The Comic Strip Presents...
The Comic Strip Presents...

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)

7.45 seasonsComedy

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

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Specials16 episodes
The Comic Strip

1. The Comic Strip

30 min

A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to 'The Comic Strip Presents'

The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel

2. The Bullshitters: Roll Out the Gunbarrel

41 min

Bonehead and Foyle reunite to find the police chief's kidnapped daughter. A parody of The Professionals.

Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

3. Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)

36 min

In this parody of Rebecca a young bride arrives at her husband's vast estate to find that she is left to fend for herself, at the mercy of a mysterious and sinister Spanish maid who she suspects does not have her best interests at heart.

Private Enterprise

4. Private Enterprise

34 min

When a toilet paper delivery van driver and small-time con man chances upon a demo tape by a defunct no-name band, he decides to pass himself off as a rock musician, in his most enterprising money-making scheme yet.

Red Nose of Courage

5. Red Nose of Courage

51 min

John Major rises above his humble beginnings as a mediocre clown in a circus family when he sets out to pursue his dream of becoming a Tory bureaucrat and forges a career in the political circus. Torn between two worlds, his life becomes a balancing act.

The Crying Game

6. The Crying Game

34 min

All Roy Brush wants is to be the greatest footballer in the world. When he rises to national hero status after saving a young man from drowning and secures a European Cup Final trophy for England, it seems the sky's the limit to the fame he can achieve. But one painful secret and one astute newspaper reporter from The Scum stands between him and his goal.

Wild Turkey

7. Wild Turkey

28 min

A turkey that's about to become Christmas dinner takes hostages.

Four Men in a Car

8. Four Men in a Car

29 min

Four rivals on their way to a meeting find themselves in a tricky situation.

Four Men in a Plane

9. Four Men in a Plane

34 min

Stranded in the desert, some men will do whatever it takes to survive.

The Comic Strip: A Retrospective

10. The Comic Strip: A Retrospective

54 min

Comprising of interviews with Dawn French, Adrian Edmondson, Peter Richardson, Alexei Sayle, Nigel Planer, Pete Richens, Lenny Henry, Leslie Philips, Julie T Wallace, Gary Beadle and Phil Cornwell, about their Comic Strip experiences.

...Sex Actually

11. ...Sex Actually

42 min

The neighbours in a seemingly quiet street may be more than they at first appear.

The Hunt for Tony Blair

12. The Hunt for Tony Blair

47 min

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is wanted for murder and is on the run as a fugitive from justice.

First Laugh on Four Part 1

13. First Laugh on Four Part 1

26 min

The cast and crew of The Comic Strip look back at how the group drew the attention of the fledgling Channel 4 producers, and won airtime on its opening night.

First Laugh on Four Part 2

14. First Laugh on Four Part 2

25 min

The cast and crew of The Comic Strip look back at how the group drew the attention of the fledgling Channel 4 producers, and won airtime on its opening night.

Five Go to Rehab

15. Five Go to Rehab

40 min

Set against a backdrop of rolling hills and ruined castles, the Five have failed to live up to their puritanical ideals and must now confront today's modern world.

Five Go to Rehab: The Making Of

16. Five Go to Rehab: The Making Of

6 min

Behinds the scenes of the brand new special of this classic series, Five Go to Rehab.

Season 15 episodes
Season 27 episodes
Five Go Mad on Mescalin

1. Five Go Mad on Mescalin

30 min

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.

Dirty Movie

2. Dirty Movie

30 min

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

Susie

3. Susie

33 min

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.

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

4. A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

37 min

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.

Gino - Full Story and Pics

5. Gino - Full Story and Pics

30 min

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.

Eddie Monsoon - A Life?

6. Eddie Monsoon - A Life?

30 min

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.

Slags

7. Slags

30 min

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.

Season 36 episodes
Season 46 episodes
South Atlantic Raiders (1)

1. South Atlantic Raiders (1)

30 min

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.

South Atlantic Raiders: Argie Bargie!

2. South Atlantic Raiders: Argie Bargie!

30 min

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.

GLC: The Carnage Continues

3. GLC: The Carnage Continues

32 min

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.

Oxford

4. Oxford

35 min

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.

Spaghetti Hoops

5. Spaghetti Hoops

31 min

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

Les Dogs

6. Les Dogs

30 min

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.

Season 56 episodes
Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown

1. Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown

31 min

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.

Space Virgins from Planet Sex

2. Space Virgins from Planet Sex

31 min

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.

Queen of the Wild Frontier

3. Queen of the Wild Frontier

30 min

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

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase

4. Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase

38 min

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.

Demonella

5. Demonella

30 min

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.

Jealousy

6. Jealousy

30 min

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

Cast

Rik Mayall

Rik Mayall

Dawn French

Dawn French

Adrian Edmondson

Adrian Edmondson

Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer Saunders

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