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* ThoseWackyNazis: In the last episode of ''New Europe'', Palin visits the concentration camp at Terezin (Theresienstadt), and the series ends with him at an abandoned Nazi resort on Rugen Island.

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* ThoseWackyNazis: In the last episode of ''New Europe'', Palin visits the concentration camp at Terezin (Theresienstadt), and the series ends with him at an abandoned Nazi resort on Rugen Island.the Baltic Sea island of Rügen.
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* RailEnthusiast: Palin is one, without shame. He appeared in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' as the writer of a murder mystery play whose plot was [[JustForPun derailed]] by the characters arguing about railway timetables. His first travelogue program was titled "Confessions of a Trainspotter" (in which he traveled from London to Kyle of Lochalsh, the end of the line in northern Scotland, and purchased the old station sign to put up in his garden); he would follow it up with a trip the length of Ireland (both Northern and republic) by rail a decade and a bit later. He has had a Virgin high-speed trainset named after him, in a series named after famous explorers (221 130) ''and'' his name is also on a Greater Anglia Super Sprinter railcar (153 335).

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* RailEnthusiast: Palin is one, without shame. He appeared in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' as the writer of a murder mystery play whose plot was [[JustForPun derailed]] derailed by the characters arguing about railway timetables. His first travelogue program was titled "Confessions of a Trainspotter" (in which he traveled from London to Kyle of Lochalsh, the end of the line in northern Scotland, and purchased the old station sign to put up in his garden); he would follow it up with a trip the length of Ireland (both Northern and republic) by rail a decade and a bit later. He has had a Virgin high-speed trainset named after him, in a series named after famous explorers (221 130) ''and'' his name is also on a Greater Anglia Super Sprinter railcar (153 335).

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* {{Corpsing}}: He was probably the worst of the Pythons at keeping a straight face (he visibly struggles to contain himself during the "Biggus Dickus" scene in ''Life of Brian'').
* DeadpanSnarker: Quite often in his travelogue voiceovers Palin will express a certain dry wit when things start to go wrong. Even more noticeable in the accompanying followup diaries, which of course give him time to reflect at leisure.

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* {{Corpsing}}: He was probably the worst of the Pythons at keeping a straight face (he face. (He visibly struggles to contain himself during the "Biggus Dickus" scene in ''Life of Brian'').
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* DeadpanSnarker: Quite often in his travelogue voiceovers Palin will express a certain dry wit when things start to go wrong. Even It is even more noticeable in the accompanying followup diaries, which of course give him time to reflect at leisure.



* NiceGuy: Anyone's who's ever worked with him will endlessly sing his praises for both having great ideas and for being willing to collaborate with others. In fact, Monty Python only exists because Creator/JohnCleese enjoyed working with Palin so much that he insisted that Palin and his collaborators join him and Creator/GrahamChapman on their new project for the BBC.
** During the last years of Creator/TerryJones' life, he was largely nonverbal due to his degenerative aphasia (a result of frontotemporal dementia). Palin visited regularly, took Jones out to the pub, and read to him at his bedside. The two had been friends since meeting in college, before the Pythons were formed.

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* NiceGuy: Anyone's who's ever worked with him will endlessly sing his praises for both having great ideas and for being willing to collaborate with others. In fact, Monty Python only exists existed because Creator/JohnCleese enjoyed working with Palin so much that he insisted that Palin and his collaborators join him and Creator/GrahamChapman on their new project for the BBC.
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BBC. During the last years of Creator/TerryJones' life, when he was largely nonverbal due to his degenerative aphasia (a result of frontotemporal dementia). dementia), Palin visited regularly, took Jones out to the pub, and read to him at his bedside. The two had been friends since meeting in college, before the Pythons were formed.



