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Animation in episode 9 of series 3 was cut out following the initial broadcast. The animation was a parody of a German commercial, and the original owners complained about the music use, so the BBC simply removed part of the animation, and replaced the music with a song from a Python album. Terry Gilliam later complained about the cut, thinking it was because producer Ian McNaughton "just didn't get what it was and he cut it. That was a big mistake."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sotcaa.org/history/ukonline/python_frame.html?/history/ukonline/python/python_tv_03.html|title=Edit News: Monty Python's Flying Circus|website=Some Of The Corpses Are Amusing|access-date=1 May 2019|archive-date=2 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702003938/http://sotcaa.org/history/ukonline/python_frame.html?/history/ukonline/python/python_tv_03.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Music copyright issues have resulted in at least two cuts. In season 2 episode 2099, Graham Chapman as a Pepperpot sings "[[The Girl from Ipanema]]", but some versions use "[[Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair]]", which is public ___domain. In the bus conductor sketch in season 3 episode 4, a brief parody of "[[Tonight (1956 song)|Tonight]]" from ''West Side Story'' was removed. Though it was later determined that this version never even aired on BBC at all, instead was first seen in the American broadcasts.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wurm |first=Gerald |title=Monty Python's Flying Circus (Comparison: Old DVDs (Sony / A&E) - Blu-ray (Network)) - Movie-Censorship.com |url=https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=159041 |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=www.movie-censorship.com |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005163625/https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=159041 |url-status=live }}</ref> There have also been reports of substituting different performances of classical music in some uses, presumably because of performance royalties.

A Region 2 DVD release of Series 1–4 was released by [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment]] in 2007. This included certain things which had been cut from the US A&E releases, including the "masturbation" line, but failed to reinstate most of the long-lost sketches and edits. A Blu-ray release of the series featuring every episode restored to its original uncut broadcast length was released by Network for the show's 50th anniversary in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://montypython.networkonair.com/flyingcircushd | title=Monty Python's Flying Circus | access-date=23 July 2019 | archive-date=23 July 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723131156/https://montypython.networkonair.com/flyingcircushd | url-status=live }}</ref>