📺 '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

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#OnThisDay 1969: "It's absolutely impossible to do anything when the pupils are here... except teach." Jack Pizzey reported from Islington Green Comprehensive, where a strike had led to a rather bizarre state of affairs for some staff." | BBC Archive

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#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