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The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus

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Graham Chapman (Actor, Writer), John Cleese (Actor, Writer) Rated:

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Talk about the full monty—"Monty Python's Flying Circus", that is: A boxed set of 14 DVDs containing all the cerebral wit, slapstick, silly walks, and naughty bits that have made this series a comic classic. Making the deal even sweeter are these DVD extras: Meet the Chaps, a Pythonisms Glossary, Gillianimations Art Gallery, Troupe Career Highlights, trivia, web links, and more. About 24 hours 40 min. on 14 DVDs or 21 cassettes. Also available: "Seasons I-IV." Each is 13 episodes, 6-1/2 hours on 4 DVDs or 6 cassettes. Web Extra: If "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" had been a failure, the Pythons were prepared to split up. Though disputed by the group, it's said that Michael Palin is the "nice Python"—Eric Idle is the "sixth nicest Python.".

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While more cautious fans may want to pick and choose among the previously released individual volumes of Monty Python for their collection, true Pythonites will want to own this definitive, 14-volume DVD-only boxed set that contains all 45 episodes (in chronological order) of Monty Python's Flying Circus. This "persistently silly" collection encompasses three-and-a-half seasons of dead parrots, cross-dressing lumberjacks, loonies, upper class twits, and spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, and spam. Click past the occasional clunker and go directly to such signature sketches as the Ministry of Silly Walks, the Spanish Inquisition, the Fish-Slapping Dance, the Dead Parrot Sketch, the Lumberjack Song, the Cheese Shop, the Argument Clinic, and Nudge, Nudge. Taken as a whole, one marvels at how Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam thoroughly subverted television convention with "something completely different," like sketches with no punch lines ("Your average TV viewer isn't going to understand this").

A warning to the uninitiated: there is much "material that some may find offensive, but which is really smashing." Violations of something called the "Strange Sketch Act" are the least of the troupe's offenses, as witness the Oscar Wilde Sketch, the Dirty Vicar Sketch, and the Most Awful Family in Britain Sketch, all of which achieve "the really gross awfulness" all Python fans are looking for. Say no more. --Donald Liebenson

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 8 x 5 inches; 3.6 Pounds
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Box set, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 30 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ November 7, 2000
Actors ‏ : ‎ Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Producers ‏ : ‎ John Howard Davies
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
Studio ‏ : ‎ A&E Home Video
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00004ZEU5
Writers ‏ : ‎ Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 14

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Tommyreb

And I did not have to reveal my ......

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2016

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What is your Quest ? Of course I have purchased the Complete Box set of Monty Python's Flying Circus ( Including the Parrot sketch).
And I did not have to reveal my Lover in Bolton to make the Buy! These are the Complete and unedited bits of all their routines.
I started watching this British troope along with the Young Ones. And the Raw Albums of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
Ahh , Yes, Finer days I must say...

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Alan Caylow

The *Not Quite* Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2009

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I LOVE Monty Python---they are the true Kings Of Comedy, in my opinion. I've been a fan ever since I first saw their TV series on PBS when I was a kid back in the late-70's. The TV series, the movies, the albums....I've got 'em all. However, up until now, I only had the TV series on videocassette (taped off of MTV, of all networks!). But, with Python's 40th anniversary upon us (happy anniversary, lads!), I finally forked over the bucks for this, the "16-Ton" megaset of their show. Overall, this box set of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" is a real treat. SO many great laughs, and, along with it, so many great memories for me. Sure, a few sketches misfire (the alien dessert--aka blancmonge--playing tennis...sorry, but it just doesn't work), but the Pythons scored so many more comic hits than misses (the "Atilla The Hun" episode, The Upper-Class Twit Of The Year Show, Scott Of The Antarctic, The Most Awful Family In Britain, and on and on and on). Also, this is the first time I've ever gotten to see the Python show *in the correct order*! How great it was for me to finally see how the Pythons evolved over the course of their four series of shows.

BUT---this is not the "complete" Python show, as they would have you believe on the outside of the box. For some unexplained reason, four episodes have a few bits missing or censored:

"It's The Arts"---the sketch about the composer with the frighteningly long name, "Johann Gamboleputty....". Eric Idle had a brief bit as an old man who dies halfway through saying Gamboleputty's full name. It's no longer there.

"Blood, Devastation, Death, War & Horror"---in the "Bus Conductor" sketch, Graham Chapman briefly sang a spoof version of "Tonight" from "West Side Story" ("Tonight, tonight, I'm getting p----d tonight!"). It's been cut. Maybe for legal reasons? Who knows.

"A Book At Bedtime"---there were opening captions prior to Terry Gilliam's opening title animation in this episode ("Tonight we start the show straight away with the opening titles.....No you didn't, you started with that caption....Oh yes."), as well as a concluding sketch about upcoming British comedy TV shows (including "Dad's Pooves" and "Up The Palace"). Both have been cut. Why?

