Micheal Palin's facial expression are hilarious. These Ripping Yarns are as funny as Fawlty Towers for me. And for you?

@citycrusher9308

8 ай бұрын

\and for me too - yes!

@Bjowolf2

8 ай бұрын

Both series are hilarious - just within different genres 😉

@colinjames2469

8 ай бұрын

Who cares?@@helenamcginty4920

Frank Middlemass as Sir Clive is clearly enjoying himself hugely and steals every scene he's in.

@ignoblesurfer6281

Жыл бұрын

He was some sort of actor-wallah. Big chap!

@GLENLYNAS

8 ай бұрын

But he does need a dam good thrashing

@srothbardt

8 ай бұрын

@@GLENLYNASpip pip. Dam good indeed.

@davewhitehead8601

8 ай бұрын

Although you can still see him moving after he's been shot. Wouldn't have done him much good against the Burmese...

Palin was always my favourite Python. I remember watching his Ripping Yarns series as a teenager and actually dying from laughter. I wish I was still alive to remember it.

@pmoran7971

8 ай бұрын

@every Please do not haunt us!

@aclark903

8 ай бұрын

It's not #Halloween yet, begone, foul spirit.

@ingerlander

8 ай бұрын

Very witty Wilde

@rabidbigdog

8 ай бұрын

Palin/Jones were the better writers. Cleese had the greater success clowning with Fawlty Towers but this series was superior IMHO.

@firstylasty9417

8 ай бұрын

Our dearly beloved, we gather today to remember every1665. A dear soul they were. Though they sortof snorted when they laughed -- hence the lethal chortle choking. ...Actually, we're actually kinda glad they're gone. Heck, they were mildly annoying. every1665 stole £20 from me once and slept with my wife. See you in hell, every1665.

Great to see Iain Cuthbertson. The "I rubbed some Vic on her chest" joke nearly killed me. He used to terrify me as a kid when he played Charlie Endall in "Budgie" in the early 70's.

@rabidbigdog

8 ай бұрын

"Did it help?" "Yes .... yes, it did. Thank you." As a school boys of a certain age, we found this absolutely hilarious. Palin said they expected the BBC to ask them to get rid of this but they had an incredible defender in Terry Hughes.

@garybrockwell2031

8 ай бұрын

CHARLIE ENDELL🇬🇧💪💯 DON'T GIVE ME ANY LIP!!! BUDGIE 🤩🎬 Loved that show, about the same time as CATWIEZAL Geoffrey Brandon

@RalooRocker

7 ай бұрын

Came here to say the same thing, that Vic on her chest gag is my abiding memory of the Ripping Yarns.

@andrea22213

7 ай бұрын

Come in Budgie!

@johndownton5932

6 ай бұрын

​@@rabidbigdog😅

Dr Farson - what a legendary character, even with his "bloody cheap lip" letting him down

"The only man with green fingers I ever knew was Tula Meran of the K.L.O.I. He was beating some chappy in Burma for breathing too regularly" 🤣

Loved these Ripping Yarns when I was a youngster and rediscovering them all again now.. Palin really was the best comedy actor of his time.. Thanks to the poster for sharing.. 🙏🏻

These are so good. I saw them at the time they came out and thought them terrific. Underrated classics.

@ianwalker4030

Жыл бұрын

AlwYs brill !

Superbly written, directed and acted. Timeless British humour at its best.

@johnjephcote7636

8 ай бұрын

In the final scene, Hamlet comes to mind.

one of the very best. I can watch this again and again. Perfect music, perfect script, great comic acting from everyone.

These are hilarious so well done...Love Mr Palin. Also never give ultimatums in marriage..

Michael Palin..sheer genius.

"With Bovril m'lady?" is my new favourite line in any show.

So many one liners from this episode have entered my daily repertoire; A damned good thrashing Breathing too regularly! Two spoons of Bovril !? It's getting worse isn't Doreen? Of course only Palin officianados have the faintest idea what I'm on about.

@hv3115

8 ай бұрын

Eveyone probably thinks you're a boring little tit.

@MarkJones-gt2qd

7 ай бұрын

I rather think a "damned good thrashing" was in the lexicon prior to this production.

Brilliant actors brilliant comedy it seems we have no idea now how to act and how to have good laughs thank god for you tube

It was definitely Marg, with the sniper rifle, from the thrashing closet. Obvious really. Never tire of this genius stuff. 😊

Bloody marvellous! Just recognised the actor playing the butler (“a bovril & a whisky”) went on to play the bishop in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Great performance.

They "passed her on the way"...."poor thing was only wearing a frock"...😁😂🤣😃😄😅😀☺

Just absolute quality writing acting cast humour and themes ….. manners telephone milady

The best one in the series in my book. The actors are terrific

RIP Terry Jones, Cardinal Biggles, Mr Creosote and virtuoso of the mouse organ. You will be missed.

