''Rich Hall's Fishing Show'' is a comedy programme written by and starring

Rich Hall Richard Travis Hall (born June 10, 1954) is an American comedian, writer, documentary maker and musician, first coming to prominence as a sketch comedian in the 1980s. He wrote and performed for a range of American networks, in series such as ...

and Mike Wilmot. It was first broadcast on 11 November 2003 in the United Kingdom on

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. It was repeated in the UK on

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in 2008. The Fishing with the Corleones sequence involving the late Anita Roddick was omitted from the repeat. The show was set in the

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s of Scotland, on which Hall and Wilmot would go fishing. However, very few fish were caught, and the situation instead formed the setting for dialogue between the pair which would be vaguely themed on subjects like love or the Olympic Games. Some episodes featured sketches involving characters such as Bob, a decapitated limousine driver whose head had survived, and Charles Manson, a reclusive salesman who, despite his appearance, was not the convicted serial killer of the same name. Each episode would end with a celebrity guest who was invited on to the boat to talk and fish with the pair. At the end of each show, a celebrity guest would appear and talk with Hall and Wilmot. The idea was seen earlier in a pilot the pair had called

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. In that show, the segment was titled "Fishing with the Corleones", but in the Fishing Show these sections are unappended.

Episode list

The show was directed by Chris Cottam, with the writing of the episodes done by Hall.

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*{{IMDb title, 0387737 2003 British television series debuts 2003 British television series endings BBC television comedy Fishing television series

Episode list

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