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

A Bit Of Fry And Laurie: Season 4

BBC Home Video (1995)

Comedy

/ Color / 207 mins

5014138305727

In Collection
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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

	Hugh Laurie
	Stephen Fry
	John Bird
	Jane Booker
	Seb Craig
	Fiona Gillies
	Kevin McNally
	Anne Charleston
	Imelda Staunton
	Clive Mantle
	Caroline Quentin
	Patrick Barlow
	Phyllida Law
	Stephen Moore
	Janine Duvitski

Crew

Director

Bob Spiers

Producer

Jon Plowman

Writer

Stephen Fry

Musician

Simon Brint

Episodes

Disc 01

Episode One

30 mins 12/02/1995

Sketches include ""Gray and Hopeless,"" ""Guest Movements,"" ""Theme Vox Pops,"" ""Blame the System,"" ""The Comedy Charter,"" ""Writing Poetry,"" Smell: The Forgotten Sense?, ""Gordon's Unintelligible Song,"" ""Wrist Changer Commercial,"" and It's A Soaraway Life. The guests order a Golden Meteorite cocktail.

Director: Bob Spiers

Writer: Stephen Fry / Hugh Laurie

Episode Two

30 mins 19/02/1995

Sketches include ""Hugh's Accident,"" ""Psychotherapy Video,"" Local News at Ten Thirty Three and a Bit, English People Care to be the Most Ignorant in Europe, I'm In Love With Steffi Graf, ""The Lover's Helper,"" ""Fascism Discussion,"" ""Max Meets Fiona,"" and ""Heart Transplant."" The guests order a Long Confident Suck cocktail.

Director: Bob Spiers

Writer: Stephen Fry / Hugh Laurie

Episode Three

30 mins 26/02/1995

Includes: * Vox Pops * Guests Introduction * Barman * Interruptus * Little Girl (song) * Making Tea * For Some Reason Angry * Don't Be Dirty * Cocktail Ending: South Seas Vulvic Wart

Episode Four

30 mins 12/03/1995

Includes: * Good Evening * Guests Introduction * Soccer School * Dalliard: Models * Hugh Interviewing Guests * Be Nice (song) * Head Gardener * Gelliant Gutfright("Flowers For Wendy") * Cocktail Ending: A Quick One With You, Stephen

Disc 02

Episode Five

30 mins 19/03/1995

Sketches include ""The Louella Della Tweed Interview,"" ""The Post-Race Interview,"" ""Hearing on Councilman Wade,"" ""It's Red, It's Shiny and It Doesn't Exist,"" ""Telephone Quiz Line,"" ""Dachshund Owner's Baby Talk,"" ""Wasp Exterminators."" Moore and Law order a swinging ball sack cocktail.

Director: Bob Spiers

Writer: Stephen Fry / Hugh Laurie

Episode Six

30 mins 26/03/1995

Includes: * Stolen Money * Young Tory of the Year * Variety * Gossiping Heads * Death Threat * What I Mind (Misunderstood) (Song) * Honda * The Duke of Northampton * Cocktail Ending: Silver Prostate

Episode Seven

30 mins 02/04/1995

Includes: * Guests Introduction * Religianto * Consent * Sophisticated Song (song) * Fast Monologue * Telephone Alert * Truancy * Cocktail Ending: A Modern Britain

Edition Details

Series	A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Release Date	2006
Packaging	Custom Case
No. of Disks/Tapes	2

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