Show Details:
Start date: Jan 1976
End date: Oct 1979
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): BBC Two (UK)
Run time: 30 min
Episodes: 9 eps
Genre(s): Comedy
End date: Oct 1979
Status: cancelled/ended
Network(s): BBC Two (UK)
Run time: 30 min
Episodes: 9 eps
Genre(s): Comedy
Credits:
-
regular:
- Michael Palin as a different lead character in each Yarn.
Episode list & details from:
TVmaze •
TV.com
| Episode # | Original Air Date |
Titles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | |||
| 1. | 1-1 | 07 Jan 76 | Tomkinson's Schooldays |
| 2. | 1-2 | 27 Sep 77 | The Testing of Eric Olthwaite |
| 3. | 1-3 | 04 Oct 77 | Escape from Stalag Luft 112B |
| 4. | 1-4 | 11 Oct 77 | Murder at Moorstones Manor |
| 5. | 1-5 | 18 Oct 77 | Across the Andes by Frog |
| 6. | 1-6 | 25 Oct 77 | The Curse of the Claw |
| Season 2 | |||
| 7. | 2-1 | 10 Oct 79 | Whinfrey's Last Case |
| 8. | 2-2 | 17 Oct 79 | Golden Gordon |
| 9. | 2-3 | 24 Oct 79 | Roger of the Raj |
VHS tapes & a book are available:
|
Ripping Yarns  |
More Ripping Yarns  |
Even More Ripping Yarns  |
The Complete Ripping Yarns scripts  |