"The All-England Summarize Proust Competition"---in the title sketch, Graham Chapman is censored from saying the word, "masturbating". Very silly.

So, this box set is the *Not Quite* Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus, which is disappointing, but I'll still take it. It's a comedy classic by a classic comedy troupe, easily the groundbreaking comedy equivalent of The Beatles. Thank you so much, Monty Python, for all of the great laughs. Albatross!!!

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Robert Badgley

Comedy as only Monty Python could do it!

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2007

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Monty Python was a very talented and smart group of six mostly university educated individuals who took established British humour and molded it into their very own creation.They took aim at anything that was stale and staid in then English
Society,shot it up,turned it upside down,flattened it and called it Mr.Gumby!!
What on the surface seems a simple enough point about the troupe but usually goes unnoticed today is their original appeal and impact.Python came out of the 60s rebellious era and while that trait alone wasn't surprising what was was their own nationality(British),their feigned attempts at portraying themselves as part of that staid and stuffy society all the while taking stabs at every English sacred cow and then some such as the police,the armed forces,the BBC,war vets,etc. which made it definitely "something completely different"! There has never been a program like it before or since.
Each program was filled with several sketches tied together more or less with animated segments by Terry Gilliam,the only Yank in the group.
Having watched the entire set with it's 16 DVDs I was favourably impressed by the quality of the transfers.They are pretty sharp and crisp.The only disappointment is the "Live at the Hollywood Bowl" film.The film is not in good condition and the colour is quite washed out.It is a full screen version and I wonder since some of the credits disappear off the screen that there isn't a widescreen version out there,hopefully in better condition than this.Time will tell.
I also noted that the sketches "Proust","Bruce" and "Biggles" have some quick moments that have slight cuts/jumps in them.I know the BBC is responsible for the first one but the other two I'm not sure of the who or why.There may be others but those are the three I noticed off hand.One will also notice that there are some film glitches and other various defects.From what I can determine these are things that are inherent in the original film and there's nothing that really can be done to excise them.
All 16 discs come in their own thin slip cases and are one sided(less chance of scratching!).Each DVD interactive menu if quite neat and each has its' own trivia spot about the particular ep you're watching and some neat special features including trivia question contests and more.There are alas no interviews with the cast mano a'mano but the 'Live at Aspen' DVD makes up a little for this.
Overall this is a set every Monty Python fan should own or a lover of good comedy.If you're one of the politically correct crowd I wouldn't advise you to buy this set as the guys leave NO stones unturned in their comedic efforts to offend and delight us all at the same time.It's a set I will certainly be watching again and again and you will too.

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T. Robinson

Ohh, hello sailor!

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2010

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I already told you once to buy this.

You did not.

I did too.

You most certainly did not.

Excuse me, but is this the 5 minute review or the 30 minute one?

The 5 minute.

Oh, sorry about that. Well, let's get on with it. A major thrill of my adolescent life was to turn to PBS and watch that great BBC import, "Monty Python's Flying Circus." You actualy got to see the occasional bit of real boobie! Hey! When you're 13 you live for those cheap thrills. But I missed so many of the episodes that when I had the chance to get the whole series on DVD, I snatched it up. It's all there, every last bit. The last season is considerably less memorable than the early seasons. It seems that the steam had run out for the gang.

As I expected, the DVD reproduction is fine. Also to be expected, there are extras with each DVD and those all hold either 3 or 4 episodes of the show per disk. Also, as I expected, there are a lot of bits of trivia on the disk. But I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Tie him to the rack for this review!"

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abc

Not completely different ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 5, 2014

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This is a review of the 2012-re-release of the "Complete Boxset" ( Monty Python's Flying Circus - Complete Series [DVD ]). In case you were wondering (like I was) how this release differs from the 2008-release ( Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Complete Boxset [DVD] [1969] [2008 ]apart from the much lower price), this might help in your purchasing decission. On the first glance, the re-release seems to be a stripped down, low budget edition of the 2008-version: different covers, shorter running time, and no foreign subtitles - but no!

Actually only the packaging has been slightly modified. While on the Amazon-page only the DVD-case is shown, the DVD actually comes in a slip-case which is similar to the original release. The difference is, that this is no more a die-cut sleeve and instead of having a multi-fold dvd-tray this is simply a (big) armary case.

The discs themselves are identical to the 2008-version (they even have the same number and year on the label). This means it has Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish subtitles and the first season is also dubbed in Polish and Hungarian (which still leaves me wondering if this is part of the joke or of its a true hungarian translation) and also all extra features are left intact: "Before the Flying Circus", "Conquer America", "Animated Gilliam" and "Politically Incorrect", so it has an overall running time of 1327 minutes (like the original release).

