Ripping Yarns Season 1 Episode 4-Murder At Moorstones Manor
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Murder at Moorstones Manor, Original air date - 11 October 1977.
Plot: Sir Clive Chiddingfield invites his family to his birthday party at lonely Moorstones Manor but in the course of the evening half of those present are murdered one by one and the remaining survivors except for Lady Chiddingfield each admit to being the killer,eventually shooting each other.
Ripping Yarns is a British television comedy series. It was written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. It was first broadcast on BBC 2 between 1976 and 1979.
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Palin was always my favourite Python. I remember watching his Ripping Yarns series as a teenager and actually dying from laughter. I wish I was still alive to remember it.
@every Please do not haunt us!
It's not #Halloween yet, begone, foul spirit.
Very witty Wilde
Palin/Jones were the better writers. Cleese had the greater success clowning with Fawlty Towers but this series was superior IMHO.
Our dearly beloved, we gather today to remember every1665. A dear soul they were. Though they sortof snorted when they laughed -- hence the lethal chortle choking. ...Actually, we're actually kinda glad they're gone. Heck, they were mildly annoying. every1665 stole £20 from me once and slept with my wife. See you in hell, every1665.
Loved these Ripping Yarns when I was a youngster and rediscovering them all again now.. Palin really was the best comedy actor of his time.. Thanks to the poster for sharing.. 🙏🏻
Micheal Palin's facial expression are hilarious. These Ripping Yarns are as funny as Fawlty Towers for me. And for you?
\and for me too - yes!
Both series are hilarious - just within different genres 😉
Who cares?@@helenamcginty4920
Frank Middlemass as Sir Clive is clearly enjoying himself hugely and steals every scene he's in.
He was some sort of actor-wallah. Big chap!
But he does need a dam good thrashing
@@GLENLYNASpip pip. Dam good indeed.
Although you can still see him moving after he's been shot. Wouldn't have done him much good against the Burmese...
I'd rather have a box of fish than a son like that!
Superbly written, directed and acted. Timeless British humour at its best.
In the final scene, Hamlet comes to mind.
These are so good. I saw them at the time they came out and thought them terrific. Underrated classics.
AlwYs brill !
one of the very best. I can watch this again and again. Perfect music, perfect script, great comic acting from everyone.
Great to see Iain Cuthbertson. The "I rubbed some Vic on her chest" joke nearly killed me. He used to terrify me as a kid when he played Charlie Endall in "Budgie" in the early 70's.
"Did it help?" "Yes .... yes, it did. Thank you." As a school boys of a certain age, we found this absolutely hilarious. Palin said they expected the BBC to ask them to get rid of this but they had an incredible defender in Terry Hughes.
CHARLIE ENDELL🇬🇧💪💯 DON'T GIVE ME ANY LIP!!! BUDGIE 🤩🎬
Loved that show, about the same time as
CATWIEZAL Geoffrey Brandon
Came here to say the same thing, that Vic on her chest gag is my abiding memory of the Ripping Yarns.
Come in Budgie!
@@rabidbigdog😅
These are hilarious so well done...Love Mr Palin. Also never give ultimatums in marriage..
By far the best spoof on every BBC murder show ever !!!
Yes! Poor Dora! and no one goes out to get her ????
"He left Dora alone on Darkstone's Moor!" "Yes, yes, we passed her in the car." 😂
a pre-spoofing if you will.
cant believe it went out in 77.
"The only man with green fingers I ever knew was Tula Meran of the K.L.O.I. He was beating some chappy in Burma for breathing too regularly" 🤣
Bloody marvellous! Just recognised the actor playing the butler (“a bovril & a whisky”) went on to play the bishop in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Great performance.
Dr Farson - what a legendary character, even with his "bloody cheap lip" letting him down
Brilliant actors brilliant comedy it seems we have no idea now how to act and how to have good laughs thank god for you tube
So many one liners from this episode have entered my daily repertoire;
A damned good thrashing
Breathing too regularly!
Two spoons of Bovril !?
It's getting worse isn't Doreen?
Of course only Palin officianados have the faintest idea what I'm on about.
Eveyone probably thinks you're a boring little tit.
My favourite Ripping Yarn. All the characters are great but Manners stands out for me, and the doctor... "yes...yes it did!" Brilliant. Laughed out loud many times.
*"Yes, M'Lady."*
Whisky Manners. With bovril m'lady ?
The telephone m'lady.
The doctor , yes mine too , “I rubbed some vick on her chest” , “did that help “. Yes it …. To this day makes me laugh.
It’s Like the old joke about suppositories, “ for all the good they do you may as well stick them up your a…..”
