British Comedy Guide

The Crystal Cube

  • TV sketch show
  • BBC Two
  • 1983
  • 1 pilot

Mockumentary science show pilot, featuring one of the earliest TV appearances from Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. Stars Robbie Coltrane, Arthur Bostrom, Fanny Carby, Roy Heather, John Savident and more.

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The Crystal Cube trivia

A joke from The Crystal Cube got reused in A Bit of Fry and Laurie. The joke in question is Harris Edgley-Woad, a fictional early genetics pioneer was said to have been born in a working class home that his parents had built for him in the grounds of their Gloucestershire estate. The joke got changed in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, but instead it was Hugh Laurie that was born in the house.

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