I was on a desert island with Mr Palin myself actually. He said I was a very boring woman who was very boring! So I showed him my very lovely sexy tits and he changed his mind on the spot!!
Where's that cigar?!,😂 typical rub into the hierarchy of upper classes 😢,but seeing Roy Kinnear again was a good tonic for the soul, great actor. Michael Palin gold 🪙
"When he arrived in Germany, he escaped regularly every every day, and twice on weekends"----I'm slowly recovering from a fit of laughter after hearing that line just now.
RIP Terry, they certainly wrote some good stuff. Roy Kinnear, great to see him again. I enjoyed this series the first time on TV, now enjoying it again, thanks
@@NxDoyle- Agreed. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings. He was a terrific character actor and a very sweet man. (For anyone who didn't know, Roy died from a shattered pelvis after falling from a horse during filming. It was a truly horrific injury.) I think he only survived for a day after the accident; I hope they didn't stint on the morphine. A man who spent his life bringing happiness to others had earned a calm and peaceful exit.
Just a kid first time round yet here I am over 40 years later watching it again and it's just as funny. Thanks so much for uploading - they just don't make them like they used to!
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 ?"
This was the first "Ripping Yarn" I ever saw, just a bit of channel surfing that landed on PBS, in the days before I had cable. It was, and remains, one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen.
Absolute bloody genius. Anyone new to Ripping Yarns should track down Golden Gorden, The Curse of the Claw, and Tompkinson's Schooldays, at the very least.
I am watching this from a renowned Resistance house deep in once occupied rural France for added atmosphere! This is truly brilliant (the video, not the house... its FREEZING in here).
@@MrDino1953 That is indeed the plan... please tell your glider-pilot to watch for my flare! See you in Dover in time for Eggs & Bacon, I will tell Aunt Meg to send a car. 🇬🇧
Palin and Jones got the name of the cemetery from Monty Python's stay in Torbay, in the county of Devon. They stayed in a hotel in Babbacombe, Torquay (where John Cleese got his idea for Fawlty Towers), and filmed on location at Barton Refuse Tip, Barton Downs Playing Fields and Paignton Beach. But they got the name of Totnes Cemetery (used in this episode of Ripping Yarns) from a small town in the South Hams area a few miles from Paignton on the road to historical sailing port of Plymouth. Such a shame they didn't actually film the cemetery scene in Totnes.
I thought I recognized David Griffin (Attenborough ) and I was right. He played Emmet Hawksworth, Hyacinth Bucket's long suffering neighbor in "Keeping Up Appearances" between 1991 and 1995
i always chuckled at the The Great Escape scenes where british prisoners were ordering the Germans around, berating them, and this is a good play on that.
British Officer POW to German Guard: "What are you doing here [Hut at Stalag Luft 112B]? How dare you come in here? This is British Sovereign Territory"
This is the first episode of this show I've seen, and as the first scene opened, I thought, "Oh my gosh. Palin in a serious dramatic show. It only took a moment to see that is is pure Pain/Jones. LOL
Watched all of these when they were first broadcast. Feels like a different world to be honest. Their humour was inoffensive and yet you can imaging the Karen's listing the reasons why this sort of thing couldn't pass for humour nowadays. Imaging a generation that wants to be offended, that's funny all by itself.😂
at least he inspired everyone around him escape , lol , chubby guy who played Sgt. Shults character almost overshadowed the main charactor of the show . long live british comedy,
Fact outstripping fiction. When I was a lad in the MN the ships baker told me and i believed him was a POW during WW1 ith the rank of Captain. He said he escaped in 1918 and was on the loose for two months not knowing the war was over.
Was he old enough to have been? If he was held in Germany, the chaotic conditions at the end of the war and his need to hide from the locals might have prevented him from knowing.
There was more than one Jap-anese hiding out in the Owen Stanley Ranges after WW2... Locals had stories of old bearded madmen, found huts, caves etc.. Theyre stubborn!!
