• 1992
  • 50m
Pole to Pole

Summary Michael Palin undertakes a journey by the most direct route possible with the most land to cross from the North Pole to the South Pole. View more details

  • 1992
  • 50m

Pole to Pole

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Michael Palin Graham Hancock Neil Hardwick Lasse Lehtinen

All cast & crew

8.4

Details

Genres : Adventure Documentary

Release date : Oct 20, 1992

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Palin's Travels

Language : English

Filming locations : South Pole, Antarctica

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Prominent Television Passepartout Productions

Summary Michael Palin undertakes a journey by the most direct route possible with the most land to cross from the North Pole to the South Pole. View more details

Details

Genres : Adventure Documentary

Release date : Oct 20, 1992

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Palin's Travels

Language : English

Filming locations : South Pole, Antarctica

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Prominent Television Passepartout Productions

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 20, 1992
Cold Start
Palin begins at the North Pole, flying there on a small aeroplane fitted with skis. From there, he heads to Greenland, then the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, where the towns of Ny Alesund and Longyearbyen are located. He travels from Norway to Finland, meeting locals along the way.
Episode 2 • Oct 27, 1992
Russian Steps
Palin meets up with a Vladimir Lenin impersonator, witnesses a Russian Orthodox baptism ceremony, visits the cemetery where the likes of Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky are buried, visits the town of Chernobyl, Ukraine, and then travels to Kiev and Odessa.
Episode 3 • Nov 03, 1992
Mediterranean Maze
Arriving by ferry to Istanbul, Turkey, Palin stays at the Pera Palas, where Agatha Christie wrote Murder on the Orient Express and experiences a turkish bath, getting the full treatment from a large staff member. He then takes a train through western Turkey to Marmaris and catches ferries to first Rhodes, Greece then to Cyprus. Palin then visits the British military base at Akrotiri and attends a huge Cypriot wedding. From Limassol, Palin heads for North Africa, his home for the next few months. Catching a boat up the Nile River, he checks out ancient Egyptian ruins with tourists from Sheffield. From Aswan, he catches a ferry bound for Wadi Halfa and braces himself for what appears to be a rough road ahead.
Episode 4 • Nov 10, 1992
Shifting Sands
Arriving in Wadi Halfa, Sudan, Palin boards a train bound for Khartoum, the capital. There he receives some bad news: he will be unable to journey further south into Sudan due to the ongoing conflict in the southern region of the nation. Seeking an alternative, he finds Eritreans willing to drive him to the border with Ethiopia.
Episode 5 • Nov 17, 1992
Crossing the Line
In the old Ethiopian capital of Gondar Palin visits the former home of Emperor Haile Selassie, as well as his pet lion. After a couple of hitchhiking rides he arrives at the Kenya border. In Nairobi he prepares himself for a safari, where he later takes time out to chat with some hippopotamuses.
Episode 6 • Nov 24, 1992
Plains and Boats and Trains
In Kenya Palin takes a hot-air balloon ride. On the ground he observes a lioness and her cubs up close. Then it is on to Tanzania, where he fulfills a lifelong dream by visiting the Ngorongoro Crater. In Dodoma he catches a train bound for the town of Kigoma. Palin then catches what is believed to be the world's oldest operating ferry - the MV Liemba down Lake Tanganyika to Mpulungu in Zambia.
Episode 7 • Dec 01, 1992
Evil Shadow
In Zambia Palin meets a witch doctor who tells him that he has an "evil shadow" and bad things lie ahead for him. Palin then moves on to Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River, where he goes whitewater rafting. In Johannesburg he receives some bad news: the Agulhas, a scientific research ship they were scheduled to take to Antarctica has no space for them.
Episode 8 • Dec 08, 1992
Bitter End
Despite being unable to reach Antarctica via the Agulhas, all is not lost for Palin. A travel adventure company is able to take Palin to the South Pole from their base in Chile. This means Palin must abandon the 30 degrees east meridian.
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