7.5/10129 votesLoading...#1 - Returning Suits
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/30/1990
A skit on dinner party conversation and a sketch where a hard man is needed for a very special assignment.
Director: N/A
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
7.6/10242 votesLoading...#2 - SAS
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/13/1989
Fry as a put upon headmaster and Laurie as a Puritanical parent who wants to exchange his 'soiled' son kicks off the premiere episode. Useful tips for making poetry convenient is followed by a bookshop in which all the books have been edited for greater British glory. Laurie turns in a great performance as a fraudulent psychic, and the duo round out the episode with description of a censored sketch and its boorish replacement.
Director: Roger Ordish
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
7.7/10185 votesLoading...#3 - Doctor Tobacco
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/27/1989
Fry steals Laurie's brain as a practical joke, but Laurie never notices. A pleasant Greek lunch is spoiled by Laurie's insecurity and lack of self-esteem. A tobacconist posing as a doctor prescribes cigarettes. The commander of the M.I.5 and his assistant are back for a chat. Two unwavering detectives demand to know the whereabouts of an unmarried woman's husband.
Director: Roger Ordish
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
7.7/10180 votesLoading...#4 - Trouser Competition
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/3/1989
An episode rife with controversy: several of the sketches are canceled after an audience member demands they are his stolen intellectual property. A teen poet helps his headmaster to accept the head's own repressed longing to express himself in metaphor. The polite M.I.5 boys return, and a young entrepreneur is denied a bank loan for his drug operation. Fry names his nipples, and, with Laurie's help, tells us how a floppy hat can save you from being killed by a bus.
Director: Roger Ordish
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
7.7/10171 votesLoading...#5 - Christening
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/10/1989
As a service to the public, Fry and Laurie provide two TV critics to deride the show. A lesbian-obsessed lawyer, a miserable English teacher, and a young couple who baptize their infant for business reasons provide plenty of fodder for the critics' self-absorbed rambling. As an added bonus, Laurie walks us through his very favorite sketch, and, with Fry's help, celebrates Swiss week.
Director: Roger Ordish
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
7.7/10161 votesLoading...#6 - Marjorie's Fall
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/17/1989
A waiter keeps interrupting the punchline of a joke and a care worker in a retirement home brings an objectionable resident his cocoa.
Director: Roger Ordish
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
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#7 - Dammit Church
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 4/13/1990
A discussion about the concept of beauty and Stephen expounds on his vision of Britain.
Director: N/A
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
- 7.7/10114 votesLoading...
#8 - All We Gotta Do
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 2/12/1995
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie welcome John Bird and Jane Booker to their sketch show. Featuring Hugh's protest song 'All We Gotta Do'.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
- 7.7/10103 votesLoading...
#9 - Soccer School
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 3/5/1995
Stephen and Hugh rap, and wash their hair.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10103 votesLoading...
#10 - Tribunal
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 3/19/1995
A dilemma with a wasp’s nest and a parody of the Oprah Winfrey show that resounds with pointless applause.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
- 7.7/10100 votesLoading...
#11 - The Duke of Northampton
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 3/26/1995
A visit to the national finals of the Young Tory of the Year competition and a parody of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads series.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: N/A
7.8/10198 votesLoading...#12 - America
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/20/1989
Fry is an information stand attendant who knows too much. A man whose last name is the sound of a cigarette lighter dropping on a desk tries to file a police report. A cad of a talk show host gets his desserts. We meet the very pleasant and expositional commander of the M.I.5 and his assistant. The episode ends with an aerobic workout for hands, and a very dramatic corporate takeover.
Director: Roger Ordish
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
- 7.8/10125 votesLoading...
#13 - The Cause
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 4/6/1990
A doctor breaks bad news to a patient, the duo poke fun at former Tory MP Rhodes Boyson, and Paul Eddington guest stars in a sketch set in a restaurant.
Director: N/A
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
- 7.8/10106 votesLoading...
#14 - Firing
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/1992
A man gets more than he bargained for when he goes to buy a pair of shoes and the Department are on the lookout for a missing file.
Director: N/A
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
- 7.8/10116 votesLoading...
#15 - Steffi is an Angel
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 2/19/1995
Anne Charleston, Kevin McNally and Fiona Gillies join in the fun with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. A man recounts a childhood memory to his therapist and Hugh sings about his love for Steffi Graf.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
- 7.9/10142 votesLoading...
#16 - Dancercises
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/9/1990
By and with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. The first of a new experimental series in which Stephen Fry will be played by Hugh Laurie and Hugh Laurie will be played by Stephen Fry. The part of A Bit will be played by And and the part of Of will be played by Paddy Ashdown. The BBC takes no responsibility for articles of clothing removed on the premises.
Director: N/A
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
- 7.9/10131 votesLoading...
#17 - Tideymans Carpets
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/16/1990
The duo demonstrate how to deal with trick or treaters, a German officer interrogates a British soldier, and the over-dramatic businessmen are back.
Director: N/A
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
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#18 - Over to You
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/23/1990
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie revisit some of our favourite sketches in this episode, including the jewellery store where Hugh Laurie becomes rather exasperated.
Director: N/A
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
- 7.9/10107 votesLoading...
#19 - Countdown
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/6/1992
A reader is disappointed by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and contestants avoid the obvious on Countdown.
Director: N/A
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
- 7.9/10107 votesLoading...
#20 - Devil's Music
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/13/1992
Two men with no experience of flying go up in a light aircraft, a bishop and part-time heavy metal singer finds himself in court, and two pedantic customers make life difficult for a waitress.
Director: N/A
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
- 7.9/10105 votesLoading...
#21 - Barman
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 2/26/1995
A man confides in a barman about the state of his marriage, while contestants try to keep it clean on game show parody 'Don't Be Dirty'.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10105 votesLoading...
#22 - Too Long, Johnny
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/30/1992
An elderly man looks for a get well card, a man has trouble asking his wife to pass him the marmalade at breakfast, and there's the scary tale of the Red Hat of Patferrick.
Director: N/A
Writer: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
- 8.0/10105 votesLoading...
#23 - Sophisticated Song
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 4/2/1995
A school teacher sets up a new religion, a father tries to talk sense into his son who has played truant for years, and Stephen recites a monologue very quickly.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10112 votesLoading...
#24 - Petrol Attendants
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/1992
Two former estate agents attempt to run a petrol station, while the language barrier causes problems for a businessman sealing a deal with a foreign colleague.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10122 votesLoading...
#25 - Psychiatrists
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/1992
A man tells his son of his true identity, while a pint of milk finds itself before a medieval court.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of A Bit of Fry & Laurie
Every episode of A Bit of Fry & Laurie ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of A Bit of Fry & Laurie!
A British comedy television series with turns of phrase and elaborate wordplay, written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
Genre:Comedy
Worst Episodes Summary
"Returning Suits" is the worst rated episode of "A Bit of Fry & Laurie". It scored 7.5/10 based on 129 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, it aired on 3/30/1990. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "SAS".