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The Best Episodes of Michael Palin's New Europe Season 1

Every episode of Michael Palin's New Europe Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Michael Palin's New Europe Season 1!

The Best Episodes of Michael Palin's New Europe Season 1

Michael Palin explores European countries that were once behind the Iron Curtain.

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  1. 7.7/10(41 votes)

    #1 - From Pole to Pole

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    Arriving in Gdansk via canal, Michael meets former electrician Lech Walesa who formed 'Solidarity', Poland's first independent trade union, which led to the demise of communism in that country. Heading to Warsaw he visits the Palace of Culture, Stalin's controversial gift to Varsovians. Michael then makes his own personal pilgrimage to Auschwitz.

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  2. 7.6/10(48 votes)

    #2 - Eastern Delight

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    Michael makes a remarkable visit to Göreme, where the rocks have been carved to form homes and some of the most remarkable churches of the early Christian era. Leaving the Cappodocia region by balloon, he sails east towards the borders of the New Europe, which if Turkey were to join the European Union would include Iran, Iraq and Syria.

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  3. 7.6/10(40 votes)

    #3 - Danube to Dnieper

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    Michael travels by road, rail and river through Hungary and the Ukraine, ending in the Black Sea resort of Yalta. Along the way he visits Budapest's 'House of Terror', a National Park in Hortobagy, an area which Attila the Hunwas reputed to have rampaged across, and ends up meeting a Leeds market trader who married the Ukranian prime minister's daughter.

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  4. 7.6/10(40 votes)

    #4 - Baltic Summer

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    Michael travels from Tallinn in the north, through Latvia, to Lithuania in the south, sailing into the Baltic from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, formerly East Prussia. In Estonia he visits a pyramid house and samples the medicinal properties of leeches. In Latvia he visits one of the most secretive places of the Communist-era, the astronomical telescope.

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  5. 7.6/10(38 votes)

    #5 - Journey's End

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    High in the Tatra mountains of Slovakia, Michael skins a pig, and learns how to make sausages. He then departs to Brno to visit Tibor Turba's famous mime school, where he is asked to mime a cockerel. Travelling in a DC3, used during the Berlin airlift, he visits the island of Rugen, built by Hitler for his KDF ('Strength through Joy') programme.

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  6. 7.2/10(52 votes)

    #6 - War and Peace

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    In Medjugoree Michael encounters a visionary who first started having visitations from the Virgin Mary 25 years ago. In Dubrovnik he meets with lute maestro Edin Karamazov who made the recent 'Songs from the Labyrinth' album with Sting. Michael ends this visit with a sheep sacrifice which heralds an afternoon of music and hospitality typically Balkan.

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  8. 7.2/10(43 votes)

    #7 - Wild East

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    Michael travels from Transdniester, a breakaway state from the Republic of Moldova, to the Vaser Valley in Romania, where he joins 80 lumberjacks as they board a wood-fired steam train. He finally ends up at Bran Castle in Transylvania, the ancestral home of Vlad the Impaler and alleged home of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"From Pole to Pole" is the best rated episode of "Michael Palin's New Europe" season 1. It scored 7.7/10 based on 41 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Michael Palin, it aired on 10/21/2007. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Eastern Delight".