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Ripping Yarns

Season 2 1979

  • 1979-10-09T23:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 30m
  • 1h 29m (3 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy
A British television comedy series, written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. Following an initial pilot episode in January 1976, it ran for two subsequent series of five and three episodes in October 1977 and October 1979 respectively. Each episode had a different setting and characters, looking at a different aspect of British culture and parodying pre-World War II literature aimed at schoolboys.

3 episodes

Season Premiere

1979-10-09T23:00:00Z

2x01 Whinfrey's Last Case

Season Premiere

2x01 Whinfrey's Last Case

  • 1979-10-09T23:00:00Z30m

Dashing, debonair Gerald Whinfrey saves his country twice a week. But in 1913 a German plot - to start the First World War without telling anyone - coincides with his holiday. Where will Whinfrey's priorities lie? A knock-about tale of international intrigue.

1979-10-16T23:00:00Z

2x02 Golden Gordon

2x02 Golden Gordon

  • 1979-10-16T23:00:00Z30m

A rare look at football fanaticism in the 1930s. Superfan Gordon Ottershaw supports a team which has not won a match for six years. But worse is to come. Will their tragedy bring Gordon's triumph? Or not? These are some of the questions this film hopes to answer. Or not.

Season Finale

1979-10-23T23:00:00Z

2x03 Roger of the Raj

Season Finale

2x03 Roger of the Raj

  • 1979-10-23T23:00:00Z29m

Pubescent Roger Bartlesham comes of age in the turbulent India of 60 years ago, when circumstances beyond his control drive him towards the most deplorable act known to the British Army.

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