Talk:Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin

message: If he had used the Transsiberian Railway (not existing 1872), he could have made the journey much faster and more reliable, approximately 40 days. Has someone done this journey ? -- BIL 19:48, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: {Please be aware that the point of the journey was to recreate Fogg's journey as much as possible and Verne's character did not go through Russia. That doew bring up a question of whether any of the railway that you mention existed at the time of Verne's book though. MarnetteD | Talk 21:26, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Transsiberian Railway

message: I remember watching this at the time. I cannot remember it ever being called "Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days". The IMDB, the DVD and video boxes, and the original book cover call it "Around the World in 80 Days", although Palin's name is very prominent on the cover. On the internet it is occasionally called "Michael Palin's Around he World in 80 Days", but I believe this is an understandable mistake. The BBC's DVD webshop does however use the colon title,  but I believe this is an artifact of the BBC's webshop database formatting rather than an official name (compare with "David Attenborough: Trials of Life"  or "Robert Winston: The Story of God" ). -Ashley Pomeroy 20:54, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved to correct name as shown on the show's title screen, nearly 12 years later. 21:09, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: The Name

message: I recently started converting my old copies of Palin documentaries onto DVD and Divx and as avid Wiki user wanted to help update this section to best of my ability. Jagdterrier 20:14, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'll try to get this page as comprehensive as I can... 

message: It's well known that Alan Whicker was first choice presenter for the series, and Palin was fourth. Does anyone know who were asked in between?   —Preceding unsigned comment added by Piaecantiones (talk • contribs) 22:40, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Presenters

message: Why does the article's lede say "Palin was given the same deadline, and not allowed to use any kind of transportation that did not exist in Jules Verne's time, in particular aircraft."?  It's clear from the text of the article that he uses, among other things, a car and a speedboat.  Did they really make the frankly ridiculous claim that an automobile was "available to Phileas Fogg", whose travels would have taken place in the late 1860s/early 1870s (yes, I know, there were patents on steam automobiles at the time, but surely that's an excessive stretch)?  Or is it that Palin decided not to use airplanes, and somehow we've misrepresented this as a vow to use only Fogg's transportation?  Jwrosenzweig (talk) 07:29, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I do understand that, of course.  But you'd agree it would be preferable for the lede to be accurate in describing what happened, and not the "IDEA", as you put it?  I don't see that taking an automobile out of necessity is acceptable if it was "not allowed" to use transportation not existing when the book was written.  I'm not criticizing the decision.  But I think we ought to rewrite that portion of the lede, shouldn't we?  Any ideas for how to phrase this, anyone? Jwrosenzweig (talk) 22:36, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Error?

message: There are basically none of these. I am therefore confused about why it is rated as c class. Qwerty number1 (talk) 20:22, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: Around the world via Moscow and Vladivostok would have saved 30 days!!! 77.100.102.135 (talk) 20:49, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: He followed Phileas Fogg's route, from the book, as closely as possible. U003F? 10:26, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why didn’t Michael use trans Siberian route? 

message: Countries visited during Around the World in 80 Days. This map which is in the page is wrong. Switzerland and Singapore should be coloured red in this list. Avi :D (talk) 08:02, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error in map