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7 episodes in this season

Around The World In 80 Days: The Challenge

37 min

Around The World In 80 Days: Arabian Frights

37 min

Around The World In 80 Days: Ancient Mariners

37 min

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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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Around The World In 80 Days: A Close Shave

Season 2 · Episode 4 · Nov 1, 1989

In Bombay, Palin finds himself a week behind Phileas Fogg. After getting a quick shave from a blind barber under a tree and seeing a snake charmer's cobra, he is able to get a train ticket to Madras in south-eastern India. Before leaving Bombay, he visits an astrologer who, after giving him a chart for a baby to be born to one of his referees, Robert Hewison, tells him he will complete the journey a day ahead of schedule. Palin then embarks on the Indian Railways express line called the "Southern Express" for Madras in Tamil Nadu province. On the way, it stops in Pune, where Palin talks about his father winning two rowing cups there in 1953. In Madras, he has difficulty finding a connecting boat to Singapore. Eventually, an "...Anglo-German-Indo-Yugoslav agreement the UN would have been proud of" was reached and Palin sets off on a Yugoslavian freighter, eleven days behind.

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Travels with Palin

TV Series

198037m9.0

ComedyDocumentary

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Around The World In 80 Days: A Close Shave

Season 2 · Episode 4 · Nov 1, 1989

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