Well of course the history is all wrong, but that just makes it all the more funny! Stalag is not even a German word.. it's Russian. Camps WW1? Colonel Bogey tune?? Uniforms?? Lot of WW2 here.
@@scenicrimmusicschool1731 Well, Stalag is German; contraction for Stammlager ('Gulag' is Russian). Col. Bogey March was composed in 1914, though prehaps not a top ten until WW2. And of course there were many WW1 POW camps. Anyhow, you're right: historical inaccuracies are forgivable for comedy, even more for a VERY GOOD one, like this. I just did not expect an arithmetical one! Probably the headstone engraver was not aware of the plot! Greetings.
@Gatehouse Sorry to say I wrote 'headstone'. Oh, I got it, the first comment. Very Important remark, I should be able to correct it some day. I am most obliged Mrs Fussy!
My uncle was shot down over Germany during the second world war. He ascaped twice but then ended up in the most famous camps Coldiz for the rest of the war until it was taken over by the Americans
thank god for RUclips.....There's nothing on the BBC anymore
John Cleese was once asked who he would choose to live on a desert island with. “That’s easy, Michael Palin”.
He also chose Michael Palin as his Desert Island Discs luxury item. Stuffed.
I was on a desert island with Mr Palin myself actually. He said I was a very boring woman who was very boring! So I showed him my very lovely sexy tits and he changed his mind on the spot!!
Well hed never pick one off his wives would he
Where's that cigar?!,😂 typical rub into the hierarchy of upper classes 😢,but seeing Roy Kinnear again was a good tonic for the soul, great actor. Michael Palin gold 🪙
"When he arrived in Germany, he escaped regularly every every day, and twice on weekends"----I'm slowly recovering from a fit of laughter after hearing that line just now.
Haroon Maurice and 200 times before he left England 😭
I loved the “twice in weekends” part
"But his body was found, two years later, over by the fence ". Bloody brilliant!
Never heard of these til now. Can't believe it. Been a python fan for over 30 years. These are brilliant!
Watch the whole series real funny
@@trevorfarr529Especially the one about Eric Oulthwaite, the most boring man in the world!
Have a look for the Rutles if you like this humour
You call yourself a fan and never heard of these (neither have I but play along)?
@@TheBrummie60Golden Gordon Barnstoneworth United til i die
RIP Terry, they certainly wrote some good stuff.
Roy Kinnear, great to see him again. I enjoyed this series the first time on TV, now enjoying it again, thanks
Yes, Roy was great. Had he not left us so early, I can imagine him in all manner of movies, things like the Harry Potter movies.
@@NxDoyle- Agreed. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings. He was a terrific character actor and a very sweet man. (For anyone who didn't know, Roy died from a shattered pelvis after falling from a horse during filming. It was a truly horrific injury.)
I think he only survived for a day after the accident; I hope they didn't stint on the morphine. A man who spent his life bringing happiness to others had earned a calm and peaceful exit.
Died of a heart attack, aged 54, 1n 1988.
Who..Roy or the horse!?!
Roy was great in he Three Musketeers!!
'He attempted over 500 escapes - 200 before he even left England ....' - lol hilarious.
I love how every time he gets caught his face is more bloodied up.
Great comedy. Roy Kinnear a legend.
Just a kid first time round yet here I am over 40 years later watching it again and it's just as funny. Thanks so much for uploading - they just don't make them like they used to!
First saw this when first shown brilliant
So glad I just discovered this series
All it needed was a bit of General Melchett, browbeating the guards with some tactical SHOUTING.
Behhhhh!
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 ?"
Don't mention the war!!
@@baabaabaa-yp2jh HE BITE POLLY TOO !
“All the finest British officers were there, and there was a several years waiting list to get in”...😂😂
Haha lol
Milligan did it way better than this crap.
