The Best Episodes of Ripping Yarns

Set in the frontier days of British education, when upper lips were stiff with cold and corporal punishment was an A-level. A savage, searing indictment of something or other.

Director: Terry Hughes

Writer: Terry Jones, Michael Palin

Hugo and Dora drive down to see Mumsie and Dadsie-pie for a long weekend in the country. But their tophole weekend turns out to be longer than they thought.

Director: Terry Hughes

Writer: Terry Jones, Michael Palin

A boy becomes a man in the harsh world of the Depression. The rough, tough story of folk who couldn't afford to go on the Jarrow March.

Director: Jim Franklin

Writer: Terry Jones, Michael Palin

The terrifying story of a man who dabbled in the dark mysteries of the Orient, and lived to tell the tale. Or did he?

Director: Jim Franklin

Writer: Terry Jones, Michael Palin

A tale of courage and valour behind the lines in the Kaiser's Germany. An inspiring story of camp life and a British officer who wouldn't lie down.

Director: Jim Franklin

Writer: Terry Jones, Michael Palin

The epic story of one man and six frogs who tried to defy the world in the greatest gamble of all.

Director: Terry Hughes

Writer: Terry Jones, Michael Palin

Dashing, debonair Gerald Whinfrey saves his country twice a week. But in 1913 a German plot - to start the First World War without telling anyone - coincides with his holiday. Where will Whinfrey's priorities lie? A knock-about tale of international intrigue.

Director: Alan J.W. Bell

Writer: Terry Jones, Michael Palin

A rare look at football fanaticism in the 1930s. Superfan Gordon Ottershaw supports a team which has not won a match for six years. But worse is to come. Will their tragedy bring Gordon's triumph? Or not? These are some of the questions this film hopes to answer. Or not.

Director: Alan J.W. Bell

Writer: Terry Jones, Michael Palin

Pubescent Roger Bartlesham comes of age in the turbulent India of 60 years ago, when circumstances beyond his control drive him towards the most deplorable act known to the British Army.

Director: Jim Franklin

Writer: Terry Jones, Michael Palin