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Ripping Yarns

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British comedy series by Michael Palin, co-written with fellow ex-Python Terry Jones: a series of amusingly silly spoofs on pre-war boys' adventure books. Originally transmitted in the late Seventies. Episodes were as follows:

  • Tomkinson's Schooldays (20-Sep-77)
  • The Testing Of Eric Olthwaite (27-Sep-77)
  • Escape From Stalag Luft 112B (4-Oct-77)
  • Murder At Moorstones Manor (11-Oct-77)
  • Across The Andes By Frog (18-Oct-77)
  • The Curse Of The Claw (25-Oct-77)
  • Whinfrey's Last Case (10-Oct-79)
  • Golden Gordon (17-Oct-79)
  • Roger Of The Raj (24-Oct-79)

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