene (witness in coffin/Cardinal Richelieu)
Episode 3
Court scene - multiple murderer
Episode 27
Courtmartial
Episode 42
'Crackpot Religions Ltd'
Episode 24
Credits of the Year
Episode 39
Cricket match (assegais)
Episode 45
Crossing the Atlantic on a tricycle
Episode 24
Crunchy frog
Episode 6
Current affairs
Episode 18
Cut-price airline
Episode 22
D
Déjà vu
Episode 16
'Dad's Doctors' (trail)
Episode 38
'Dad's Pooves' (trail)
Episode 38
David Attenborough
Episode 45
David Niven's fridge
Episode 39
Dead Indian
Episode 19
Dead parrot
Episode 8
The death of Mary Queen of Scots
Episode 22
Dennis Moore
Episode 37
Dennis Moore: Redistibuting the wealth
Episode 37
Dennis Moore: Stealing from the poor
Episode 37
Dentists
Episode 43
Department store
Episode 41
Derby Council v. All Blacks rugby match
Episode 23
Dickie Attenborough
Episode 39
Different endings
Episode 41
Dirty Hungarian phrasebook
Episode 25
The dirty vicar sketch
Episode 39
Doctor
Episode 37
A doctor whose patients are stabbed by his nurse
Episode 45
Documentary on ants
Episode 41
Documentary on boxer
Episode 18
A duck, a cat and a lizard (discussion)
Episode 5
The dull life of a City stockbroker
Episode 6
Dung
Episode 19
E
Eighteenth-century social legislation
Episode 11
Election Night Special (Silly and Sensible Parties)
Episode 19
Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow
Episode 28
The Epsom furniture race
Episode 20
Erizabeth L
Episode 29
Erotic film
Episode 5
Escape (from film)
Episode 18
Europolice Song Contest
Episode 22
Everest climbed by hairdressers
Episode 31
Expedition to Lake Pahoe
Episode 32
Exploding penguin on TV set
Episode 22
Exploding version of 'The Blue Danube'
Episode 26
F
'Face the Press'
Episode 14
Falling from building
Episode 12
Famous deaths
Episode 1
Farming club
Episode 28
Father-in-law
Episode 43
Film director (teeth)
Episode 24
Film trailer
Episode 42
'Finian's Rainbow' (starring the man from the off-license)
Episode 19
Fire brigade
Episode 31
The first man to jump the Channel
Episode 10
The first underwater production of 'Measure for Measure'
Episode 22
Fish Licence
Episode 23
Fish-slapping dance
Episode 28
The flasher
Episode 8
Flying lessons
Episode 16
Flying Sheep
Episode 2
Foreign Secretary
Episode 19
Fraud film squad
Episode 29
The free repetition of doubtful words sketch, by an underrated author
Episode 36
French lecture on sheep-aircraft
Episode 2
French subtitled film
Episode 23
The funniest joke in the world
Episode 1
G
George III
Episode 40
Gestures to indicate pauses in a televised talk
Episode 30
Girls' boarding school
Episode 26
Gorilla librarian
Episode 10
Gumby brain specialist
Episode 32
Gumby crooner
Episode 9
Gumby flower arranging
Episode 25
H
Hamlet and Ophelia
Episode 43
Hell's Grannies
Episode 8
Hermits
Episode 8
Hijacked plane (to Luton)
Episode 16
Historical impersonations
Episode 13
Hitting on the head lessons
Episode 29
Homicidal barber
Episode 9
Hospital for over-actors
Episode 25
Hospital run by RSM
Episode 26
Housing project built by characters from nineteenth-century English literature
Episode 35
How far can a minister fall?
