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In this season (only), the opening sequence begins with a nude organist, John Cleese saying "and now," and the "It's" Man.

1. Whicker's World (or: Njorl's Saga)[edit]
(episode 27; aired 19 October 1972; recorded 14 January 1972)

Njorl's Saga/Opening Credits
Multiple Murderer Court Scene
Investigating the body
Njorl's Saga – part II
A Terrible Mess
Njorl's Saga – part II: North Malden?
Starting Over
Njorl's Saga – part II: Invest in Malden?
Phone conversation about the word "Malden" in the saga
Eric Njorl Court Scene (Njorl's Saga – part III)
Stock Exchange Report
Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion at the Launderette
Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion at North Malden
Back to the saga...
Njorl's Saga – part IV: Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion visit Sartre in Paris
Whicker's World

2. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular[edit]
(episode 28; aired 26 October 1972; recorded 28 January 1972)

Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow
The opening sequence follows this sketch.
Schoolboys' Life Assurance Company
How to Do It
Mrs. Niggerbaiter Explodes
Vicar/Salesman
Farming Club
"Life of Tschaikowsky"
Trim-Jeans Theatre
The Fish-Slapping Dance
World War II (Animation)
Titanic Sinking
The BBC is Short of Money
SS Mother Goose
It's Man Show
Shown after the closing credits. Lulu and Ringo Starr appear as themselves. This is one of the few times you can hear the man say something besides "It's".

3. The Money Programme[edit]
(episode 29; aired 2 November 1972; recorded 4 December 1971)

The Money Programme
Money Song
Erizabeth L
Fraud Film Director Squad[1]
Hands Up (Animation)
Dead Bishop, AKA Church Police or Salvation Fuzz
Jungle Restaurant
Apology for Violence and Nudity
Ken Russell's "Gardening Club"
The Lost World of Roiurama
Six More Minutes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Argument Skit
Hitting on the Head Lessons
Inspector Flying Fox of the Yard
One More Minute of Monty Python's Flying Circus

4. Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror[edit]
(episode 30; aired 9 November 1972; recorded 11 December 1971)

Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
The Man Who Speaks in Anagrams
The opening sequence follows this sketch.
Anagram Quiz
Merchant Banker
Pantomime Horses
Life and Death Struggles
Househunters
Mary Recruitment Office
Bus Conductor Sketch
The Man Who Makes People Laugh Uncontrollably
Army Captain as Clown
Gestures to Indicate Pauses in a Televised Talk
Neurotic Announcers
The News with Richard Baker (vision only)
The Pantomime Horse is a Secret Agent
Anagrams appear throughout this episode: "Tony M. Nyphot's Flying Risccu" for Monty Python's Flying Circus; "Chamran Knebt" for Merchant Bank, "Mary Recruitment Office" for Army Recruitment Office. The end credits are all in anagrams.

Richard Baker has also done gestures to indicate pauses in the news.

5. The All-England Summarize Proust Competition[edit]
(episode 31; aired 16 November 1972; recorded 24 April 1972

Summarize Proust Competition
The end credits appear here.
Hairdressers Climb Up Mount Everest
A Magnificent Festering
Fire Brigade
Our Eamonn
"Party Hints" with Veronica Smalls
Language Laboratory
Travel Agent
Watney's Red Barrel
Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses

6. The War Against Pornography[edit]
(episode 32; aired 23 November 1972; recorded 21 January 1972)

Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign
Gumby Brain Specialist
Molluscs – "Live" TV Documentary
Report on the Minister reports
Tuesday Documentary
Children's Story
Match of the Day
An Apology
Expedition to Lake Pahoe
The Silliest Interview We've Ever Had
The Silliest Sketch We've Ever Done

7. Salad Days[edit]
(episode 33; aired 30 November 1972; recorded 7 January 1972)

Biggles Dictates a Letter
In some video editions, a technical glitch cut some of the dialogue; but the complete original does exist.
Climbing the North Face of the Uxbridge Road
Lifeboat
Old lady snoopers
Storage Jars
The Show so Far
Cheese Shop sketch
Philip Jenkinson on Cheese Westerns
Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days"
Apology
The News with Richard Baker
Seashore Interlude Film

8. The Cycling Tour[edit]
(episode 34; aired 7 December 1972; recorded 4 May 1972)

Mr. Pither
Mr. Gulliver (who thinks he is Clodagh Rodgers)
Trotsky
Smolensk
Bingo-Crazed Chinese
Not Secret Police
Trotsky / Eartha Kitt
Firing Squad
Eartha Kitt / Edward Heath
This episode is the first episode of Flying Circus to feature a full length story.

