Stephen Fry in America
2008 · BBC One · 60 min · 1 season
S01E06 · Pacific
Mon, 17 Nov, 8:00 am
Stephen Fry concludes his epic journey with a trip to the Pacific Northwest, meeting a variety of people including tree sitters, Bigfoot believers and a real-life Magnum PI.
About
Actor and writer Stephen Fry embarks on an exploration of America, a place were he might have been raised, had his father not turned down a job offer from Princeton University. Along this six part journey across all 50 states, Stephen mixes with the locals (both prominent and not) in an attempt to understand the American experience.
Episodes
- E01
New World
Mon, 13 Oct· 60 minStephen 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.
- E02
Deep South
Mon, 20 Oct· 60 minStephen 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.
- E03
Mississippi
Mon, 27 Oct· 60 minStephen 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.
- E04
Mountains and Plains
Mon, 3 Nov· 60 minStephen Fry continues his journey across America, heading south from Montana to Texas, admiring the natural beauty of the Rocky Mountains along the way.
- E05
True West
Mon, 10 Nov· 60 minStephen 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.
- E06
Pacific
Mon, 17 Nov· 60 minStephen Fry concludes his epic journey with a trip to the Pacific Northwest, meeting a variety of people including tree sitters, Bigfoot believers and a real-life Magnum PI.
Cast
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry