Michael Palin Around The World In 80 Days (1989)

Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin is a 7-part BBC television travel series first broadcast on BBC1 in 1989. It was presented by comedian and actor Michael Palin . The show was inspired by Jules Verne 's classic 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. 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. He followed Phileas Fogg's route as closely as possible. Along t

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