Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame bring their talents to this comedy anthology series, where each episode features tall tales of adventure, mystery, and suspense straight from the pages of old schoolboy comics.
- Comedy
- Year 1976 - 1979
- 2 Seasons
Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame bring their talents to this comedy anthology series, where each episode features tall tales of adventure, mystery, and suspense straight from the pages of old schoolboy comics.
- Year: 1976
E1 • Tomkinson's Schooldays
Public school is hell for our hero until he enters the marathon school hop and becomes School Bully. With Terry Jones, Ian Ogilvy, and Gwen Watford.
E2 • The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
Eric is so boring his parents run away from home.Then one day he is taken hostage by a bank robber who shares his interests in shovels and weather gauges and the two become local heroes. With Kenneth Colley.
E3 • Escape from Stalag Luft
Major Errol Phipps has escaped 500 times from WWI German prison camps. But he’s the only prisoner not to escape from Stalag Luft 112B.With Roy Kinnear and John Phillips.
E4 • Murder at Moorstones Manor
The Chiddingfold family are gathered for a birthday weekend. But one by one, someone is killing them off.With Isabel Dean, Iain Cuthbertson and Frank Middlemass.
E5 • Across the Andes by Frog
In 1927, Captain Walter Snetterton set out for the first amphibian assault on the Andes. But fear, superstition and savage primeval lusts await him in the steamy town at the foot of the slopes.With Denholm Elliot.
E6 • The Curse of the Claw
Sir Kevin Orr lives alone and rejected, in constant fear of the hideous object that has ruined his life.
- Cast
Michael Palin
Bank Manager
Charles McKeown
2nd native
Barbara New
Jehovah's Witnesses
David Griffin
Attenborough
Michael Stainton
- Crew
Jim Franklin
Director
Terry Hughes
Director
Alan J.W. Bell
Director
