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Ripping Yarns

All Episodes 1976 - 1979

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  • 1976-01-07T00:00:00Z
  • 30m
  • 4h 29m (9 episodes)
  • Terry Jones + 1 more, Michael Palin
  • 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.

9 episodes

Series Premiere

1976-01-07T00:00:00Z

1x01 Tomkinson's Schooldays

Series Premiere

1x01 Tomkinson's Schooldays

  • 1976-01-07T00:00:00Z30m

Set in the frontier days of British education, when upper lips were stiff with cold and corporal punishment was an A-level. A savage, searing indictment of something or other.

A boy becomes a man in the harsh world of the Depression. The rough, tough story of folk who couldn't afford to go on the Jarrow March.

A tale of courage and valour behind the lines in the Kaiser's Germany. An inspiring story of camp life and a British officer who wouldn't lie down.

Hugo and Dora drive down to see Mumsie and Dadsie-pie for a long weekend in the country. But their tophole weekend turns out to be longer than they thought.

1977-10-17T23:00:00Z

1x05 Across the Andes by Frog

1x05 Across the Andes by Frog

  • 1977-10-17T23:00:00Z30m

The epic story of one man and six frogs who tried to defy the world in the greatest gamble of all.

Season Finale

1977-10-25T00:00:00Z

1x06 The Curse of the Claw

Season Finale

1x06 The Curse of the Claw

  • 1977-10-25T00:00:00Z30m

The terrifying story of a man who dabbled in the dark mysteries of the Orient, and lived to tell the tale. Or did he?

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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