A Bit of Fry and Laurie
BBC (ended 1995)
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Season 4
- Ep 7Series 4, Episode 74/2/95
Sketches include: Religianto, Consent, Sophisticated Song, Fast Monologue, Telephones, Truancy. - Ep 7Episode 7
- Ep 6Series 4, Episode 63/26/95
Sketches include: Chess Game, Counting Stolen Money, Finals of Young Tory of the Year, Mr Variety Tommy McPherson, Well I Never Did, Death Threat for Hugh, Misunderstood, The Government Has Been Bought By Honda, The Duke of Northampton.''There are no guests and the cocktail at the end is the Silver Prostate.moreless - Ep 6Episode 6
- Ep 5Series 4, Episode 53/19/95
Sketches include: The Louella Della Tweed Interview, The Post-Race Interview, Hearing on Councilman Wade, Working Project Title: Mark Bannister, Telephone Quiz Line, I'd Like To Have This Man Put Down Please, Discust, Wasp Exterminators. Moore and Law order a swinging ball sack cocktail. - Ep 5Episode 5
- Ep 4Series 4, Episode 43/5/95
Sketches include: Soccer School, Dalliard, Be Nice (song), Head Gardener, Gelliant Gutfright.
The cocktail of the week is "A Quick One With You, Stephen". - Ep 4Episode 4
- Ep 3Series 4, Episode 32/26/95
Sketches include: The Suggestive Barman, Kettle's On, Little Girl, Making Tea, For Some Reason Angery, Don't Be Dirty.''The cocktail produced at the end of the show is a South Seas Vulvic Wart, although Stephen calls it a South Seas Genital Wart a while later. - Ep 3Episode 3
- Ep 2Series 4, Episode 22/19/95
Sketches include Hugh's Accident, Denial Is In Egypt, Local News at Ten Thirty Three and a Bit, English People Appear to be the Most Ignorant in Europe, I'm In Love With Steffi Graf, The Lover's Helper, Fascism Discussion, Max Meets Fiona, Sketch In A Hospital Ward.''The guests order a Long Confident Suck cocktail.moreless - Ep 1Series 4, Episode 12/12/95
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. - Ep 1Episode 1
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Season 3
- Ep 6Series 3, Episode 62/13/92
Sketches include "Magazine Leaflets," "Nigel Carter Visits," "Novelty Shop," "Delightful Restaurant," Tahitian Kitchen, My Favourite Pants, "The Bishop and the Warlord," "Court Case Against The Bishop and the Warlord," and Flying a Light Airplane without Having Had Any Formal Instruction With. Fry and Laurie offer Berliner Credit Sequence as a cocktail.moreless - Ep 6Episode 6
- Ep 5Series 3, Episode 52/6/92
Sketches include "Bookshop Customer Attacks Jane Eyre," "Courting Elizabeth," "Split Personality," "World Sport Bushwallyta," "Are Tou Sleeping With…," "Aromusician Ottoman Nodge," Cross-Wits, and "Neddy Wants Jack to Become the Prime Minister." Fry and Laurie make a "Beef Goulash" in place of a cocktail. - Ep 5Episode 5
- Ep 4Series 3, Episode 41/30/92
Sketches include "Specialized Greeting Cards," Photocopying My Genitals With, "Scene from From Here to Just Over There," The Not Quite Late Enough Show, "Taping News from Bristol," "Nothing Rude About God Save The Queen," "AA Meeting," "Pass the Marmalade," Too Long Johnny, and The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick. Fry and Laurie make the Mug of Holics cocktail.moreless - Ep 4Episode 4
- Ep 3Series 3, Episode 31/23/92
Sketches include "The Yorkshireman Meets the Southerner," "We've Had Lots of Letters," "The Department Talks to Alan," "The Chimpunks' Voice Version of Hey Jude," "The Day I Forgot My Legs," "Terry Discusses How to Fire People," ?Summing Up Game," "Balloon-O," and "Shoe Shop." Fry and Laurie conclude with an Everything in the Till and No Sudden Moves cocktail.moreless - Ep 3Episode 3
- Ep 2Series 3, Episode 21/16/92
Sketches include: "Condom Quickie", "Embassy", "Ampersands", "Duel", "Ass-Kickers' Song" (song), "Petrol Attendants", "Jobs", "European Deal", "Cocktail Ending". - Ep 2Episode 2
- Ep 1Series 3, Episode 11/9/92
Sketches include: "A Word Timothy", "Very Upset", "Love Me Tender" (song), "Milk Pot", "The Department", "Stephen's Song" (song), "Psychiatrists", "Cocktail Ending". - Ep 1Episode 1