* RageBreakingPoint: One of his roles in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' was a dung-eating peasant. After about seven takes of rolling around in the cold mud, he finally snapped and had "a jolly good blow-up". This prompted Creator/GrahamChapman and Creator/JohnCleese to break out in applause, because they'd never seen him angry before.
** During an interview program about ''Life Of Brian'' in which a Bishop and a conservative commentator repeatedly bashed the film [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch while admitting they hadn't actually seen it]], John Cleese remained his usual [[StraightMan calm]] DeadpanSnarker, while Michael was clearly getting more and more irritated as the program went on, [[TranquilFury despite his efforts to remain in control of himself]].
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One of his roles in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' was a dung-eating peasant. After about seven takes of rolling around in the cold mud, he finally snapped and had "a jolly good blow-up". This prompted Creator/GrahamChapman and Creator/JohnCleese to break out in applause, because they'd never seen him angry before.
** During an interview program about ''Life Of Brian'' in which a Bishop bishop and a conservative commentator repeatedly bashed the film [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch while admitting they hadn't actually seen it]], John Cleese remained his usual [[StraightMan calm]] DeadpanSnarker, DeadpanSnarker self, while Michael was clearly getting more and more irritated as the program went on, [[TranquilFury despite his efforts to remain in control of himself]].
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* AbandonedArea: ''In North Korea'' finds Palin visiting the seaport of Wonsan, which the North Korean government is trying to make into a luxury seaside resort for international tourists. Palin arrives by van but is taken to visit the Wonsan international airport. It's a bright, sparkling, new construction facility--with absolutely no passengers, no planes, and no visitors except for him. The eerie thing is that despite the airport being completely empty all the souvenir stores and snack bars and such are still fully staffed. Palin realizes that they're all there specifically to be filmed by his crew.

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* AbandonedArea: ''In North Korea'' finds Palin visiting the seaport of Wonsan, which the North Korean government is trying to make into a luxury seaside resort for international tourists. Palin arrives by van but is taken to visit the Wonsan international airport. It's a bright, sparkling, new construction facility--with facility -- with absolutely no passengers, no planes, and no visitors except for him. The eerie thing is that despite the airport being completely empty all the souvenir stores and snack bars and such are still fully staffed. Palin realizes that they're all there specifically to be filmed by his crew.

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* RailEnthusiast: Palin is one, without shame. He appeared in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' as the writer of a murder mystery play whose plot was [[JustForPun derailed]] by the characters arguing about railway timetables. His first travelogue program was titled "Confessions of a Trainspotter" (in which he traveled from London to Kyle of Lochalsh, the end of the line in northern Scotland, and purchased the old station sign to put up in his garden). He has had a Virgin high-speed trainset named after him, in a series named after famous explorers (221 130) ''and'' his name is also on a Greater Anglia Super Sprinter railcar (153 335).

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* RailEnthusiast: Palin is one, without shame. He appeared in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' as the writer of a murder mystery play whose plot was [[JustForPun derailed]] by the characters arguing about railway timetables. His first travelogue program was titled "Confessions of a Trainspotter" (in which he traveled from London to Kyle of Lochalsh, the end of the line in northern Scotland, and purchased the old station sign to put up in his garden).garden); he would follow it up with a trip the length of Ireland (both Northern and republic) by rail a decade and a bit later. He has had a Virgin high-speed trainset named after him, in a series named after famous explorers (221 130) ''and'' his name is also on a Greater Anglia Super Sprinter railcar (153 335).



* TearJerker: In ''Pole to Pole'', Palin visits the Shiwa Ngandu estate in Zambia, run by a British couple whose family ran the land for decades. They were attacked and killed six months after Palin's visit.
** In ''Confessions of a Trainpotter'' he reminisced about the end of steam on British Rail, with views of withdrawn steam engines at the famous Barry Scrapyard, including one with a crying face and the words [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman "Please don't let me die"]] painted on the smokebox. [[EarnYourHappyEnding Stanier Class 8F 48305 is currently in operating condition on the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire]].

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In ''Pole to Pole'', Palin visits the Shiwa Ngandu estate in Zambia, run by a British couple whose family ran the land for decades. They were attacked and killed six months after Palin's visit.
** In ''Confessions of a Trainpotter'' he reminisced about the end of steam on British Rail, with views of withdrawn steam engines at the famous Barry Scrapyard, including one with a crying face and the words [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman "Please don't let me die"]] painted on the smokebox. [[EarnYourHappyEnding Stanier Class 8F 48305 is currently in operating condition on the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire]]. (Indeed, most of the retired steam engines in the montage, filmed at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodham_Brothers Woodham Brothers scrapyard in south Wales]], would be preserved, either for restoration or as parts sources for other survivors.)
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** In an interview on the DVD, Palin recalled that the footage for the episode that was supposed to feature the dhow journey was given to an editor to put into shape, with the dhow journey supposedly taking up about ten minutes of a regular episode. But the editor found the dhow footage so fascinating that he assembled it all into a full-length episode and urged Palin and his producer and director to get the BBC to agree to an extra episode, which on viewing his work they agreed to do. Fortunately, the BBC agreed and the dhow episode became the best-remembered episode of the whole series, and almost certainly guaranteed that the BBC would commission further travel series starring Palin.
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* TheCameo: In ''Around the World in Eighty Days'', Python alumni Creator/TerryJones and Creator/TerryGilliam show up to send Palin off and greet him on his return. Prior to setting off, Palin visited veteran journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker (of ''Whicker's World'' fame) for travel advice, footage of which was used in a flashback sequence in the first episode [[note]] the Monty Python team had parodied Whicker in the "Whicker Island" sketch, which he took in good humour; when Whicker died in 2013, Palin described him as "a great character, a great traveller and an excellent reporter"[[/note]].

