And Now for Something Completely Definitive

Monty Python fans have only three weeks to wait for the NZ release of the Blu-ray box set of the Flying Circus TV series.

The outstanding HD restoration of all four series is spread across seven discs with premium extras.

Here’s what $150 will buy you on September 10:

Series 1 Features:

• Sex and violence: Reinstated content, studio outtakes
• Full Frontal Nudity: Studio outtakes
• The Ant, an Introduction: Studio outtakes
• Untitled: Extended Ron Obvious filmed material
• And clean end titles footage

Series 2 Features:

• The Buzz Aldrin Show: Extended & unused filmed material
• Live from the Grill-O-Mat: Extended Ken Clean-Air System filmed material
• It’s a Living: Reinstated content & alternative, censored sketch audio, extended Election Night Special and School Prizes filmed material
• How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body: Reinstated content & alternative, censored sketch audio
• Scott of the Antarctic: Extended filmed material
• How Not to Be Seen: Restored animation, unused film material, extended Conquistador Coffee sketch
• And Now For Something Completely Different: Vic Jamison’s 1970 student film shot on location with the Python team
• Interview with Ian Macnaughton: Recorded in November 1971 at Imperial College London

Series 3 Features:

• Whicker’s World: Extended Mrs. Premise & Mrs. Conclusion Travel to Paris filmed material
• Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror: Extended The Pantomime Horse is a Secret Agent filmed material and Bus Conductor extended scene
• The All-England Summarize Proust Competition: Reinstated content
• Salad Days: Reinstated content
• The Nude Organist: Reinstated content with extended Trees animation, studio outtakes, alternative Terry Gilliam-approved sound mix
• E Henry Thripshaw’s Disease: Extended Gay Boys in Bondage animation and Sir Philip Sidney sketch
• Dennis Moore: Extended Redistribution of Wealth sketch
• A Book at Bedtime: Reinstated content, original opening, extended Heath Tango animation
• Grandstand: Extended Grandstand filmed material, studio outtakes, extended Charwoman animation, unused Betty Blood Donor animation
• Series 3 Monologue Rushes

Series 4 Features:

• The Golden Age of Ballooning: Extended Barry Zeppelin filmed material
• Michael Ellis: Deleted Icelandic Honey Week filmed material, extended Toupee Department and Football Pundits filmed material
• LE War: Repeats extended voiceover & unused M2 filmed material, When Does a Dream Begin (clean closing titles)
• Hamlet: Extended Queen Victoria Handicap filmed material
• Mr Neutron: Reinstated content, extended Mr Neutron Takes Tea filmed material
• Party Political Broadcast: Extended Fanshawe-Chumleigh Dinner Party filmed material, deleted Ursula Hitler filmed material
• Restoring Flying Circus with Terry Gilliam
• In Vision archive interview from December 1974