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Ripping Yarns : Season 2
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Air date: 10 Oct '79 - 3 episodesRipping Yarns is a British television comedy series. It was written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. It was transmitted on BBC 2. Following an initial pilot episode in January 1976, it ran for two subsequent series of five and three episodes in October 1977 and October 1979 respectively. Each episode had a different setting and characters, each looking at a different aspect of British culture and parodying pre-World War II literature aimed at schoolboys. In the title, "ripping" is a chiefly British slang meaning "excellent" or "fine", and "yarns" is a colloquialism for exaggerated stories.
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List of Episodes (3)
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Ripping Yarns (1976)
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1. Whinfrey's Last Case
10 Oct '79A national hero, Gerald Whinfrey, turns down an assignment to research rumors that Germany has started World War I a year ahead of schedule. Instead he'd rather get the holiday in that he wants so badly. His destination is a tiny Cornish fishing village, where things aren't as they seem.
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Ripping Yarns (1976)
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2. Golden Gordon
17 Oct '79Gordon Ottershaw, Barnstoneworth's biggest and perhaps only football supporter, desperately hopes for one last victory for the team; before the grounds are sold to a scrap dealer. Gordon goes in search of former team members in hopes of getting that one last victory.
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Ripping Yarns (1976)
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3. Roger of the Raj
24 Oct '79Roger and Miranda yearn to run away together and open a chemist's shop, but a native uprising interrupts their planned elopement.
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