Issue #15535:  Fix pickling of named tuples.
diff --git a/Lib/collections/__init__.py b/Lib/collections/__init__.py
index 707c53b..9f55a3e 100644
--- a/Lib/collections/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/collections/__init__.py
@@ -281,6 +281,10 @@
         'Return self as a plain tuple.  Used by copy and pickle.'
         return tuple(self)
 
+    def __getstate__(self):
+        'Exclude the OrderedDict from pickling'
+        return None
+
 {field_defs}
 '''
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_collections.py b/Lib/test/test_collections.py
index 8850e8b..af27d22 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_collections.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_collections.py
@@ -273,6 +273,7 @@
                 q = loads(dumps(p, protocol))
                 self.assertEqual(p, q)
                 self.assertEqual(p._fields, q._fields)
+                self.assertNotIn(b'OrderedDict', dumps(p, protocol))
 
     def test_copy(self):
         p = TestNT(x=10, y=20, z=30)
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 3b0630a..6a0d16f 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -811,6 +811,7 @@
 Jason Michalski
 Franck Michea
 Tom Middleton
+Thomas Miedema
 Stan Mihai
 Stefan Mihaila
 Aristotelis Mikropoulos
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 465ca10..db0c594 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@
 - Issue #17802: Fix an UnboundLocalError in html.parser.  Initial tests by
   Thomas Barlow.
 
+- Issue #15535: Fix namedtuple pickles which were picking up the OrderedDict
+  instead of just the underlying tuple.
+
 - Issue #17192: Restore the patch for Issue #11729 which was ommitted in
   3.3.1 when updating the bundled version of libffi used by ctypes.  Update
   many libffi files that were missed in 3.3.1's update to libffi-3.0.13.