This is what Comedy Connections are all about - never mind fanciful canon-busting nonsense like The Liver Birds, as funny as a cold fish pie, give us more like this!

Next Friday sees the Michael Palin and Terry Jones spoof Boy’s Own adventure serial Ripping Yarns given the Comedy Connections treatment, pitting the superb Tomkinson’s School Days and Roger of the Raj against the various other post-Python projects.

Ripping Yarns is a rarity - classic comedy that is rarely repeated (unlike Fawlty Towers, for instance) . For those unfamiliar with the works - which featured Palin in starring roles and but left Jones firmly behind the cameras - here’s a brief episode list.

First Series

1.”Tomkinson’s Schooldays” (1913) (repeat of pilot with series title sequence added)
2.”The Testing of Eric Olthwaite” (1934)
3.”Escape from Stalag Luft 112 B” (1917)
4.”Murder at Moorstones Manor” (1926)
5.”Across the Andes by Frog” (1927)
6.”The Curse of the Claw” (1926)

Second Series

1. “Whinfrey’s Last Case” (1913)
2. “Golden Gordon” (1935)
3. “Roger of the Raj” (1914)

Comedy Connections airs Friday 8th August 22:35 - 23:15 BBC One, and repeated Saturday 9th August, 23:00 - 23:40 on BBC Two.

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