Ripping Yarns

Ripping Yarns
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Created by	Michael Palin Terry Jones
Starring	Michael Palin
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	9
Production
Running time	~30 min
Production company	BBC
Original release
Network	BBC 2
Release	7 January 1976 (1976-01-07) – 24 October 1979 (1979-10-24)
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Ripping Yarns is a British television adventure comedy anthology series. It was written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame and transmitted on BBC 2. Following an initial pilot episode in January 1976, it ran for two series — five episodes in September and October 1977 and three episodes in October 1979. Each episode had a different setting and characters, 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 colloquialism for "exciting" or "thrilling", with "yarn" used in the sense of a story.