Watch Monty Python's Flying Circus

David Brent at Wernham Hogg in Slough; twelve episodes and a Christmas special that invented the form.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge talks to the camera through grief and a hot priest; two perfect seasons.

Malcolm Tucker swears his way through Whitehall; Armando Iannucci before Veep.

Sir Humphrey runs the minister; Margaret Thatcher's favourite programme.

Twelve episodes of John Cleese running a Torquay hotel badly; "don't mention the war".

Rowan Atkinson through four eras of English history; the last scene of Goes Forth.

Benedict Cumberbatch in modern London; the Reichenbach fall and the internet.

The Shelby gang in 1920s Birmingham with razor blades in their caps; Cillian Murphy.