Palin was a great actor. Eric Olthwaite was my favourite. I come from Yorkshire and we loved Ripping Yarns (and especially Eric Olthwaite) when kids (first broadcasting). We had a few Eric type characters in my neighborhood. Train spotters, pad lock collectors, rain gauge specialists, most expert spade enthusiasts, etc Good to see this again! Great memories of a better Britain.

@mizofan

10 ай бұрын

It were always raining in Denley Moor. Eric Olthwaite the best, Aye. I went to Leeds uni, my wife is from Leeds.

@robkeeleycomposer

10 ай бұрын

how many different types of drizzle can you remember? :-) @@mizofan

@huepix

9 ай бұрын

​@@robkeeleycomposerlmao 😆😂😄😅😀🤣

@rjmun580

9 ай бұрын

Do they still keep racing vultures at Denley Moor?

@JonSmith-cx7gr

9 ай бұрын

Bloody northerners. You should see the rain we get in London. Torrential doesnt begin to describe it. I could swim before I could cry. Dont talk to me about shovels either. Been there, done that, bought the replacement handle....

RIP Terry Jones

The scene in the pub was filmed in the Church House Inn at Torbryan, near Newton Abbot. When it was refurbished I asked for and was given the piece of the bar top which Michael Palin leant on. It was the back board of my business nameplate sign for 30 years. It is still there.

@unclejoeoakland

8 ай бұрын

Are we to infer from your user name that you are a fan of both hendrix and the Ducati 998?

@JimiHendrix998

8 ай бұрын

@@unclejoeoakland no

Love it, surreal humour

The Cornwall Board of Tourism would like to thank Terry Jones and Michael Palin for their efforts in promoting tourism in Cornwall.

@catatonicable

4 жыл бұрын

I do want to be seen through the guesthouse by loads of ppl ...

@jdrancho1864

2 жыл бұрын

they got nothing on Martin Clunes.

Pajamas and a dressing-gown are clearly the only correct attire for striding the coastal paths of Britain. Long may the tradition continue.

@michael_mouse

4 жыл бұрын

nien Britisher... ya Englander

@fiery1962

4 жыл бұрын

@@michael_mouse Spelt “pyjamas” over here old bean.

@liquidsonly

9 ай бұрын

@@michael_mouse Nein Englander, ya Cymraig.

Even better watching it the second time around, a much under rated series. RIP Terry, you made me laugh.

@zennor_man

3 жыл бұрын

Agree much underrated & very funny.....

@thegamingbrosthegamingbros8026

3 жыл бұрын

Have seen it many times’ magic.

So beautifully made. Expensive for the BBC but Ripping Yarns should be part of our cultural history,

This is such a well crafted series. Every word of the script perfectly chosen and well delivered by a highly professional cast.

Brilliant.

An old Cornish custom is a knee to the groin. 😂

The railway station at 6:58 is Staverton, Devon and the pub afterwards is The Old Church House Inn, Torbryan, both still going strong!

@paultreneary

6 жыл бұрын

I recently re-watched this and I'm amazed that I never spotted it before - the Church House has changed a bit inside but I do vaguely remember it when it looked like that. I actually recognised the old ship's woodwork that's now a wall!

@andrewjoslin2759

6 жыл бұрын

That bar they filmed in is the one to the right as you go in the front door, I don't think its really changed much, there's a shot of it on TripAdvisor, you can still spot those odd domey nobbles on the edge of the shelf behind the bar, mind you somethings have changed, the barmaid consists of more than just two arms!

@pter7531

4 жыл бұрын

You seem genuinly surprised that nothing has changed in England since the making of this episode. Writing this in 2020.

@richardclarke376

4 жыл бұрын

According to DVLA the car he is dropped off in, is a 1906 Cadillac and is still on the road !

@catatonicable

4 жыл бұрын

@@pter7531 Nowt changes does it mate?

That jump at the window at around 27.30 had me in creases!

@nevittwoods1730

3 жыл бұрын

what, over Bodmin way

41 years young. Michael Palin could've played James Bond.

"We're short on spoons, mainly." LOL

Always thought that Michael and Terry were the best! Real gold medal stuff. Should win an award a year as every generation notices it’s charm etc. etc.! 🇬🇧

@Chapps1941

3 жыл бұрын

Apart from Eric and John being just as good.

Love all the secret passage ways.

"Until a properly trained pillow boy arrives tomorrow"!

@EleanorPeterson

3 жыл бұрын

Do please be patient while I have my Comment Maid compose a suitable response to your observation... :-)

@zanbudd

9 ай бұрын

@@EleanorPeterson There may not be a properly trained one available at this time. We might have to ask Siri or Alexa.