@albaproductions9602

Жыл бұрын

Had the privilege to meet Terry J in the 80's , he was signing books in covent gardens and took a break for a few minutes, he came over to where i was standing and we got talking, he asked me if i was a python fan and i think he guessed by the look on my face. What a gentleman he was and so intelligent in the end he said , "Well time for some lunch i think", I couldn't stop my self and said are you having spam. In a heartbeat he recited the whole spam dialogue in the womans voice. Thank you Terry you made this python fan very happy.

@NiravShah1982

Жыл бұрын

What that have to do with this episode of Ripping Yarns?

@albaproductions9602

Жыл бұрын

@@NiravShah1982 Absolutely nothing at all your right, bang on. Now scuttle along back and find something else to pick holes in.

@robkeeleycomposer

9 ай бұрын

You were indeed blessed 🙂@@albaproductions9602

@quickjumpingfoxes

8 ай бұрын

​@@albaproductions9602Bip, bip! Smashing!!

I loved this series 'The Testing of Ericc Olthwaite' was my favourite.

Quite fantastic that Palin can give these kinds of replies and keep driving.

@mikedowns8293

4 жыл бұрын

They may well have the car mounted on a trailor truck - acting that he's driving.

@steveellis9004

10 ай бұрын

​@@mikedowns8293 A higher car.

Candice Glendenning..... what a beauty!

By far the best spoof on every BBC murder show ever !!!

@katesatriani

7 жыл бұрын

Yes! Poor Dora! and no one goes out to get her ????

@eamongilligan3262

6 жыл бұрын

"He left Dora alone on Darkstone's Moor!" "Yes, yes, we passed her in the car." 😂

@kenricnarbrough8191

8 ай бұрын

a pre-spoofing if you will. cant believe it went out in 77.

Funny, I remember watching these on the telly when they came out and didn't find them that funny, now I'm 64 I'm finding them hilarious!

Brilliant. I can see where the 'Comic Strip Presents' got some their mannerisms from!

Another episode that got better at each viewing!! Hilarious!!

Now THAT's a murder mystery!

How can five people NOT like this episode!!!

@kevwoods6827

4 жыл бұрын

Claire Greenhalgh snowflakes I think lol 🙄🙄🙄🙄

@HeartyArtie

11 ай бұрын

They need a damned good thrashing!

@thomasmccafferty8516

8 ай бұрын

6

@Warpedsmac

8 ай бұрын

My girlfriend didn't like any RY episodes....she was later found shot.

My favourite Ripping Yarn. All the characters are great but Manners stands out for me, and the doctor... "yes...yes it did!" Brilliant. Laughed out loud many times.

@lpsp442

4 жыл бұрын

*"Yes, M'Lady."*

@neilmccormick2064

Жыл бұрын

Whisky Manners. With bovril m'lady ?

@AndyJarman

8 ай бұрын

The telephone m'lady.

@jonparkes7006

6 ай бұрын

The doctor , yes mine too , “I rubbed some vick on her chest” , “did that help “. Yes it …. To this day makes me laugh. It’s Like the old joke about suppositories, “ for all the good they do you may as well stick them up your a…..”

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"

Just Brilliant :-) Is it just me or did anyone else notice that towards the end it all went a little Tarantino-esque? :-) before there was anything Tarantino-esque....:-)

@neilmccormick2064

Жыл бұрын

In those days it was called ( Sam ) Peckinpahesque. Tarantinos films are mostly derivative.

@neetram7109

Жыл бұрын

@@neilmccormick2064 True

I'd rather have a box of fish than a video like this.

Honestly, how much talent can one person have? Michael's ability to play unctuous, conniving upper class twit and loonie upper class twit is a joy to behold. The fella who wished him dead under Escape From Stalag 112B can go hang.

Get this back on TV please.

"he was beating some chap in Burma for breathing too regularly"

Brilliant. Damn good thrashing!

It’s funny how, with renewed viewing, different characters stand out. I didn’t realize before how funny Lord Clive was, what with his obsession with corporal punishment :) There is something rather reassuring about an English gentleman spouting «Give him a damned good thrashing!» LOL

@richardkell4888

8 ай бұрын

And a damn good thrashing on top of that to make him thankful for his damn good thrashing in the first instance. Gad Sir ... thank God for Brutality ..... ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

Ripping Yarns (TV Series 1976-1979) - 7.8 This show is a collection of tales that make for "ripping good" television. Sir Michael Palin played a different lead character in each yarn.

