The plot centres around Phileas Fogg making a £20,000 wager with three members of the Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days. He takes with him his newly employed French valet Passepartout, and is pursued by Detective Wilbur Fix who mistakenly thinks Fogg robbed the Bank of England and is using the wager as a cover to escape capture.

• Pierce Brosnan
• Eric Idle
• Peter Ustinov
• Jack Klugman
• Julia Nickson
• Ian McNeice
• James B. Sikking
• Lee Remick