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. The DVD set has not yet been released in the United States.

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.

External links

• Stephen Fry in America at BBC Online
• Stephen Fry in America at IMDb
• 2008 Fry Podcast mentioning the series