• 1976
  • TV-PG
  • 30m
Ripping Yarns

Summary This show is a collection of tales that make for "ripping good" television. Sir Michael Palin played a different lead character in each yarn. View more details

  • 1976
  • TV-PG
  • 30m

Ripping Yarns

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Michael Palin Charles McKeown Barbara New David Griffin

All cast & crew

7.8

Details

Genres : Adventure Comedy

Release date : Jan 6, 1976

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : Cape Cornwall, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Summary This show is a collection of tales that make for "ripping good" television. Sir Michael Palin played a different lead character in each yarn. View more details

Details

Genres : Adventure Comedy

Release date : Jan 6, 1976

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : Cape Cornwall, St Just, Cornwall, England, UK

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jan 06, 1976
Tomkinson's Schooldays
New boarder Tomkinson is thoroughly miserable at Graybridge public school where he has to fight the grizzly bear,get nailed to the wall on St Tadger's Day and do the bidding of Grayson,also known as School Bully. When his mother refuses to let him come home he makes several attempts to escape,all unsuccessful,but after winning the Thirty Mile Hop against a rival (Buddhist) public school he is promoted to School Bully when Grayson leaves for Eton.
Episode 2 • Sep 26, 1977
The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
Eric Olthwaite is so boring that his family all leave home to escape him. Then one day he is accidentally caught up in a bank robbery and discovers that the robber shares his interests in shovels, black pudding and rainfall so they team up to make daring raids to steal rainfall records. As a result Eric becomes famous and is considered interesting again, so much so that he is made the mayor of Denley Moor.
Episode 3 • Oct 03, 1977
Escape from Stalag Luft 112 B
During World War I Major Errol Phipps is determined to escape from Stalag Luft 112B but his attempts all fail. However all the other prisoners and the guards succeed, leaving him alone in the camp to make elaborate plans - including a tunnel system so extensive it becomes the Munich Underground. He is so obsessed with his escape plans he fails to realize that the war has ended and dies a disappointed man. He does however manage to escape from his grave after he has been buried though.
Episode 4 • Oct 10, 1977
Murder at Moorstones Manor
Sir Clive Chiddingfield invites his family to his birthday party at lonely Moorstones Manor but in the course of the evening half of those present are murdered one by one and the remaining survivors except for Lady Chiddingfield each admit to being the killer,eventually shooting each other.
Episode 5 • Oct 17, 1977
Across the Andes by Frog
Explorer Walter Snetterton and his party travel to the Andes to prove his theory that frogs are able to climb mountains. Due to the Cup Final the only person willing to act as guide is an elderly - but extremely agile - old lady and as Snetterton prepares to strike camp all his men desert him for the charms of the local ladies. Snetterton is never found but the frogs manage to escape and make it to Mexico City,thus proving his theory to be right.
Episode 6 • Oct 24, 1977
The Curse of the Claw
Sir Kevin Orr is anxious to return the Sacred Claw of the Naga hills given him as a child by his uncle Jack but warned that unless it is returned before his sixtieth birthday the curse of the claw will kill him. He sets sail to return it but falls for the ship's female officer,who throws the claw overboard,killing everybody but Kevin. Years later the claw has returned and on his sixtieth birthday Kevin finds his wife Agatha dead,the claw beside her. He finally sends the claw back to the Naga hills,breaking the curse but sending him back in time to his childhood,his relatives still alive.

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