This is the first episode that doesn't have a formal opening sequence; instead, a simple caption "The Cycling Tour" appears at the beginning of the episode.

John Tomiczek, Graham Chapman's adopted son, makes a brief non-speaking appearance as an autograph seeker.

The entire episode was written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones; they each play exactly one character throughout the whole show.

The music to which Mr. Pither cycles is the Waltz from Act II of Faust by Charles Gounod.

9. The Nude Organist (or: The Nude Man)[edit]
(episode 35; aired 14 December 1972; recorded 11 May 1972)

Bomb on Plane
A Naked Man
Ten Seconds of Sex
Housing Project Built by Characters from Nineteenth-century English Literature
M1 Interchange Built by Characters from 'Paradise Lost'
Mystico and Janet – Flats Built by Hypnosis
Mortuary Hour
The Olympic Hide-and-seek Final
The Cheap-Laughs
Bull-fighting
The British Well-Basically Club
Prices on the Planet Algon
Mr. Badger Reads the Credits

10. E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease[edit]
(episode 36; aired 21 December 1972; recorded 25 May 1972)

Tudor Jobs Agency
Pornographic Bookshop
Elizabethan Pornography Smugglers
Silly Disturbances
The opening sequence follows this sketch.
The Free Repetition of Doubtful Words Sketch
'Is There?'... Life after Death?
The Man Who Says Words in the Wrong Order
Thripshaw's Disease
The footage representing the movie version of Thripshaw's Disease was taken from a 1960 Polish movie Knights of the Teutonic Order.
Silly Noises
Sherry-drinking Vicar
The BBC censored this episode probably more than any other, cutting three sketches (Big Nosed Sculptor, Revolting Cocktails, Wee-Wee Wine Cellar) as well as much of Gilliam's animation.

11. Dennis Moore[edit]
(episode 37; aired 4 January 1973; recorded 17 April 1972)

"Boxing Tonight" – Jack Bodell v. Sir Kenneth Clark
Dennis Moore
What the Stars Foretell
Doctor
TV4 or Not TV4 Discussion
Lupins
Ideal Loon Exhibition
Off-Licence
Dennis Moore Rides Again
Prejudice
Redistribution of Wealth
12. A Book at Bedtime[edit]
(episode 38; aired 11 January 1973; recorded 18 December 1971)

Party Political Broadcast (Choreographed) †
A Book at Bedtime – "Redgauntlet"
Kamikaze Scotsmen
No Time to Lose
Frontiers of Medicine – Penguins
BBC programme planners
Unexploded Scotsmen
Spot the Looney
Rival Documentaries
Dad's Doctors, Dad's Pooves and Other Interesting Stories
"Party Political Broadcast (Choreographed)" and "Dad's Doctors, Dad's Pooves and Other Interesting Stories" have been cut out in many versions of this episode.[2] A clip of "Party Political Broadcast (Choreographed)" has surfaced on YouTube, stated to have been found in Canada by David Morgan. It originates from WNED in Buffalo, New York; an identification card is seen at the beginning of the clip, and a "Support Channel 17" phone number shows up at the bottom of the screen.[3] There is also a clip of the last sketch originating from German network WDR with German subtitles.[4] "Dad's Doctors" has been restored to the iTunes version of the show as well as added to the Netflix streaming video version of the series.

13. Grandstand (or: The British Showbiz Awards)[edit]
(episode 39; aired 18 January 1973; recorded 18 May 1972)

This is the second episode without a formal opening sequence.

Thames TV Introduction, with (the real) David Hamilton
"Light Entertainment Awards" with Dickie Attenborough
Dickie Attenborough
The Oscar Wilde Sketch
Charwoman
David Niven's Fridge
Pasolini's Film "The Third Test Match"
New Brain from Currys
Blood Donor
International Wife-Swapping
Credits of the Year
The moment when the two men are discovered in bed together is John Cleese's last appearance in the series.
The Dirty Vicar Sketch