Monty Python's chief weapon is surprise. And silliness. Their two weapons are surprise and silliness. And men in drag. Their three weapons are surprise, silliness and men in drag. And bizarre animation. Their FOUR chief weapons… Oh, bloody hell.

As young men, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin showed tremendous promise as gifted comic artists. Then they created Monty Python's Flying Circus - very possibly the most tragic waste of Oxbridge education ever broadcast. If your television ever produces the sight or sound of rich drama or accomplished acting, there is most assuredly something drastically wrong with your set.

But it is clear: no programme in the history of television has brought such enlightenment to the common man. Monty Python's Flying Circus provides a veritable university education in cultural literacy - tailored, of course, to suit those not quite done with evolution.

The World will never forget Monty Python's Flying Circus. But perhaps, someday, we'll forgive.

Disc 1:
1. Whither Canada
2. Sex & Violence
3. How to Recognize Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
Disc 2:
4. Owl-Stretching Time
5. Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century
6. It's the Arts
Disc 3:
7. You're No Fun Anymore
8. Full Frontal Nudity
9. The Ant, an Introduction
Disc 4:
10. "Untitled"
11. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
12. The Naked Ant
13. Intermission
Disc 5:
14. Face the Press
15. The Spanish Inquisition
16. Déjà vu
Disc 6:
17. The Buzz Aldrin Show
18. Live from the Grill-O-Mat
19. It's A Living
Disc 7:
20. The Attila the Hun Show
21. Archaeology Today
22. How to Recognize Different Parts of the Body
Disc 8:
23. Scott of the Antarctic
24. How Not to Be Seen
25. Spam
26. Royal Episode 13
Disc 9:
27. Whicker's World
28. Mr. And Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular
29. The Money Programme
Disc 10:
30. Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
31. The All-England Summarize Proust Competition
32. The War Against Pornography
Disc 11:
33. Salad Days
34. The Cycling Tour
35. The Nude Organist
Disc 12:
36. E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease
37. Dennis Moore
38. A Book At Bedtime
39. Grandstand
Disc 13:
40. The Golden Age Of Ballooning
41. Michael Ellis
42. The Light Entertainment War
Disc 14:
43. Hamlet
44. Mr. Neutron
45. Party Political Broadcast