They "passed her on the way"...."poor thing was only wearing a frock"...😁😂🤣😃😄😅😀☺
So delighted to see these! Haven't seen them since the 80’s or 90’s!
The best one in the series in my book. The actors are terrific
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
RIP Terry Jones, Cardinal Biggles, Mr Creosote and virtuoso of the mouse organ. You will be missed.
Had the privilege to meet Terry J in the 80's , he was signing books in covent gardens and took a break for a few minutes, he came over to where i was standing and we got talking, he asked me if i was a python fan and i think he guessed by the look on my face. What a gentleman he was and so intelligent in the end he said , "Well time for some lunch i think", I couldn't stop my self and said are you having spam. In a heartbeat he recited the whole spam dialogue in the womans voice. Thank you Terry you made this python fan very happy.
What that have to do with this episode of Ripping Yarns?
@@NiravShah1982 Absolutely nothing at all your right, bang on. Now scuttle along back and find something else to pick holes in.
You were indeed blessed 🙂@@albaproductions9602
@@albaproductions9602Bip, bip! Smashing!!
I've the whole set on DVD : all damned good what!? plus you get the opening introduction from Palin with Terry Jones directing & correcting : thinking of Terry and hope he's not suffering too much
David Stevens he’s gone now
@@PetroicaRodinogaster264
He's gone, but in which direction?
Well if the dvds are so much better, why are you watching it here?
W Richards doonstairs
😅😅😅
Quite fantastic that Palin can give these kinds of replies and keep driving.
They may well have the car mounted on a trailor truck - acting that he's driving.
@@mikedowns8293 A higher car.
It’s funny how, with renewed viewing, different characters stand out. I didn’t realize before how funny Lord Clive was, what with his obsession with corporal punishment :) There is something rather reassuring about an English gentleman spouting «Give him a damned good thrashing!» LOL
And a damn good thrashing on top of that to make him thankful for his damn good thrashing in the first instance. Gad Sir ... thank God for Brutality ..... ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
Thankyou so much for uploading, been looking for these for years...
Just absolute quality writing acting cast humour and themes ….. manners telephone milady
Just Brilliant :-) Is it just me or did anyone else notice that towards the end it all went a little Tarantino-esque? :-) before there was anything Tarantino-esque....:-)
In those days it was called ( Sam ) Peckinpahesque. Tarantinos films are mostly derivative.
@@neilmccormick2064 True
It was definitely Marg, with the sniper rifle, from the thrashing closet. Obvious really.
Never tire of this genius stuff. 😊
Nice. So thankful to have seen this after all this time now, in 2021.
Michael Palin..sheer genius.
Brilliant. I can see where the 'Comic Strip Presents' got some their mannerisms from!
Funny, I remember watching these on the telly when they came out and didn't find them that funny, now I'm 64 I'm finding them hilarious!
Thanks Blob for showing me this. Still love this show. Up The Blob
"With Bovril m'lady?" is my new favourite line in any show.
How can five people NOT like this episode!!!
Claire Greenhalgh snowflakes I think lol 🙄🙄🙄🙄
They need a damned good thrashing!
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My girlfriend didn't like any RY episodes....she was later found shot.
absolutely love this series. absolutely fabulous
Candice Glendenning..... what a beauty!
Thanks so much for posting.
Honestly, how much talent can one person have? Michael's ability to play unctuous, conniving upper class twit and loonie upper class twit is a joy to behold. The fella who wished him dead under Escape From Stalag 112B can go hang.
I never saw any of this as always at work, fabulous!
"He left Dora alone on Darkstones Moor!"
"Yes, yes, we passed her in the car."
🤣😂
But no one gets the car out to go and rescue the poor girl!
@@katesatriani Probably do her good..
😂
The old AC is going jolly well.
- Yes darling, it seems to be.
The old trick worked, you see.
We changed the stroke ratio on the crankshaft.
- You get less revs and more horsepower.
Do your parents live all on their own out here? No, they've got a couple of Davenport 257s, bought them cheap during the war.
Had both the engines re-bored, put in a [Pharos Night] dual piston screw converter.
Cleaned up an old Lucas 200 distributor and banged in four carburettors.
- It goes like a rocket.
- It's not any better, is it, darling? - No.
- I think you ought to give up driving.
I can't give up driving, Dora.
Who'd look after the Talbot? I mean, the adjustments on those pistons need oiling twice a week - and the tappet clearances - Oh, stop it, Hugo.
Sorry.
Hugo, you must decide between the car or me.
All right, I'll take the car.
- Oh! - I love her, Dora.
I love the way I can get twice the speed at less revs by a simple adjustment to the timing ratio in the [fan scavenged] engine.
