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Season 1

Season 1

1969
13 Episodes

Episodes

Whither Canada?
1

1. Whither Canada?

Oct 5, 1969
31 min
7.7

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.

Sex and Violence
2

2. Sex and Violence

Oct 12, 1969
33 min
7.6

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.

How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
3

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

Oct 19, 1969
31 min
7.9

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.

Owl Stretching Time
4

4. Owl Stretching Time

Oct 26, 1969
29 min
7.5

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.

Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
5

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

Nov 16, 1969
29 min
7.8

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.

It's the Arts
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6. It's the Arts

Nov 23, 1969
30 min
7.1

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.

Oh, You're No Fun Anymore
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7. Oh, You're No Fun Anymore

Nov 30, 1969
30 min
7.1

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

Full Frontal Nudity
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8. Full Frontal Nudity

Dec 7, 1969
29 min
7.1

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.

The Ant, An Introduction
9

9. The Ant, An Introduction

Dec 14, 1969
29 min
7.4

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

Untitled
10

10. Untitled

Dec 21, 1969
30 min
7.2

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.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
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11. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom

Dec 28, 1969
31 min
7.0

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

The Naked Ant
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12. The Naked Ant

Jan 4, 1970
31 min
6.9

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.

Intermission
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13. Intermission

Jan 11, 1970
29 min
7.3

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