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About The Comic Strip Presents...

The Comic Strip Presents... is a comedy TV series that premiered on Channel 4 on November 2, 1982. It has 5 seasons and 30 episodes so far and has ended. The latest episode, Season 5 Episode 6 "Jealousy", aired on May 27, 1993.

The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who do parodies of films, literature and sometimes major events.

  • Comedy

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Episodes

30 episodes · 5 seasons

Season 1

1982 · 5 episodes · Last episode: 43 years ago

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    5. Summer School

    Finale

    Summer school students taking a course on the Iron Age construct a primitive village in the center of a university campus, where they must learn to fend for themselves without modern conveniences.

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    4. Bad News Tour

    Fifth-rate heavy metal band Bad News is the subject of a rock documentary. Band members Vim Fuego, Den Dennis, Colin Grigson, and Spider Webb take to the road in search of lager, gigs, and schoolgirls.

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    3. The Beat Generation

    A group of Beatnik artists and poets convene for a weekend of debauchery, destructive behavior, and clever conversation at the house of naive young wannabe Desmond while his parents are out of town.

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    2. War

    It's 1985 and the Communist Warsaw Pact countries have seized control of England. A young married couple retreats to a countryside cottage, but they soon find themselves hopelessly separated and swept up in the chaos of a war-torn nation

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    1. Five Go Mad in Dorset

    Julian, Dick, George, and Anne are four children with a taste for adventure, as well as for lashings of ginger beer. They set out on a bicycle ride through the country, having picnics aplenty and exposing heinous crimes such as homosexuality.

Season 2

1983 · 7 episodes · Last episode: 42 years ago

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    7. Slags

    Feared street leaders Passion and Little Sister are released from prison, whereupon they learn that their gang the Slags has disbanded during their incarceration, having been driven out of its territory by rival gang The Hawaiians. Bent on revenge, they reunite the Slags for a rumble with The Hawaiians to reclaim their turf. This grim tale set in a bizarre, apocalyptic world is West Side Story with a gruesome twist.

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    6. Eddie Monsoon - A Life?

    Relentless alcoholic, drug addict, and fame-obsessed TV personality Eddie Monsoon is the subject of a Channel 4 expose that looks back over his life and loves, while he lies bedridden in a rehab hospital.

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    5. Gino - Full Story and Pics

    A small-time thief on the run from the law is pursued by over-zealous police officers masquerading as milkmen and postmen, framed for murder by a homicidal housewife, and built up by the media to sound like an infamous criminal mastermind. Every step he takes carries him further into a life of crime, and it looks like there's no way out for Gino, but when he teams up with a gutsy typist on the run from her own unfulfilling life, the two of them may find a way to turn the media attention to their advantage.

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    4. A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

    Carlos and Miguel are Englishmen obsessed with the mystique of the Old West-- would-be gunmen ever in search of a brawl. Traveling the countryside by public rail on a fantasy holiday, in costumes straight out of a Spaghetti Western, they hook up with spunky Australian tourists, a hippie hitchhiker, and a mass-murderer who works in an abattoir but dresses as a matador.

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    3. Susie

    A lascivious schoolteacher has grown hopelessly bored with her bland small-town existence. Her world takes a sudden turn, however, when a wealthy, impetuous pop star moves to town to get a taste of country life. Suddenly, she must choose between her tedious but adoring husband, her indifferent but steady lover, and this intriguing, unpredictable new man in her life.

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    2. Dirty Movie

    A theater owner waits for the mail to deliver his dirty movie

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    1. Five Go Mad on Mescalin

    Child adventurers Julian, Dick, George, Anne, and their dog Timmy return to the countryside for the holidays, only to learn that Uncle Quentin, the well known scientist and homosexual, has escaped from prison. The children set out to unlock the mysteries of Love Island.

Season 3

1988 · 6 episodes · Last episode: 38 years ago

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    6. Funseekers

    Finale

    A social loser goes to a sleazy holiday resort in Spain for under-30s.

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    5. Didn't You Kill My Brother?

    Carl Moss, a convicted murderer, is released early from prison and is confronted by his brother who framed him.

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    4. The Yob

    A trendy music video director has his brain crossed with that of a football hooligan in a freak accident resulting when he mistakes a cerebral teleportational machine for a portable toilet. He begins a slow and painful transition from artsy high-fashion connoisseur to violent Neanderthal thug, finding himself physically incapable of suppressing his newfound urges to drink lager and vandalize public lavatories. This episode pays tribute to David Cronenberg's film classic The Fly.

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    3. Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door

    Two boozers who run the Dreamytime Escort agency are in for the night of their lives when they accept a job to ""take out"" popular TV entertainer Nicholas Parsons.

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    2. More Bad News

    Five years after their far-from-amicable break-up, the members of heavy metal band Bad News reunite when they are offered a record deal and a chance to play the festival at Castle Donington.

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    1. The Strike

    Al Pacino (Peter Richardson) and Meryl Streep (Jennifer Saunders) star as Arthur Scargill and his wife in an overly-dramatized Hollywood epic about the 1984 miners' strike.

