VOD (1)
Seasons(2) / Episodes(9)
Plots(1)
The nine lavishly produced half-hour comedies, each starring Michael Palin, spoof the stirring adventure stories that were a staple of Edwardian schoolboy life. Plucky heroes triumph over adversity (or not) in such varied settings as Victorian London, Depression-era Yorkshire, WWII Germany, Peru, and India during the Raj.
The Episodes:
Tomkinson's Schooldays
The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
Escape From Stalag Luft 112B
Murder at Moorstones Manor
Across the Andes by Frog
The Curse of the Claw
Whinfrey's Last Case
Golden Gordon
Roger of the Raj
(official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Anthony Carrick
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Anthony Wooddruff
UK
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Dickie Arnold
UK
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Aubrey Morris
UK
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John Le Mesurier
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Isabel Dean
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Reg Lye
Australia
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Dorothy Frere
UK
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Gerald Sim
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Gilly Flower
UK
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Joan Sanderson
UK
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Fawlty Towers (1975) (series)
Charles McKeown
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Ken Shorter
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Richard Martin
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Roald Amundsen (a.f.)
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Marta Gillot
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Teddy Turner
UK
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Ripping Yarns (1976) (series)
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Hugh Janes
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