_"The camp was filled with British officers sworn to die rather than be captured."_
@@ginskimpivot753 Milligan - nasty piece of work and boring AF. The Python team are legends, unlike Milligan.
Love that line too. A waiting list to get into a prison---Indeed!
So glad I’ve found this
This was the first "Ripping Yarn" I ever saw, just a bit of channel surfing that landed on PBS, in the days before I had cable. It was, and remains, one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen.
Absolute bloody genius. Anyone new to Ripping Yarns should track down Golden Gorden, The Curse of the Claw, and Tompkinson's Schooldays, at the very least.
and The Testing of Eric Olthwaite- that and the ones you mention are the 4 best, imo
Don’t forget Across the Andes by Frog.
@@timepoet77 yes, I only saw that recently. Very funny too.
@@mizofan His dad speaking French to avoid conversing with Eric. Classic.
Winfrey's Last Case and Roger of the Raj are also brilliant.
I think that was one of the funniest Ripping Yarns episodes. I have fond memories of them.
Do you REALLY think so Alistair Marsh??
@@alexmarshall4331 What is your problem ?
@@alioffski45 Must be the coronavirus syndrome....too much too soon too little to do....south east london lalala 👉🇬🇧👉🙊🙉🙈👈
I am watching this from a renowned Resistance house deep in once occupied rural France for added atmosphere! This is truly brilliant (the video, not the house... its FREEZING in here).
have you ever watched Hogans Hero , american sitcom about german war prison camp ,
@@ahmadkazemi8728 Cheers, I have just looked for that and BOOM, that escaped me. I don't remember that on English TV?
@ nigelcurren - then you really must escape. I suggest a tunnel from France to England under the English channel.
@@MrDino1953 That is indeed the plan... please tell your glider-pilot to watch for my flare! See you in Dover in time for Eggs & Bacon, I will tell Aunt Meg to send a car. 🇬🇧
And that kiddies is yours5 bed time fairy tale from old Uncle Utter Bolocks!
Gotta love Roy Kinnear! Brilliant.
Palin and Jones got the name of the cemetery from Monty Python's stay in Torbay, in the county of Devon.
They stayed in a hotel in Babbacombe, Torquay (where John Cleese got his idea for Fawlty Towers), and filmed on location at Barton Refuse Tip, Barton Downs Playing Fields and Paignton Beach.
But they got the name of Totnes Cemetery (used in this episode of Ripping Yarns) from a small town in the South Hams area a few miles from Paignton on the road to historical sailing port of Plymouth.
Such a shame they didn't actually film the cemetery scene in Totnes.
Work of genius, as funny now as when first shown.
I was twenty when these came out. This one's my favorite of the Ripping Yarns series.
Wouldn't want to miss "the start of the cricket season" with some random escape attempt!
It happens to me often ,just as I read your comment the guy said it
... and with Easter coming up ..
The best bit was the discussion about the ethical treatment of prisoners and whether or not social norms can be maintained during wartime.
Thanks so much for posting.
I thought I recognized David Griffin (Attenborough ) and I was right. He played Emmet Hawksworth, Hyacinth Bucket's long suffering neighbor in "Keeping Up Appearances" between 1991 and 1995
:) me too.
Oh thank you!!!
He was also Hi-Di-Hi camp commandant (sorry, manager)
Squadron Leader Clive Dempster DFC.
what a fine tribute to Terry Jones.RIP Buddy.
One of the great chapters in English humour. Palin was a natural.
is a natural . he is not dead
@@brain8484 you are
@@thomaselliott573 That's a really dumb answer.
@@dracopticon7788 it appears you are also a moron
@@dracopticon7788 an entirely useless imcompetent fool. He no longer presents comedy you bimbo brained f.ck.
Wonderful stuff, even after seeing it a dozen times at least!
i always chuckled at the The Great Escape scenes where british prisoners were ordering the Germans around, berating them, and this is a good play on that.
I'd only seen one of the Yarns back in the 70s and was told all about this episode. Finally got to see this one.