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Season 2
- Ep 6Series 2, Episode 64/13/90
Sketches include: "Satire/Tribute," "Yellow Pages," "Beauty and Ideas," "First Kiss," "Borrowing a Fiver Off...," "Introducing My Grandfather to...," "A Vision of Britain," a Control & Murchison segment, and a John & Peter segment. - Ep 6Episode 6
- Ep 5Series 2, Episode 54/6/90
Sketches include: "Sally Cooke," "Rhodes Boysons," "Amputated Genitals," "The Cause," and "Where Eagles Dare." - Ep 5Episode 5
- Ep 4Series 2, Episode 43/30/90
Fry and Laurie want to be big enough for Marlon Brando to notice them. Thus come the sketches: Dinner with Digby, "Department Store Changes," "Interrogation in the Car," "An Elf or a Pixie," "Peter and John #5," "The Robert Robinsons," "Control's Telescupe," and the "Bigometer Update." - Ep 4Episode 4
- Ep 3Series 2, Episode 33/23/90
Fry and Laurie have gags over their mouths to protests the censors' ban on traditional swearwords. Thus Fry and Laurie create new swearwords for their sketches: "Testimony," Over to You, "The Jeweller's Shop," "Girlfriends," "Mystery Object," "Westminster Society," "Peter and John #4," and "What People Find Funny." - Ep 3Episode 3
- Ep 2Series 2, Episode 23/16/90
The BBC must find new places for funding. Thus this episode is sponsored by Tideyman's Carpets, which ingratiates itself in almost all the sketches: "The Spillage That Wasn't," "Control Talks of the Open Window," "A Right Way and a Wrong Way to Deal with Trick-or-Treaters," "The Tideyman's Test," "Piano Standards," "Nazi Interrogates Englsih Major," "John and Peter #3," and "The Improvised End Sketch."moreless - Ep 2Episode 2
- Ep 1Series 2, Episode 13/9/90
Stephen and Hugh incorporate the song Time, Where Did You Go? and "Dancersize" in their opening gambit. Sketches include "Hardware Store," "Peter and John #2," "Letter to Stephen's Grandfather," "Arthur Meets the Psychiatrist," "The Sportscasters Cover Everyday Life," "Control and Tony Talk About Lies," "Hugh Interviews 'Michael Jackson.'" - Ep 1Episode 1
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Season 1
- Ep 6Series 1, Episode 62/17/89
Sketches include: "Marjorie's Fall," "Puppy Appeal," "Girlfriend's Breasts," "Violence," "Chicken," "Cocoa," and a Control & Murchison segment, all interspersed with short takes of man-on-the-street Vox Pop. - Ep 6Episode 6
- Ep 5Series 1, Episode 52/10/89
Sketches include: "Lavatories," "Critics One," "Judge Not," "Critics Four," "The 'Burt'," and "Christening," all interspersed with short takes of man-on-the-street Vox Pop. - Ep 5Episode 5
- Ep 4Series 1, Episode 42/3/89
Sketches include: "Prize Poem," "Madness," "Bank Loan," "Nipples," and a Control & Murchison segment, all interspersed with short takes of man-on-the-street Vox Pop. - Ep 4Episode 4
- Ep 3Series 1, Episode 31/27/89
Sketches include: "Hugh's Brain," "Gordon and Stuart Eat Greek," "Doctor Tobacco," "Open University," and a Control & Murchison segment, all interspersed with short takes of man-on-the-street Vox Pop. - Ep 3Episode 3
- Ep 2Series 1, Episode 21/20/89
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."
Sketches from the first series were published in book form in 1990 by Mandarin Books. The titles of some of the sketches that appeared are as follows: "Information," "Sound Name," "Language Conversation," "Spies One," "Beggar" and "Troubleshooters."moreless - Ep 2Episode 2
- Ep 1Series 1, Episode 11/13/89
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 "B*t*h Mother Come Light My Bottom" by Sir William (now Lord) Rees-Mogg. - Ep 1Episode 1
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Specials
- Ep 1Pilot12/26/87
Sketches include:
Customs Camera, Holiday Photographs, Problems around the Eye Area, The Privatisation of the Police Force, Critics ("Argue the Toss," "Up the Arts," "Oh No, Not Another One"), Deodorant, "How Lovely I Was", Soup/Suit, Mystery (song), You Can't Make an Omelette without Breaking Eggs (1st Gordon & Stuart), The word "Gay.", Toy Car Showroom, Tales of War, Australian Soap Operamoreless
