Ripping Yarns

TV Show (1977 - 1979)

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Synopsis:

A selection of tall tales from around the world parodying the fiction of yesteryear, with Michael Palin

Cast:

Michael Palin

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Episode Guide

Season 2 - Ripping Yarns

Season 2 Episode 3: Roger of the Raj (1979) Youngster Roger Bartlesham experiences a sexual awakening in colonial India - but the emotional turmoil leads him to commit a deplorable act. Michael Palin, Richard Vernon, John Le Mesurier and Joan Sanderson star
Season 2 Episode 2: Golden Gordon (1979) Michael Palin and Terry Jones wrote this classic comedy, in which Palin also stars as a soccer fan whose obsession with the world's worst team causes misery for both him and his long-suffering family. With Gwen Taylor and Bill Fraser
Season 2 Episode 1: Whinfrey's Last Case (1979) A dashing British hero suffers a conflict of loyalties on learning of the German plot to start World War One a year early : on the same day as his annual Cornish fishing holiday. Will he sacrifice his much-needed break for the good of humanity? Comedy, starring Michael Palin, Antony Carrick, Maria Aitken and Edward Hardwicke

Season 1 - Ripping Yarns

Season 1 Episode 6: The Curse of the Claw (1977) An adventurer sets out to return sacred relic the Claw of the Holy Vulture to Burma to stop it visiting a curse on his family. Vintage comedy, starring Michael Palin
Season 1 Episode 5: Across the Andes by Frog (1977) The epic tale of one man and his six frogs attempting a great adventure crossing the Andes mountain range, the biggest gamble of his life. Starring Michael Palin and Denholm Elliott
Season 1 Episode 4: Murder at Moorstones Manor (1977) Spoof whodunit set in spooky Moorstones Manor. A Chiddingfold family gathering leads to a series of deaths as one by one the eccentric residents are murdered and the house descends into inevitable chaos. Michael Palin and Gwen Taylor star
Season 1 Episode 3: Escape From Stalag Luft 112B (1977) A British PoW's constant attempts to escape his German captors exasperates his fellow prisoners. Michael Palin and Roy Kinnear star
Season 1 Episode 2: The Testing of Eric Olthwaite (1977) The tragic tale of Eric Olthwaite, the world's most boring man, who unexpectedly turns his life around by joining forces with a hardened criminal and embarking on a wild life of villainy and intrigue. Comedy, written by and starring Michael Palin, with Liz Smith and Kenneth Colley
Season 1 Episode 1: Tomkinson's Schooldays (1977) Classic comedy in which Michael Palin attends a public school where he is downtrodden one moment and official bully-in-residence the next, enjoying bizarre privileges including opium-smoking and the amorous attentions of Filipino women. Part of The Edwardians - the Birth of Now season