Episode 12
'How not to be seen'
Episode 24
How to feed a goldfish
Episode 26
How to give up being a Mason
Episode 17
'How to recognize different parts of the body'
Episode 22
How to rid the world of all known diseases
Episode 28
Hunting film
Episode 9
I
Icelandic Honey Week
Episode 45
Icelandic saga
Episode 27
Ideal Loon Exhibition
Episode 37
The Idiot in Society
Episode 20
'if' - a film by Mr Dibley
Episode 19
Inspector Flying Fox of the Yard
Episode 29
Insurance sketch
Episode 26
Interesting people
Episode 11
Intermissions
Episode 13
International Wife-Swapping
Episode 39
Interruptions
Episode 11
Interview in filing cabinet
Episode 24
'Is there?'...life after death?
Episode 36
'It's a Living'
Episode 19
It's a man's life in the modern army
Episode 4
It's the Arts
Episode 1
'It's the arts'
Episode 6
It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Episode 1
Italian lesson
Episode 1
J
'Jack in a Box'
Episode 34
Job Hunter
Episode 24
Johann Gambolputty.... von Hautkopf of Ulm
Episode 6
Jokes and novelties salesman
Episode 15
Judges
Episode 21
'Julius Caesar' on an Aldis lamp
Episode 15
Jungle restaurant
Episode 29
K
Kamikaze Scotsmen
Episode 38
Ken Russell's 'Gardening Club'
Episode 29
Ken Shabby
Episode 12
Kilimanjaro expedition (double vision)
Episode 9
Killer sheep
Episode 20
L
Language laboratory
Episode 31
The larch
Episode 3
The last five miles of the M2
Episode 42
Leapy Lee
Episode 21
Letter (lavatorial humour)
Episode 11
Letters and vox pops
Episode 5
Letters to 'Daily Mirror'
Episode 10
Life and death struggles
Episode 30
'Life of Tschaikowsky'
Episode 28
Lifeboat
Episode 33
Lifeboat (cannibalism)
Episode 26
'Light Entertainment Awards'
Episode 39
Literary football discussion
Episode 11
Live from Epsom
Episode 43
Live from the Grill-o-Mat snack bar, Paignton
Episode 18
Living room on pavement
Episode 17
Llamas
Episode 9
Long John Silver Impersonators v. Bournemouth Gynaecologist
Episode 23
The Lost World of Roiurama
Episode 29
Louis XIV
Episode 40
Lumberjack song
Episode 9
Lupins
Episode 37
M
M1 interchange built by characters from 'Paradise Lost'
Episode 35
Man turns into Scotsman
Episode 7
The man who collects birdwatcher's eggs
Episode 26
The man who contradicts people
Episode 22
The man who finishes other peoples sentences
Episode 45
The man who is alternately rude and polite
Episode 18
The man who makes people laugh uncontrollably
Episode 30
The man who says things in a very roundabout way
Episode 26
The man who says words in the wrong order
Episode 36
The man who speaks in anagrams
Episode 30
The man who speaks only the beginnings of words
Episode 26
The man who speaks only the ends of words
Episode 26
The man who speaks only the middles of words
Episode 26
A man with a tape recorder up his brother's nose
Episode 9
A man with a tape recorder up his nose
Episode 9
A man with three buttocks
Episode 2
A man with two noses
Episode 2
Man-powered flight
Episode 15
Marriage guidance counsellor
Episode 2
Mary recruitment office
Episode 30
Me Doctor
Episode 13
Merchant banker
Episode 30
Michaelangelo
Episode 21
The Minehead by-election
Episode 12
The Minister for not listening to people
Episode 32
The Ministry of Silly Walks
Episode 14
Molluscs - 'live' TV documentary
Episode 32
'The Money Programme'
Episode 29
Montgolfier Brothers
Episode 40
Monty Python's Flying Circus again in thirty seconds
Episode 24