Watch them all
My favorite episode! This is so funny on many levels.!
And then tragedy struck. The war ended
This is surreal... Hearing my home of Banstead, and nearby Reigate and Dorking mentioned too!
This is a gem
Michael Palin playing several different characters:)
Such a classy series.
Rip Terry Jones, will we ever forget him
OMG I didnt know :(
Should have been Michael Palin that was relieved of his mortal coil. Bell end . He said he is a Sheffield lad. Bolex says me. Hes a fucking toff
“Will we ever forget him”? Forgotten but not gone? How very Python.
@@seandoherty1239 just looked up your surname it means obstructive. Or hurtful. Andy England 🇬🇧
@@judyhopps9380 It sucks to find out later than the initial news, doesn't it?
The Campsite is New Zealand Farm Camp which was used for Bad Lads Army.
Roy Kinnear was a real star in all his performances.
Brilliant, a classic, thanks for sharing
Cracking series this Thanks for posting have been looking forward to seeing them again.
The great Roy Kinnear. His son is a top rate actor, very popular.
I knew him, he stayed at our hotel for 2 weeks while appearing at our theatre.
Roy Kinnear's son fucked a pig in the first ever Black Mirror! 😆
Great acting from palin
Roy Kinnear... An absolute comedy legend....
Veruca’s dad…..
Beautifully written that. ...Hilarity aside, the reluctance to escape he witnessed seemed strangely poignant to a lockdown survivor.
At last a true depiction of history
"Anyone want to go just a bit of the way?"
Classic......RIP Terry Jones
British Officer POW to German Guard:
"What are you doing here [Hut at Stalag Luft 112B]?
How dare you come in here?
This is British Sovereign Territory"
hahaha, i love british humor! cheers from greece!
English humour.....haaaa
@Gatehouse I do...I come from there..Its always been English...
@Giles Sims yakidah boyo..
This is the first episode of this show I've seen, and as the first scene opened, I thought, "Oh my gosh. Palin in a serious dramatic show. It only took a moment to see that is is pure Pain/Jones. LOL
Brilliant,Brilliant,Brilliant, Love Roy Kinnear lol
At 26:39 - "He was about to construct a hot air balloon using only the little bits you pull off of Elast O Plast before sticking it on..."
I was standing next to someone that got captured !
Brilliant, remember this on tv.
Catch Roy Kinnear in the Three Musketeers!! He doesn't speak much but his performance as a sidekick is superb !!
I can't believe his comrades left him behind that's shocking...
😂💚 “you go , I’ve got this terrible cold”
what a comedy?.enjoyed it fully.
More documentaries like this should be made:
I only knew about half of it.
Watched all of these when they were first broadcast.
Feels like a different world to be honest.
Their humour was inoffensive and yet you can imaging the
Karen's listing the reasons why this sort of thing couldn't pass
for humour nowadays. Imaging a generation that wants to be
offended, that's funny all by itself.😂
Holy God! This is Gold!
Gold! Jerry, Gold!!!
Have you seen the rest of Ripping Yarns yet?
If not, wait til ya meet Eric Olthwaite!!
I'm going to watch them all!
"What's the use of having a war when nobody does anything bad to each other?"
carrite it’s civil war fought by gentlemen
Coming from some asshole who has never been in a war > FUCKING ASSHOLE.
at least he inspired everyone around him escape , lol , chubby guy who played Sgt. Shults character almost overshadowed the main charactor of the show . long live british comedy,
@Gatehouse
i meant to say chubby , didnt know his name but seen him more than few times on the screen , mighty good actor ,
yes , but I don't want to go home all sneezing and stuffy and have to go straight to bed. lmao
Michael Palin in that blonde wig looking all Billy Idol ahaha!
War buffs will notice that officers and non commissioned would never have been in the same barracks.
Uno G how very interesting not
war buffs would also notice that a luft camp would be for airmen not land forces!
