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• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes abstract "Ripping Yarns is a television comedy series created by Michael Palin and Terry Jones and first broadcast on BBC 2 between 1976 and 1979. This is a list of the nine episodes forming the series. Although co-written by Palin and Jones, Jones only appears in the first and pilot episode, Tomkinson's Schooldays.".
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• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes aux "Denley Moor, 1934".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes aux "England/India, 1914".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes aux "Germany, 1917".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes aux "Huddersfield, 1935".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes aux "Maidenhead, 1926".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes aux "Peru, 1927".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes aux "Scotland, 1926".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes directedby Jim_Franklin_(director).
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes directedby "Alan J. W. Bell".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes directedby "Jim Franklin".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes directedby "Terry Hughes".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes episodenumber "2".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes episodenumber "3".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes episodenumber "4".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes episodenumber "5".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes episodenumber "6".
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• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes originalairdate "1977-09-27".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes originalairdate "1977-10-04".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes originalairdate "1977-10-11".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes originalairdate "1977-10-18".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes originalairdate "1977-10-25".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes originalairdate "1979-10-17".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes originalairdate "1979-10-24".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes shortsummary "Eric Olthwaite is interested in precipitation patterns in West Yorkshire, shovels and black pudding . His family avoids him. His mother always gives him something to do the moment he starts talking, his sister Irene simply tells him to shut up, his father pretends to be French in the hope that Eric won't talk to him or fakes a bilious attack at meal times. One morning, Eric discovers that his family has left him. He tries to talk about it with his girlfriend, Enid Bag , but she's too busy having an affair with another man. Her father , a vulture keeper, tells Eric what his problem is: He's boring. He advises him to make something out of his life. Eric tries to start at a bank, but the manager tells him that he's too boring for the job. Eric's about to leave when the bank is robbed by a man called Arthur , who takes Eric with him. They run for it and manage to escape. Arthur is about to shoot Eric, when the two of them discover how much they've got in common: they're both interested in rain, shovels and black pudding. They decide to form a gang together. In a pastiche of Bonnie and Clyde the pair are shown carrying out daring raids to capture rainfall records. Their new fame actually makes Eric interesting. Enid joins them, Eric's mother and father are interviewed about him and in the end, Eric Olthwaite is appointed mayor of Denley Moor. In the second series episode "Golden Gordon", Olthwaite is briefly seen playing for Denley Moor's football team. His past as a bank robber is scornfully mentioned. Notes: Location scenes were filmed at Beamish and Tow Law, County Durham and High Force, Yorkshire.".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes shortsummary "In a dark and stormy night, Sir Kevin Orr is visited by a bunch of strange men: Captain Merson leading an expedition to the Naga Hills of Burma with a few natives in tow. On hearing this place name, Sir Kevin gets excited and tells Merson a long hidden secret. He grew up in a very strict house. His parents had his sister imprisoned for putting too much butter on her scone and his brother killed for walking on the flower beds. Young Kevin had a secret sweetheart, Agatha - so secret that she herself didn't know. The only excitement in his life was visiting his Uncle Jack , who loved dirt and filth and had about every disease known to man. On his sixtieth birthday, Uncle Jack told his now grown nephew a secret: he had taken a sacred claw from the Naga hills in Burma, but had discovered there was a curse on it. The owner had to return it before his sixtieth birthday to the tribesmen or die. Kevin promises to do his best and on no account to touch the Claw. He tries to persuade his parents to let him go, but of course they refuse. His father touches the Claw in spite of Kevin's warnings and breaks two legs just as a thunderstorm tears the house apart. Kevin runs away with the Claw. He becomes captain of the Greasy Bastard, a small ship carrying rubber goods between England and Burma. But the Curse starts to operate on him, and he finds himself attracted to