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Ripping Yarns

BAFTA TV AWARD® winner
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.
IMDb 7.819776 episodesX-Ray16+
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  1. S1 E1 - Tomkinson's Schooldays
    January 6, 1976
    30min
    TV-14
    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.
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  2. S1 E2 - The Testing of Eric Ulthwaite
    September 26, 1977
    29min
    TV-14
    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.
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  3. S1 E3 - Escape from Stalag Luft 112B
    October 3, 1977
    29min
    TV-14
    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.
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  4. S1 E4 - Murder at the Moorstones Manor
    October 10, 1977
    30min
    TV-14
    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.
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  5. S1 E5 - Across the Andes by Frog
    October 17, 1977
    32min
    TV-14
    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.
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  6. S1 E6 - The Curse of the Claw
    October 25, 1977
    32min
    TV-14
    Sir Kevin Orr lives alone, fearful of the hideous object that has ruined his life.
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