'Mortuary Hour'
Episode 35
Mosquito hunters
Episode 21
'Most Awful Family in Britain'
Episode 45
Motor insurance sketch
Episode 17
Mountaineer
Episode 26
The mouse problem
Episode 2
Mr and Mrs Git
Episode 21
Mr Attila the Hun
Episode 13
Mr Hilter
Episode 12
Mr Neutron
Episode 44
Mr Neville Shunt
Episode 24
Mr Pither
Episode 34
Mrs Niggerbaiter explodes
Episode 28
Mrs Premise and Mrs Conclusion visit Jean Paul Satre
Episode 27
Mrs Thing and Mrs Entity
Episode 21
Musical mice
Episode 2
Mystico and Janet - flats built by hypnosis
Episode 35
N
A naked man
Episode 35
'Nationwide'
Episode 43
Naughty bits
Episode 22
Neurotic announcers
Episode 30
New brain from Curry's
Episode 39
New cooker sketch
Episode 14
The news for gibbons
Episode 20
The news for parrots
Episode 20
The news for wombats
Episode 20
The news with Richard Baker
Episode 33
The news with Richard Baker
Episode 30
Newsflash (germans)
Episode 42
Newsreader arrested
Episode 5
No time to lose
Episode 38
Non-illegal robbery
Episode 6
Nudge nudge
Episode 3
O
Off-Licence
Episode 37
Old lady snoopers
Episode 33
The Olympic hide-and-seek final
Episode 35
One more minute of Monty Python's Flying Circus
Episode 29
Operating theatre (squatters)
Episode 13
The Oscar Wilde sketch
Episode 39
Our Eamonn
Episode 31
P
'The Pantomime Horse is a Secret Agent'
Episode 30
Pantomime horses
Episode 30
'Party Hints' with Veronica Smalls
Episode 31
Party Political Broadcast (choreographed)
Episode 38
Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Norwegian Party
Episode 40
Pasolini's film 'The Third Test Match'
Episode 39
Penguins
Episode 38
Pet conversions
Episode 10
Philip Jenkinson on Cheese Westerns
Episode 33
Photos of Uncle Ted (Spanish Inquisition)
Episode 15
Picasso/cycling race
Episode 1
The Piranha brothers
Episode 14
Piston engine (a bargain)
Episode 43
The Poet McTeagle
Episode 16
Poetry reading (ants)
Episode 41
Poets
Episode 17
Police Constable Pan-Am
Episode 17
Police helmets
Episode 43
Police raid
Episode 5
Police station
Episode 7
Police station (silly voices)
Episode 12
Policemen make wonderful friends
Episode 6
Poofy judges
Episode 21
Pornographic bookshop
Episode 36
Post box ceremony
Episode 44
'Prejudice'
Episode 37
Prices on the planet Algon
Episode 35
'Probe-around' on crime
Episode 13
Programme titles conference
Episode 42
Psychiatrist milkman
Episode 16
Psychiatry - silly sketch
Episode 13
The public are idiots
Episode 42
Puss in Boots
Episode 28
Q
Queen Victoria Handicap
Episode 43
The Queen will be watching
Episode 26
Quiz programme - 'Wishes'
Episode 13
R
RAF banter
Episode 42
Ramsay MacDonald striptease
Episode 24
Ratcatcher
Episode 20
Raymond Luxury Yacht interview
Episode 19
'Rear Window' - a film by Mr Dibley
Episode 19
Red Indian in theatre
Episode 6
'Redgauntlet'
Episode 38
The refreshment room at Bletchley
Episode 9
Registrar (wife swap)
Episode 21
Registry office
Episode 19
Repeating groove
Episode 24
Restaurant (abuse/cannibalism)
Episode 13
Restaurant sketch
Episode 3
Rival documentaries
Episode 38
A room in Polonius's house
Episode 43
'Russian 42nd International Clambake'
Episode 34
S
Salvation fuzz
Episode 29
Sam Peckinpah's 'Salad Days'
Episode 33
School prize-giving
Episode 19
Schoolboys' Life Assurance Company
Episode 28
Science fiction sketch
Episode 7
A Scotsman on a horse
Episode 6
A Scotsman on a horse
Episode 2
Scott of the Antarctic
