THE COMPLETE RIPPING YARNS (2DVD)

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• Release Year: 1976
• Genre: Adventure, Comedy
• Plot: Monty Python fans rejoice! This renowned BBC series, created and written by Python stalwarts Michael Palin and Terry Jones, provides more of the same surreal, bawdy, tasteless—and absolutely gut-splitting hilarity you know and love. The nine lavishly produced half-hour comedies—each starring Michael Palin—spoof the stirring adventure stories that were a staple of Edwardian schoolboy life. Plucky heroes triumph over adversity (or not) in such varied settings as Victorian London, Depression-era Yorkshire, WWI Germany, Peru, and India during the Raj.; ; ; TOMKINSON’S SCHOOLDAYS; Set in the frontier days of British education, when upper lips were stiff with cold and corporeal punishment was a required course. A savage, searing indictment of something or other.; ; THE TESTING OF ERIC OLTHWAITE; A boy becomes a man in the harsh world of the Depression. The rough, tough story of a stupefyingly boring Yorkshireman.; ; ESCAPE FROM STALAG LUFT 112B; A tale of courage and valor behind the lines in the Kaiser’s Germany. An inspiring story of camp life and a British officer who wouldn’t lie down.; ; MURDER AT MOORSTONES MANOR; Hugo and Dora drive down to see Mumsie and Dadsie-pie for a long weekend in the country. But it turns out to be longer than they thought.; ; ACROSS THE ANDES BY FROG; The stirring story of one man (and six frogs) who tried to defy the world in the greatest gamble of all.; ; THE CURSE OF THE CLAW; The terrifying story of a man who dabbled in the dark mysteries of the Orient, and lived to tell the tale. Or did he... ?; ; WHINFREY’S LAST CASE; Dashing, debonair Gerald Whinfrey saves his country twice a week. But in 1913, a German plot to start the First World War without telling anybody coincides with his holiday. Where do Whinfrey’s priorities lie? Has he got any? A knockabout tale of international intrigue.; ; GOLDEN GORDON; A torrid tale of football fanaticism in the 1930s. Super-fan Gordon Ottershaw supports a team that hasn’t won a match in six years. But worse is to come, and Gordon and his bicycle clips are reunited in a last desperate bid for glory.; ; ROGER OF THE RAJ; Roger Bartlesham comes of age in a world of 18-course breakfasts and 12 servants per leg. But when the Great War breaks out, Roger finds himself in a world of changing values and is forced by circumstances to the most despicable act known to the British Army.;
• Cast: Michael Palin, Charles McKeown, David Griffin, Michael Stainton, Peter Graham, Terry Jones, Isabel Dean, Denholm Elliott, Roy Kinnear, Hilary Mason, Barbara New, Maria Aitken, Gwen Taylor, Richard Vernon, Gwen Watford, John Barrett, Iain Cuthbertson, Tenniel Evans, Don Henderson, John Phillips, Anthony Carrick, Bill Fraser, Joan Sanderson, Ian Ogilvy, Anita Carey, Timothy Carlton, Frank Middlemass, Keith Smith, Eileen Way, Roger Brierley, Edward Hardwicke, Teddy Turner, John Wentworth, Harold Innocent, Louis Mansi, Aubrey Morris, Liz Smith, Richard Hurndall, John Le Mesurier, David Leland, Sarah Grazebrook, Candace Glendenning, Julian Hough, Reg Lye, Nigel Rhodes, John Berlyne, Jan Francis, Jack May, Chai Lee, David English, Judy Loe, Petra Markham, John White, Ann Zelda, Allan Cuthbertson, Ken Kitson, Gerald Sim, Terrance Denville, Bridget Armstrong, Alan Leith, Roland MacLeod, Roger Sloman, Ann Way, Kenneth Colley, Nicholas Day, Kevin Moran, David Ellison, Michael Sharvell-Martin, Roger Avon, Vanessa Furse, Hugh Janes, Brian Nolan, Colin Bennett, David Warwick, Philip Graham, Clifford Kershaw, Matthew Scurfield, Anthony Woodruff, James Charles, Norman Mitchell, Roy Sampson, Ken Shorter, Glen Cunningham, Anthony Smee, Phillip Clayton-Gore, Douglas Hinton, Pat Taylor, David Machin, Marcelle Samett, Patrick Bailey, Dorothy Frere, Margot Lawson, Ronald Fletcher, Steve Conway, Tom Harrison, Danny O'Dea, Burt Brooks, Charles Marcelle, Arthur Fortune, Gillian McClements, Dickie Arnold, Saltaire Football Club Members of Salts, John Cleese, Paul Barton, Alf Coster, Mark Dunn, Lorence Ferdinand, Raymond George, Paul Kirby, Michael Raynell, Mark Taylor, Bob Babenia, Percy Edwards, Ronald Gough, Dick Graham, Diana Hutchinson, Karen Jeffrey, Linzi Jennings, Terry Sartain, Paul Satvendar, Holly Ann Smith, Robert Smythe, Sumane, Willow, Marta Gillot, Jim Franklin, Terry Hughes, Alan J.W. Bell
• Director: Jim Franklin
• Runtime: 4:34
• Company: Acorn Media, BBC
• Media Format: Series