The Cycling Tour | Monty Python’s Flying Circus | S 3 Ep 8

Mr. Pither Mr. Gulliver (who thinks he is Clodagh Rodgers) Trotsky Smolensk Bingo-Crazed Chinese Not Secret Police Trotsky / Eartha Kitt Firing Squad Eartha Kitt / Edward Heath Narrow Escape/Credits Monsters Dance to “Jack in the Box“ This episode is the first Flying Circus to feature a full-length story. It is also the first that does not have a formal opening sequence; instead, a simple caption (“The Cycling Tour“) appears at the beginning. Chapman’s adopted son, John Tomiczek, makes a brief non-speaking appearance as an autograph seeker. The episode was written by Palin and Jones with the exception of the last third which was re-written by Cleese and Chapman. Palin and Jones play only one character each throughout the whole episode (although Jones, suffering from amnesia, imagines himself as Clodagh Rogers, Leon Trotsky, Eartha Kitt and Edward Heath). The music to which Mr. Pither cycles is the Waltz from Act II of Faust by Charles Gounod.