The Best Episodes Written By Stephen Fry

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - Pilot

   S0:E112/26/1987

   Pilot episode of the comedy sketch show with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. The duo imagine what life would be like with a privatised police force, take arts criticism to its natural conclusion and offer their take on Australian soap operas.

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   7.6/10(7 votes)

   #2 - SAS

   S1:E11/13/1989

   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.

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   7.5/10(2 votes)

   #3 - Returning Suits

   S2:E43/30/1990

   A skit on dinner party conversation and a sketch where a hard man is needed for a very special assignment.

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   7.5/10(2 votes)

   #4 - Countdown

   S3:E52/6/1992

   A reader is disappointed by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and contestants avoid the obvious on Countdown.

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   7.3/10(2 votes)

   #5 - New World

   S1:E110/12/2008

   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.

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   7.0/10(3 votes)

   #6 - America

   S1:E21/20/1989

   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.

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   7.0/10(2 votes)

   #7 - Dancercises

   S2:E13/9/1990

   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.

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   7.0/10(2 votes)

   #8 - The Cause

   S2:E54/6/1990

   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.

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   7.0/10(2 votes)

   #9 - All We Gotta Do

   S4:E12/12/1995

   Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie welcome John Bird and Jane Booker to their sketch show. Featuring Hugh's protest song 'All We Gotta Do'.

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    #10 - Tribunal

    S4:E53/19/1995

    A dilemma with a wasp’s nest and a parody of the Oprah Winfrey show that resounds with pointless applause.

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    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #11 - Doctor Tobacco

    S1:E31/27/1989

    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.

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    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #12 - Trouser Competition

    S1:E42/3/1989

    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.

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    #13 - Christening

    S1:E52/10/1989

    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.

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    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #14 - Marjorie's Fall

    S1:E62/17/1989

    A waiter keeps interrupting the punchline of a joke and a care worker in a retirement home brings an objectionable resident his cocoa.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Tideymans Carpets

    S2:E23/16/1990

    The duo demonstrate how to deal with trick or treaters, a German officer interrogates a British soldier, and the over-dramatic businessmen are back.

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    6.5/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Over to You

    S2:E33/23/1990

    Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie revisit some of our favourite sketches in this episode, including the jewellery store where Hugh Laurie becomes rather exasperated.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Devil's Music

    S3:E62/13/1992

    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.

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    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #18 - Dammit Church

    S2:E64/13/1990

    A discussion about the concept of beauty and Stephen expounds on his vision of Britain.

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    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Too Long, Johnny

    S3:E41/30/1992

    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.

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    #20 - Steffi is an Angel

    S4:E22/19/1995

    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.

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    #21 - Firing

    S3:E31/23/1992

    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.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Mississippi

    S1:E310/26/2008

    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.

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    4.0/10(3 votes)

    #23 - Deep South

    S1:E210/19/2008

    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.

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    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #24 - True West

    S1:E511/9/2008

    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.

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