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All four series, first broadcast between October 6, 1969 and December 5, 1974 are represented in the The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus four-video box set. Volume Four contains interesting footage from Aspen, Colorado where, in March 1998, the whole Python gang (including the late Graham Chapman in an urn) got together for the first time in 18 years to talk to host Robert Klein about how the ground-breaking comedy show got started. The other three volumes include all the expected highlights, from Terry Gilliam's inspired, lunatic animation to classics like "The Lumberjack Song", "The Ministry of Silly Walks" and the "Nudge-nudge, know what I mean?" sequence, as well as the now world-famous "Dead Parrot" sketch, which you'll find after the credits at the end of Volume One (running the credits before the end of the show was just one of the anarchic things the Python team did before anyone else). Despite its age, this classic material seems, if anything, fresher today than it did 30 years ago. Less widely known but no less silly are "The Vicious Gangs of Old Ladies", "The Man With Three Buttocks", "The Vocational Guidance Counsellor", "The Upper Class Twit of the Year Show", "The Spanish Inquisition", "Stand and Deliver!" (the lupin-stealing highwayman) and the "Ideal Loon Exhibition" among many others. The colour is faded in places, but this won't affect your laughter. --Lorna Read

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5.0 out of 5 stars Monty Python - Why say more???, 22 Oct 2002
4 tapes from the Python crew, totally unmissable, and a must buy. If you've ever seen the films (Life of Brian, Holy Grail, or Meaning of Life) and thought that they were good, just wait until you see the episodes. Monty Python has, sorry, is the best comedic entertainment the world has ever seen, nothing to date can beat the originality and variation within Python land.

These videos should, if anything, be bought in tribute to the team, displayed in a large glass case, and honoured for years to come.

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28 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The funniest thing I have ever seen, 18 Aug 2001
being just 17 I wasn't around to see the Monty Python series but became a fan after seeing the Holy Grail film on TV. I have since seen all the films and bought many albums. This box set completes any Python's collection. Its got all the classic sketches we know and love - Ministry of Silly Walks, Lumberjack Song. Plus many I had never seen before, Ideal Twit Exhibition, Woody and Tinny words and the Spam sandwich shop. This is a must even if you've seen them all before and especially if you haven't! The whole team should be knighted to recognise the genius that is Monty Python. I loved it....so will you.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A satisfying Feast of Python Lunacy, 15 April 2000
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This Set Features all the best sketches plus a few you may have forgotten. The highlights include the blackmailer on a plane, Tinny and Woody words and The Gumby Doctors surgery. It is also great fun to see how the animations improved over the four series. One Notable absense is the Dead mother/cannibalism sketch which the BBC apparently disaproved of but its still better than anything else available to buy on video!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Not all 'Best Of's dissapoint...
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very funny and most enjoyable.
There are many of Monty Python's best skeches in this set, for example "The Ministry of Silly Walks" and the "Parrot" sketch.
Published on 9 Mar 2000

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