the Chief Petty Officer Russell . After some agonising, he discovers that Russell is a woman and that in fact nearly all members of the crew are. The voyage becomes a paradise and they don't want it to end when they reach Burma. Kevin tries to explain the situation to his crew, but Russell throws the Claw into the sea. The ship explodes and Kevin is the only survivor. He returns to his uncle, who tells him that the Claw will find a way to return to him and that he shall live in this house until it does. Then he dies. Kevin, after his parents' death, marries Agatha, and lives happily in his uncle's house until the morning of his sixtieth birthday, when he finds his wife dead and the Claw lying next to her. He hands it back to the Naga tribesmen. But it has one final trick to play on him: his uncle and wife are returning from the dead, Kevin and Agatha become kids again and suddenly his father is standing in front of the door to fetch him. Notes: The locations used were at Rippingale, Lincolnshire and the Medway Estuary.".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes shortsummary "Major Errol Phipps is a legend among prisoners of war. He has attempted over five hundred escapes, two hundred of them before he left England. One day, he is transferred to the most infamous prison camp: Stalag Luft 112B. He tries eleven escapes en route and one just after arriving, but is stopped by fellow British officers. They are comfortable where they are, bossing the Germans around. One of the officers is called "Attenborough", alluding to Richard Attenborough's role in the film The Great Escape, which the episode parodies very successfully. Escape attempts have to be organized by a special committee which only meets very irregularly. Phipps tries to escape nonetheless. He starts to construct a glider out of toilet rolls, maps the wires and perimeters and starts digging tunnels in the flower beds. One day, he is woken up by the furious guard Vogel : All the others have escaped. To give Phipps no chance to do the same, he is from now on closely watched. One night, the guards ask him for help. They want to escape; they're fed up with this. Phipps refuses, saying this would be collaboration. The next morning he finds all the guards, except Vogel, are escaping. Vogel tries to persuade him to help him shoot the other guards, Phipps again refuses. When Vogel shoots, he accidentally kills the Kommandant and has no choice but to escape. Phipps is left alone and has at last time to complete all his escape plans. He finishes his glider, digs a tunnel system so elaborate that it later became part of the Munich underground, and builds a giant catapult. He's about to start a hot air balloon when peace is declared. Major Phipps was the only man never to escape from Stalag Luft 112B. He dies a broken man. Two months after the burial, a hole is found dug from his grave to the cemetery fence: his final escape was his greatest. Notes: Location scenes were filmed on Salisbury Plain.".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes shortsummary "Plot: Barnstoneworth United is a small football club, once successful in the Yorkshire Premier League, now losing every game. One of their fans, Gordon Ottershaw , who has named his son Barnstoneworth United , comes home after every lost match and smashes the furniture in fury. His wife Eileen quietly accepts this. She keeps trying to tell him that she's having a baby, but he seems not to notice. After an 8-1 defeat by an elderly team , it is decided that the club will be disbanded and the ground sold to a scrap dealer. The upcoming match against Denley Moor will therefore be the last. Gordon visits the new owner, Mr. Foggen , and tries to persuade him to keep the club alive. Foggen refuses, but Gordon has another idea. He starts visiting the players from the great 1922 team, reassembling them for the last match. The day of the match it looks bad for Barnstoneworth. They have only four players , whereas the captain of the Denley Moor team is the famous Eric Olthwaite. At the last minute, Gordon arrives with the old team, who defeat Denley Moor 8-1. Gordon arrives home and the family smashes the furniture together in happiness. Notes: John Cleese makes a brief cameo as a passer-by in the street.".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes shortsummary "Plot: Roger Bartlesham has grown up in a wealthy family. They have a large number of houses, an overflowing breakfast table, even more servants. Roger's mother, Lady Bartlesham , has killed more grouse than any woman in history and quite a few beaters, who looked too much like grouse. His father, Lord Bartlesham , can't get used to the fact that slavery no longer exists and that all his servants are free men and women. Roger is rather uncomfortable with his parents and spends a lot of time with his Latin tutor, Mr. Hopper , a former child molester, who doesn't teach him Latin but about Marxism and socialism. When the war breaks out, the Bartleshams move to India and do their part for King and country . One evening, after dinner, the ladies are about to withdraw from the table when Captain Morrison suddenly exclaims: "We'll be in to spank you later, you firm-buttocked young amazons." Bartlesham. offended, says to him "You know what you've got to do," and so Morrison steps outside and shoots himself. A moment later, another man is caught passing the port from left to right. He too has to step out and shoot himself. Another man stands up and says he thinks