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* TheCameo: In ''Around the World in Eighty Days'', Python alumni Creator/TerryJones and Creator/TerryGilliam show up to send Palin off and greet him on his return. Prior to setting off, off on that journey, Palin visited veteran journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker (of ''Whicker's World'' fame) for travel advice, footage of which was used in a flashback sequence in the first episode [[note]] the Monty Python team had parodied Whicker in the "Whicker Island" sketch, which he took in good humour; when Whicker died in 2013, Palin described him as "a great character, a great traveller and an excellent reporter"[[/note]].

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* ''Michael Palin: Into Iraq'' (2022), in which he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin travels through Iraq]].



* TheCameo: In ''Around the World in Eighty Days'', Python alumni Creator/TerryJones and Creator/TerryGilliam show up to send Palin off and greet him on his return. Palin himself has a knack for finding parts in foreign film productions. In ''80 Days'' Palin makes a cameo in an Egyptian movie. In ''Pole to Pole'' he plays "Frogman's Hand" in a Russian documentary about crayfish. In ''Full Circle'', he makes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=261ugmDCcBU a cameo in Australian soap opera]] ''Series/HomeAndAway''. In ''New Europe'' he's drafted into a Polish theater performance.
* ChannelHop: The North Korea trip was broadcast on the UK's independent Channel 5, Palin admitting that there was no chance that BBC cameras would have been allowed in the country.

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* TheCameo: In ''Around the World in Eighty Days'', Python alumni Creator/TerryJones and Creator/TerryGilliam show up to send Palin off and greet him on his return. Prior to setting off, Palin visited veteran journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker (of ''Whicker's World'' fame) for travel advice, footage of which was used in a flashback sequence in the first episode [[note]] the Monty Python team had parodied Whicker in the "Whicker Island" sketch, which he took in good humour; when Whicker died in 2013, Palin described him as "a great character, a great traveller and an excellent reporter"[[/note]].
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Palin himself has a knack for finding parts in foreign film productions.productions while on his travels. In ''80 Days'' Palin makes a cameo in an Egyptian movie. In ''Pole to Pole'' he plays "Frogman's Hand" in a Russian documentary about crayfish. In ''Full Circle'', he makes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=261ugmDCcBU a cameo in Australian soap opera]] ''Series/HomeAndAway''. In ''New Europe'' he's drafted into a Polish theater performance.
* ChannelHop: The North Korea trip was broadcast on the UK's independent Channel 5, in contrast to all of his previous travelogues which were broadcast on Creator/TheBBC. Palin admitting actually admitted that one of the reasons for this was that there was no chance that BBC cameras would have been allowed in the country.into that particular country. The subsequent Iraq trip was also broadcast on Channel 5.
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* OhCrap: Palin decides to visit a famous barber in Bombay, but is somewhat unnerved by the fact that the man doesn't seem to acknowledge him, only figuring out what makes this barber so special when the straight razor is already shaving him -- the the barber is ''blind''.

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* OhCrap: Palin decides to visit a famous barber in Bombay, but is somewhat unnerved by the fact that the man doesn't seem to acknowledge him, only figuring out what makes this barber so special when the straight razor is already shaving him -- the the barber is he's ''blind''.

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* ''Sahara'' (2002), exploring the Sahara Desert.
* ''Himalaya'' (2004), exploring the Himalayas.

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* ''Sahara'' (2002), exploring in which he explores the Sahara Desert.
* ''Himalaya'' (2004), exploring in which he explores the Himalayas.



* ''Brazil'' (2012), no, not [[Film/{{Brazil}} that movie he was in]] but a four-part series in which Palin travels around the fifth-biggest country in the world -- then seemingly at the peak of economic prosperity and sociopolitical optimism.

