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Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing - Season 1
After life-changing heart surgeries, good friends Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse embark on a relaxing yet epic journey around Britain, eating great food and attempting to catch some of the nation's iconic fish.
17 May 1958, Stanleytown, Rhondda, Wales, UK
March 4, 1951 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
6 December 1977, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK
August 13, 1958 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK
1974, Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK
May 9, 1962 in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK
27 May 1967, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
June 25, 2018
This is still lovely: warm and funny and human and healthy.
July 27, 2018
They refused to take anything too seriously, yet left us with a lump in our throats each time.
July 09, 2018
Soothing, funny and poignant, it has become essential viewing in a "break glass in case of emergency" kind of way.
July 05, 2018
Lovely TV, lads, but in American teen-speak you need to "put out" a little bit more.
June 25, 2018
Probably, though, they're just going to keep catching fish and talking about death. Which is all very sweet, if nothing else.
June 25, 2018
The subject matter is the terror and enormity of death, all delivered with the understated sweetness of two men who are quite relieved they no longer have to take drugs to impress their agents.
August 05, 2019
This is gentle and tender and existential and a delight.
June 25, 2018
There are no roll-in-the-aisles sketches, no quickfire catchphrases and definitely no Dove From Above. But there is a charming and surprisingly riotous journey...
