Ripping Yarns

Comedy 1976

Available on BritBox, Prime Video

Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame bring their talents to this comedy anthology series, where each episode features tall tales of adventure, mystery, and suspense straight from the pages of old schoolboy comics.

Comedy 1976

TV-PG

Starring Michael Palin

EPISODE 1

Tomkinson's Schooldays

Public school is hell for our hero until he enters the marathon school hop and becomes School Bully. With Terry Jones, Ian Ogilvy, and Gwen Watford.

29 min · Jan 6, 1976 TV-PG
EPISODE 2

The Testing of Eric Olthwaite

Eric is so boring his parents run away from home.Then one day he is taken hostage by a bank robber who shares his interests in shovels and weather gauges and the two become local heroes. With Kenneth Colley.

28 min · Sep 26, 1977 TV-PG
EPISODE 3

Escape from Stalag Luft

Major Errol Phipps has escaped 500 times from WWI German prison camps. But he’s the only prisoner not to escape from Stalag Luft 112B.With Roy Kinnear and John Phillips.

28 min · Oct 3, 1977 TV-PG
EPISODE 4

Murder at Moorstones Manor

The Chiddingfold family are gathered for a birthday weekend. But one by one, someone is killing them off.With Isabel Dean, Iain Cuthbertson and Frank Middlemass.

29 min · Oct 10, 1977 TV-PG
EPISODE 5

Across the Andes by Frog

In 1927, Captain Walter Snetterton set out for the first amphibian assault on the Andes. But fear, superstition and savage primeval lusts await him in the steamy town at the foot of the slopes.With Denholm Elliot.

31 min · Oct 17, 1977 TV-PG
EPISODE 6

The Curse of the Claw

Sir Kevin Orr lives alone and rejected, in constant fear of the hideous object that has ruined his life.

32 min · Oct 24, 1977 TV-PG

Michael Palin

Actor
Michael Palin

Writer
Terry Jones

Writer

About

Ripping Yarns

COMEDY

Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame bring their talents to this comedy anthology series, where each episode features tall tales of adventure, mystery, and suspense straight from the pages of old schoolboy comics.

Information

Studio: BritBox
Released: 1976
Rated: TV-PG
Region of Origin: United Kingdom

Languages

Original Audio: English (United Kingdom)
Audio and Subtitles: English (United States) (AAC, CC)

Accessibility

: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.