7.8/104 votes#1 - 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: Stephen Fry
7.5/102 votes#2 - 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: Stephen Fry
- 7.5/102 votes
#3 - 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: Stephen Fry
7.3/102 votes#4 - New World
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/12/2008
Stephen Fry explores the states of New England, before heading south to the nation's capital and ending up at the civil war battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen Fry
- 7.0/102 votes
#5 - 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: Stephen Fry
- 7.0/102 votes
#6 - 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: Stephen Fry
- 7.0/102 votes
#7 - 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: Stephen Fry
- 7.0/102 votes
#8 - 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: Stephen Fry
6.5/102 votes#9 - 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: Stephen Fry
6.5/102 votes#10 - 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: Stephen Fry
6.5/101 votes#11 - 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: Stephen Fry
6.5/102 votes#12 - 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: Stephen Fry
6.5/102 votes#13 - 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: Stephen Fry
- 6.5/102 votes
#14 - 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: Stephen Fry
- 6.5/101 votes
#15 - 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: Stephen Fry
- 6.5/102 votes
#16 - 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: Stephen Fry
- 6.3/103 votes
#17 - 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: Stephen Fry
- 6.0/102 votes
#18 - 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: Stephen Fry
- 6.0/102 votes
#19 - 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: Stephen Fry
- 6.0/102 votes
#20 - 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: Stephen Fry
6.0/101 votes#21 - Mississippi
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/26/2008
Stephen Fry journeys across America, a country that has always fascinated him. A 2,000-mile journey up the Mississippi begins in New Orleans during Mardi Gras.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen Fry
5.5/102 votes#22 - Deep South
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/19/2008
Stephen Fry finds out what makes the South so distinctive, from West Virginia coalminers and bluegrass musicians in Tennessee to an Alabama parole board's deliberations.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen Fry
1.0/101 votes#23 - True West
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/9/2008
Stephen Fry continues his American journey by taking a look at the dramatic landscapes and peoples of the South West, meeting physicists, Navajos and semi-naked Mormons.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen Fry
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"SAS" is the best rated episode written by Stephen Fry. It scored 7.8/10 based on 4 votes. It was directed by Roger Ordish. It aired on 1/13/1989 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "Returning Suits".