Ripping Yarns. Thursday night at 10pm BBC 3/4.

[Leekbrookgull]

If you have never seen before,take alook.must be 30 years old programme.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Nearer 40! Bought them on DVD last year. All very silly. Roger of the Raj and Golden Gordon are to watch out for. Dated, but amusing none the less.

 

[vegster]

If you have never seen before,take alook.must be 30 years old programme.

Which one is first up ? I hope ir is The Curse of The Claw ?..... well alright I'd take Golden Gordon or Tompkinsons Schooldays, for obvious reasons.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Looking at info tomorrow's is Eric Outhwaite ? However this is number two,missed last week.

 

[Paddy B]

The worlds most boring man, who's own parents moved without telling him

 

[vegster]

The worlds most boring man, who's own parents moved without telling him

Eric Oulthwaite ?

 

[big hilda]

PRECIPITATION, mmmmm

 

[RexCathedra]

I had run 17 miles from Grayshades before the school leopard caught me.....

Some of us olds recognized your sig line instantly.

 

[Questions]

PRECIPITATION, mmmmm

You boring little tit Eric.

Eric Olthwaite: It were hard to accept I were boring. Especially with my interest in rain fall.



Tomkinsons schooldays was last week.I missed it.

 

[Paddy B]

Eric Oulthwaite ?

Aye, think this might be my favourite of all.

"You're a boring tit"

 

[Norman Potting]

..It's an icebreaker sir.

Scarily I recall the series from the "upper 6th" days at school (year 13 to you youngsters) - actually it would have been the pilot episode "Tomkinson's schooldays" in January 1976 (lower 6th, year 12 kids).

 

[vegster]

..It's an icebreaker sir.

Scarily I recall the series from the "upper 6th" days at school (year 13 to you youngsters) - actually it would have been the pilot episode "Tomkinson's schooldays" in January 1976 (lower 6th, year 12 kids).

" What's the scale ?"..... " er, one to one sir "

 

[Blackadder]

"New boarder Tomkinson is thoroughly miserable at Graybridge public school where he has to fight the grizzly bear,get nailed to the wall on St Tadger's Day and do the bidding of Grayson,also known as School Bully. When his mother refuses to let him come home he makes several attempts to escape,all unsuccessful,but after winning the Thirty Mile Hop against a rival (Buddhist) public school he is promoted to School Bully when Grayson leaves for Eton."

Cracking stuff.

 

[Questions]

I was in the last year at school and was voted in as 'school bully' after that first episode.

 

[Paddy B]

Which one had this line ?

"don't talk to me about sophistication, I've been T'Leeds"

Edit that was Harry Enfield. For some reason I always remembered it as from Ripping yarns

 

[rcf0712]

Barnstoneworth United, Haggerty F, Haggerty......, classic

 

[Seagull on the wing]

You boring little tit Eric.

Eric Olthwaite: It were hard to accept I were boring. Especially with my interest in rain fall.



Tomkinsons schooldays was last week.I missed it.

You can watch them on youtube....most of the old TV series are on there.

 

[father_and_son]

Have had the DVD for years... watched them all again recently.

Tomkinson's School Days (with the boy being crucified at the entrance to the school) and Escape from Stalag Luft 112 B are my two favourites.

These are up there with the Comic Strip as some of the cleverest comedy ever made.