Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus

Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus
Created by	Graham Chapman John Cleese Terry Gilliam Eric Idle Terry Jones Michael Palin
Based on	Monty Python's Flying Circus by Graham Chapman John Cleese Terry Gilliam Eric Idle Terry Jones Michael Palin
Written by	Graham Chapman John Cleese Terry Gilliam Eric Idle Terry Jones Michael Palin
Directed by	Ian MacNaughton
Starring	Graham Chapman John Cleese Terry Gilliam Eric Idle Terry Jones Michael Palin Connie Booth Carol Cleveland
Country of origin	West Germany
Original language	German
No. of episodes	2
Production
Producers	Alfred Biolek, Thomas Woitkewitsch
Production location	Bavaria
Cinematography	Justus Pankau, Ernst Schmid animation by Terry Gilliam
Running time	45 minutes
Production companies	Westdeutscher Rundfunk Python (Monty) Pictures Bavaria Film
Original release
Network	ARD
Release	3 January (1972-01-03) – 18 December 1972 (1972-12-18)
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Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (Monty Python's Flying Circus) is a pair of 45-minute Monty Python German television comedy specials produced by WDR for West German television. The two episodes were respectively first broadcast in January and December 1972 and were shot entirely on film and mostly on location in Bavaria, with the first episode recorded in German and the second recorded in English and then dubbed into German.

The expression "Fliegender Zirkus"/"Flying Circus" is Originally German - it refers to the Air Squadron of German Ace Manfred von Richthofen, which always had to move back and forth like a circus with trucks to compensate for the numerically superior Allied squadrons due to insufficient numbers of own aircraft.