Ripley's Believe It or Not!

TV Series
1982–1986
1h

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Strange occurrences, odd historical facts and unusual artistic and social activities are explored.Strange occurrences, odd historical facts and unusual artistic and social activities are explored.Strange occurrences, odd historical facts and unusual artistic and social activities are explored.

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7.7/10

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Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys
- 3 nominations total

Episodes76

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Trivia
Jack Palance and crew were escorted out of Tombstone, AZ by a sheriff after refusing to sign an autograph for a local waitress while filming an episode there.

Quotes
Self - Host: Paper. It's what business and and government runs on. There always seems to be another form to fill out, in duplicate. And that's when paper clips come in handy. But you can do more with a paper clip than stick paper together if you know the secret of an astounding trick. The revelation of that secret will be the first stop on our journey into the strange, the bizarre, the unexpected.

Connections
Featured in I Love the 80's 3-D: 1982 (2005)

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Palance Made This Show

This was one of the finest show's of the early 1980's. Jack Palance was always one of the scariest actors to grace the motion picture and television screens and this show only added to this mystique. Not only was it educational, but it was fun as well and it showed what a gift Palance had for storytelling. The one segment that really showed that talent was when he related the murder of Rasputin. Not only did he tell the story, but he almost seemed to act it out and made it come alive. Of course balancing things out were his female co-hosts and the best of them was his daughter Holly. She brought a sense of normalcy to the show and really made the show informative as well as bizarre. Too bad the new version couldn't take lessons from this version. While that one seems to delight in shocking people, this version was very enjoyable to watch.