Ripping Yarns

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Ripping Yarns is a British television comedy series created by and starring Michael Palin that parodies old-fashioned adventure and boys’ own stories.

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instanceOf British television comedy series
television anthology series
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator Michael Palin NERFINISHED
Terry Jones NERFINISHED
distributor BBC
episodeTitle Across the Andes by Frog
Escape from Stalag Luft 112B
Golden Gordon
Murder at Moorstones Manor
Roger of the Raj
The Curse of the Claw
The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
Tomkinson’s Schooldays
Whinfrey’s Last Case
executiveProducer Ian MacNaughton
featuresCharacterType British schoolboys
eccentric Englishmen
firstAired 1976
genre adventure comedy
comedy
parody
hasCultFollowing true
hasFormat single-story episodes
hasHomeMediaRelease DVD
VHS
lastAired 1979
medium television
notableFor anthology format with different characters each episode
parody of British imperial and public school traditions
numberOfEpisodes 9
numberOfSeries 2
originalLanguage English
originalNetwork BBC Two
surface form: BBC2
parodies boys’ own adventure stories
old-fashioned adventure stories
pilotEpisodeTitle Tom Brown's Schooldays
surface form: Tomkinson’s Schooldays
producer Terry Hughes
productionCompany BBC
relatedWork Monty Python's Flying Circus
surface form: Monty Python’s Flying Circus
settingPeriod early 20th century
starring Michael Palin NERFINISHED
writer Michael Palin NERFINISHED
Terry Jones NERFINISHED

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Michael Palin notableWork Ripping Yarns