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Around The World In 80 Days: The Challenge

37 min

Around The World In 80 Days: Arabian Frights

37 min

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Around The World In 80 Days: Ancient Mariners

37 min

Around The World In 80 Days: A Close Shave

37 min

Around The World In 80 Days: Oriental Express

37 min

Around The World In 80 Days: Far East And Farther East

37 min

Around The World In 80 Days: Dateline To Deadline

37 min

Travels with Palin

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198037m9.0

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Around The World In 80 Days: Ancient Mariners

Season 2 · Episode 3 · Oct 25, 1989

Palin recounts his trip from Jeddah to Dubai via Riyadh, and notes that he drove the distance from London to the Black Sea in one weekend. In Dubai, the team finds a dhow named the Al-Sharma to take them to Bombay. Along the way, Palin bonds with the dhow's crew who were an extended family from the Indian state of Gujarat, letting the oldest one listen to a Bruce Springsteen song on his Walkman, and developing a bad case of diarrhoea, resulting in many trips to the ship's unique open-air latrine. The journey took seven days on what became the most famous part of the whole trip featured in the series. The trip on the dhow yielded so much material that the producers gained special permission to craft this extra seventh episode for what was originally planned as a six-episode series. In the interview included with the DVD release, Palin said that he would like to meet the dhow's crew and thank them again for their gracious hospitality.

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Travels with Palin

TV Series

198037m9.0

ComedyDocumentary

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Around The World In 80 Days: Ancient Mariners

Season 2 · Episode 3 · Oct 25, 1989

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