A retrospective of the troupe on the 20th anniversary of the debut of their TV series Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Presented by comedian Steve Martin, this special tribute, originally broadcast by the BBC in 1989, features a compilation of classic sketches from Monty Python’s Flying Circus as well as the two German TV Flying Circus specials, Monty Python’s Fliegender Zirkus. True to its title, the popular Dead Parrot sketch was not included.