I dont know how ive gone for years without ever seeing any of this series. I used to watch MPFC when i was about 14-15 in 1983 when our local public tv would run it every evening and i had never seen anything like it, it was so random,absurd and hilarious. This show is like a ongoing long MP skit. Lol Just weird id never seen any if these episodes before, but i think ive heard of the title mentioned but i never knew where to see any of it and i just forgot all about it. Id like to find it on dvd if possible.

@citycrusher9308

8 ай бұрын

Same here. I never heard of this show until a month ago

The beginning of this episode is so Monty Pythonesque.

Gerald Winfrey, possible the most underrated Brit in history !

"forget the kipper, get the gun"- brilliant line & well delivered!

@Kris.G

6 жыл бұрын

I thought only I laughed at this one.

@DavidTSmith-jn5bs

4 жыл бұрын

I thought of it as a deliberate parody of The Godfather line "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."

@0verkill161

4 жыл бұрын

Close, the line was from Goodfellas.

@FigaroHey

2 жыл бұрын

@@0verkill161 No, it's the Godfather. They are driving in the car with the canolli and the fat guy gets out to take a leak. The guy in the back seat shoots the driver and the fat guy tells him to leave the gun and take the canolli.

Brillant ... used love watching these as a kid.

A plot this surreal has to be a metaphor for something .....

Not, perhaps one of the very best of RY, but still very good. The second series felt a little tired after the brilliance of the first. But anything with MP in it is worth watching.

Short on spoons... Genius. LOL

@AnnabellaRedwood

4 жыл бұрын

Absolute gold!

@ruthadler7176

4 жыл бұрын

This describes the NHS entirely

A similar kind of madness in modern Britain today. We even have a Herr Khan.

@SundaeExpress

9 ай бұрын

You really are upset about Hitler losing the war, aren't you.

Excellent,brilliantly written.

One of the best parts is Palin trying to escape from the cottage and the pub. It's in the way he moves lol

@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz

4 жыл бұрын

I love how they all stare at him in the pub like he's a total idiot without even trying to stop him 😂

@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz

4 жыл бұрын

@MichaelKingsfordGray shut up pig. LOL!!!

@lucyhurst2534

4 жыл бұрын

MichaelKingsfordGray shut your mouth and give your brain a chance mate.

@Chapps1941

3 жыл бұрын

Eddie, Eddie, .... und another Eddie, ....Eddie

I love it he says. "Busy london" back then and he crosses the road without looking. Couldn't do that now, these people would have a fit if they could see just how busy London is today.

Que lindura!!!Mike siempre dice:"go a way" con tanta gracia!!!

Full marks, chaps. This one has everything one could hope for, including even a brief screenplay reference to Estonia. - (signed) Toomas Karmo, Nõo Rural Municipality, approx 200 km southwest of Tallinn

If you watch 'The Riddle of the Sands' (1978) you will see exactly where they got the idea for this brilliant episode. A film that's so bad that it's actually great to watch. Particularly if you're drunk. Like the director and producer.

@steevedaw566

3 жыл бұрын

Eye of the needle,etc..

@spmoran4703

Жыл бұрын

I have seen that film . I was drunk.

@tedwarden1608

8 ай бұрын

It can’t be worse than Zardok

this is comedy genius😂😂😂😂

Every episode I've seen has been "ripping". 🎯

This is so well done. "Two divisions of Cockneys!"

Always silly & funny as ever, thx

Pure class!

Only a dozen eccentrics? That’s not nearly enough!

Oh wow the general was Igor from Count Duckula, that's great.

"Well I'll go to the foot of my stairs"

great comedy indeed.

The opening scene is one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen anywhere (small screen or large). I still split my sides laughing after the 50th viewing.

"Here's Tony,...Eddie, Eddie, Tony, Wolf...I mean Wilf,....Eddie, Eddie,....another Eddie.

good quality upload👍,funny episode this "The warmongers of Whitehall" 😂

My lockdown magic.

Esto es del 79'.Contemporaneo de Life of Brian.Es notable el cuidado en la imagen del protagonista;los encuadres,la iluminacion,el makillaje etc.Ademas nunca estuvo Palin tan delgado y palido.Un dandy.😊👍👏🌹🍃🌹🍃🌹🍃🌹🍃

Beautiful stuff. Seriously stupid humour for grown-ups. I love the way they're able to give the comedy an air of genuine menace. Before the big revelation of The Awful Truth you can just imagine the creepy locals building a Wicker Man at the foot of the cliffs. 🔥

Keep em rolling AK!

