Around The World In 80 Days

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.

Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days. After betting his entire fortune, he takes his new butler (a man hoping for a quite life) on a tour of the world. However, just before the time he leaves, the Bank of England is robbed and a Detective believes that Fogg is the guilty party and he sets out after him.

Plot Outline: A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief, and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
User Comments: It's a Fun Film Folks, Not a Serious Re-make of a Classic.

In the autumn of 1988, Michael set out to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by the fictional character Phileas Fogg from Jules Verne’s epic novel of 1873. Michael’s journey became a 20th-century adventure like no other as he battled through thick and thin in an attempt to finish within 80 days, on his arrival back in the UK. 20 years later, Michael returns to the scene of one of the most memorable sequences of the series – the journey across the Arabian Sea from Dubai to Mumbai in a traditional dhow. Can he find the men with whom he forged a special bond, and on whom his life depended two decades ago?