Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watching Flying Circus 50 years later is an odd experience: As an audience member, you can see the bones that would go on to ...

This article is part of Yahoo's 'On This Day' series. The final episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus aired on BBC 1 this day 18 January, 1973, marking the end of an era for the most influential ...