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Where did you see Monty Python?

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After the death of Terry Jones this week, I think it's appropriate to discuss where and when you watched "Monty Python".
My local PBS station (KYVE Yakima WA) never aired Python back in the 80s. If you think "Python" was trippy the first time you saw it, imagine trying to understand the episode descriptions for other markets in TV Guide without having seen the show! The first time I saw the show was on all things MTV, which aired "Python" for a few years in the late 80s. I also saw the show in the early 90s on A&E, and fondly remember KBTC Tacoma's nightly showings in the 2000s--teamed with "Red Green" of all things.
 
KBTC here too for Monty Python. And Red Green was on KBTC, yes. You could watch him on both KBTC *and* CBUT, if you had Comcast.
I don't think KYVE had room on the schedule for Monty Python. They were signing off 7 nights a week at 11:00 (ahem, sometimes around 11:05 if they were carrying Jack Horkheimer that night). KCTS kept the lights on till 12:30-1AM in the '80s.
Probably little audience interest too. Yakima is not an area known for British import fans.
 
Ditto. Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting (precursor to today's MPT which still has a very robust Britcom lineup) in Baltimore. My Mom appreciated it, growing up a British subject when it first came out in the UK, so I was introduced at a fairly young age.
 
First saw a segment of it on an NBC summer series called Comedyworld. WGTV Athens/Atlanta picked it up in the summer of '75. I then saw an unedited version of And Now For Something Completely Different at an art cinema and Holy Grail at a regular theater.
 
WDCN-8 in Nashville aired Monty Python, way before they changed their calls to the current WNPT.
 
I see it has returned to the lineup on IFC.
And that IFC is blurring out the naughty bits.
Something that even PBS did not do when broadcasting this show over the air.
 
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