Ripping Yarns Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Ripping Yarns: Season 2 (1979)

• Season 2 Episode 3: Roger of the Raj

  Youngster Roger Bartlesham experiences a sexual awakening in colonial India, but the emotional turmoil leads him to commit a deplorable act. Final episode of the comedy series, starring Michael Palin, Richard Vernon, John Le Mesurier and Joan Sanderson

• Season 2 Episode 2: Golden Gordon

  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

  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

Ripping Yarns: Season 1 (1977)

• Season 1 Episode 6: The Curse of the Claw

  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

  The epic tale of Walter Snetterton, an explorer who tries to prove his belief that frogs can scale mountains by setting out on a great adventure in the Andes mountain range. Comedy, starring Michael Palin, Denholm Elliott and Don Henderson

• Season 1 Episode 4: Murder at Moorstones Manor

  Members of the Chiddingfold family gather at their spooky ancestral home, leading to a series of deaths as one by one the eccentric residents are murdered and the house descends into inevitable chaos. Comedy, starring Michael Palin and Gwen Taylor

• Season 1 Episode 3: Escape From Stalag Luft 112B

  A British PoW's constant attempts to escape his German captors exasperate his fellow prisoners. Comedy, starring Michael Palin and Roy Kinnear

• Season 1 Episode 2: The Testing of Eric Olthwaite

  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

  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