The two accidentally end up in Spain, where Passepartout engages in a comic bullfight. They set out on the journey from Paris by a gas balloon named La Coquette upon learning the mountain train tunnel is blocked. Together with his resourceful valet, Passepartout (Cantinflas), Fogg goes hopscotching around the globe generously spending money to encourage others to help him get to his destinations faster so he can accommodate tight steamship schedules.
He makes a £20,000 wager (worth about £1.8 million in 2015) with four skeptical fellow members of the Reform Club (each contributing £5,000 to the bet) that he can arrive back eighty days from exactly 8:45 pm that evening. In 1872, an English gentleman Phileas Fogg (David Niven) claims he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days.
Also included is the launching of an unmanned rocket and footage of the earth receding. Murrow presents an onscreen prologue, featuring footage from A Trip to the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès, explaining that it is based loosely on the book From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne.
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