Episode 23
Scott of the Sahara
Episode 23
Seashore interlude film
Episode 33
Secret Service dentists
Episode 4
Secretary of State striptease
Episode 20
Seduced milkmen
Episode 3
Self-defence
Episode 4
The semaphore version of 'Wuthering Heights'
Episode 15
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Episode 18
Shakespeare
Episode 21
Sherry-drinking vicar
Episode 36
The show so far
Episode 33
Show-jumping (musical)
Episode 42
The silliest interview we've ever had
Episode 32
The silliest sketch we've ever done
Episode 32
Silly disturbances (the Rev. Arthur Belling)
Episode 36
Silly doctor sketch (immediately abandoned)
Episode 21
Silly job interview
Episode 5
Silly noises
Episode 36
Silly vicar
Episode 21
Six more minutes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
Episode 29
Smolensk
Episode 34
The smuggler
Episode 5
Society for Putting Things on top of Other Things
Episode 18
Song ('And did those feet')
Episode 4
Spam
Episode 25
The Spanish Inquisition
Episode 15
'Spectrum' - talking about things
Episode 12
'Spot the Loony'
Episode 38
Stock Exchange report
Episode 27
Stolen newsreader
Episode 3
Stonehenge
Episode 13
'Storage jars'
Episode 33
Strangers in the night
Episode 10
Submarine
Episode 26
'Summarize Proust Competition'
Episode 31
T
'Take Your Pick'
Episode 20
Tax on thingy
Episode 15
Teddy Salad (CIA agent)
Episode 44
Ten seconds of sex
Episode 35
Test match
Episode 20
Thames TV introduction
Episode 39
Theory on Brontosauruses by Anne Elk (Miss)
Episode 31
'There is nothing quite so wonderful as money' (song)
Episode 29
There's been a murder
Episode 22
Thripshaw's disease
Episode 36
The time on BBC 1
Episode 19
Timmy Williams interview
Episode 19
Tobacconists (prostitute advert)
Episode 14
Today in Parliament
Episode 20
Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign
Episode 32
Toupee
Episode 41
Trailer
Episode 21
Trailer
Episode 10
Travel agent
Episode 31
Trim-Jeans Theatre
Episode 28
Trivializing the war
Episode 42
Trotsky
Episode 34
Tudor job agency
Episode 36
Tuesday documentary/children's story/party political broadcast
Episode 32
Tunnelling from Godalming to Java
Episode 10
'TV4 or not TV4' diskussion
Episode 37
Twentieth-century vole
Episode 6
U
Undertaker's sketch
Episode 26
Undertakers film
Episode 11
Undertakers film
Episode 11
Undressing in public
Episode 4
Unexploded Scotsman
Episode 38
'Up Your Pavement'
Episode 42
Upperclass Twit of the Year
Episode 12
V
Vicar/salesman
Episode 28
The visitors
Episode 9
Visitors from Coventry
Episode 12
Vocational Guidance Counseller (chartered accountant)
Episode 10
Vox pops
Episode 6
Vox pops on aftershave
Episode 17
Vox pops on full frontal nudity
Episode 8
Vox pops on politicians
Episode 20
Vox pops on smuggling
Episode 5
Vox pops on tax
Episode 15
W
The wacky queen
Episode 2
Wainscotting
Episode 20
Walk-on part in sketch
Episode 10
The walking tree of Dahomey
Episode 45
Watney's Red Barrel
Episode 31
What the stars foretell
Episode 37
'When Does A Dream Begin?' (song)
Episode 42
Whicker Island
Episode 27
Whizzo butter
Episode 1
Woody and tinny words
Episode 42
Words not to be used again
Episode 17
Working-class playwright
Episode 2
World War One
Episode 28
The wrestling epilogue
Episode 2
Y
You're no fun any more
Episode 7
'Ypres 1914'
Episode 25
'Ypres 1914' - abandoned
Episode 25
'Yummy yummy'
Episode 24
Z
Zeppelin
Episode 40