The Challenge
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1989
Actor Michael Palin takes up the challenge to circumnavigate the globe. The intrepid traveller sets off from London's Reform Club for Venice.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1989
Actor Michael Palin takes up the challenge to circumnavigate the globe. The intrepid traveller sets off from London's Reform Club for Venice.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1989
Actor Michael Palin takes up the challenge to circumnavigate the globe. The intrepid traveller sets off from London's Reform Club for Venice.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1989
Michael Palin and his film crew continue their journey in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg when they drive across Arabia in only 40 hours to make up for lost time.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1989
Michael Palin and his film crew continue their journey, moving through India to Madras before heading off to Singapore.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1989
Michael Palin and his film crew continue their journey, travelling from Singapore to Shanghai via Hong Kong.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1989
Michael Palin's epic journey following in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg. Ten days behind schedule, he sails out of Shanghai on a ferry bound for Japan.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1989
With only 22 days to go, delays, misunderstandings and a suspect bomb all conspire to impede Michael Palin's journey around the globe.
Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: Dec 30, 2008 (60 min)
Michael Palin goes in search of the crew of the wooden dhow Al Shama who shared an emotional voyage with him across the Arabian Sea in the first of his globe-trotting travelogue series, Around the World in 80 Days. Twenty years on from that perilous crossing, he begins his quest in Dubai before heading to Mumbai and on to Mandvi in the Gujarat province where he has heard that some of his old colleagues now live.
Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: Mar 11, 2014 (30 min)
Kate Garraway interviews Michael Palin CBE to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of his landmark and ground-breaking series Around The World in 80 Days and mark it's launch on Travel Channel. In this unique and compelling special, Michael remembers his experiences, from his feelings as he's waved off by his family and fellow Pythons at Victoria Station to it becoming a life-defining journey which also broke the mould of TV travel programming forever.