The Crystal Cube

The Crystal Cube was a mockumentary television pilot written by and starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie broadcast on 7 July 1983 on BBC2 at 2210 The pilot was one of Fry and Lauries first television appearances and the first show they had written themselves However the BBC chose not to take it to a full series and Fry and Laurie did not get a chance to make their own programme for the BBC until 1989 when they produced their first full series of the more conventional sketch show A Bit of Fry and Laurie after a pilot in 1987