Ripping Yarns
1976, Series, 30 min, Adventure, Comedy, English, United Kingdom, MoviePedia score 70
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.
Directed by Jim Franklin, Terry Hughes, Alan J.W. Bell
Cast
- Michael Palin as Charles Chiddingfold
- Charles McKeown as Goalkeeper
- Barbara New as Mrs. Olthwaite
- David Griffin as Captain Meredith
- Michael Stainton as The Gamekeeper
- Peter Graham as Boy Behind Goal
- Terry Jones as Mr. Ellis
- Denholm Elliott as Mr. Gregory
- Roy Kinnear as Vogel
- Isabel Dean as Lady Chiddingfold
More like this
- Decker (2014)
- Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories (2013)
- The Day Today (1994)
- Little Britain (2003)
- Love, American Style (1969)
- Wild 'N Out (2005)
- SCTV (1976)
- That Mitchell and Webb Look (2006)
- French and Saunders (1987)
- Spitting Image (1984)
- Drop the Dead Donkey (1990)
- Key and Peele (2012)