Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
- TV factual
- BBC Two
- 2018 - 2024
- 48 episodes (7 series)
Comedy series observing Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer fishing together.
- Due to return for Gone Christmas Fishing 2024
- Catch-up on Series 7, Episode 8
Streaming rank this week: 388
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Series 1, Episode 2 - The Barbel (Middle Wye, Herefordshire)
Further details
Paul and Bob fish for the mighty barbel in Hay on Wye. Passing a graveyard they muse about the future and chat to a local vicar about death and their own funerals. To lighten the mood back in their wooden fishing cabin, Bob promises Paul a very special treat if they are successful in their angling efforts.
Notes
This episode is dedicated to Harry Whitehouse, 1931 - 2018.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 27th June 2018
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Paul Whitehouse | Host / Presenter |
| Bob Mortimer | Host / Presenter |
| Leo McCrea | Series Director |
| Nicky Waltham | Series Producer |
| Stephanie Fyfe | Producer |
| Lisa Clark | Executive Producer |
| David Brindley | Executive Producer |
| Doug Bryson | Editor |
Press
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is getting into its stride, or at least getting into its amiably grouchy amble. The two friends, both with heart problems, drive around England: Bob arranges bunks and food, and Paul tries to teach Bob to fish. Not that unsuccessfully, if the beast of a barbel Bob netted this week was any indication. Along the waters they gas away: about death and music and miscellany; of cabbages and kings. It's reminiscent obviously of The Trip, but less mean; I was more reminded of the much-missed Detectorists, and truly England has seldom looked so beguilingly tranquil - long lazy shots of geese in early mists over the Wye, set to the likes of Liszt, Bach and Bellini, which seem somehow to have been written precisely for that particular Arcadia.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 1st July 2018If the opening episode of Bob and Paul's angling amble felt downbeat, this episode's opening ruminations on tombstone inscriptions might not immediately lighten the mood. And yet, as talk turns from the funereal to the finer points of fishing, the camaraderie continues to appeal.
Mark Gibbings-Jones, The Guardian, 27th June 2018