After a brief stopover in Crete, Alexandria beckons. After that, he travels through the Corinth Canal to Athens, where he sees the world-renowned Evzones, and meets a die-hard Python fan. Arriving in Venice by coach, he helps the local sanitation department clean up the city. After taking a ferry across the English Channel, Palin crosses the Alps on board the Venice-Simplon Orient Express before being stopped in Innsbruck due to an Italian railway strike.
He also has dinner with his 'referees', who include Robert Hewison and fellow Pythons Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam.
#MICHAEL PALIN AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS SERIES#
After setting off from the Reform Club in London, he boards the Orient Express at Victoria Station in London, while reminiscing on his rigorous preparations for his upcoming circumnavigation, which included a daily exercise programme, a chat with seasoned TV traveller Alan Whicker, who was the BBC's (but not the production team's, who deliberately talked him out of it) first choice for the series and would go on to criticise the show, calling it "a seven-hour ego trip", and the purchase of an inflatable globe. Palin accepts the offer from the BBC to attempt travelling around the world in 80 days. The series was presented in seven episodes. Hemingway Adventure (following in the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway) first broadcast in 1999, Sahara (travelling around and through the Sahara Desert) first broadcast in 2002, Himalaya (travelling around the Himalayas) first broadcast in 2004, New Europe (travelling around Eastern Europe) first broadcast in 2007, Brazil first broadcast in 2012, and Michael Palin in North Korea broadcast in 2018. The series were followed by several similar conceptual travel series featuring Palin as he concentrated on smaller areas of the world.
#MICHAEL PALIN AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS FULL#
The second series was Pole to Pole with Michael Palin (travelling from the North Pole to the South Pole), an 8-part series first broadcast on BBC One in 1992, and the third was Full Circle with Michael Palin (the circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim), a 10-part series first broadcast on BBC One in 1997. The book contains much more detail, along with photographs, than could be presented in the TV programme, and Palin's personal views are also more evident.Īround the World in 80 Days was the first of a trilogy of globe-crossing series featuring Michael Palin as he visited many countries. Following the trip Michael Palin wrote a book about the experience. It was also released on video tape and later on DVD. The programme was a critical and commercial success, gaining strong ratings in the UK and selling well abroad. Palin encountered several setbacks during his voyage, partly because he travelled with a five-person film crew, who are collectively named after Passepartout, Phileas Fogg's manservant.
Along the way he commented on the sights and cultures he encountered. He followed Phileas Fogg's route as closely as possible. Palin was given the same deadline, and not allowed to use aircraft, which did not exist in Jules Verne's time and would make completing the journey far too easy. The show was inspired by Jules Verne's classic 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days, in which a character named Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days or less. It was presented by comedian and actor Michael Palin. Title sequence of the series featuring passport-style markings.Īround the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin is a 7-part BBC television travel series first broadcast on BBC1 in 1989.
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