The forty-five episodes of the TV series “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” originally ran on BBC television in Great Britain from 1969 to 1974.
Terry Gilliam did the animation on “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, the only American in the troupe. Gilliam has gone on to direct movies like Brazil (1985) and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989).
John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, and Terry Jones were the other Pythons.