Box set: A Bit Of Fry & Laurie The Complete Collection

A Bit Of Fry And Laurie: Season 1

BBC Home Video (1989)

Comedy
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In Collection
#861
8.6

Plot

A Bit Of Fry And Laurie was witty and sophisticated entertainment of consistently high quality, with an old-fashioned revue-type atmosphere and oddly 'British' sketches that rejoiced in literary turns of phrase and elaborate wordplay. The delicate innuendos, coupled with Fry's ability to suggest hidden meanings in everyday phrases, gave the impression that bubbling below the innocent surface were lewd undercurrents threatening to burst through, although they never did. To add to this mix, Hugh Laurie demonstrated his keyboard talents with parodies of musical genres.

Cast

Stephen Fry Various Characters
Hugh Laurie Various Characters

Crew

Director
Peter Orton
Kevin Bishop
Producer Kevin Bishop , Roger Ordish
Writer Stephen Fry , Hugh Laurie

Episodes

Disc 01

1
Episode One
30 mins  13/01/1989
Sketches include "Mr. Smear Confronts the Headmaster," "Hugh Laurie's Short Poetry Reading," "Politician Insists, 'Stop Breaking into My Car," "SAS Application/Library Books on Cricketers," "Spoon Bender," "Apology," and a barbershop piece called "Bitch Mother Come Light My Bottom" by Sir William (now Lord) Rees-Mogg.

Director:  Roger Ordish 

Writer:  Stephen Fry  / Hugh Laurie 

2
Episode Two
30 mins  20/01/1989
Sketches include: "Information Desk," "My Name is Derek Nippl-e," "Flexibility of the English Language," America, "The Richard Morley Interview," "Tony Gives Control a Flash," "The Mouth Organist Gets Reprimanded," "Hands Exercise," and "Peter and John."

Director:  Roger Ordish 

Writer:  Stephen Fry  / Hugh Laurie 

3
Episode Three
30 mins  27/01/1989
Includes: * Hugh's Brain * Gordon and Stuart Eat Greek (2nd Gordon & Stuart) * Costume Design * Doctor Tobacco * Open University * Spies Two (2nd Control & Tony) * Special Squad
4
Episode Four
30 mins  03/02/1989
Includes: * Trouser-Competition Introduction * Prize Poem * Awful Smell (Stole My Sketch 1) * Madness * Antique Shop (Stole My Sketch 2) * Spies Three (3rd Control & Tony) * Light Metal (The Bishop & The Warlord) (song) * Bank Loan * Nipples * Inspector Venice (Stole My Sketch 3) * Tomorrow's World
5
Episode Five
30 mins  10/02/1989
Includes: * Lavatories * Critics One * Judge Not * Critics Four * Ignored Teacher * That's It (Silhouettes 1) * Hugh's Favourite Sketch * Critics (heavily edited mixture between Critics Two and Critics Three) * The "Burt" * Christening * Swiss Comedy (Heidi and Johann Smell Just Right)
6
Episode Six
30 mins  17/02/1989
Includes: * Marjorie's Fall * Puppy Appeal * Leave It Out (Silhouettes 2) * Girlfriend's Breasts * Spies Four (4th Control & Tony) * Violence * Chicken * Cocoa * Tony of Plymouth (Sword Fight)

Edition Details

Series A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Release Date 2006
Packaging Custom Case
No. of Disks/Tapes 1

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