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Season 1

13 episodes · 1969

  1. 1

    Whither Canada?

    Oct 5, 196931 min★ 7.9

    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.

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    Sex and Violence

    Oct 12, 196933 min★ 7.7

    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.

  3. 3

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

    Oct 19, 196931 min★ 8.5

    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.

  4. 4

    Owl Stretching Time

    Oct 26, 196929 min★ 7.9

    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.

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

    Nov 16, 196929 min★ 8.1

    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.

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    It's the Arts

    Nov 23, 196930 min★ 7.9

    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.

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    Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

    Nov 30, 196930 min★ 7.7

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

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    Full Frontal Nudity

    Dec 7, 196929 min★ 8.6

    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.

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    The Ant, An Introduction

    Dec 14, 196929 min★ 8.3

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

  10. 10

    Untitled

    Dec 21, 196930 min★ 7.6

    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.

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    The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

    Dec 28, 196931 min★ 7.7

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

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    The Naked Ant

    Jan 4, 197031 min★ 8.3

    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.

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    Intermission

    Jan 11, 197029 min★ 7.9

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