Ripping Yarns Season 1 Episode 3-Escape From Stalag Luft 112B

Escape From Stalag Luft 112B, Original air date - 04 October 1977.

Plot: During World War 1, Major Errol Phipps is determined to escape from Stalag Luft 112B, but his attempts all fail. However all the other prisoners and the guards succeed, leaving him alone in the camp to make elaborate plans - including a tunnel system so extensive it becomes the Munich Underground. He is so obsessed with his escape plans he fails to realize that the war has ended and dies a disappointed man. He does however manage to escape from his grave after he has been buried though.

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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