Or by putting the two coils in the alternator lead Stop here, Hugo.
Emergency stop? Oh, jolly good.
Look at that, eh? No locking.
That's using the new friction liner pads we fitted.
Goodbye, Hugo.
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My favourite section of the script, this! For years I've used "We changed the stroke ratio on the crankshaft, to get less revs and more horsepower" when I begin to realize I might be boring the life out of whoever it is I'm explaining some recent engineering story to. Also quite fond of "...by a simple adjustment to the timing ratio in a fan-scavenge engine". But that is reserved for special occasions. And I always look forward to being told to "Stop here!".
As good as it gets. How on earth did MP memorise all this plausible rubbish?!
So glad I found all these again
"he was beating some chap in Burma for breathing too regularly"
Now THAT's a murder mystery!
Ripping Yarns (TV Series 1976-1979) - 7.8
This show is a collection of tales that make for "ripping good" television. Sir Michael Palin played a different lead character in each yarn.
I loved this series 'The Testing of Ericc Olthwaite' was my favourite.
Love this! If you like Frank Middlemass in this, be sure and catch his wonderful performance in "The Island" - a Michael Caine film based on the Peter Benchley novel. He nearly steals the movie out from under Caine and David Warner.
Another spiffing good show old chap.
Get this back on TV please.
Brilliant. Damn good thrashing!
Another episode that got better at each viewing!! Hilarious!!
The sarcasm from the butler when he asks if she wants Bovril with her whiskey lmao
Precioso hombre y talentoso.Ojala hubiera hecho mas cosas como esta serie.👀👌🌹🍃🌠🌹🍃🌠🌹🍃🌠
“Ever fought the Turks?” My favorite line.
eronavbj Vicious johnnies 🤣
My great great grandfather actually did! They didn't stand for any nonsense. 🤣😂🤣
@@kevikella221 He no doubt would’ve loved Ripping Yarns!
We didn't have any time for that squeamish nonsense.
They didn’t like it up ‘em!
There were one or two misfires but on the whole RY was very good. I am a little surprised it has not been revived on British TV more than it has been.
because it would show up all too glaringly the utter mediocrity of today's BBC.
My single favourite episode of RY. I use this to introduce quality writing, parody and humour to friends and relatives innured by crappy modern tv.
Yeah, mrs brown's boys being one of 'em!
...Knew a fella in Malta was shot by his nephew. Never knew what hit him. Of course the family kept it as quite as possible but never the less the press asked a few questions... we had to strangle two of the blighters. Turns out one of 'em was the foreman in the yacht broker we'd employed to clean the peccadillo enclosure. Quite a fuss really. Luckily we'd bought in 100% agave tequila for the margaritas so the police were very understanding.
Quite, all kept quiet!
I half expected a family pet to stroll in at the end with a firearm strapped to its paw.
😅😅😅
Easily the funniest bit: 'I rubbed some Vic on her chest.' 'Did that help?' 'Yes, it did thank you.'
'Bovril with two spoons?' is still used in our house, forty-years on... ;-)
Ian Cuthbertson brilliant as always.
Can’t make jokes like that no more. The ‘woke’ generation will miss the laughs...
@@maboelnreads -- Don't be silly, MR.
"What a disaster! I'd rather have a box of fish than a son like that."
Thanks for the upload greetings from Costa Rica 😎
I thought the Mother was wonderful. Have the DVD from years ago. Must watch it again. Not everybody else enjoys the humour.
Silly girl, issued an ultimatum without a thought it would be accepted.Definately a ripper this one.
i used to sneak into the living room and watch these on pbs on low volume and try not to laugh, when i was 11
damn that bovril and whiskey goes down a beefy treat..what!
I only just found out there was a cut scene from this episode, with Barbara New and Gilly Flowers (aka the mum from Eric Olthwaite and Ms. Gatsby from Fawlty Towers) as two Jehovah's Witnesses. Hence the two people walking away just as the Dr. turns up. Now I must to see it!
That deleted scene has been on UA-cam on and off, but with no audio There have been noises about using CGi to delete the two IWs walking away altogether.
Ah! Eric Olthwaite, the most boring person ever.
I really like how this satirizes virtually every trope and stereotype of Edwardian era drama and murder mystery set pieces. It even upstages Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" by not only having virtually the entire cast commit the murder(s) but simultaneously being victims as well.
However, I detest the laugh-track and the canned applause. That really detracts from the production, unfortunately, though that along with using videotape as recording medium (rather than film) clearly mark it as a 1970s/early 80s era production.
(Upon checking, I see that this was originally broadcast 11 October 1977.)