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* ''Brazil'' (2012), no, not [[Film/{{Brazil}} that movie he was in]] but a four-part series in which Palin travels around the fifth-biggest country in the world (and one which he had not previously visited on any of his travels) -- then seemingly at the peak of economic prosperity and sociopolitical optimism.



* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The demonstration of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect Coriolis effect]] in ''Pole to Pole'' was a [[http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html clever fraud.]] While the rotation of the Earth does have an effect on the rotation of water as it goes down a drain, the effect is very, very small, and in ordinary conditions completely overpowered by more mundane factors like the way the drain is constructed and how water is put into and taken out of it. Experiments have only been able to detect the Coriolis effect by pouring water into perfectly symmetrical containers with drains exactly in the middle, and letting that water stand for at least a day to insure that it is perfectly still. (However, in the original cut, Palin reveals that this experiment is faked, and explains why. In some versions, this section is removed.)
* AuthorAppeal: If his journey allows him to take a train, Michael will take the train. Something of a JustifiedTrope for a travelogue show as a train allows lot of [[SceneryPorn arty shots of passing scenery]].

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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The demonstration of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect Coriolis effect]] in ''Pole to Pole'' was a [[http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html clever fraud.]] While the rotation of the Earth does have an effect on the rotation of water as it goes down a drain, the effect is very, very small, and in ordinary conditions completely overpowered by more mundane factors like the way the drain is constructed and how water is put into and taken out of it. Experiments have only been able to detect the Coriolis effect by pouring water into perfectly symmetrical containers with drains exactly in the middle, and letting that water stand for at least a day to insure that it is perfectly still. (However, However, in the original cut, Palin reveals that this experiment is faked, and explains why. In some versions, this section is removed.)
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* AuthorAppeal: If his journey allows him to take a train, Michael will ''will'' take the train. Something of a JustifiedTrope for a travelogue show as a train allows lot of [[SceneryPorn arty shots of passing scenery]].



** Michael gets a bit freaked out when he and Basil go to a restaurant in Guangzhou which serves snake. Partially this is because he's never had snake before, but largely because ''they kill the snakes in front of him.''

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** Michael gets a bit freaked out when he and Basil go to a restaurant in Guangzhou which serves snake. Partially this is because he's never had snake before, but largely because ''they kill the snakes in front of him.''him''.



* HistoryMarchesOn: In ''Eighty Days,'' the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88, which had ended months earlier, is referred to as "the Gulf War." A couple of years later, that name was permanently attached to an entirely different (though related) war.

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* HistoryMarchesOn: In ''Eighty Days,'' the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88, which had ended months earlier, is referred to as "the Gulf War." War". A couple of years later, that name was permanently attached to an entirely different (though related) war.



** In ''80 Days'', Palin's preplanned route from Suez to India has failed, and several alternatives have also proved impossible. In the end he has to rent a car and drive across Saudi Arabia to make his connection.

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** In ''80 Days'', Palin's preplanned route from Suez to India has failed, and several alternatives have also proved impossible. In the end he has to rent a car and drive across Saudi Arabia to make his connection.connection; most of the crew had to fly across Saudi.



* OhCrap: Palin decides to visit a famous barber in Bombay, but is somewhat unnerved by the fact that the man doesn't seem to acknowledge him, only figuring out what makes this barber so special when the straight razor is already shaving him: [[spoiler: the barber is blind]].
* OrientExpress: Palin rides it in ''80 Days''. Ironically, while this was considered so routine that Verne left it out of his novel, transiting Europe gives Palin his first problems, as a railroad strike throws off his timetable.

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* OhCrap: Palin decides to visit a famous barber in Bombay, but is somewhat unnerved by the fact that the man doesn't seem to acknowledge him, only figuring out what makes this barber so special when the straight razor is already shaving him: [[spoiler: him -- the the barber is blind]].
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* OrientExpress: Palin rides it in ''80 Days''. Ironically, while this was considered so routine that Verne left it out of his novel, transiting Europe gives Palin his first problems, as a railroad train strike throws off his timetable.



** In ''Sahara'', the apparently real-life call he places to his wife from the desert is very obviously being staged for the camera...to the point that it starts sounding like a Python parody of itself.

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** In ''Sahara'', the apparently real-life call he places to his wife from the desert is very obviously being staged for the camera...camera ... to the point that it starts sounding like a Python parody of itself.
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* DragQueen: Palin has a chat with a gay gypsy Bulgarian drag queen nightclub singer (!) in ''New Europe''.