Pure comic genius mixing the ranks and different branches of service. Nice shot at the ridiculous.
I loved it.
War buffs would also bote that this is a silly show, not a documentary.
Excellent
"That's no horse...you've got two coconuts...and you're banging them together."
Coconuts tropical.
Can l have two rocks & a packet of gravel!!
Brilliant, the only officer who couldn't escape.lol
i love roy kinnear! he's been great in so many things!
"Where's all that British spunk" 😂 Oh! What a message for our time....
"You must stop them, they're escaping!"
He reminds me of that bloke who kept escaping from that French penal Colony on devil's island. Pygmalion.
Papillon
Brilliant.
Biker , really ??
That Pygpapi nonsense was a work of fiction, this is , on the other hand , a factual reconstruction of historic events.
Papion ie BUTTERFLY !!!g
@@garyjones5406 lol
RIP Terry Jones
“Carter! Carter!!!”
“Oh, piss off.”
Again Emmett from Keeping Up Appearances as Attenborough.
The best!
Roy Kinnear was a gem
He escaped over 600 times, 200 before leaving England..lol
that is too funny!! It's so hilarious!!
He escaped to Moo Rica after the war.
Fact outstripping fiction. When I was a lad in the MN the ships baker told me and i believed him was a POW during WW1 ith the rank of Captain. He said he escaped in 1918 and was on the loose for two months not knowing the war was over.
What about the Japanese soldier that hid himself away so good they found him about 40 years later not knowing the war was long over.
Was he old enough to have been? If he was held in Germany, the chaotic conditions at the end of the war and his need to hide from the locals might have prevented him from knowing.
@@stevekaczynski3793 Yes , he was over sixty when he told me his tale , which would have put him in his early twenties when the war ended.
There was more than one Jap-anese hiding out in the Owen Stanley Ranges after WW2...
Locals had stories of old bearded madmen, found huts, caves etc..
Theyre stubborn!!
A miserable prospect of trading warm, cozy stalag beds for English trenches.
June? The war might be over by then. Let's hope not.
If his name was Errol in the story, then why does the grave marker say Edwin?
Just brilliant
I REALLY ENJOYED THIS!! Sorry to say his tumbstone is wrong; 3 months after armistice was already 1919. :-P
Well of course the history is all wrong, but that just makes it all the more funny! Stalag is not even a German word.. it's Russian. Camps WW1? Colonel Bogey tune?? Uniforms?? Lot of WW2 here.
@@scenicrimmusicschool1731 Well, Stalag is German; contraction for Stammlager ('Gulag' is Russian). Col. Bogey March was composed in 1914, though prehaps not a top ten until WW2. And of course there were many WW1 POW camps. Anyhow, you're right: historical inaccuracies are forgivable for comedy, even more for a VERY GOOD one, like this. I just did not expect an arithmetical one! Probably the headstone engraver was not aware of the plot! Greetings.
@Gatehouse Sorry to say I wrote 'headstone'. Oh, I got it, the first comment. Very Important remark, I should be able to correct it some day. I am most obliged Mrs Fussy!
Black adder series were clearly inspired by this.
This and the Flashman books
No laugh track on this one, which is good.
Jolly good binky!
They should make this into a movie.
"Twice a day at weekends" ha ha!
just because you haven't got the guts to get captured!
Rip Terry. Say hi to Brian for me. ;)
My uncle was shot down over Germany during the second world war. He ascaped twice but then ended up in the most famous camps Coldiz for the rest of the war until it was taken over by the Americans
You need to write his story.
My grandfather was made a POW because of his beliefs and when the Americans came to town, his situation worsened.
And his name plz?
I was rather surprised (shouldn't have been) to read that British officers imprisoned in Colditz had their own manservants taken from the ranks.
"There are 1400 toilet rolls in that" - aka a COVID -19 jigsaw
Couldn’t make out who were the real remainers.