Precioso hombre y talentoso.Ojala hubiera hecho mas cosas como esta serie.👀👌🌹🍃🌠🌹🍃🌠🌹🍃🌠

I've the whole set on DVD : all damned good what!? plus you get the opening introduction from Palin with Terry Jones directing & correcting : thinking of Terry and hope he's not suffering too much

@PetroicaRodinogaster264

4 жыл бұрын

David Stevens he’s gone now

@geezergeezer1

4 жыл бұрын

@@PetroicaRodinogaster264 He's gone, but in which direction?

@lucyhurst2534

4 жыл бұрын

Well if the dvds are so much better, why are you watching it here?

@themadplotter

4 жыл бұрын

W Richards doonstairs

@offshoretomorrow3346

8 ай бұрын

😅😅😅

Love this! If you like Frank Middlemass in this, be sure and catch his wonderful performance in "The Island" - a Michael Caine film based on the Peter Benchley novel. He nearly steals the movie out from under Caine and David Warner.

Palin is brilliant

The sarcasm from the butler when he asks if she wants Bovril with her whiskey lmao

Nice. So thankful to have seen this after all this time now, in 2021.

So glad I found all these again

absolutely love this series. absolutely fabulous

So delighted to see these! Haven't seen them since the 80’s or 90’s!

The old AC is going jolly well. - Yes darling, it seems to be. The old trick worked, you see. We changed the stroke ratio on the crankshaft. - You get less revs and more horsepower. Do your parents live all on their own out here? No, they've got a couple of Davenport 257s, bought them cheap during the war. Had both the engines re-bored, put in a [Pharos Night] dual piston screw converter. Cleaned up an old Lucas 200 distributor and banged in four carburettors. - It goes like a rocket. - It's not any better, is it, darling? - No. - I think you ought to give up driving. I can't give up driving, Dora. Who'd look after the Talbot? I mean, the adjustments on those pistons need oiling twice a week - and the tappet clearances - Oh, stop it, Hugo. Sorry. Hugo, you must decide between the car or me. All right, I'll take the car. - Oh! - I love her, Dora. I love the way I can get twice the speed at less revs by a simple adjustment to the timing ratio in the [fan scavenged] engine. Or by putting the two coils in the alternator lead Stop here, Hugo. Emergency stop? Oh, jolly good. Look at that, eh? No locking. That's using the new friction liner pads we fitted. Goodbye, Hugo. Read more: www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=ripping-yarns-1976&episode=s01e04

@robair67

2 жыл бұрын

My favourite section of the script, this! For years I've used "We changed the stroke ratio on the crankshaft, to get less revs and more horsepower" when I begin to realize I might be boring the life out of whoever it is I'm explaining some recent engineering story to. Also quite fond of "...by a simple adjustment to the timing ratio in a fan-scavenge engine". But that is reserved for special occasions. And I always look forward to being told to "Stop here!".

@robkeeleycomposer

9 ай бұрын

As good as it gets. How on earth did MP memorise all this plausible rubbish?!

My single favourite episode of RY. I use this to introduce quality writing, parody and humour to friends and relatives innured by crappy modern tv.

@padgecrack4018

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, mrs brown's boys being one of 'em!

I thought the Mother was wonderful. Have the DVD from years ago. Must watch it again. Not everybody else enjoys the humour.

i used to sneak into the living room and watch these on pbs on low volume and try not to laugh, when i was 11

There were one or two misfires but on the whole RY was very good. I am a little surprised it has not been revived on British TV more than it has been.

@robkeeleycomposer

9 ай бұрын

because it would show up all too glaringly the utter mediocrity of today's BBC.

I half expected a family pet to stroll in at the end with a firearm strapped to its paw.

@britanniau.k.4352

8 ай бұрын

😅😅😅

“Ever fought the Turks?” My favorite line.

@diomedes8791

4 жыл бұрын

eronavbj Vicious johnnies 🤣

@kevikella221

4 жыл бұрын

My great great grandfather actually did! They didn't stand for any nonsense. 🤣😂🤣

@eronavbj

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevikella221 He no doubt would’ve loved Ripping Yarns!

@acmarston

2 жыл бұрын

We didn't have any time for that squeamish nonsense.

@Johnny-sj9sj

2 жыл бұрын

They didn’t like it up ‘em!

damn that bovril and whiskey goes down a beefy treat..what!

Silly girl, issued an ultimatum without a thought it would be accepted.Definately a ripper this one.

Thanks Blob for showing me this. Still love this show. Up The Blob

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking I have a false lip!

What this episode needs is a Damn good thrashing. Whip it back to analog and it's sound quality reverts to reverse reverb

Another spiffing good show old chap.

This was a strong influence for Quentin Tarantino.

Hello Mumsay!

I never saw any of this as always at work, fabulous!

Thanks so much for posting.

Thankyou so much for uploading, been looking for these for years...

