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Ripping Yarns : Complete BBC Series (2 Disc Set) [1976]
from Network
starring Michael Palin
directed by Terry Hughes, Jim Franklin (III), Alan J.W. Bell

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Idiots
  The reviewers who gave this 1 or 2 stars are complete idiots. This is pure comedy gold. Buy and enjoy

• Boys Own Adventure Series
  `Ripping Yarns' ran for three years with a pilot episode broadcast in 1976, a first series of five episodes broadcast in 1977 and a final run of three episodes in 1979. In a world hungry for more Monty Python it was an assured success.
  Written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones, the Oxford University contingent of Python, whom were also to be it's stars although Jones took a back seat after the pilot to allow Palin to shine on his own. Each episode was a self contained story entirely shot on film which... more info

• Dissappointing
  I am a huge fan of Michael Palin, he is my favourite of the Pythons and I love his travel shows. So having read some of the rave reviews about this series and also lived through the making of the series in reading his diaries I bought this DVD set with huge anticipation.
  Sadly I was disspointed, although I had to watch about 5 episodes before I would admit to my wife that I found it as dull as she did. The plots were thin, and predictable, they failed to make me laugh. It didn't survive the test of... more info

• Fine comedy
  Highly amusing stuff. The school bully episode made me laugh so hard I think I may have slipped a disc. Not all the others are so good but they are all good in differing ways, especially the escape from the POW camp. Strongly recommended, don't listen to one or two sniffy reviewers who apparently thought the absence of silly walks ruined this show. Balls.

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