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* DragQueen: Palin has a chat with a gay gypsy Romani Bulgarian drag queen nightclub singer (!) in ''New Europe''.
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In 2013 he was made a UsefulNotes/{{BAFTA}} Fellow (essentially, a lifetime achievement award) for his distinguished contributions to multiple media. He was knighted in 2018, specifically to the Order of St. Michael and St. George, which is awarded for overseas service to the United Kingdom.

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In 2013 he was made a UsefulNotes/{{BAFTA}} Fellow (essentially, a lifetime achievement award) for his distinguished contributions to multiple media. He was knighted in 2018, specifically to the Order of St. Michael and St. George, which is awarded for overseas non-military service to the United Kingdom.

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* AllThereInTheManual: As stated above, Palin has published books about his trips. Adapted from his travel diaries, they provide deeper personal insights into the locations, transportation, and people he encountered as well as behind-the-scenes stories that detail each trip's daunting logistics and how he and the crew overcame them.


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* WitchDoctor: He encountered one in Zambia during ''Pole to Pole''. He was told that he had an "evil shadow" and bad things lie ahead for him; the witch doctor gave him a piece of tree bark to "wash" with, supposedly a medicinal aid. Palin subsequently visited an estate run by a British couple who were murdered six months later, cracked a rib while white-water rafting, and had one of his suitcases lost by a railway company. Plus, a member of the crew caught malaria. Eventually, he decided to take the medicine administered by the witch doctor, although this did not prevent him being unable to secure a berth on the only ship that left Cape Town for Antarctica that year. The episode covering these events was called "Evil Shadow".

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* WitchDoctor: He encountered one in Zambia during ''Pole to Pole''. He was told that he had an "evil shadow" and bad things lie lay ahead for him; the witch doctor gave him a piece of tree bark (supposedly a medicinal aid) to "wash" with, supposedly a medicinal aid.with. Palin subsequently visited an estate run by a British couple who were murdered six months later, cracked a rib while white-water rafting, and had one of his suitcases lost by a railway company. Plus, a member of the crew caught malaria. Eventually, he decided to take the medicine administered by that the witch doctor, doctor had prescribed, although this did not prevent him from being unable to secure a berth on the only ship that left Cape Town for Antarctica that year. The episode covering these events was called "Evil Shadow".
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* WitchDoctor: He encountered one in Zambia during ''Pole to Pole''. He was told that he had an "evil shadow" and bad things lie ahead for him; the witch doctor gave him a piece of tree bark to "wash" with, supposedly a medicinal aid. Palin subsequently visited an estate run by a British couple who were murdered six months later, cracked a rib while white-water rafting, and had one of his suitcases lost by a railway company. Plus, a member of the crew caught malaria. Eventually, he decided to take the medicine administered by the witch doctor. The episode covering these events was called "Evil Shadow".

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* WitchDoctor: He encountered one in Zambia during ''Pole to Pole''. He was told that he had an "evil shadow" and bad things lie ahead for him; the witch doctor gave him a piece of tree bark to "wash" with, supposedly a medicinal aid. Palin subsequently visited an estate run by a British couple who were murdered six months later, cracked a rib while white-water rafting, and had one of his suitcases lost by a railway company. Plus, a member of the crew caught malaria. Eventually, he decided to take the medicine administered by the witch doctor.doctor, although this did not prevent him being unable to secure a berth on the only ship that left Cape Town for Antarctica that year. The episode covering these events was called "Evil Shadow".
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* WitchDoctor: He encountered one in Zambia during ''Pole to Pole''. He was told that he had an "evil shadow" and bad things lie ahead for him; the witch doctor gave him a piece of tree bark to "wash" with, supposedly a medicinal aid. Palin subsequently visited an estate run by a British couple who were murdered six months later, cracked a rib while white-water rafting, and had one of his suitcases lost by a railway company. Plus, a member of the crew caught malaria. Eventually, he decided to take the medicine administered by the witch doctor. The episode covering these events was called “Evil Shadow”.

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* WitchDoctor: He encountered one in Zambia during ''Pole to Pole''. He was told that he had an "evil shadow" and bad things lie ahead for him; the witch doctor gave him a piece of tree bark to "wash" with, supposedly a medicinal aid. Palin subsequently visited an estate run by a British couple who were murdered six months later, cracked a rib while white-water rafting, and had one of his suitcases lost by a railway company. Plus, a member of the crew caught malaria. Eventually, he decided to take the medicine administered by the witch doctor. The episode covering these events was called “Evil Shadow”."Evil Shadow".
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* WitchDoctor: He encountered one in Zambia during ''Pole to Pole''. He was told that he had an "evil shadow" and bad things lie ahead for him; the witch doctor gave him a piece of tree bark to "wash" with, supposedly a medicinal aid. Palin subsequently visited an estate run by a British couple who were murdered six months later, cracked a rib while white-water rafting, and had one of his suitcases lost by a railway company. Plus, a member of the crew caught malaria. Eventually, he decided to take the medicine administered by the witch doctor. The episode covering these events was called “Evil Shadow”.

