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First Aired: October 5th, 1969

Status: Ended

Genre: Comedy

Network: BBC One

Summary: A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.

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# of Episodes: 45

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Episode 1: Whither Canada?

Air Date: October 5th, 1969

Summary: Featuring 'It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart', an Italian lesson, Whizzo Butter, 'It's the Arts', Arthur 'Two-Sheds' Jackson, a cycling race, and The Funniest Joke in the World.

Episode 2: Sex and Violence

Air Date: October 12nd, 1969

Summary: Featuring some flying sheep, a man with three buttocks, a man with two noses, musical mice, a marriage guidance counsellor, a working-class playwright and The Wrestling Epilogue.

Episode 3: How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away

Air Date: October 19th, 1969

Summary: Featuring a court scene, the larch, Bicycle Repair Man, children's stories, a restaurant sketch, some seduced milkmen, an interview with some children and a stolen newsreader.

Episode 4: Owl Stretching Time

Air Date: October 26th, 1969

Summary: Featuring fresh fruit as self-defence, some folk-singing, an art gallery sketch and Lemming of the BDA. An Edwardian man struggles to undress on the beach.

Episode 5: Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century

Air Date: November 16th, 1969

Summary: Featuring Confuse-a-Cat, discussion programme A Duck, a Cat and a Lizard, the arrest of a newsreader, an erotic film, a silly job interview and a burglar/encyclopaedia salesman.

Episode 6: It's the Arts

Air Date: November 23rd, 1969

Summary: Featuring a gang of legal burglars, the Whizzo Quality Assortment, a Scottish wedding and a day in the life of a city stockbroker. Some film moguls try to impress their boss.

Episode 7: Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

Air Date: November 30th, 1969

Summary: Featuring camel-spotting, an embezzler at a board-meeting and a science fiction tale about a Scotsman and a tennis-playing blancmange.

Episode 8: Full Frontal Nudity

Air Date: December 7th, 1969

Summary: Featuring an art critic, some hermits, Hell's Grannies and the dead parrot sketch. Some newlyweds attempt to buy a bed and the mafia offer protecting to the army.

Episode 9: The Ant, An Introduction

Air Date: December 14th, 1969

Summary: Featuring Ken Buddha, a man with a tape-recorder up his nose and a hairdresser who always wanted to be a lumberjack.

Episode 10: Untitled

Air Date: December 21st, 1969

Summary: Featuring a bank robber in a lingerie shop, It's A Tree (with Arthur Tree), a vocational guidance counsellor, Ron Obvious and a gorilla librarian.

Episode 11: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

Air Date: December 28th, 1969

Summary: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra goes to the bathroom, a footballer is interviewed and Batley Townswomen's Guild re-enact the invasion of Pearl Harbour.

Episode 12: The Naked Ant

Air Date: January 4th, 1970

Summary: Featuring the North Minehead by-election, the Upper Class Twit of the Year competition, Ken Shabby and a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Wood Party.

Episode 13: Intermission

Air Date: January 11st, 1970

Summary: Featuring some historical impersonations, a cinema usherette with a dead seabird, restaurant abuse and Probe Around On Crime.

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