Looks more like Devon coastline than Cornwall but either way excellent as always. There were 23 secret passageways. I have watched all bar one over the last few days. Now off to watch Golden Gordon

@steevedaw566

3 жыл бұрын

You won't need shorts...!

@nigheananndradubh

Жыл бұрын

Filmed in cornwall!

@kools67

Жыл бұрын

I assumed it was filmed in Walsall, west midlands, as I recognised a couple of the landmarks...the railway station, the staircase in the smuggler's house and of course the wind blowing hard making the grass bend...BUT I may be wrong and it could be Coventry!

Very funny ...a touch of Erskine Childers "Riddle of the Sands"

brilliant intro

bloody intelligence, they never did like the Germans!

26:09 My favorite kind of war. Pity we don't have it that often.

Cada vez que le escucho decir go away !!Me mata de risa😆

Y que churro estaba.como dijo alguien en docu sobre él; con ese brillo especial...Como un fuego en sus ojos. Era gran actor.Merecia más. 😆😚😘😙💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎

when comedy was worth watching

Great stuff, but then again i was born 1966

@escapetheratracenow9883

2 жыл бұрын

Me too, and glad of it. Today is just plain and utter crap, and that's just the 'comedy'

@myoldmate

9 ай бұрын

Whippersnapper. I was born in '56, and it was even better then.😊

Ahhh Yes, let us not forget the following up of WW1... Marvelous job Winfrey..

Depressing seeing London as it once was.

@CARLIN4737

4 жыл бұрын

London in the late seventies early eighties was really depressing actually.

@hallerd

3 жыл бұрын

even more polluted back then

@andydoney5581

2 жыл бұрын

@@CARLIN4737 No it wasn't. No grooming gangs, and no woke Police turning a blind eye for fear of being called racist, in their rainbow clown cars either. Try walking around Gants Hill and see if you can walk for 5 minutes without seeing a Halal shop or a mosque.Hardly a white face to be seen anywhere.

@justjim3168

Жыл бұрын

Worse today than it ever was.

@johnhanson5943

Жыл бұрын

London was still the capital of Britain then - and was a great place!

If you read the book "catch-22", this video will take on a whole new meaning. These comedians literally expose the lies and abuse of the previous generation, in a dramatized, humorous way.

Es estupenda sátira. Lleno de mayordomos...etcétera. jo jo jo. Y Palin tan bello.😆😚😜

Brilliant

Seriously, absolutely and genuinely - there will never be humor so viscerally life changing as the Monty python team. I feel privileged to say I was around at the inception - and still enjoying Pythonesque humor 50 years later. Can any other comedy team claim to being remotely close to this phenomenal success? The only other comedian who barnstormed and introduced a completely new genre was Groucho Marx. All other comedians were derivative (with the possible exception of The Goons). Python humor never resorted to profanity or politics - that's one aspect that made it special.

@barnstone67

4 жыл бұрын

Ian Rivlin surely you mean ‘barnstoneworthed’?

... I have no idea how any one other than the English would make any sense of this series let alone find it funny... which it is... very ya!

@johndoyle4723

4 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed it is very funny to an Englishman, perhaps that is what makes us what we are. Not sure the media would dare make such a series again, well done Palin, and RIP Terry.

@bengunn3698

4 жыл бұрын

@Michael---Always reminds me of a book i used to read when i was at school in the 1950;s .The BOYS BOOK OF DARING DEEDS.Things were more nationalistic then.Wonder if some of the stories in these episodes were copied from it, commando raids,explorers, rorkes drift etc.

@atti1488

4 жыл бұрын

I am from pakistan and this series make sense to me. It's funny and interesting. watched every episode several times now.

@jalmarirantala6059

4 жыл бұрын

You'd be surprised how much many Finns enjoy The Python Team's work. I found Ripping Yarns accidently a month ago and find them hilarious

@steevedaw566

3 жыл бұрын

I take it your American?

Pat Reid!

Dr. Watson is in this episode :)!

What a rippin' ol yarn that was guv'nor ! Jolly good and jolly strange?

Siempre con esos movimientos tan finos

Anyone else notice that when he comes into the pub, behind him it's black as night, but out the windows it's daytime?

Proud To Be British 🤣

14:50. 😂 they must charge an absolute fortune to support all the staff.

As introduced by Orson Cart.

Palin an Jones at their level best , great watching this again ..this is Stuff you dont have the Talent or imagination for now..as its Crap.

