Stephen Fry in America
| Stephen Fry in America | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Starring | Stephen Fry |
| Narrated by | Stephen Fry |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Andre Singer |
| Production location |  United States |
| Running time | 60 mins |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC One BBC Two (repeat) |
| Release | 12 October – 16 November 2008 |
Stephen Fry in America is a six part BBC television series in which Stephen Fry travels across America to reveal a country in which he was almost born. Just before Fry was born, his father was offered a job at Princeton University, in New Jersey, but chose to turn it down in favour of Hampstead. In the six-part series he travels, mostly in a London cab, through all 50 U.S. states of the country that he could have nearly called home and which has always fascinated him. The episodes are regularly repeated on Dave, lasting an hour and twenty minutes due to advertising breaks. It was aired in America on HDNet.
Morgan Freeman also guest starred in episode 3 and billionaire media mogul Ted Turner on episode 4.
Episode list
| # | Title | Subject | States Visited | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New World | Stephen's journey begins in New England, before moving on to the nation's capital. | Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Washington DC. | 12 October 2008 |
| 2 | Deep South | Stephen Fry tries to find out what makes the South so distinctive. | Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama. | 19 October 2008 |
| 3 | Mississippi | A 2000 mile journey up the Mississippi river begins in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. | Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. | 26 October 2008 |
| 4 | Mountains and Plains | A look at the airborne border patrol agents at the Canadian border in the mountains of Montana | Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas. | 2 November 2008 |
| 5 | True West | Stephen Fry continues his American journey, meeting the people of the South West. | New Mexico, Utah, Arizona and Nevada. | November 2008 |
| 6 | Pacific | Stephen meets activists, Bigfoot believers and a real-life Magnum, P.I. as his journey ends | California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. | 16 November 2008 |
DVD and Blu-ray Releases
The UK home video version was released by West Park Pictures through Lace Digital Media Sales on Monday 17 November 2008. Both the DVD and Blu-ray versions are two-disc sets, complete and uncut.[1]
Book
A book to accompany the series, also called Stephen Fry in America, was published by Harper Collins in 2008. In it Stephen writes in more detail about some of his adventures, as well as some of the ones not featured in the show.
Follow up
A five-part companion series, More Fry in America, has been commissioned for BBC Four; it will feature in-depth essays that Fry couldn't include in the former documentary because of time constraints.[2]
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