Monty Python's Flying Circus

The Montgolfier brothers prepare for the first balloon flight.

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

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

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

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.

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 revolutionised beekeeping.