Stephen Fry Collection - 4-DVD Box Set ( Stephen Fry in America / Last Chance to See )

Stephen Fry Collection - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Stephen Fry in America / Last Chance to See
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Emmy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
750 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2008 - 2009 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Russia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Ross Wilson
Patrick McGrady
Stephen Fry

Written By:
Ross Wilson
Patrick McGrady
Stephen Fry

Actors:
Stephen Fry ..... Himself
Andy Behrman ..... Himself
Jo Brand ..... Herself
Jo Crocker ..... Herself
Richard Dreyfuss ..... Himself
Carrie Fisher ..... Herself
Griff Rhys Jones ..... Himself
Tony Slattery ..... Himself
Rick Stein ..... Himself
Robbie Williams ..... Himself
Stephen Fry ..... Himself - Presenter
Stephen Fry ..... Himself - Presenter (6 episodes, 2008)
Stephen Fry ..... Himself - Presenter (7 episodes, 2009-2010)
Mark Carwardine ..... Himself - Presenter (7 episodes, 2009-2010)

Synopsis:

Collection of two documentary series presented by the popular humorist, actor and novelist, Stephen Fry. 'Stephen Fry in America' follows the wit as he travels through every American state in a black London cab and tries to discover what unites such a diversity of beliefs, cultures, and languages into one vast nation. 'Last Chance to See' sees Fry team up with zoologist Mark Carwardine to recreate the journey Cawardine made 20 years ago, with the late author Douglas Adams, in search of some of the rarest animals on the planet.

Stephen Fry in America (2008)
Stephen Fry in America is a six part BBC television series in which Stephen Fry travels across the United States of America, 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.

Last Chance to See (2009)
Twenty years after Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine traveled the world in search of some of the most endangered animals, Stephen Fry joins Mark to retrace their journeys.

Stephen Fry in America
Season 1
New World
S1, Ep1 Oct. 12, 2008
Erudite British actor and stand-up comedian Stephen Fry starts his idiosyncratic tour of the USA like mainstream immigration and pioneering, on the East Coast, in New York. He tastes both the capital Washington D.C. and the Yankee countryside. He searches for vestiges of the Civil War but also meets Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and similar worldwide-user-run websites.

Deep South
S1, Ep2 Oct. 19, 2008
Stephen visits the US region most appealing to him, traditional Dixieland south of the Mason Dixie line, which he physically finds between Pennsylvania and Virginia. In the Virgianias he visits the coal mines which power half of US electric current. In Kentucky, horse breeding, whiskey distilling and Bluegrass, also the link to Tennessee and an angle to break his British tongue on the Dixie accent. Forensics for real prove gruesome. Trough Smokey Mountains into the Carolinas, for a balloon flight and Southern hospitality in Georgia. South of Dixie to 'Yankee-like' ...

Mississippi
S1, Ep3 Oct. 26, 2008
Stephen travels through the basin of Old Man River, Northern America's greatest. This spans the Rockies to Appalachians and from the Great Lake to its Gulf of Mexico delta. Stephen starts in Louisiana, visiting New Orleans, site of Mardi Grass frivolity and superstition as well as the paternalistic Angola state penitentiary. Meditations about river-love, the restless nature of the American dream and immigration alter with visits to towns and cities in the vast Midwest plains and Minnesota sources. Included are the San Louis homeless, Vedic 'trans-meditational yoga'

Mountains and Plains
S1, Ep4 Nov. 2, 2008
Steven explores form Canadian to Mexican border the spine of North America: the Rocky Mountains, which also constitute the continental divide between river systems flowing West to the Pacific or east, to the Atlantic, where he also visits the prairie plains. Stops include nature reserves and media magnate Ted Turner's bison farming as well as the German immigrants in North Dakota, a virtual ghost town, Texan socialites at a Houston benefit dinner.

True West
S1, Ep5 Nov. 9, 2008
On a tour of the Southwestern US, Stephen Fry visits Los Alamos National Lab, speaks with architect Michael Reynolds, dines with a Navajo family, attends a Mormon calendar shoot, and learns about legal prostitution.

Pacific
S1, Ep6 Nov. 16, 2008
In California, Steven adores the old-new and social melting pot San Francisco. In the same state, which would be the world's 7th economy, stops include marijuana growing and bust, a forest reserve, as in Oregon. In Washington, innovative Seattle and a seal care center, end of the London cab's tour of 48 contiguous states. In Alaska, the northernmost and largest, the stories of sea otters, natives, Russian orthodox missionaries. On Hawaii, the southernmost and youngest state, a real P.I., Polynesians, shark cage swimming, astronomy and the 29 volcanic islands.

Last Chance to See
Season 1
Amazonian Manatee
S1, Ep1 Sep. 6, 2009

Northern White Rhino
S1, Ep2 Sep. 13, 2009

Aye-Aye
S1, Ep3 Sep. 20, 2009

Komodo Dragon
S1, Ep4 Sep. 27, 2009

Kakapo
S1, Ep5 Oct. 4, 2009

Blue Whale
S1, Ep6 Oct. 17, 2009

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 15 February, 2013.