So, get it if you don't have it - this is the real deal!

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Update 2020:

Coming back to this review after 6 years, I'll have to clarify a few points, which may be confusing to a today's reader:

- when doing this review in 2014 there were two different versions available (the 2008 release and the 2012 re-release).
- the 2008-version (costing roughly #80) had the full and correct amazon-data, the 2012-version (costing roughly #15) had the incomplete / incorrect data
- the links above pointed to the respective versions
- as of 2020 amazon has removed the 2008-version and only kept the 2012-version, fixed the the info for the 2012-version and also merged the reviews of both versions - thus, the above links do now point at the same product now.
- also the price got "adapted" to the original version
- still, this is the essential Monty Python-collection you need!

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Chika

And Now for Something Completely Box Shaped

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 28, 2017

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Actually the whole thing kicked off on the evening of my sixth birthday though I was blissfully unaware of it. It was some time later, probably through BBC repeats, that I found out about this series and though I was eventually well versed with many of the best known sketches, animations and sayings of the show, it is only now that I finally get to see the entire series from start to finish. What you make of it is your business. Suffice to say that not every single sketch was that funny. Some of it was surreal, some of it was clever, some of it was mackerel flavoured with a hint of rosemary, but it cannot be denied that these six folk picked the ball up that had been kicked about by the Goons and those Oxbridge folk of which most of the Pythons were members at one time or another, and gave it a thoroughly good kicking. Before the movies and all the merchandising was this; Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Yours sincerely

Arthur Flange (Mrs.)

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Ivan

Essential cultural reference

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 1, 2014

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Anyone with the slightest interest in media history, anthropology, philology or linguistics HAS to be familiar with this as so much now hinges on, or refers back to it.

And now for something completely expected..

The best fish and chips I ever had were in Aberdeen in about 1970
The stegosaurus had two brains, one in its head and the other one in its genitals which, unisuaually, were located on top of its head and a bright lilac in colour
The M'gaqui tribe of Eastern Umpopoland have a law which states that all cattle must be named individually and that name must be Gnaqqwai, which translates roughly as "Daisy." Breeding bulls also have the same name, but prefixead by G'tan, which means "Mister."

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Varian Beauregard

I have watched it all and it is really rather good.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2012

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Although in some ways this is a product of its time that can only be fully understood by those that lived through them, it equally has a timeless quality. That is due to the diversity of sketches that include the very topical, plenty of satirism that is every bit as relevant in 2012 and of course downright silliness. This is British humour at its best.

Inevitably some sketches will have you laughing out loud (and far more of them than just the famous ones) and others might leave you blank faced. In a similar way, some episodes are consitently brilliant and others are more patchy, with the odd episode falling flat. (This is still true for the short 6-episode series 4 sans John Cleese. Although painfully apparent at first, I hardly noticed his absence by episode 4 and there are some brilliant sketches.) Having said that, the only way to fully appreciate Monty Python's brand of humour is to watch this whole set. Otherwise you are never likely to see some of the great sketches and will miss the effect of the integrated episodes that have recurring themes or motifs. Personally, I love this set much more than the films and there are just so many episodes here for a very reasonable price.

The bonuses include one very good documentary about the pre-Python days and another documentary about the success of Monty Python in America. The best extra is the "politically incorrect" sketch, which was dropped after its first showing at the beginning of a series 3 episode and is only now available as a stand alone poor quality copy. It is still a brilliant sketch.

Excellent set, well done Sony!

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Victor

Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Complete Boxset - Better than being slapped in the face by a wet haddock!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 31, 2010

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Here it is. The series that started it all. Each and every episode of the most original TV comedy series to ever hit our screens. It's.... Monty Python's Flying Circus.

As the series contained very little that was topical, even thought the first episode dates all the way back to 1969 it still stands up very well today. It still feels fresh and original, and above all, funny! The Pythons played around as much as possible with the sketch form, managing to elicit huge laughs with the most bizarre situations and in the face of all comedy convention.

If you are looking here you probably don't need to be told how funny the series is, so I shall review the release as a whole.

All 44 episodes are contained on 7 discs, with an eighth disc of extras. Menus are a little clunky, with no `play all' feature which I find a little irritating, but no matter. The picture is original 4.3 aspect with a mono sound. Both sound and picture have been nicely remastered and cleaned up, leaving the picture as sharp and clean as it can be. There are subtitles in a whole range of languages, as well as Polish or Hungarian dubbing for series 1 only. The discs are collected into a foldout card case collected into a thin card slip case. The whole thing is about the size of three standard DVD cases.

The extras are so-so - the usual `how it all started', a look at the way they took over America, an interesting film where Terry Gilliam discusses his animations. OK, but personally I usually just watch the episodes.

An excellent set, especially for the price being asked. Well worth getting.

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