Editing Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (section)

==Reception==
The first show received mixed reviews. Opinion surveys taken after the episode was broadcast revealed that 8% of the audience found the show to be very good, 15% found it to be very bad, and 43% found it to be good.<ref name=BBCRadio /> Producer Biolek recalled that "This [the first show] was an absolute flop, it cannot be stated differently, as well as in terms of viewership and especially in terms of reviews."<ref name="Schüren Verlag">{{cite book|last1=Biolek|first1=Alfred|title=Unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit. Alfred Biolek erinnert sich.|year=2008|publisher=Schüren Verlag|location=Marburg}}</ref> Biolek retrospectively believes that the German audience was not ready for Pythonesque humour, since it was more used to more traditional sketch comedy, by comedians such as [[Rudi Carrell]] and [[Heinz Erhardt]].<ref name="Schüren Verlag"/> In fact, the producers did expect early on that especially the older parts of the German audience would not connect with the Pythons' style of humour.<ref name=BBCRadio />
 
Biolek attributes the production of the second show to Westdeutscher Rundfunk's general progressive stance towards entertainment production at the time, and specifically to the support of the head of the entertainment sector, Hannes Hoff.<ref name=BBCRadio />