Monty Python’s Flying Circus: The Complete Series 1
Blu-ray: Monty Python\’s Flying Circus: The Complete Series 1 (1969 – 70)
Released in both Standard and Deluxe Editions, Monty Python\’s Flying Circus: The Complete Series 1 is the result of nearly 10 years work by Network’s award-winning in-house restoration team, working from the best available materials – from first generation 2-inch videotape masters to surviving negative and print film material, scanned in 2K. The wildly varying picture sources have been graded scene-by-scene and intensively cleaned up.
This is Monty Python as you\’ve never seen it before. In fact, this is Monty Python as Monty Python has never seen it before!
All 13 episodes look and sound fantastic, giving a new lease of life to this much loved surrealistic comedy series.
- 1. Whither Canada?
- 2. Sex and Violence
- 3. How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away
- 4. Owl Stretching Time
- 5. Man\’s Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
- 6. It\’s the Arts (or: The BBC Entry to the Zinc Stoat of Budapest)
- 7. You\’re No Fun Anymore
- 8. Full Frontal Nudity
- 9. The Ant, an Introduction
- 10. Untitled
- 11. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
- 12. The Naked Ant
- 13. Intermission (or: It\’s The Arts)
If you think you\’ve seen everything by Monty Python, then think again. Not only does this series (and ALL series in the complete boxset) seem like the very first time you\’ve watched it thanks to the magnificent restoration work, there are also entertaining and informative special features which have never been seen before.
Available in 2 different versions for series 1 AND a complete boxset, the question isn\’t \”should I buy it?\”, the question you should be asking yourself is \”which version should I buy?\”
Monty Python are a British comedy institution, and even if you already own their work, THIS release far exceeds everything released before it and is an essential purchase guaranteed to have you laughing all over again.
SERIES 1 SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Sex and Violence: Reinstated content, studio outtakes
- Full Frontal Nudity: Studio outtakes
- The Ant, an Introduction: Studio outtakes
- Untitled: Extended Ron Obvious filmed material and clean end titles footage
SERIES 1 DELUXE EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Sex and Violence: Reinstated content, studio outtakes
- Full Frontal Nudity: Studio outtakes
- The Ant, an Introduction: Studio outtakes
- Untitled: Extended Ron Obvious filmed material and clean end titles footage
- Limited edition digipak packaging
- Book by Andrew Pixley featuring an exhaustive episode-by-episode production history of series one
Review by Dave from discs kindly supplied by Network On Air.
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