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* AllThereInTheManual: As stated above, Palin has published books about his trips. Adapted from his travel diaries, they provide deeper personal insights into the locations, transportation, and people he encountered as well as behind-the-scenes stories that detail each trip's daunting logistics and how he and the crew overcame them.


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Alongside these series, Palin's also published books about his trips. Adapted from his travel diaries, they provide [AllThereInTheManual deeper personal insights of the locations, transportation, and people he encountered as well as behind-the-scenes stories that detail each trip's daunting logistics and how he and the crew overcame them]].

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Alongside these series, Palin's also published books about his trips. Adapted from his travel diaries, they provide deeper personal insights of the locations, transportation, and people he encountered as well as behind-the-scenes stories that detail each trip's daunting logistics and how he and the crew overcame them.

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Alongside these series, Palin's also published books about his trips. Adapted from his travel diaries, they provide [AllThereInTheManual deeper personal insights of the locations, transportation, and people he encountered as well as behind-the-scenes stories that detail each trip's daunting logistics and how he and the crew overcame them.
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* ''Pole to Pole'' (1992), from North to South, by way of [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp some sweeping political changes]].

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* {{Corpsing}}: He was probably the worst of the Pythons at keeping a straight face.

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* {{Corpsing}}: He was probably the worst of the Pythons at keeping a straight face.face (he visibly struggles to contain himself during the "Biggus Dickus" scene in ''Life of Brian'').
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** Not seen personally by Palin in ''Himalaya'' (or in most of his other travelogues), but when visiting the Naga people of the India/Burma border area, he picks up a book called "The Naked Nagas". Sure enough, the frontispiece is a topless native woman.

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** Not seen personally by Palin in ''Himalaya'' (or in most of his other travelogues), but when visiting the Naga people of the India/Burma border area, he picks up a book called "The Naked Nagas". Sure enough, the frontispiece Frontispiece is a topless native woman.
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[[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Sir]] Michael Edward Palin KCMG CBE FRGS (born 5 May 1943 in Ranmoor, England) is an English comedian, character actor and author, most famous for being one of the members of Creator/MontyPython.

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[[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Sir]] Michael Edward Palin KCMG CBE FRGS FRSGS (born 5 May 1943 in Ranmoor, England) is an English comedian, character actor and author, most famous for being one of the members of Creator/MontyPython.

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*** Email and the Internet would have made some of Palin's travel problems, like his difficulties finding a way from Suez to India, a lot easier.
*** On the other hand, Palin notes that air travel has made passenger trains and boats obsolete in many parts of the world, meaning that in some places, he has fewer travel options than Fogg did. For his ride across the Pacific, Palin has to hitch a ride on a freighter, because there are no cross-Pacific passenger ships any more. On the other other hand, that freighter Palin hitched a ride on was quite a bit faster than Fogg's passenger ship and allowed him to make up all his lost time. And he was able to go through China by train, which Fogg couldn't do.
** In ''Pole to Pole'' Palin likely could have used email to make sure there was space left on the ''one'' boat that goes each year from South Africa to Antarctica and back.

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*** Email and the Internet would have made some of Palin's travel problems, like his difficulties finding a way from Suez to India, a lot easier.
easier; in ''Pole to Pole'' Palin likely could have used email to make sure there was space left on the ''one'' boat that goes each year from South Africa to Antarctica and back.
*** On the other hand, Palin notes that air travel has made passenger trains and boats obsolete in many parts of the world, meaning that in some places, he has fewer travel options than Fogg did. For his ride across the Pacific, Palin has to hitch a ride on a freighter, because there are no cross-Pacific passenger ships any more. On the other other hand, that freighter Palin hitched a ride on was quite a bit faster than Fogg's passenger ship and allowed him to make up all his lost time. And he was able to go through China by train, which Fogg couldn't do.
** In ''Pole to Pole'' Palin likely could have used email to make sure there was space left on the ''one'' boat that goes each year from South Africa to Antarctica and back.
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