Season 4

1990 · 6 episodes · Last episode: 36 years ago

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    6. Les Dogs

    Finale

    A wedding between feuding upper-class families turns into an all-out war zone. In the midst of the chaos and bloodshed, the wedding photographer becomes enraptured by the bride's beatific beauty, and the story drifts into the surreal realm of his imagination, where the lines between fantasy, dream, and reality become hopelessly blurred.

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    5. Spaghetti Hoops

    Bank chairman Aldo Vini, who is suspected of embezzling $200 million from his bank in Rome, is pursued across Europe by incompetent assassins.

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    4. Oxford

    Hannah is a street-wise American woman with a passion for Lord Byron's poetry who is prepared to do anything it takes to get into a course at Oxford, and she means anything. Also eager to study Byron is Caroline, the quiet-natured girlfriend of narcissistic mega-star comedian Steve ""Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants"" Wild. When he disapproves of her aspirations, Caroline must go behind her boyfriend's back to take the course, unaware that she's not the only one doing the deceiving.

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    3. GLC: The Carnage Continues

    Charles Bronson (Robbie Coltrane) stars in a big-budget Hollywood film as Ken Livingstone, a man of the people and elected leader of the GLC. After successfully preventing the Tories from flooding South London to turn it into a yacht club, Livingstone makes it his one-man mission to stop ""The Ice Maiden"" Margaret Thatcher from beheading the Prince of Wales and taking over the kingdom.

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    2. South Atlantic Raiders: Argie Bargie!

    Having robbed a bank and hijacked a plane to travel to the South Atlantic to protect Frances, the woman he loves, Stan finds himself at the mercy of Argentinian soldiers plotting to recapture the Falkland Islands.

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    1. South Atlantic Raiders (1)

    A security service driver for a British bank meets and falls in love over the radio with a woman stranded on a bird watching expedition in the South Atlantic. When he is tricked into thinking the Falklands are under attack by an enemy army, he takes drastic measures to finance a rescue mission to save his new girlfriend.

Season 5

1993 · 6 episodes · Last episode: 33 years ago

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    6. Jealousy

    Finale

    A jealous husband is consumed to the point of madness with suspicions about his wife's extracurricular activities.

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    5. Demonella

    A struggling music producer accepts a song from the Devil that is guaranteed to win him riches and fame. In exchange, he must obtain his mother's top-secret chicken soup recipe so the Devil can impress finicky dinner guests in Hell.

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    4. Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase

    In this none-too-subtle parody of the film The Silence of the Lambs, a rookie police cadet falls prey to the sexual allure of imprisoned cannibalistic serial killer Dr Ghengis; meanwhile, aspiring serial killer Gregory Dawson makes a video diary of his botched attempts to stalk and imprison a woman in his homemade torture chamber.

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    3. Queen of the Wild Frontier

    Two escaped convicts hide in a country house owned by two women.

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    2. Space Virgins from Planet Sex

    Beautiful space aliens on a mission to repopulate their planet use their feminine wiles to capture healthy, intelligent specimens of Earthmen as sex slaves. It's up to decidedly non-feminist secret agent James Blond to shut down the Space Rats' baby factory and free Earth men from unspeakable sexual oppression.

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    1. Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown

    In a sequel to The Bullshitters, Bonehead and Foyle are called in to solve a 70s-style murder. Unfortunately, so are 70s detectives Shouting George of The Weeney and Jason Bentley of Department Z, and 90s Northern detective Dave Spanker.

Cast & crew

  • Alexei Sayle

    Alexei Sayle

    Carl Moss/Sterling Moss

  • Robbie Coltrane

    Robbie Coltrane

    Gypsy/Shopkeeper

  • Raymond Francis

    Raymond Francis

    Police Inspector

  • Sandra Dorne

    Sandra Dorne

    Aunt Fanny

  • Nosher Powell

    Nosher Powell

    Fingers

  • Ron Tarr

    Ron Tarr

    Dirty Dick

  • Bimbo

    Timmy

  • Barney Sharp

    Policeman

  • Adrian Edmondson

    Adrian Edmondson

    Mike/Hatchett/Julio/Bolsen/Man in Cage/Jenkins/Zarkoff

  • Dawn French

    Dawn French

    Hermine

  • Rik Mayall

    Rik Mayall

    Slug/General Erwin/Hovis

  • Daniel Peacock

    Daniel Peacock

    Godfrey

  • Nigel Planer

    Nigel Planer

    Tommy/Doc/Ivan/McClowsky/Australian

  • Peter Richardson

    Peter Richardson

    Radio DJ/Cocker/Wally/Miguel/Brown/Field Marshall/Drunk/Terrorist

  • Jennifer Saunders

    Jennifer Saunders

    Chas/Marilyn/Captain/Drunk

  • Zoe Clarke-Williams

    Judy

The Comic Strip Presents... FAQ

Will there be new episodes of The Comic Strip Presents...?

The Comic Strip Presents... has ended, so no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on May 27, 1993.

When did the latest episode of The Comic Strip Presents... come out?

The most recent episode of The Comic Strip Presents..., Season 5 Episode 6 "Jealousy", aired on May 27, 1993.

How many seasons of The Comic Strip Presents... are there?

The Comic Strip Presents... has 5 seasons with 30 episodes in total.

When did The Comic Strip Presents... first air?

The Comic Strip Presents... first aired on Channel 4 on November 2, 1982.

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