46 thumbs down from the fun police. Now that would've been a good sketch for the pythons The Fun Police, I can just imagine Palin interrogating an old granny in a darkened smokey room to see if an act of fun has ever been committed

27:49 Mandrake from Dr. Strangelove would say "I de-MAND that you open this door" at this stage.

RIP Terry Jones edward hardwick fom sherlock holmes tv seris is here.

@sephirothff7ps164

4 жыл бұрын

@MichaelKingsfordGray "bottle?" f u fella"

Also, very similar shots of Staverton station can be seen in the opening scene of The Comic Strip - Five Go Mad in Dorset

@paultreneary

6 жыл бұрын

in the last 'Five Go Mad' they ended up outside the Durant Arms in Ashprington/inside the Tally Ho! in Littlehempston if memory serves me.

@andrewjoslin2759

6 жыл бұрын

Was that Mescalin island? I don't remember seeing the Durant on that one, or are there other 'Five Go Mads' (Apart from Dorset)? I have the box set; I must dig it out, I remember though from said box set that 'Five Men in a Plane' was majorly hilarious! BTW, where are you from? I'm in Totnes now but in the heydays of touring them country pubs o' Deb'n, I was in Abbotskerswell! Happy days!

@mybookfacetube

5 жыл бұрын

"Five go to rehab"@@andrewjoslin2759

@SamuelBlack84

3 жыл бұрын

Ooh, wizard!

El pibe q sale de debajo de la cama esta super!!😂😃🌹🍃🌹🍃🌹🍃

Forget the kipper, get the gun!

Terry Jones RIP

we're short of heavy canon, 2-5 mortars, tressle tables.....lol

25:23 KAAHHHHHHNNNNNNN!!!!!!

In a sequel comedy, his wife thinks she's saving the world too. It's even more bonkers than this.

New bedtime stories

daftest of all the episodes.

@katesatriani

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! But one of my favorites because it IS so daft! and played so seriously!

Carry On Pardre Cardre😉

I think "PREDATOR the film" pinched the music from the cliff scene with car,,,,,,,, seriously rewind and listen (I'm probably wrong but it's very close lol

OHhhh, they give up because they are too polite, embarrassed and starstruck. The ending confused me for quite a while.

@ around 24 minutes - is that the guy that was one of the regular and long standing cast members on the Dave Allen show? (the man introducing everyone in the pub?)

@willpurry

6 жыл бұрын

Yes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sharvell-Martin

@DavidTSmith-jn5bs

4 жыл бұрын

I've seen him on "The Benny Hill Show" and "Are You Being Served?" That's what I admire about Brit character actors: the good ones rarely have a problem finding work.

@katesatriani

4 жыл бұрын

@@DavidTSmith-jn5bs You are right! and those good ones of that generation too ! without the yelling, the desperate need to be liked that so many now seem to have and without the bad language! thanks for your reply!

@katesatriani

3 жыл бұрын

@@willpurry thanks for reply and sorry it took so long-went down other youtube rabbit holes and haven't watched this one for years! It's like finding it all over again! Still brilliant

Breaker Morant

The secret passage under his bed had hard rock walls, but it was supposed to be an upstairs bedroom?

@donaldbrake5775

4 жыл бұрын

not a lot gets past you sherlock :)

So.... That's how the First World War started.... I'd always wondered how it all came about !

@jdrancho1864

2 жыл бұрын

Well, we all know it was because some chap called Archie Duke got hungry and shot an ostrich....

Tales of Bulldog Drummond .

Dont eat the kippers !

And to Meet Her Majesty’s Dreams Of A Nation Just Once

Jack May the actor who plays general Chapman is the voice of Egor in Duckula ❤

@bayadere8308

8 ай бұрын

And was Nelson Gabriel in The Archers for so many years.

After watching this I'm kind of curious how the hell this guy solved any of his cases. Maybe he accidentally foiled the first one, and it was such high profile that he's been coasting on his reputation all this time. His enemies keep surrendering because they don't know that the first time was a fluke, and they could in fact, easily kill him.

@kools67

Жыл бұрын

I believe that on this occasion the villains were complete idiots...simple as that...one chance in 4 million...100% fluke for Winfrey on this, his final, case...and the BBC cameras captured it for us to enjoy...lucky, lucky b*stard! I very much liked the layout of the bedroom with the bed facing the wall and not one of the windows...i have done the same in my bedroom about 40yrs later This episode reminded me of Kelly's Heroes - Clint Eastwood...as that film too had Germans

@big566bunny

9 ай бұрын

But all pros and any true artist make their accomplishments look all too easy. That leads the mere amateur to his peril.

funny.

Khaaaaaahhhnnn! Star Treck' origin story was this?