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Books The Complete Ripping Yarns

The Complete Ripping Yarns

Michael Palin & Terry Jones

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Exclusive to TheMichaelPalin.com, The Complete Ripping Yarns reprint features scripts for the nine Ripping Yarns episodes. Each episode is illustrated with photos from various scenes scattered throughout (plus the occasional full-page feature), and there's a page of film credits for each episode at the back.

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Exclusive to TheMichaelPalin.com, The Complete Ripping Yarns reprint features scripts for the nine Ripping Yarns episodes. Each episode is illustrated with photos from various scenes scattered throughout (plus the occasional full-page feature), and there’s a page of film credits for each episode at the back.

Michael writes, ‘Nine Ripping Yarns were made for the BBC from 1976 to 1978. After the Monty Python TV shows in the early 70’s Terry Jones and myself had to find a comedy formula that didn’t look like a rip-off of Python. So, rather than sketches, we decided to make each episode a self-contained story. I had given Terry a book of schoolboy stories called Ripping Yarns for Boys, and Terry’s brother Nigel suggested this might be fertile ground for comedy. The pilot was called Tomkinson’s Schooldays, and it went down well enough for the BBC to commission another five in the first series’.

Using established drama actors like Ian Ogilvie and Denholm Elliott and shooting a lot on film again differentiated it from Python, but it made them quite costly and the second series saw only three shows commissioned, and The Wreck Of The Harvey Goldsmith was written but never made. George Harrison and Michael Parkinson were big fans.’

Scripts:

  • Tomkinson’s Schooldays
  • Across the Andes by Frog
  • The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
  • Murder at Moorstones Manor
  • Escape from Stalag Luft 112B
  • The Curse of the Claw
  • Roger of the Raj
  • Whinfrey’s Last Case
  • Golden Gordon

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EAN\ISBN-13

978 0 413 77750 8

Pages

278

Published

2016 (1st ed. 1990)

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