'flying Circus' Hits 40

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Sat, 10/17/2009 - 10:00pm

In 1969, five young British comedians and one young American animator came together to make a television show. Without much of an idea of what they were going to do, they were given a series by the BBC to do it in, and after hunting around for a name -- "Owl-Stretching Time" and "A Horse, a Spoon, and a Basin" having been vetoed -- they settled on "Monty Python's Flying Circus."

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