12 reactions · 3 comments | In 1969, Monty Python's Flying Circus took off on British television, introducing the world to the Ministry of Silly Walks and the Lumberjack Song. | Timehop | Facebook

1.1K views · 19 reactions |  'Monty Python's Flying Circus' Sunday 07 December 1969 - BBC1: 22:45 John Cleese wishes to register a complaint. #montypython #montypythonsflyingcircus | Bernie Briffa | Facebook

📺 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' Sunday 05 October 1969 - BBC1: 22:55 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' is broadcast for the first time. Manic, unstructured, at times incomprehensible and often, most certainly in the worst possible taste, Monty Python became perhaps the biggest cult hit ever seen on television. By turns irreverent, surreal, chaotic and at times simply silly in a way which is uniquely and quintessentially British, its comedic influence echoing down the decades and in the process he

78K views · 1.5K reactions | #OnThisDay 1969: Portmeirion's architect Clough Williams-Ellis explained how he created a little slice of the Italian Riviera in north Wales. "It has been my love affair with life." | BBC Archive | Facebook

#OnThisDay 1969: Concorde took to the skies. The Anglo-French plane took off from Toulouse on a test flight piloted by André Turcat. | BBC Archive

"On The Buses" was a British sitcom that aired from 1969 to 1973, following the working-class Butler family and the misadventures of bus driver Stan Butler, played by Reg Varney. The series centred around Stan's attempts to avoid work, chase women, and wind up his officious inspector Blakey, whilst dealing with his overbearing mother, unemployed brother-in-law Arthur, and long-suffering sister Olive at their cramped family home. Reg Varney became the first person ever to use a cash machine when