Monty Python's Flying Circus is a British comedy show made by the comedy group Monty Python and broadcast by the BBC. The shows were composed of observational sketches and risqué surreality or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags without punch lines. It featured cartoons by Terry Gilliam, frequently sequenced or blended with action. The first episode was listed on 7 September and broadcast around 5 October 1969 on BBC One, together with 4 5 episodes airing over four series in 1969 to 1974, and two episodes to get German TV. The show concentrates on British life's idiosyncrasies , notably the of professionals, also are sometimes sexually charged. Monty Python's members were educated. Terry Jones and Michael Palin are Oxford University graduates. John Cleese, eric Idle, and Graham Chapman attended Cambridge University. And manhood. Their comedy is frequently intellectual, together with countless references to philosophers and literary characters. The show followed and elaborated up on the style used by Spike Milligan in his cutting edge series Q5, as opposed to the traditional sketch show arrangement. The team intended their humour to be impossible to categorise, and triumphed so completely the"Pythonesque" was devised to define it and, later, identical material.