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British Comedy: Ripping Yarns
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After Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969-74), and well before going Around the World in 80 Days (1989), Pole to Pole (1992) or even Full Circle (1997), Michael Palin starred in Ripping Yarns, co-written with Terry Jones. As the title suggests, these were spoofs, affectionate pastiche-come-homage Boy's Own-type adventures. Each was an individual short film, less bizarre than the Flying Circus, not so consistently hilarious as fellow ex-Python John Cleese's Fawlty Towers, but inventively surreal with a daffy, gloriously English eccentricity. "Tomkinson's Schooldays" was the 45-minute pilot (originally s
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Manufacturer: Network
Release date: 5 March 2012
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 5027626336141
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British Comedy: Ripping Yarns (4 tv items)"PILOT(1976) PILOTTOMKINSON'S SCHOOLDAYSOriginally broadcast: 27 December 2005 Directed by: Jim Franklin Written by: Michael Palin, Terry JonesTV Introducer (Michael Palin) Director (Terry Jones) Tomkinson (Michael Palin) Headmaster (Michael Palin) Chaplain (John Wentworth) Grayson (Ian Ogilvy) Mummy (Gwen Watford) Mr. Moodie (Terry Jones) Mr. Ellis (Terry Jones) Mr. Craffitt (Michael Palin) Tomkinson struggles to cope with the horrors of life at boarding school, his mother insists that his f"
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