Yes yes very good.
Quite so, and absolutely agree regarding the laughter-track. For God’s sake, we’re not Americans! 🇬🇧 Iniquitous! 🤬
You sound silly when you try so hard to sound smart.
@@Johnny-sj9sj there was a version broadcast without the laugh track, and on dvd somewhere if you care enough to look
I remember a line from a long-forgotten farce: "No, no, I'm not Colonel Trumpington. No, no...I'm the Gypsy". The same kind of humour. Where has it all gone...we are so serious now?
What this episode needs is a Damn good thrashing. Whip it back to analog and it's sound quality reverts to reverse reverb
What a disaster, I'd rather have a box of fish than a son like that...BRILLIANT
I'd rather have a box of fish than a son like that.🤣
This was a strong influence for Quentin Tarantino.
"CAN WE READ THE WILL NOW"? LMFAO
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking I have a false lip!
"The telephone." 🤣
Great stuff !
"Yeeass, we passed her in the car ...." Bwahahaha.
good mix of agatha chritie and tarentino
Very good. Frank Middlesmas . The Leader had " Boils over his head"
Moral of the story, don’t mess with Candace Glendenning
oh dear
I'd rather like to try.
@@andrewlankford9634 Me too.
This is sublime
I don't remember a laughter track on this!
@Son Of Cherve Funnier without it, as well!
Jeff Edwards, you're memory was protecting your psyche by editing out the laugh track.
they put the laugh track in so Americans will know when it is funny. They don’t get good humour. Bloody Yankees, they need a bloody good throttling.
Hello Mumsay!
This show is bonkers.. thumbs up , something , somwhere
"I rubbed some Vics on her chest" :D LOL - so good, 2020
Did it help?
I think this may be my favourite.
Top quality stuff
Being an ignorant Yank, I had to look up Bovril. Beef extract and whiskey? That sounds worse than "lemon curry!"
People either love it or hate it they drink it a lot at football matches in Scotland anyway.
Good crips once.
anyone fancy a bovril with wiskey, 8 bloody 1 and the clock goes out the window when barnstanworth play , brilliant stuff
Ian Cuthbertson.....Charles Endel Esq...RIP
See you, Budgie! Was it not "Charles Endell... with two Ls"? The Esquire was essential, and I remember him being quite firm about the spelling of his surname. ;-)
Great character and a fine actor. Ian was saying "I'm back," when Arnie was still in lederhosen.
Outside his strip club…”Come in…they are naked, and they move!”
The site where she is standing after being abandoned is just metres from where Bond and M stand when they stop in Glen Coe in Skyfall.
Yes, it looks like Glen Etive to me.
@@royturnbull7049 Yes. According to the Visit Scotland website ... "Stob Dearg, Buachaille Etive Mor
Scenes from Skyfall were shot in Glen Coe as well as in nearby Glen Etive. In a driving sequence filmed in the Highlands on the A82 near the striking peaks of Buachaille Etive Mor (pictured) and Buachaille Etive Beag, the secret agent's iconic Aston Martin DB5 manages to get upstaged by the stunning atmospheric scenery."
Their daft a bit batty.,but pure gold at heart! Bovril and whiskey...what a combination!
They're far more crazy than eccentric.
Palin's character is obviously on the spectrum.
Tony smith obviously. If your only experience is watching the Big Bang Theory and being aware that autistic people can be obsessive and unconcerned with /unskilled at human relationships....This character is mearly your typical spoilt, selfish, upper class caricature 🙄
Palin is brilliant
I absolutely love Isabel Dean! Gone 27 years today!
Is the opening scenerey the same place where the massive landscape scene in Hitchcock's "39 Steps" was filmed.
"... Shot in the back... well he WAS eighty-seven..."
Can't help but wonder if it was the British who invented comedy.
@MichaelKingsfordGray But it didn't seem to stick for them. The Greeks are not funny.
@@ruthlewis6678 There's a 32,000 year old cave painting at Chauvet that depicts a tiny mammoth with very large feet. It's a joke - the hunter's been tracking him, imagining it will be massive, only to be very disappointed. However, although its in modern France, there are far to many migrations and population replacements in European history to say if it was a French invention, or just a left by one of the 1000s of pink british tourists that descend on Dordogne each year.
I think the Jews invented comedy - we Brits invented its close chum, Irony.
Yes ,we did. April 14th 1906
@@stephenowens3687 Yes! that was when the old song 'Any old Irony' was first sung in a Music Hall
Amazing and FUN , also grimly disturbing. And FUN.
Damn canned laughter spoils this😢😢
"With Bovril Mi'Lady??"