Ripping Yarns

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  • COMEDY
  • 30m
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Monty Python star Michael Palin tells tall tales of mystery and suspense

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Series 1

1. Tomkinson's Schooldays

Life at Graybridge Public School is hell for our hero, Tomkinson, and he does everything in his power to escape.

2. The Testing of Eric Olthwaite

Eric is so incredibly boring his parents run away from home. His life takes an exciting turn, however, when he is taken hostage by a bank robber who shares his interests in shovels and weather gauges.

3. Escape from Stalag Luft 112b

During the First World War, captive Major Errol Phipps has escaped over 560 times from German prison camps. As a result he is sent to the most notorious prison camp of all, Stalag Luft 112B, where he is the only prisoner not to.

4. Murder at the Moorstones Manor

The Chiddingfold family gather at Moorstones Manor to celebrate Sir Clive Chiddingfold's birthday. One by one, someone is killing them off, but who stands to gain from their deaths?

5. Across the Andes by Frog

In 1927, Captain Walter Snetterton, least known of all English explorers, sets 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.

6. The Curse of the Claw

The final ripping yarn of the series is a story of fear, tragedy and terror. Sir Kevin Orr lives alone and rejected, in constant fear of the hideous object that has ruined his life, a cursed Burmese vulture claw taken from the Naga Hills.