Scripted series · BBC One
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Stephen Fry
25 eps
Hugh Laurie
25 eps
Camille Coduri
1 eps
John Bird
1 eps
Clive Mantle
1 eps
Janine Duvitski
1 eps
Rowan Atkinson
1 eps
Caroline Quentin
1 eps
Kevin McNally
1 eps
Stephen Moore
1 eps
Paul Eddington
1 eps
Nigel Havers
1 eps
Patrick Barlow
1 eps
Imelda Staunton
1 eps
Phyllida Law
1 eps
Robert Daws
1 eps
Dimitri Andreas
2 eps
Anne Reid
1 eps
Harriet Thorpe
1 eps
Deborah Norton
6 eps
Gary Davies
Music Show Host
1 eps
Anne Charleston
1 eps
Fiona Gillies
1 eps
Jane Booker
1 eps
Nicholas Parsons
1 eps
Morwenna Banks
1 eps
Benjamin Whitrow
1 eps
Daniel Thorndike
2 eps
Richard Whitmore
Self
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How A Bit of Fry & Laurie actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
A Bit of Fry & Laurie reads strongest on Bingeability, Humour and Character Depth.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
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.
The run
Seasons
4 seasons · 25 episodes.
- Poster unavailableSpecials
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
19871 episode
Season 1 · Complete
Series 1
19896 episodes
7.1IMDbBest episode · S01E01 SAS
Season 2 · Complete
Series 2
19906 episodes
6.8IMDbBest episode · S02E06 Dammit Church
Season 3 · Complete
Series 3
19926 episodes
6.6IMDbBest episode · S03E01 Psychiatrists
Season 4 · Complete
Series 4
19957 episodes
6.7IMDb
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
SAS
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.
- Directed by Roger Ordish
- Written by Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S04E07
Sophisticated Song
S04E05
Tribunal
- Directed by Bob Spiers
- Written by Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
S04E02
Steffi is an Angel
- Directed by Bob Spiers
- Written by Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Jon PlowmanProducer
- Roger OrdishProducer
Writing
- Hugh LaurieWriter
- Stephen FryWriter
Direction
- Bob SpiersDirector
- Roger OrdishDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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