The Best Episodes of Ripping Yarns
Every episode of Ripping Yarns ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Ripping Yarns!
A British television comedy series, written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. Following an initial pilot episode in January 1976, it ran for two subsequent series of five and three episodes in October 1977 and October 1979 respectively. Each episode had a different setting and characters, looking at a different aspect of British culture and parodying pre-World War II literature aimed at schoolboys.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Ripping Yarns" is "Tomkinson's Schooldays", rated 8.2/10 from 424 user votes. It was directed by Terry Hughes and written by Terry Jones, Michael Palin. "Tomkinson's Schooldays" aired on 1/7/1976 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite".
8.2/10 424 votes#1 - Tomkinson's Schooldays
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/1976
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
8.1/10 409 votes#2 - The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1977
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
8.1/10 374 votes#3 - Murder at Moorstones Manor
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1977
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
8.1/10 353 votes#4 - The Curse of the Claw
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1977
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
8.1/10 372 votes#5 - Golden Gordon
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/1979
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
7.8/10 338 votes#6 - Escape From Stalag Luft 112B
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1977
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
7.8/10 329 votes#7 - Whinfrey's Last Case
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/1979
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
7.8/10 315 votes#8 - Roger of the Raj
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/24/1979
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
7.1/10 327 votes#9 - Across the Andes by Frog
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1977
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