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Code: "Ripping Yarns" (1976)
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10

Michael Palin stars in this wickedly funny collection of spoof adventures which hysterically portray gloriously English eccentricity.

There is 'Tomkinsons's School Days', where the horrors of British public School life are parodied to hilarious effect (have you ever built an Icebreaker in metalwork class?), 'Golden Gordon', about a football-obsessed father who smashes his house to pieces every time his team loses (which they've done every week since about 1913), 'Winfrey's Last Case' - a hilarious Biggles type adventure about spies on the Dorset coast, Escape From Stalag Luft 112 B - a tearfully funny send-up of 'The Great Escape' type yarns, and perhaps the most celebrated episode 'The Testing of Eric Orthwaite', where a boring young northern man obsessed with rain gauges and shovels is thrust into a life of crime to impress his love interest. It sports the unforgettable newspaper headline:

'Orthwaite gang strikes again: Bank manager tells of night of boredom'

Pound for Pound, 'Ripping Yarns' stacks up against any British comedy series of the 70's, and proves that Palin was the best actor of the Python crew, and along with Cleese and maybe Jones, the best writer.

Michael Palin
Charles McKeown
David Griffin
Michael Stainton
Peter Graham
Gwen Watford
Ian Ogilvy
Roy Kinnear
Bill Fraser
Terry Jones

Code: Season 1
Episode 1: Tomkinson's Schooldays
http://rapidshare.com/files/92395461/MPRY101.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92404647/MPRY101.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92411809/MPRY101.part3.rar

Episode 2: The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
http://rapidshare.com/files/92422198/MPRY102.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92432657/MPRY102.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92438155/MPRY102.part3.rar

Episode 3: Escape from Stalag Luft 112 B
http://rapidshare.com/files/92447541/MPRY103.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92455938/MPRY103.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92460821/MPRY103.part3.rar

Episode 4: Murder at Moorstones Manor
http://rapidshare.com/files/92468694/MPRY104.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92476437/MPRY104.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92482402/MPRY104.part3.rar

Episode 5: Across the Andes by Frog
http://rapidshare.com/files/92491043/MPRY105.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92496578/MPRY105.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92501155/MPRY105.part3.rar

Episode 6: The Curse of the Claw
http://rapidshare.com/files/92505781/MPRY106.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92509885/MPRY106.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92513164/MPRY106.part3.rar

Code: Season 2
Episode 1: Whinfrey's Last Case
http://rapidshare.com/files/92516506/MPRY201.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92519658/MPRY201.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92522876/MPRY202.part1.rar

Episode 2: Golden Gordon
http://rapidshare.com/files/92526297/MPRY202.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92529233/MPRY201.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92532115/MPRY202.part3.rar

Episode 3: Roger of the Raj
http://rapidshare.com/files/92535762/MPRY203.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92540462/MPRY203.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/92543684/MPRY203.part3.rar