Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin

Based On the book by Jules Verne

Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin is a 7-part BBC television travel series first broadcast on BBC1 from 11 October to 22 November 1989, and presented by comedian and actor Michael Palin. Inspired by Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in Eighty Days, in which Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days or less, Palin takes on the same task, prohibited from using aircraft in order to use a combination of trains, boats and other forms of transport, to take him across several countries around his circumnavigation of the world, including Italy, India, Egypt, China, Japan, and the United States. The programme was a critical and commercial success, gaining strong ratings in the UK and selling well abroad. It was also released on video tape and later on DVD. Following the trip Michael Palin wrote a book about the experience.

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Release date:

1989

Cast:

Michael Palin

Genre:

Documentary television program

Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Year page:

1989 in adaptations