MICHAEL PALIN plays the leading man, or men, in every episode of this series, written by him and Terry Jones, who appeared in the Pythonesque pilot, "Tomkinson's Schooldays." John Cleese also makes a silent but silly walkon in "Golden Gordon." It ran to rave reviews for two seasons, and 9 episodes, before the expense became too much. But what is the series about? Well, it's basically a series of half-hour films inspired by those stiff-upper-lip adventure stories told to British children around the turn of the century, only here given truly twisted twists. The mixture of high drama with a subtle Pythonic wit proved baffling to BBC editors, who prepared some episodes with a laugh track, and others without. The series has been released on video.
