Monty Python's Flying Circus
Monty Python’s Flying Circus (known during the final series as just Monty Python) is a British surreal sketch comedy series created by and starring the comedy group Monty Python. The first episode was recorded at the BBC on 7 September and premiered on 5 October 1969 on BBC One, with 45 episodes airing over four series from 1969 to 1974, plus two episodes for German TV.
Election Night Special
This sketch was featured in Episode 19 of the "Monty Python's Flying Circus" TV series, first broadcast on 3 November 1970. A somewhat different version of the sketch (leading into The Lumberjack Song) was also featured on the "Monty Python Live at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane" album. A longer edit of the "Drury Lane" version also appeared on the promotional flexidisc "Monty Python's Tiny Black Round Thing". The sketch also provides the basis for an item in "Monty Python's Big Red Book" in the form of a mock pamphlet for the Silly Party, which alongside characters from the original sketch, also names both Paul Fox and Ian MacNaughton as Silly Party candidates.