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Pole to Pole with Michael Palin

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In Pole to Pole, Michael Palin follows the success of his original global trek, Around the World in 80 Days, with a race against time to get from the North Pole to the South Pole. Palin balks at nothing, tries just about anything and always finds time for a spot of tea. En route Palin stars in a crayfish documentary in Novgorod, attends a baby-rolling ceremony at a Cypriot wedding, gets stuck in a Nile traffic jam, buys chicken in Wadi Halfa, goes camel shopping in Khartoum and is prescribed tree bark by a Mpulugu witch doctor to get rid of his evil shadow. Even when things go according to plan, Palin travels in unusual ways--by dogsled on Spitsbergen, barge down the Dnieper, train roof across the Nubian Desert, van through the Sudan, hot-air balloon over Kenya and down Lake Tanganyika on the "African Queen". With curiosity, courage and his standard aplomb, Palin plunges himself into the local cultures, beating himself with birch branches in a Finnish sauna and wallowing in mud in an Odessa sanatorium. It all makes for an armchair traveller's delight.

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 79123
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired October 21, 1992
  • Recent March 1, 2004
  • Network BBC
  • Average Runtime 50 minutes
  • Genres Adventure Documentary Travel
  • Original Country Great Britain
  • Original Language English
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  • Episode Screenshot Format 4:3 Screencap
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  • Created February 4, 2008 by
    CraigWally
  • Modified September 24, 2022 by
    anubias
Season From To Episodes
All Seasons
Specials March 2004 1
Season 1 October 1992 December 1992 8
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 October 1992 December 1992 8
Unassigned Episodes 1
Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 9
Name Number of Episodes Dates
Clem VALLANCE 4 11/18/1992 - 12/09/1992

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