Episode
Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Ant, An Introduction
Overview
Featuring Ken Buddha, a man with a tape-recorder up his nose and a hairdresser who always wanted to be a lumberjack.
Details
- Series
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1969-12-14
- Runtime
- 29 min
Episode context
The Ant, An Introduction is Episode 9 in Season 1 of Monty Python's Flying Circus. It aired on 1969-12-14. The runtime is 29 min.
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