...Knew a fella in Malta was shot by his nephew. Never knew what hit him. Of course the family kept it as quite as possible but never the less the press asked a few questions... we had to strangle two of the blighters. Turns out one of 'em was the foreman in the yacht broker we'd employed to clean the peccadillo enclosure. Quite a fuss really. Luckily we'd bought in 100% agave tequila for the margaritas so the police were very understanding.

@user-lo1iz8tj1v

8 ай бұрын

Quite, all kept quiet!

What a disaster, I'd rather have a box of fish than a son like that...BRILLIANT

Easily the funniest bit: 'I rubbed some Vic on her chest.' 'Did that help?' 'Yes, it did thank you.'

@Lemma01

4 жыл бұрын

'Bovril with two spoons?' is still used in our house, forty-years on... ;-)

@maxinemckenzie5765

4 жыл бұрын

Ian Cuthbertson brilliant as always.

@maboelnreads

4 жыл бұрын

Can’t make jokes like that no more. The ‘woke’ generation will miss the laughs...

@Ynysmydwr

4 жыл бұрын

@@maboelnreads -- Don't be silly, MR.

@dabble778

4 жыл бұрын

"What a disaster! I'd rather have a box of fish than a son like that."

"The telephone." 🤣

Very good. Frank Middlesmas . The Leader had " Boils over his head"

I only just found out there was a cut scene from this episode, with Barbara New and Gilly Flowers (aka the mum from Eric Olthwaite and Ms. Gatsby from Fawlty Towers) as two Jehovah's Witnesses. Hence the two people walking away just as the Dr. turns up. Now I must to see it!

@quantisedspace7047

8 ай бұрын

That deleted scene has been on KZread on and off, but with no audio There have been noises about using CGi to delete the two IWs walking away altogether.

@EricaNernie

8 ай бұрын

Ah! Eric Olthwaite, the most boring person ever.

anyone fancy a bovril with wiskey, 8 bloody 1 and the clock goes out the window when barnstanworth play , brilliant stuff

This is sublime

I think this may be my favourite.

Ian Cuthbertson.....Charles Endel Esq...RIP

@EleanorPeterson

3 жыл бұрын

See you, Budgie! Was it not "Charles Endell... with two Ls"? The Esquire was essential, and I remember him being quite firm about the spelling of his surname. ;-) Great character and a fine actor. Ian was saying "I'm back," when Arnie was still in lederhosen.

@douglasmilton2805

Жыл бұрын

Outside his strip club…”Come in…they are naked, and they move!”

A whisky Manners ....with Bovril M'Lady?

"... Shot in the back... well he WAS eighty-seven..."

Top quality stuff

I'd rather have a box of fish than a son like that.🤣

This show is bonkers.. thumbs up , something , somwhere

Perfect.

Great stuff !

The site where she is standing after being abandoned is just metres from where Bond and M stand when they stop in Glen Coe in Skyfall.

@royturnbull7049

8 ай бұрын

Yes, it looks like Glen Etive to me.

@Czechbound

8 ай бұрын

​@@royturnbull7049 Yes. According to the Visit Scotland website ... "Stob Dearg, Buachaille Etive Mor Scenes from Skyfall were shot in Glen Coe as well as in nearby Glen Etive. In a driving sequence filmed in the Highlands on the A82 near the striking peaks of Buachaille Etive Mor (pictured) and Buachaille Etive Beag, the secret agent's iconic Aston Martin DB5 manages to get upstaged by the stunning atmospheric scenery."

"With Bovril Mi'Lady??"

good mix of agatha chritie and tarentino

Wonderful.

Their daft a bit batty.,but pure gold at heart! Bovril and whiskey...what a combination!

@user-lo1iz8tj1v

8 ай бұрын

They're far more crazy than eccentric.

Moral of the story, don’t mess with Candace Glendenning

@woodskier

4 жыл бұрын

oh dear

@andrewlankford9634

4 жыл бұрын

I'd rather like to try.

@robertboyle2573

3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewlankford9634 Me too.

Brilliant show

Damn canned laughter spoils this😢😢

Ripping Yarns - they’ve withstood the test of time.

Amazing and FUN , also grimly disturbing. And FUN.

Went in one of these barber places I got subject on to cars I asked whose new Mercedes is that outside. Yes you guessed so your right again

best EVER comedy

"Yeeass, we passed her in the car ...." Bwahahaha.

Fabulous .

So I have never watched these before and....well as much as I love Palin erm!

I don't remember a laughter track on this!

@DrDespicable

4 жыл бұрын

@Son Of Cherve Funnier without it, as well!

@inkyguy

4 жыл бұрын

Jeff Edwards, you're memory was protecting your psyche by editing out the laugh track.

@PetroicaRodinogaster264

4 жыл бұрын

they put the laugh track in so Americans will know when it is funny. They don’t get good humour. Bloody Yankees, they need a bloody good throttling.