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Ripping Yarns Season 1

January. 07,1976
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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.

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Ripping Yarns

1976

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.

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Ripping Yarns Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 6 - The Curse of the Claw
Episode 5 - Across the Andes by Frog
Episode 4 - Murder at Moorstones Manor
First Aired: October. 11,1977

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.

Episode 3 - Escape From Stalag Luft 112B
First Aired: October. 04,1977

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.

Episode 2 - The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
First Aired: September. 27,1977

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.

Episode 1 - Tomkinson's Schooldays
First Aired: January. 07,1976

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.

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