Monty Python's Flying Circus. first broadcast Sept. 22, 1970. Michael Palin, in Monty Python's Flying Circus (BBC TV comedy series), 2nd series, episode 2, written and conceived by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin (1969-1974), published in Monty Python's Flying Circus: Just the Words, ed. Roger Wilmut, vol. 1, ch. 15 (1989).