Monty Pythons Flying Circus a bit of a strange name isnt it?
It started off being called The Circus or Baron Von Tooks Circus around the BBC, just because people needed to call it something (and because it was Barry Tooks pet project). When the Python team started to decide on names, titles such as “Whither Canada?”, “Arthur Megapode’s Cheap Show”, “Owl-Stretching Time”, “Bunn, Wackett, Buzzard, Stubble and Boot”, “It’s”, “The Venus Di Milo Panic Show,” “The Toad Elevating Moment,” “You Can’t Call A Show ‘Cornflakes'” and “A Horse, a Bucket and a Spoon” were bounced around (many of these early suggestions would later turn up as episode titles). They were then told that it had have the name Circus in it, as this is what all the suits in the BBC knew it as. Flying was added to remove the image of clowns and elephants. Then they came to deciding whos Flying Circus it was. Michael Palin came up with the name “Gwen Dibley’s Flying Circus” (Gwen Dibley being a name he saw in a newspaper article), but although everyone originally approved it was quickl
