This article is part of Yahoo's 'On This Day' series. The final episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus aired on BBC 1 this day 18 January, 1973, marking the end of an era for the most influential ...

Despite being voted the most influential comedy series ever, I think the Python brand has become islanded in its own iconic uniqueness. The crew of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Photograph: BBC/PA ...

The conference held in the fall in Poland had originally been intended to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, but in pragmatic acknowledgment of having missed that year, ...

In addition to its big-screen work, the hilarious ensemble — consisting of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric ...

On Sunday 5 October 1969 at 11pm (after most respectable people had gone to bed) the BBC broadcast the first episode of a show that changed the course of British comedy. Monty Python’s Flying Circus ...

It is 40 years since Monty Python's Flying Circus amused, confused and outraged British audiences for the first time. To mark the anniversary of the first BBC broadcast of the hugely influential ...

The 1960s satire boom opened up the way for a fresh, inventive generation of young comedy writer-performers to flourish on TV and to take comedy in a new and exciting direction. Among them were five ...

We've all seen enough Monty Python that we can all recite it all, verbatim, until the people around us run screaming from the room. Well, now you can make them run screaming even faster, because A&E ...

He's always seemed to blend into the background. Don't get me wrong, Terry Jones is a very noticeable fellow, but when I think of the Python troupe, Jones' name is usually the last that I come up with ...

Pythons battle protesters in "Holy Flying Circus," a 2011 British TV docudrama about the controversy over "Life of Brian." Lookalike actors play Monty Python's Flying Circus, whose 1979 satire follows ...

The Ministry of Silly Walks is one of Monty Python's most famous sketches. John Cleese's serious civil servant with ludicrous locomotion first appeared in 1970, on the troupe's television show Monty ...