you should be able to pass the port any way you wanted to. He follows the other two. Another one gets up and says the women should be allowed port, too. After that death, Colonel Runciman gets up and says he also wanted the women in here. He also wanted to abolish the Loyal Toast, the National Anthem and set up a socialist republic. After he shoots himself , Roger gets up, leaving his father alone. Roger visits his girlfriend Miranda . They dream of having a small shop, a pharmacy perhaps, but Miranda first refuses, saying that there also have to be rich people. However, she is won over by Roger's ideas. They prepare to leave for England, but in the meantime, the Russian Revolution has started. Mr. Hopper is delighted and tries to make Roger join him and the regiment in a mutiny. The Bartleshams wake and mistake the noise for a Pathan uprising. The regiment force Roger to be their leader and talk to his parents. Lady Bartlesham, convinced by Hopper that Roger really was the leader, is prepared to shoot him. The soldiers shoot back at her, Miranda comes to rescue Roger, the chaos escalates and, under its cover, Roger and Miranda escape. They realise their dream of a small shop in the big manor belonging to Roger's parents. Notes: Final episode.".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes shortsummary "Plot: Walter Snetterton is an explorer unluckily forgotten. His expedition had been trying to prove that frogs could scale the highest mountains. He wanted to cross the Andes by frog. The expedition starts in the sleepy village of Quequeña, where they are not quite greeted by the British Consul , and meet some problems. Due to the Cup Final, the only guide available is an old woman , who nonetheless is able to climb the mountains much faster than Snetterton and his men. Then the natives think the frogs bring bad luck. Snetterton dismisses this as superstitious nonsense, but has three men guard the frogs. The next morning, after his Sergeant Major has left the army to marry a native girl, he discovers that they all have left their posts for a love night with the beautiful native maidens and that someone has set all the frogs free. He makes the whole village search for the frogs, but they are distracted by the radio, transmitting Wimbledon week tennis. Furious, Snetterton shoots the radio and realises he's gone too far. Pursued by the angry villagers, he grabs the last remaining frog and runs for the mountains. Later, only his journal is found, saying that after three weeks he had to eat the frog. However, we are told that the other frogs hopped to Mexico City, therefore proving his theories right. Notes: This story had first appeared in Palin & Jones' 1974 book "Bert Fegg's Nasty Book for Boys and Girls". Location shooting was at Glencoe, Scotland.".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes shortsummary "Sir Clive Chiddingfold , the irascible proprietor of Moorstones Manor has his birthday. His sons Hugo and Charles drive up with their fiancées. Hugo, the elder, is only interested in motors and seen as a loony by the rest of the family. He even leaves his fiancée Dora on the moor, when she makes him choose between her and the car. Charles, the younger, arrives with his fiancée Ruth . During dinner, Ruth drops unconscious into a cottage pie, due to Sir Clive's stories of cruelty. Hugo comes down for a chat, his mother takes him up to bed again, when they hear a shot. Sir Clive has just been murdered. Charles claims having seen nothing as he just watched a trapdoor open. Lady Chiddingfold then discovers that Ruth has choked on her pie. Charles offers to go and check whether Hugo still lives. There is another shot and Charles comes down saying Hugo was shot and that he again saw nothing due to the fact that he watched a secret passageway open. In the middle of the night, Dora reaches Moorstones Manor, in a terrible state. The next morning, Dr. Farson comes to check on Dora and the dead. He is obsessed with Lady Chiddingfold and at last confesses that he shot everyone to have her all for himself. The butler Manners comes in and confesses to the murders. He did it as revenge, because he didn't want to be ordered around anymore. Dora arrives and claims she shot everyone as a revenge for having had to bear Hugo for six years. Charles comes down and also confesses to the murders, having been after the money. The four confessed murderers then shoot one another and only Lady Chiddingfold is left. Notes: Location shooting took place at Harefield, Middlesex and Glencoe, Scotland.".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes title "Across the Andes by Frog".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes title "Escape from Stalag Luft 112B".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes title "Golden Gordon".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes title "Murder at Moorstones Manor".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes title "Roger of the Raj".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes title "The Curse of the Claw".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes title "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite".
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes subject Category:1970s_British_television_series.
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes subject Category:BBC_television_comedy.
• List_of_Ripping_Yarns_episodes subject Category:Parodies.
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